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,” (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding sections 1508 and 1526b.
Senate Bill 66 would add two new sections to the Revised School Code. Proposed section 1508 would require the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) to make materials regarding sexual assault and sexual harassment available to school districts, intermediate school districts (ISDs), and public school academies (PSAs, or charter schools). Local districts, ISDs, and PSAs would then be required to provide those and additional materials to their students in grades 6 through 12. Proposed section 1526b would encourage district and ISD boards and PSA boards of directors to provide training, at least every five years, in responding to students who have experienced those issues.
Co-sponsored by Sens.
Referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety
Reported without amendment
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Reported without amendment
Passed in the Senate 37 to 1 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice
Reported without amendment
Passed in the House 105 to 4 (details)
Motion to give immediate effect
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The motion prevailed by voice vote
Motion to give immediate effect
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The motion prevailed by voice vote
