2023 House Bill 4820 / Public Act 116

Education: teachers and administrators; factors for personnel decisions; modify.

An act to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to make appropriations for certain purposes; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 1248 (MCL 380.1248), as added by 2011 PA 102.

House Fiscal Agency Analysis

House Bill 4820 would amend section 1248 of the Revised School Code to modify the extent to which length of service (i.e., seniority) may be used in a policy governing certain personnel decisions made by the board of a school district or intermediate school district (ISD) or the board of directors of a public school academy (PSA), as well as making other changes regarding what may be part of such a policy. The bill would take effect July 1, 2024.

Introduced in the House

June 15, 2023

Introduced by Rep. Phil Skaggs (D-80) and two co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Amos O’Neal (D-94) and Nate Shannon (D-58)

Referred to the Committee on Education

June 20, 2023

Reported with substitute H-1

Substitute H-1 concurred in by voice vote

Passed in the House 56 to 53 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Rep. Abraham Aiyash (D-9)

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Received in the Senate

June 21, 2023

Referred to the Committee on Education

June 28, 2023

Discharged from committee

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

Reported with substitute S-1

Substitute S-1 concurred in by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 20 to 17 (details)

Received in the House

June 28, 2023

Substitute S-1 concurred in 56 to 52 (details)

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

July 27, 2023