2023 Senate Bill 518 / 2024 Public Act 49

Education: teachers and administrators; interim teaching certification process; 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 1531i (MCL 380.1531i), as amended by 2020 PA 316.

House Fiscal Agency Analysis

Senate Bill 518 would amend section 1531i of the Revised School Code to extend the ability of the state superintendent to issue an interim special education teaching certificate to individuals going through an approved alternative certification program, as outlined in the section. The current deadline for issuing an interim special education teaching certificate is July 21, 2024.

Introduced in the Senate

Sept. 20, 2023

Introduced by Sen. Darrin Camilleri (D-4)

Referred to the Committee on Education

Oct. 10, 2023

Reported without amendment

Oct. 11, 2023

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

Oct. 18, 2023

Reported without amendment

Oct. 19, 2023

Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)

Received in the House

Oct. 24, 2023

Referred to the Committee on Education

Feb. 13, 2024

Reported without amendment

May 9, 2024

Passed in the House 107 to 0 (details)

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

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Received in the Senate

May 14, 2024

Motion to give immediate effect by Sen. Sam Singh (D-28)

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

June 6, 2024