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HB 4001   Jelinek     School Choice
Amends the School Aid Act by extending the deadline for school of choice designation to September 30; allows for enrollment of nonresident pupils in second semester of school year.
House
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/13/1999

HB 4007   Jelinek     Driving Instructors
Allows temporary driving instructor license under certain circumstances.
2000 PA 285
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/13/1999

HB 4008   Jelinek     Driving Instructors
Allows driver training schools to post a sign at place of business regarding availability of driving records of instructors.
2000 PA 159
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/13/1999

HB 4014   Rocca     Teacher CPR
Amends the Revised School Code to require a new teacher to complete a course in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
Passed House 6/6/00; Senate Ed 6/7/00
  SBE Position: No Position, 5/18/00 Introduced: 1/26/1999

HB 4027   Hardman     Parenting Education
Amends the Revised School Code to include parenting education in model core curriculum for schools and in professional development for teachers.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

HB 4033   Julian     Income Tax Cut
Reduces income tax rate in 2001.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

HB 4034   Richardville     Income Tax Cut
Provides for income tax cut in 2000.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

HB 4035   VanWoerkom     Income Tax Cut
Provides for income tax cut in 2000 and beyond. Revises earmarking to school aid fund.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

HB 4041   Ehardt     School Vehicles
Revises construction of door handle assembly on back door of school buses.
House Regulatory Reform
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/1999

HB 4044   Neumann     Violent Students
Increases penalty for crime committed against teacher, school employee or student.
House Criminal Law and Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/1999

HB 4045   Neumann     Violent Students
Amends the Revised School Code to require school officials to notify law enforcement about school violence and provides school officials with access to information about student criminal activity .
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/1999

HB 4049   Brewer     Computer Literacy
Amends the Revised School Code to include the acknowledgment of computer training on teaching certificates.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/1999

HB 4063   Geiger     Comm College Budget
Provides budget for community colleges for FY 99-00
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4067   Geiger     Higher Ed Budget
Provides higher education budget for 99-00
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4069   Geiger     MDE Budget
Provides MDE budget for 99-00.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4075   Geiger     Supplemental Approps
Provides budget for supplemental appropriations for FY 98-99.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4082   Law     Retirement
Amends the Public School Employees Retirement Act to increase the allowable amount of post-retirement earnings by a university, an approved emergency situation or a critical shortage position.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4088   Cherry     Summer Reading
Appropriates state funds to support summer reading programs operated by Michigan public libraries.
House Approps
  SBE Position: No Position, 5/20/99 Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4089   Cherry     Site-Based
Amends the Revised School Code to require site-based decision making for certain school operations.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4092   Gosselin     School Elections
Requires school elections to be held with general election.
House Constitutional Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4099   Shackleton     School Calendar
Amends the Revised School Code to require that schools not be in session on the Friday before Labor day and creates school calendar task force.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4102   Sanborn     Parental Rights
Amends the Revised School Code by requiring school districts to recognize parental rights and involvement in schools and requires communications concerning child's schooling to be made to parents.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4104   Raczkowski     School Tests
Amends the Revised School Code by requiring districts to omit student's state endorsed test scores from transcript upon parental request and prohibits unreasonable restrictions on parental visits to classrooms.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4105   Raczkowski     School Tests
Amends the School Aid Act by requiring districts to omit student's state endorsement test scores from transcript upon parental request.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4106   Raczkowski     School Elections
Consolidates school elections and general elections in election law.
House Constitutional Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

HB 4156   Thomas     Reading Grant
Amends the School Aid Act by establishing a grant program for improving reading levels in certain disadvantaged schools
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/1999

HB 4173   Bogardus     Curriculum Development
Amends the Revised School Code to require professional development concerning high school test and local core curriculum.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4174   Bogardus     MEAP Committee
Amends the Revised School Code to revise membership on the advisory committee of the MEAP to include a representative of a teacher education institution.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4178   Gosselin     Graduation Requirements
Amends the Revised School Code to prohibit requiring community service as a graduation requirement.
House Ed
  SBE Position: No Position, 5/20/99 Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4183   Scott     Bilingual Education
Amends the Revised School Code to reinstate mandatory bilingual education.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4204   Gilbert     Sch Activities -nonpublic
Amends the Revised School Code to allow students in nonpublic or home schools to participate in extracurricular activities in public school.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4216   Schauer     Teacher Cert Fee
Amends the Revised School Code to provide for waiver of fee for a MI professional teacher certificate for certain individuals holding certification by National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4217   Hart     School Aid
Provides for current year pupil count for school aid membership beginning in 2000-2001.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4219   Geiger     School Aid
Provides fiscal year 1999-2000 single section school aid zero budget.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4220   Geiger     School Aid
Provides for fiscal year 1999-2000 multisection school aid zero budget.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4228   Kelly     Snow Days
Amends the School Aid Act to provide for unlimited snow days as exception to penalty for insufficient school days for 1998-99.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4230   Sanborn     Student Contract
Allows institution of higher education to require written student responsibility contract.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4232   Bishop     Test Norming
Prohibits employers, employment agencies, and educational institutions from utilizing certain group-norming methods of scoring tests.
Constitutional Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4240   Bisbee     Physical Assault
Amends the Revised School Code to require a statewide policy for reporting student safety violations. Requires a student in grade 6 or above who commits physical assault against another student to be expelled for up to 180 days.
  SBE Position: Support Concept, 4/15/99 No Position, 5/20/99 Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4241   VanWoerkom     Strict Discipline PSA
Amends the Revised School Code to establish strict discipline public school academies.
  SBE Position: Support w/Amend, 4/15/99 Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4244   Jamnick     Annual Audits
Intermunicipality committee would be exempt from annual audit requirement under Uniform Budgeting and Accounting Act.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

HB 4253   DeHart     Special Education
Amends the Revised School Code to prohibit the number of special education students in general education classroom from exceeding maximum number allowed in special education classrooms.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/11/1999

HB 4254   Thomas     Intervention/Prevention
Amends the Revised School Code by establishing intervention/prevention grant program for school districts for locally designed programs that enhance educational attainment through coordinated services.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/11/1999

HB 4257   Schermesser     Snow Days
Revised the School Aid Act to provide unlimited snow days as exception to penalty for insufficient school days for 1998-99.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/11/1999

HB 4264   Baird     Donation Tax Credit
Provides for income tax credit for donation to art and education facilities or organizations.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/11/1999

HB 4278   Kilpatrick     Violent Students
Amends the Revised School Code to require expulsion and disciplinary education of pupils who commit violent acts at school and requires reporting of school violence incidents.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/1999

HB 4288   Koetje     Retirement - College
Includes part-time college employees in eligibility for optional retirement system.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

HB 4295   Sanborn     Youth Smoking
Requires driver license sanctions to be imposed by secretary of state for certain violations of Youth Tobacco Act.
House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

HB 4296   Sanborn     Youth Smoking
Provides for penalties and sanctions for purchase or use of tobacco products by minors and sale or furnishing of tobacco products to minors.
House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

HB 4297   Jellema     Capital Outlay Budget
Provides FY 1999-2000 capital outlay appropriations.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

HB 4298   Stamas     Comm Colleges Budget
Provides FY 1999-2000 community colleges appropriations.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

HB 4301   Jelinek     Education Budget
Provides FY 1999-2000 Department of Education appropriations.
1999 PA 113
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

HB 4302   Callahan     Higher Education Budget
Provides FY 1999-2000 higher education appropriations.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

HB 4307   Pappageorge     General Gov't Budget
Provides FY 1999-2000 general government appropriations.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

HB 4315   DeHart     Motorcycle Safety
Requires coordinator of motorcycle safety to be a full-time employed position.
House Transportation
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

HB 4324   Cherry     College Day Care
Provides for on-site day care for students attending college.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

HB 4337   Birkholz     Snow Days
Amends the School Aid Act to allow up to 10 snow days without penalty for 1998-99.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/1999

HB 4346   Rivet     State Departments' Plan
Requires all state departments to submit annual, 5-year, and 10-year strategic plan for delivery of services and utilization of programs to the legislature.
House Oversight & Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/1999

HB 4359   Faunce     Criminal Sexual Conduct
Revised definition of sexual contact.
Passed House 4/20/99; Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/2/1999

HB 4370   Brater     Student Records
Exempts certain k-12 student information from FOIA.
House Constitutional Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/3/1999

HB 4378   Brown     Reading Credits
Amends the Revised School Code to require satisfaction of reading credit requirements to obtain a teaching certificate
  SBE Position: No Position, 3/16/00 Introduced: 3/4/1999

HB 4387   Jelinek     School-to-Work Credit
Provides single business tax credit for a percentage of wages paid to employees who participate in school-to-work programs.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/9/1999

HB 4391   Brown     School Choice
Revises the School Aid Act to require school aid foundation money to follow students transferring to another district.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/9/1999

HB 4404   Law     School Aid Fund
Revises the School Aid Act to increase income tax revenue to the school aid fund.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/9/1999

HB 4405   Faunce     Graduated Licensing
Eliminate repeal date of graduated licensing system legislation.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/9/1999

HB 4411   Johnson     Yearbook Pictures
Amends the Revised School Code to allow students to choose photographer under certain circumstances.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/11/1999

HB 4426   DeRossett     Student Built Property
Provides tax exemption for transfer of property constructed by students.
Gov Vetoed 11/4/99; re-referred to House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/18/1999

HB 4430   Frank     College Tax Credit
Eliminates inflationary cap on college income tax credit.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/23/1999

HB 4434   Gosselin     Math Curriculum
Amends the Revised School Code to replace mathematics model curriculum content standards with standards from California.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/23/1999

HB 4435   Jelinek     Snow Days
Revised the School Aid Act to allow carryover of unused snow days.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/23/1999

HB 4446   Gieleghem     Drug Advisory Council
Creates DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) advisory council.
House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/13/1999

HB 4454   Cherry     America Reads Challenge
Establishes state program to implement America reads challenge act of 1997.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/13/1999

HB 4468   Vander Roest     Retirement
Exempt people who work for school districts to conduct an election from required contribution to pension plan.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/29/2000

HB 4473   DeRossett     Insurance
Amends Insurance Code to expand who may form multiple employer welfare arrangements.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/15/1999

HB 4498   Jelinek     School Aid Supplemental
School Aid Supplemental for FY 98-99-00.
1999 PA 119
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/20/1999

HB 4517   Switalski     School District Jurisdiction
Amends the Revised School Code to require a school district operating school or educational program in another school district to have written permission from school district where operated.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/20/1999

HB 4518   Switalski     Charter School Oversight
Amends the Revised School Code to provide state board authority to revoke a chartering agency's ability to grant charters; requires certain information concerning oversight by charter agency.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/20/1999

HB 4530   Green     Concealed Weapon
Amends Firearms Act to prohibit an individual from carrying a concealed weapon at school or on school property.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/21/2000

HB 4546   Garcia     Rainy Day Fund
Allows school districts to borrow from state rainy day fund.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/21/1999

HB 4557   Clark     Class Size Reduction
Amends the Revised School Code by requiring reduction of class size for K-3 over five-year period beginning in 2000-2001.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/22/1999

HB 4607   Cherry     Property Transfers
Amends the Revised School Code to establish criteria to approve property transfers; requires parents to request release of pupil to another school district before requesting property transfer
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/29/1999

HB 4616   Geiger     School Choice
Amends the School Aid Act to allow membership in alternative education program without approval of district of residence.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/1999

HB 4639   Jelinek     School Calendar
Amends the Revised School Code by revising days and hours of pupil instruction required to only minimum number of hours of pupil instruction; increases minimum hours required each year.
Passed House 6/1/99; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/5/1999

HB 4654   Law     Collective Bargaining
Provides changes in collective bargaining provisions affecting non-teaching school employees.
House Employment Relations, Training & Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/1999

HB 4662   Hager     Child Abuse
Eliminates requirement for parental permission for law enforcement agencies to interview in school minors who are victims of child abuse.
House Family & Children Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/1999

HB 4666   Perricone     Merit Award Scholarship
Provides Michigan merit award scholarship and trust fund.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/1999

HB 4673   LaForge     Computer Financing
Amends the Revised School Code to allow use of bond proceeds for certain computer software.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/13/1999

HB 4687   Rison     Textbook Tax Exemption
Provides sales tax exemption for college textbooks
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/20/1999

HB 4692   Voorhees     Shared Time
Amends the School Aid Act to revise and clarify K-12 shared time reimbursement for home schooling.
House Education reported 4/18/00
  SBE Position: No Position, 4/13/00 Introduced: 5/20/1999

HB 4695   Voorhees     Board Membership
Amends the Revised School Code to require membership of education advisory boards designed to provide parental input to consist of mostly parents.
Passed House 2/2/00; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: No Position, 2/17/00 Introduced: 5/20/1999

HB 4704   Kowall     School Uniforms
Amends the Revised School Code to require uniform dress and appearance policies for pupils.
House Education
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/20/1999

HB 4705   DeWeese     PSA Cap
Amends the Revised School Code to revise the cap on the number of charter schools.
House Education reported 5/25/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/20/1999

HB 4706   Lemmons     Urban PSA
Amends the Revised School Code to allow limiting enrollment to charter schools to certain types of students.
House Education reported 5/25/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/20/1999

HB 4707   Voorhees     Charter Schools
Amends the Revised School Code to allow enrollment priority for children of employees in PSAs.
House Education reported 5/25/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/20/1999

HB 4718   Woerkom     Protection Order
Amends the Revised School Code to prohibit disclosure of certain information to respondent of a personal protection order.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/19/1999

HB 4740   Jacobs     School Program Incentive
Amends the Revised School Code to provide incentives for school districts that provide after school programs and conflict resolution programs.
House Ed discharged 3/22/00; House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/1/1999

HB 4756   Richner     Insurance
Amends Third Party Administrator Act.
House Family & Civil Law
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/3/1999

HB 4757   Shulman     Insurance
Amends the Nonprofit Health Care Corporation Reform Act as it applies to Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
House Family & Civil Law
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/3/1999

HB 4758   Hart     Insurance
Amends the Public Health Code as it applies to HMO's.
House Family & Civil Law
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/3/1999

HB 4759   Hart     Insurance
Amends the Insurance Code as it applies to commercial insurance companies who deliver, issue for delivery, or renew a group expense-incurred hospital, medical, or surgical policy or certificate in MI.
House Family & Civil Law
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/3/1999

HB 4776   Julian     Veterans Speakers Prog
Creates a veterans speakers program; encourage schools to use the experiences of veterans in educational instruction.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/10/1999

HB 4778   DeWeese     Driver Licenses
Provides general amendments to graduated driver license.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/10/1999

HB 4779   DeWeese     Driving Test Cheating
Includes crimes of corrupting or attempting to corrupt an examining officer or person or agency conducting a driving test in sentencing guidelines.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/10/1999

HB 4792   Brown     Tuition
Include in tuition waiver program children of motor carrier division officers and capitol security officers killed in line of duty.
Passed House 5/25/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/11/1999

HB 4794   Birkholz     FOIA
Exempts certain computer tapes and discs from limitation on fee a public body may charge for a FOIA request.
House Const & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/10/1999

HB 4804   Shulman     Telecommunications
Re-codifies telecommunications act.
House Energy & Technology
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/17/1999

HB 4832   Neumann     Teacher Cert Loans
Amends the Revised School Code to establish low interest loans for certain teachers to complete requirements for certification.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/17/1999

HB 4838   Mead     Athletic Supplements
Amends the Revised School Code to prohibit school district employees from promoting or marketing performance enhancing dietary supplements to students.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Support, 10/21/99 Introduced: 9/21/1999

HB 4839   DeWeese     Shared Time
Amends the Revised School Code to provide K-12 shared time reimbursement.
House Ed reported 4/18/00
  SBE Position: No Position, 4/13/00 Introduced: 9/21/1999

HB 4843   DeWeese     Teacher Strikes
Amendments to collective bargaining concerning teacher strikes.
House Employment Relations, Training and Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/22/1999

HB 4849   Switalski     School Board Eligibility
Amends the Revised School Code to prohibit convicted felon ineligible to serve on school board for 20 years after conviction.
House Constitutional Law and Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/23/1999

HB 4853   Basham     Truancy
Amends the Revised School Code to revise penalties for parents and students within a certain number of unexcused absences from school.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

HB 4855   Basham     Truancy
Amends Probate Code to give the family division of circuit court jurisdiction over children with certain number of unexcused absences from school.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

HB 4862   Cassis     Sales Tax
Exempts sales tax on clothing under $500 purchases during the week before and after Labor Day.
House Tax Policy reported 5/10/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

HB 4871   Schermesser     Parental Rights
Amends Revised School Code to require schools to send copies of notices pertaining to students sent to custodial parent to noncustodial parent upon request.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

HB 4894   Bradstreet     Open Meetings Act
Exempts attendance by a majority of a county, city, village or township legislative body at a meeting of another public body within that county, city, village or township from open meetings act.
House Const Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/1999

HB 4900   Law     Millage Jurisdiction
Amends the Revised School Code to provide option for local district enhancement millage instead of regional millage; allows school districts to opt out of regional enhancement millage.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

HB 4901   Law     MEAP Scores
Amends the Revised School Code to allow school districts to omit MEAP scores of students who are absent 30 or more days in school year from overall school district results.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

HB 4904   Geiger     School Aid
Amends School Aid Act to revise calculation of foundation allowance rate and equity payments beginning in 2002-2003.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/1999

HB 4905   Bisbee     State Gov't Liability
Prohibits certain civil actions against state of Michigan.
House Constitutional Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/1999

HB 4906   Bisbee     State Gov't Liability
Prohibits certain actions against state of Michigan by attorney general.
House Constitutional Law Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/1999

HB 4910   Stallworth     Community Service
Amends Revised School Code to establish community service class for grades 6, 9 and 12.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/1999

HB 4916   Stallworth     Financial Aid
Provides interest-free loan incentive to qualified students who exchange six years of teaching service in qualifying Michigan school districts. (Future Teachers Education Loan Act)
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/1999

HB 4917   Stallworth     Financial Aid
Provides funding for the future teachers education loan.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/1999

HB 4924   Richner     Attorney General Power
Establishes opinions of attorney general as advisory unless state agency requested the opinion.
House Constitutional Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/30/1999

HB 4936   Raczkowski     Hate Crimes
Includes prohibition against creating fear of certain acts in ethnic intimidation provisions.
House Constitutional Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/30/1999

HB 4946   Hager     School Crimes
Prohibits threats on school property; provides penalty.
House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/5/1999

HB 4959   Geiger     Charter School Cap
Amends the Revised School Code to prescribe procedures for the transfer of a gift from a school district to a community foundation. Provides for increase in charter school cap.
House Passed 11/3/99; Senate passed 12/8/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/5/1999

HB 4967   VanWoerkom     School Crimes
Enacts sentencing guidelines for crime of making certain threats on school property.
House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/7/1999

HB 4973   Jamnick     Student Expulsions
Amends the Revised School Code to require analysis of student expulsion data by superintendent.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/7/1999

HB 5012   Frank     Teacher Certification
Amends the Revised School Code to require annual verification of teacher certification.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/19/1999

HB 5038   Green     School Board Elections
Amends the Revised School Code to permit a school board to change hours for school election polling places.
House Constitutional Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/26/1999

HB 5039   Green     School Board Elections
Amends Revised School Code to revise number of signatures required for school board candidates.
Passed House 11/14/00; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/26/1999

HB 5043   Bishop     Charity Tax Credit
Provides income tax credit for donation to art and education facilities or organizations.
Passed House 5/31/00; Senate Finance reported 10/4/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/26/1999

HB 5069   Bogardus     School Aid
Amends the State School Aid Act to provide state payment of interest on school construction bonds from casino revenue.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/2/1999

HB 5070   Gieleghem     School Aid
Amends the State School Aid Act to revise number of mills levied to quality for access to school bond loan fund.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/2/1999

HB 5071   Martinez     School Aid
Provides funding for school infrastructure grants by earmarking casino revenues.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/2/1999

HB 5076   Mans     Construction
Provides CIS regulation of construction, reconstruction and remodeling of public and nonpublic schools.
House Regulatory Reform
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/2/1999

HB 5091   Jamnick     Juvenile Delinquent Lists
Requires FIA to notify local law enforcement agencies of address where juvenile delinquents released from state training schools are residing.
House Family & Children Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/2/1999

HB 5094   Kukuk     Curriculum
Amends Revised School Code to revise procedures of notification for parental permission on classes or presentations.
House Transportation reported 3/25/04
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/3/1999

HB 5095   Callahan     School Arbitration
Provides for binding arbitration for public school employees.
House Employment Relations, Training & Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/3/1999

HB 5108   Law     Charter Schools
Amends the Revised School Code to prohibit operation of charter schools by non-profit management companies.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/1999

HB 5113   Daniels     Compulsory School Age
Amends the Revised School Code to increase compulsory age of education attendance to age 18.
House Ed
  SBE Position: No Position, 3/16/00 Introduced: 11/9/1999

HB 5146   Hart     School Aid - Spec Ed
Amends the State School Aid Act to provide funding for extraordinary special education expenses.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/30/1999

HB 5150   DeWeese     School Aid - Nonpublic
Amends State School Aid Act to revise provisions concerning services for nonpublic school and home-schooled students.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/30/1999

HB 5166   Koetje     Sch Grounds Campaign
Prohibits promotion of ballot issues on public school grounds.
House Const Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/7/1999

HB 5167   Mead     School Sex Crimes
Amends the Revised School Code to prohibits sexual conduct between school employees and students.
House Const Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/7/1999

HB 5169   Dennis     Core Curriculum Incentive
Amends the Revised School Code to provide incentive payment eligibility for school districts adopting recommended core curriculum content standards.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/7/1999

HB 5173   Jellema     School Emp Retirement
Revises calculation of retirement allowance payments.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/8/1999

HB 5188   Brewer     Teacher Certification
Amends the Revised School Code to include knowledge of computer training in teacher certificate.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/9/1999

HB 5194   Kowall     Textbook Tax Exemption
Provides sales tax exemption on required texts for college classes.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/9/1999

HB 5197   Jacobs     Child Neglect
Adds failure of child to comply with school attendance requirements as a basis for report and investigation for child neglect under the Child Protection Act.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/9/1999

HB 5198   Jacobs     Truancy Enforcement
Amends the Revised School Code to increase truancy enforcement.
Senate Gov't Operations reported 3/30/04
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/9/1999

HB 5199   Jacobs     Truancy Jurisdiction
Revises procedure in family division of circuit court for truant juveniles; gives court jurisdiction over parents and guardians of truants.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/9/1999

HB 5200   Jacobs     Truancy Penalties
Permits suspension or denial of driver license for a juvenile for truancy.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/9/1999

HB 5212   LaSata     Annual Report
Amends the annual education report card requirements in the Revised School Code.
Passed House 4/26/00; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: No Position, 4/13/00 Introduced: 12/10/1999

HB 5216   Johnson     Juvenile Facilities
Expands location requirements for placement of juvenile facilities.
House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/10/1999

HB 5220   Martinez     Teacher Certification
Amends the Revised School Code to require notification to parents or guardians if teacher is not certified to teach class.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/12/2000

HB 5224   Lockwood     School Violence Hotline
Provides appropriations for toll-free hotline to report threats of violence in schools.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/20/2000

HB 5225   Schauer     Mandatory Blood Testing
Adds school personnel to the list of individuals who may request testing of individuals to whose blood they are exposed.
House Health Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/20/2000

HB 5233   Howell     Locker Searches
Amends the Revised School Code to provide policies on school locker searches.
  SBE Position: No Position, 2/17/00 Introduced: 1/25/2000

HB 5243   Thomas     School Bus Safety
Requires annual instruction on school bus safety for school bus riders up to 8th grade.
Passed House 6/8/00; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2000

HB 5249   Thomas     College Gambling
Allows colleges and universities to possess gaming equipment for solely educational purposes.
House Gaming & Casino Oversight
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2000

HB 5253   Shackleton     Early Childhood
Amends the State School Aid Act to revise amount appropriated for early childhood programs for 1999-2000.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2000

HB 5255   Richner     Corporal Punishment
Amends the Revised School Code to revise standard for disciplining teachers and school employees for using corporal punishment.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2000

HB 5256   Hager     Corporal Punishment
Exempts school employees employing corporal punishment of students from assault and battery statute.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2000

HB 5257   Switalski     School Aid
Amends the School Aid Act to include public school academies in reporting and audit requirements.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2000

HB 5259   Martinez     Discrimination Education
Creates state model anti discrimination education program in the Revised School Code.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2000

HB 5272   Richardville     Substitute Teachers
Amends the Revised School Code to include people who have completed 90 hours of instruction at a community college as qualified substitute teachers.
House Passed 4/12/00; Senate Ed reported 9/20/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

HB 5282   Brown     State Police Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for State Police. Includes gun safety awareness.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

HB 5283   Geiger     Supplemental Budget
Provides FY 99-00 supplemental budget.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

HB 5285   Stamas     Comm College Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for community colleges.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

HB 5288   Jelinek     Education Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for Department of Education.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

HB 5289   Caul     Higher Ed Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for higher education budget.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

HB 5291   DeWeese     Immunization
Amends the School Aid Act to require immunization status assessment for children entering sixth grade.
  SBE Position: No Position, 2/17/00 Introduced: 2/3/2000

HB 5292   Law     Immunization
Amends the Public Health Code to require immunization status assessment for children entering sixth grade.
  SBE Position: No Position, 2/17/00 Introduced: 2/3/2000

HB 5293   Allen     Immunization
Amends the Revised School Code to require immunization status assessment for children entering the sixth grade.
  SBE Position: No Position, 2/17/00 Introduced: 2/3/2000

HB 5340   Law     Merit Award Eligibility
Makes 1999 high school graduates eligible for the Michigan merit award scholarship program.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/10/2000

HB 5349   Geiger     Student Expulsion
Amends the Revised School Code to set duration of student suspension or expulsion.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2000

HB 5350   Geiger     Student Expulsion
Amends the Revised School code to authorize school board designee to suspend or expel a student for assault.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2000

HB 5351   Geiger     School District Gift
Amends the Revised School Code to prescribe procedures for the transfer of a gift from a school district or intermediate school district to a community foundation.
  SBE Position: No Position, 3/16/00 Introduced: 2/15/2000

HB 5352   Garcia     Character Development
Amends the Revised School Code to require school curricula to include character development programs beginning in the 2000-2001 school year.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Nonsupport, 4/13/00 Introduced: 2/15/2000

HB 5356   Schermesser     Juvenile Bomb Threat
Requires psychological evaluation of juveniles who make false bomb threats and requires restitution.
House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2000

HB 5362   Geiger     Comm College Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for community college budget.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

HB 5367   Geiger     Higher Ed Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for higher education.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

HB 5368   Geiger     Education Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for Department of Education.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

HB 5374   Geiger     School Aid Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for single section school aid.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

HB 5375   Geiger     School Aid Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for multisection school aid.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

HB 5377   Geiger     Supplemental Budget
Provides FY 1999-2000 supplemental appropriations.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

HB 5386   Switalski     PSA Oversight
Amends the Revised School Code to provide for ISD oversight of public school academies and contractors.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

HB 5388   LaSata     Internal Auditors
Revises state internal auditor functions and responsibilities.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/17/2000

HB 5401   Jelinek     Infrastructure
Provides funding for school aid infrastructure.
House Approps subcomm on sch aid reported 3/8/00; House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/22/2000

HB 5424   Garcia     State Emp Retirement
Allows surviving spouse of state employee to purchase military service credit not previously purchased by deceased.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/22/2000

HB 5426   Garcia     Sch Emp Retirement
Allows surviving spouse of public school employee to purchase military service credit not previously purchased by deceased.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/22/2000

HB 5428   Garcia     Sch Hours - Kindergarten
Amends the Revised School Code to provide exception for minimum number of hours of pupil instruction for kindergarten students.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/22/2000

HB 5430   Shackleton     School Aid
Provides minimum foundation allowance by 2004-2005.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/22/2000

HB 5435   Jelinek     School Aid Budget
Provides school aid appropriations for FY 1999-2003
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2000

HB 5438   Garcia     Residency Requirements
Revises marriage exemption to state or local employee residency requirements.
House Employment Relations, Training & Safety reported 5/24/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2000

HB 5441   DeHart     Defined Contribution
Allows state employees to choose defined benefit pension system or defined contribution system.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/24/2000

HB 5442   Cherry     School Construction
Requires construction of schools to follow construction code and to be subjected to all necessary inspections.
House Emp Relations, Training & Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/24/2000

HB 5462   Switalski     Single-Sex Education
Amends the Revised School Code to authorize single-sex classrooms.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/29/2000

HB 5468   Vander Roest     Sch Emp Pension
Added individuals who work on elections as an eligible member to retirement system.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/29/2000

HB 5481   Hardman     Sch Emergency Staff
Amends the Revised School Code to require certified CPR staff member during school hours and for school activity.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/7/2000

HB 5517   LaSata     School Aid
Earmarks sales tax on manufactured and mobile homes to school aid fund.
House Approps reported 3/30/04
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/16/2000

HB 5523   Kowall      Mandatory Blood Tests
Adds school personnel to the list of individuals who may request blood test when exposed to blood borne pathogens.
House Health Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/21/2000

HB 5531   Brown     Special Education
Amends the Revised School Code to provide special education services for children with reading disorders or disabilities; requires teachers to have training in reading disorders and disabilities.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/21/2000

HB 5532   Brown     Financial Reporting
Revises local government financial report filing requirement.
House Local Gov't & Urban Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/21/2000

HB 5533   Brown     Child Care Workers
Requires criminal history checks for employees of child care organizations.
House Family & Children Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/21/2000

HB 5534   Hager     HS Career Training
Provides dual enrollment options for career and technical preparation programs.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/21/2000

HB 5552   Clarke     Sch Imp Exemption
Exempts school improvement materials from sales tax.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/11/2000

HB 5559   Schauer     School Bus Caution
Increases penalties against drivers who cause or contribute to an accident involving a school bus or pupil transportation vehicle.
House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/11/2000

HB 5560   Jelinek     School Bus Caution
Includes reckless driving causing serious impairment of body function or death to minor in school vehicle
House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/11/2000

HB 5636   Johnson     School Deed Restriction
Revises deed restrictions on property owned by school districts.
House Cons & Outdoor Recreation
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2000

HB 5638   Kukuk     Pearl Harbor Day
Designates and commemorates December 7th as "Pearl Harbor Day"
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2000

HB 5640   Neumann     School Supplies Credit
Provides income tax credit for expenditures by public school employees for supplies.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2000

HB 5643   Julian     Parent-Teacher Conf
Allows up to three hours of time spent in parent-teacher conferences per year count as pupil instruction time for purposes of receiving state school aid.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2000

HB 5644   Julian     Substitute Teacher
Amends the Revised School Code to revise duration of substitute teacher permits.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2000

HB 5649   Gieleghem     School Counselors
Amends the Revised School Code to require public schools to employ at least one counselor for every 300 students.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2000

HB 5650   Gieleghem     Parent Involvement
Amends the Revised School Code to create parent involvement and community empowerment initiative.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2000

HB 5651   Bogardus     Expelled Students
Amends the Revised School Code to provide disciplinary education program for expelled students.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2000

HB 5653   Woronchak     Education Savings
Provides income tax deduction for contribution to the Michigan Education Savings Account program.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2000

HB 5654   Shackleton     Education Savings
Provides income tax deduction for contributions to education savings accounts.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2000

HB 5657   Godchaux     Admin Cert
Amends the Revised School Code to provide voluntary school administrator certification.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2000

HB 5673   Thomas     Teacher Loans
Provides loan and loan forgiveness program for school employees obtaining a degree and entering teaching.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/20/2000

HB 5674   Thomas     Teacher Loan
Provides funding for the school employee teacher career loan fund.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/20/2000

HB 5693   Julian     Gun Safety Classes
Amends the Revised School Code to require that schools implement a gun safety instruction policy.
Passed House 5/24/00: Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/27/2000

HB 5705   Allen     Driver Ed/Motorcycle Safety
Relocates administration of the driver education and motorcycle safety programs to the Secretary of State from Department of Education.
House Transportation reported to House Ed 10/3/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/2/2000

HB 5721   Middaugh     Telecommunications
Rewrites Telecommunications Act.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/2/2000

HB 5723   Geiger     School Emp Benefits
Provides health advance funding subaccount in public school employees retirement system.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/3/2000

HB 5724   Jansen     State Emp Benefits
Provides health advance funding subaccount in state employees retirement system.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/3/2000

HB 5726   Thomas     Telecommunications
Amends the Michigan Telecommunications Act.
House Energy & Technology
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/3/2000

HB 5738   Cherry     School Safety
Amends the Revised School Code to require reporting to Child Protective Services of incidents resulting in mandatory expulsion; include Child Protective Services in development of school safety policies.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2000

HB 5740   VanWoerkom     School Counselor
Amends the Revised School Code to allow an individual without a teaching certificate to be employed as a school counselor if the individual holds at least a master's degree in an approved school counselor program.
  SBE Position: No Position, 5/18/00 Introduced: 5/4/2000

HB 5741   Woronchak     Child Care Regulation
Requires criminal history check and check for abuse and neglect history on individuals employed in the supervision and care of children.
Passed House 5/24/00; Senate Families, Mental Health & Human Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2000

HB 5742   Faunce     Child Care Regulation
Provides notice of additional licensing requirements for child care professionals.
Passed House 5/24/00; Senate Families, Mental Health & Human Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2000

HB 5743   Kukuk     Child Care Regulation
Requires FIA to disclose to current or prospective employer determination of child abuse or neglect by individual employed or applying for child care position.
Passed House 5/24/00; Senate Families, Mental Health & Human Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2000

HB 5744   Howell     Project Exile
Creates Project Exile Commission to coordinate federal and state prosecution of firearms law violations. Creates Project Exile Fund to facilitate coordination.
Passed House 5/24/00; Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2000

HB 5745   Shulman     Gun Safety
Prohibits storing and leaving a loaded firearm within reach or access of a minor.
Passed House 5/24/00; Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2000

HB 5746   Shulman     Gun Safety
Provides criminal sentencing guidelines for allowing minor access to firearm.
Passed House 5/24/00; Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2000

HB 5747   Koetje     Gun Safety
Provides civil liability for leaving a firearm unattended within reach or access of a minor.
Passed House 5/24/00; Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2000

HB 5748   Neumann     Character Training
Amends the Revised School Code to require school curricula to include character training.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/9/2000

HB 5750   Johnson     Substitute Teachers
Amends the Revised School Code to allow school districts to contract for substitute teachers.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/9/2000

HB 5751   Johnson     Bus Seat Belts
Requires seat belts on new school buses purchased beginning July 1, 2001.
House Trans
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/9/2000

HB 5753   Hart     School Construction
Provides sales tax exemption for construction and improvement of schools.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/9/2000

HB 5754   Vander Roest     State Emp Retirement
Provides general amendments to the Public Employee Retirement System Investment Act.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/9/2000

HB 5755   DeHart     State Emp Retirement
Provides permanent 80-point retirement option.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/9/2000

HB 5756   DeHart     Competitive Scholarship
Revises eligibility for Michigan competitive scholarship program to include high school grade point average; allows a qualification based on college grade point average.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/9/2000

HB 5781   Tabor     Trigger Locks
Requires trigger lock or other secure container for sale of firearms.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/2000

HB 5782   DeVuyst     Trigger Locks
Enacts sentencing guidelines for failing to provide trigger lock or other secure container with sale of firearm.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/2000

HB 5783   Kowall     Trigger Locks
Provides tax credit for purchase of trigger lock or other gun safety device.
Passed House 5/24/00; Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/2000

HB 5784   DeRossett     Trigger Locks
Provides tax credit for purchase of gun safety storage equipment.
Passed House 5/24/00; Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/2000

HB 5785   Spade     Dual Enrollment
Establishes financial liability for dual college/high school enrollment students for tuition for classes dropped after the withdrawal date.
House Ed reported 6/6/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/2000

HB 5786   Shackleton     Gift Procedures
Amends the Revised School Code to prescribes procedures for transfer of a gift from a school district to a community or educational foundation.
Passed House 10/4/00; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/16/2000

HB 5793   Birkholz     School Loans
Amends the School Aid Act to provide appropriations from school aid reserve for loans to districts.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/16/2000

HB 5794   Garcia     School Loans
Amends the School Aid Act to provide funding for school aid reserve account to be used for loans to school districts.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/16/2000

HB 5795   Spade     Electronic Textbooks
Requires manufacturers and publishers of instructional materials to provide digital electronic versions.
House Ed reported 6/6/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/16/2000

HB 5799   Brewer     State Emp Retirement
Amends the state employee retirement system to increase multiplier, increase cost-of-living adjustment, provide an 80-and-out plan and increase state's contribution to the defined contribution plan.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/16/2000

HB 5802   Geiger     School Code
Amends to Revised School Code to provide testing of elementary pupils; virtual high school, and school safety provisions.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/17/2000

HB 5804   Lockwood     Sch Emergency Plan
Amends the Revised School Code to require school districts to have an emergency management plan for each school.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/17/2000

HB 5808   Dennis     Counselor Endorsement
Amends the Revised School Code to require child development & child psychology assessment skills for school counselor endorsement.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/18/2000

HB 5810   Bishop     Education Gifting
Provides tax-free educational gifting program.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/18/2000

HB 5811   Richner     Educational Gifting
Provides funding for tax-free educational gifting programs.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/18/2000

HB 5814   Patterson      School Aid Minimum
Sets basic 2001-2002 foundation allowance for certain districts.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/23/2000

HB 5822   Richardville     Specific Tax Usage
Earmarks two dollars of specific tax collected for each mobile home for school infrastructure.
Passed House 6/1/00; Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/23/2000

HB 5832   Jelinek     School Bond Loans
Revises procedures for state borrowing from school bond loan fund.
2000 PA 245
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/23/2000

HB 5833   Jelinek     School Bond Loans
Revises eligibility requirements and procedures for school district borrowing from school bond loan fund.
2000 PA 290
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/23/2000

HB 5840   Scott     New Community College
Allows proposal to form a community college district by petition of school electors.
House Const Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/24/2000

HB 5846   Shulman     Local Gov't Accounting
Revises Uniform budgeting and accounting standards and procedures for local units of government.
Passed House 10/4/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/25/2000

HB 5848   Jellema     Educational Innovation
Amends the Revised School Code to establish an educational innovation repository.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/30/2000

HB 5859   DeHart     School Bus Safety
Requires visible sign posted on back of school buses declaring penalty for passing when red lights are flashing.
House Trans
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/30/2000

HB 5860   DeHart     School Bus Safety
Allocates fines for passing a school bus when red lights are flashing to reimburse schools for cost of warning signs.
House Trans
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/30/2000

HB 5864   Jamnick     School Bus Safety
Revises location procedures for school buses discharging students who are required to cross a roadway.
House Trans
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/31/2000

HB 5866   Gieleghem     Sch Privacy/Safety
Amends the Revised School Code to provide website requirement for state model policy on locker searches and state school safety policies.
House Ed reported 6/6/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/1/2000

HB 5877   Bovin     Sch Emp Retirement
Provides public school employees with permanent 80-point retirement option.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/2000

HB 5879   Kilpatrick     State Emp Retirement
Requires prefunding health care benefits for state employees.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/2000

HB 5880   Schauer     Sch Emp Retirement
Requires prefunding health care benefits for public school employees.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/2000

HB 5881   Woodward     MEAP Score Reporting
Amends the Revised School Code to revise MEAP score reporting.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/2000

HB 5882   Woodward     MEAP Score Reporting
Amends the School Aid Act to revise MEAP score reporting.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/2000

HB 5896   DeWeese     Youth Employment
Amends the Youth Employment Standards Act to allow minors to volunteer for certain adult-supervised construction activities.
House Emp Relations, Training & Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/20/2000

HB 5910   Richner     Safety Demolition Zones
Establishes emergency schoolchildren protection enforcement act.
Passed House 10/4/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/20/2000

HB 5912   Allen     ORV Safety Course
Provides rules for off-road vehicle safety education courses and instructors.
House Cons & Outdoor Recreation
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/21/2000

HB 5913   Allen     Teacher Suspensions
Amends the Revised School Code to require summary suspension of a teacher's certification or other school employee certification upon conviction of any felony or certain misdemeanors.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/21/2000

HB 5935   Switalski     School Aid
Amends the School Aid Act to require school aid foundation money to follow transferring student.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/21/2000

HB 5938   Patterson     School Bus Safety
Revises location procedures for buses when discharging students.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/26/2000

HB 5950   Jamnick     Student Safety
Amends the Revised School Code to require the Department to disclose teachers charged with crimes against minors in other states upon request.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/26/2000

HB 5951   VanderRoest     Public School Retirement
Revises definition of person not regularly employed by a reporting unit.
Passed House 10/3/00; Passed Senate 12/6/00; Conf Report adopted 12/13/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/26/2000

HB 5961   Woronchak     At-Risk Students
Amends the State School Aid Act to increase funding percentage of at-risk students.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/26/2000

HB 5963   VanderRoest     State Emp Retirement
Eliminates cap on state employees retirement death benefit.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/26/2000

HB 5995   Pappageorge      School Bonds
Provides notice of intent to issue schools bonds.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/27/2000

HB 5998   Birkholtz     Comm College Districts
Expands annexation of territory to community college districts comprised of ISDs.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/27/2000

HB 6000   Birkholz     School Elections
Allows any qualified registered elector of county to serve as inspector in school elections.
House Const Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/27/2000

HB 6030   Allen     School Internet Filtering
Amends the Revised School Code to requires public schools to adopt an internet filtering policy and make the policy available to the public.
Passed House 11/29/00; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/2000

HB 6042   Gosselin     Alcohol-Free Schools
Prohibits sale of alcoholic beverages within 1,000 feet of a school.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/2000

HB 6048   Gosselin     Ten Commandments
Allows and regulates the display of the Ten Commandments on public property.
House Const Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/2000

HB 6062   Garcia     School Property Tax
Amends the Revised School Code to release responsibility for property taxes for bonded indebtedness after property transfer between school districts.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/3/2000

HB 6068   Jansen     Private School Exemption
Provides state real estate transfer tax exemption for private schools.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/3/2000

HB 6075   Woodward     Hazing
Prohibits hazing and prescribes penalties.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/4/2000

HB 6076   Woodward     Hazing
Amends the Revised School Code to require school districts to implement a written hazing policy by June 1, 2001.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/4/2000

HB 6077   Woodward     Hazing
Establishes liabilities for hazing damages.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/4/2000

HB 6090   Hale     Bus Monitors
Provides school bus monitors when transporting children.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2000

HB 6098   LaForge     Child Care
Provides for licensing and regulation of child care organizations.
House Family & Children Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2000

HB 6110   Gosselin     Supplemental Budgets
Requires separate roll-call votes on certain line items in supplemental budgets.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2000

HB 6133   Jellema     State Retirement
Revises eligible domestic relations order payments to be life time benefit for divorced state employees.
House Senior Health, Security, & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2000

HB 6135   Jellema     State Retirement
Revises the time allowed for a divorce spouse to claim pension benefits after retirement for state employees.
House Senior Health, Security, & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2000

HB 6136   Jellema     Teacher Retirement
Revises stipulations on pension benefits of a divorce spouse for school employees
House Senior Health, Security, & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2000

HB 6140   Julian     Religious Ed Corp
Amends the General Corporation Act; eliminates provisions allowing state determination of adequacy of postsecondary ecclesiastical religious educational corporations.
House Regulatory Reform
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/14/2000

HB 6148   Basham     School Bus Stops
Allows local school boards to determine location and number of school bus stops within housing park.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/28/2000

HB 6152   Switalski     Home school tests
Amends the Revised School Code to require MEAP testing for home schooled students.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/28/2000

HB 6159   Brewer     Sch Emp Retirement
Provide for chose of health care plans and funding for retired school personnel.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/28/2000

HB 6165   Johnson     Playground Attendants
Provides immunity for playground attendants giving emergency assistance to a minor.
House Family & Civil Law
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/28/2000

HB 6178   Ehardt     Sch Emp Retirement
Allows direct withholding from pension for long-term care benefits for public school employees.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/5/2000

HB 6179   Ehardt     Sch Emp Retirement
Allows naming of second spouse as beneficiary if first spouse predeceases him or her and naming of spouse as beneficiary if marriage occurs after retirement for public school employees.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/5/2000

HCR 18   Jellema     Special Needs School
Approves the conveyance of property to the State Building Authority and approves a lease between Michigan and the State Building Authority relative to the Michigan School for the Deaf and Blind residential facilities.
Passed House 3/23/99; Passed Senate 4/28/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/10/1999

HCR 44   Jellema     UM-Flint Construction
Changes the scope of the professional studies and classroom building project at UM-Flint.
Passed House 10/12/99; Passed Senate 10/19/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/21/1999

HCR 48   Jansen     Indian Commission
Disapproves Executive Order 1999-9 that abolishes the Michigan Commission on Indian Affairs
House Oversight & Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/1999

HCR 51   Jellema     Property Conveyance
Central Michigan University Park Library addition and remodeling.
Passed House 10/12/99; Passed Senate 10/19/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/1999

HCR 52   Jellema     Property Conveyance
Bay de Noc Community College general campus renovations and additions.
Passed House 10/12/99; Passed Senate 10/19/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/1999

HCR 65   Jellema     Property Conveyance
Approves conveyance of property - Eastern Michigan University.
Passed House 11/30/99; Passed Senate 12/9/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/28/1999

HCR 66   Jellema     Property Conveyance
Approves conveyance of property - Northern Michigan University.
Passed House 11/30/99; Passed Senate 12/9/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/28/1999

HCR 67   Jellema     Property Conveyance
Approves conveyance of property - Ferris State University.
Passed House 11/30/99; Passed Senate 12/9/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/28/1999

HCR 68   Pestka     Child Care Licensing
Urges CIS to withdraw its proposed rules on child care centers and licensing and to redraft the rules with certain changes.
House Family & Children Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/28/1999

HCR 69   Bogardus     Executive Reorganization
Disapproves Executive Order 1999-12 on reorganization of MDE.
House Oversight & Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/2/1999

HCR 107   Jelinek     Civic Education
Supports civic education; declares the third Friday of September as legislators back to school day.
Passed Senate 6/8/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/1/2000

HJR    Brown     School Emp Retirement
Amends constitution to protect the funds of public school employees' retirement system.
House Constit Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

HJR    Bradstreet     Ten Commandments
Amends the constitution to allow display of the "Ten Commandments" on public and school property.
House Const Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/8/2000

HJR 0   Brown     SS Number Privacy
Amends constitution to protect social security number privacy.
House Const Law & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2000

HJR 1   Hanley     State Emp Pensions
Amends the constitution to include health benefits in definition of state employees pension benefits.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/2000

HR 24   Johnson     Experience Corp
Encourages schools to develop "Experience Corps" to help to promote literacy and foster a desire for reading.
Passed House 4/27/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/2/1999

HR 43   Tabor     Motorcycle Safety
Commemorates May 1999 as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month.
Passed House 5/25/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/23/1999

HR 118   Raczkowski     Teacher Development
Creates the Committee on the Training and Development of Twenty-first Century teachers.
House Oversight & Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/1999

HR 211   Pestka     Child Care Licensing
Urges CIS to withdraw its proposed rules on child care centers and licensing and to redraft the rules with certain changes.
House Family & Children Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/28/1999

HR 220   Shackleton     Single-Gender Class
Supports the continuation of the optional single-gender classes offered by the Pellston Public Schools.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/3/1999

HR 244   Bishop     Teacher Appreciation
Commemorates March 2000 as Teacher Appreciation Month.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/9/1999

HR 274   Hart     Athletic Gender Equity
Requests the governor to appoint a task force to study gender equity in Michigan high school athletics including funding levels for boys and girls.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2000

HR 293   Allen     School Social Worker
Commemorates National School Social Worker Week.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/7/2000

HR 298   Johnson     Motorcycle Safety
Commemorates May 2000 as Motorcycle Safety Awareness month.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/14/2000

HR 316   Schauer     Character Ed Week
Proclaims April 17-21, 2000 as Character Education Week
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/12/2000

HR 410   Pumford     Safe Schools
Designates October 17, 2000 Safe Communities; Safe Schools Day.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/3/2000

SB 1   Goschka     Income Tax Cut
Reduces income tax rate by .1 percentage point in 2000.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/13/1999

SB 2   Hammerstrom     Income Tax Cut
Reduces income tax rate by .1 percentage point in 2001.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/13/1999

SB 5   Bullard     Income Tax Cut
Reduces income tax rate by .1 percentage point in 2004.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/13/1999

SB 10   Rogers     Academy Cap
Amends the Revised School Code to allow public school trade academies that have cooperative relationships to be established without regard to the cap on number of academies.
Senate adopted 3/24/04; House Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/13/1999

SB 17   Bouchard     Sexual Contact
Revises definition of criminal sexual contact.
House Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/13/1999

SB 27   Schuette     School Choice
Amends the School Aid Act to permit students to enroll in the district of their choice within an intermediate district without the consent of the home district.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/13/1999

SB 31   Schuette     School Vouchers
Amends the School Aid Act to provide a voucher system for low-income, disadvantaged children in Detroit for use in nonpublic schools.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/13/1999

SB 33   Rogers     Laser Pointers
Amends the Revised School Code by prohibiting laser pointers in schools.
Senate Ed; re-referred to Senate Judiciary 3/17/99
  SBE Position: No Position, 4/15/99 Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 44   Smith, A.     School Age
Amends the Revised School Code to increase the compulsory school attendance age to 18 and to provide for certain alternative education programs.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: No Position, 3/16/00 Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 50   Sikkema     Retirement
Revises definition of eligible employees for membership in optional retirement act for community or junior college employees.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 53   North     Education Calendar
Amends the Revised School Code to require that schools not be in session on Friday before Labor Day.
Passed Senate 4/22/99; House defeated 6/17/99; referred House Great Lakes & Tourism
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 54   North     Financial Aid
Includes children of motor carrier division officers killed in the line of duty in tuition program.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 57   North     School Vehicles
Amends the Pupil Transportation Act to bring it into compliance with federal law and the Michigan's Motor Vehicle Code.
  SBE Position: No Position, 3/16/00 Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 68   Gast     Supplemental Budget
Supplement Budget appropriations for 1999-2000.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 74   Gast     Higher Education Budget
Higher education budget for FY 1999-2000.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 77   Gast     MDE Budget
MDE budget for FY 1999-2000.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 81   Gast     Comm Colleges Budget
Community colleges budget for FY 1999-2000.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 82   DeBeaussaert     Curriculum
Amends the Revised School Code to require a mandatory core curriculum content standards.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 93   Peters     Computer Literacy
Amends the Revised School Code to include computer literacy as a requirement to receive a teaching certificate.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

SB 114   Young     Class Size
Amends the School Aid Act to provide additional school aid funds for smaller class sizes in grades K-3 beginning in 2000-2001.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/1999

SB 115   Young     Class Size
Amends the Revised School Code to require a reduction of class size for grades K-3.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

SB 122   Steil     School Contracts
Eliminates provisions for payment of prevailing wages on public school projects.
Senate Human Res, Labor, Senior Citizens & Vet Aff
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/1999

SB 130   Hart     School Safe Havens
Amends the Revised School Code to provides incentives in school code for districts providing before and after school "safe haven" programs.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/1999

SB 150   Sikkema     School Aid
Amends the School Aid Act to provide for a phase-out of blended count.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/1999

SB 151   Sikkema     Self insurance Pool
Allows for group self insurance for health insurance.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/1999

SB 154   Rogers     Laser Pointers
Prohibits sale of laser pointers to minors and possession of laser pointers by minors.
Senate Families, Mental Health & Human Serv; re-referred to Senate Judiciary 3/17/99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/1999

SB 159   Rogers     Vocational Education
Establishes the "Vocational Education Enrollment Options Act."
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/1999

SB 169   Stille     Background Checks
Amends the Revised School Code to require background checks on contractors and volunteers at schools.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

SB 170   Stille     Violent Students
Amends the Revised School Code by requiring school officials to notify law enforcement about violence and other criminal activity at school.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/28/1999

SB 183   Hammerstrom     Teacher Suspension
Amends the Revised School Code to allow a teacher to suspend a student from the classroom for up to one day if the student creates a safety threat that has been defined according to local policy.
  SBE Position: No Position, 5/20/99 Introduced: 1/28/1999

SB 191   Jaye     Senior School Taxes
Exempts senior citizens from school property taxes.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

SB 198   Bennett     Employee Residency
Prohibits certain residency requirements for state and local government employees.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

SB 206   Stille     Physical Assault
Amends the Revised School Code to require the expulsion of a student in grade 6 or above who commits an assault at school or on school grounds against an employee or volunteer of a school district.
  SBE Position: No Position, 4/15/99 No Position, 5/20/99 Introduced: 2/2/1999

SB 208   Steil     Future Teachers
Establishes Future Teachers Program that would provide educational loans to encourage students to enter the teaching profession in shortage areas or subjects.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

SB 209   Steil     Future Teachers
Provides appropriations for Future Teachers Program.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

SB 210   Steil     Academy Special Ed
Amends the Revised School Code to allow public school academies to limit enrollment of special education students and excludes academies in poverty areas from statewide cap on total number of academies.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

SB 211   Steil     School Uniforms
Amends the Revised School Code to encourage schools to require student uniforms and to provide education in ethics, citizenship and anti-violence education.
Passed Senate 5/12/99; House Ed
  SBE Position: No Position, 5/20/99 Introduced: 2/2/1999

SB 212   Steil     Endorsed Diploma Repeal
Amends the Revised School Code to repeal the state endorsed diploma. Requires all students to take a nationally recognized test.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

SB 215   Steil     Teen Drivers
Revises qualifications for driver's license eligibility for person under 18. Provides for suspension of license of persons who have not graduated from high school.
Senate Trans & Tourism
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

SB 216   Jaye     School Vouchers
Amends the School Aid Act to provide a voucher system to use at nonpublic K-12 schools.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

SB 218   Hoffman     Drug-Free Schools Zones
Prohibits delivery of controlled substances to any person within a drug-free school zone.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

SB 246   Shugars     Alcohol Possession
Prohibits consumption or possession of alcoholic liquor on school property and provides penalties.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/1999

SB 259   Gast     DMB Budget Act
Provides for general amendments to management and budget act.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/1999

SB 283   Gast     School Aid Appropriations
Provides FY 99-00 single section school aid appropriations.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

SB 284   Gast     School Aid Appropriations
Provides for FY 99-00 multisection school aid appropriations.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

SB 285   Dingell     Snow Days
Provides unlimited snow days as exception to penalty for insufficient school days for 1998-99.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/1999

SB 289   Stille     Textbook Sales Tax
Exempts certain textbooks from sales tax.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/10/1999

SB 290   McManus     School Elections
Regulates school elections and provides general amendments to the Election Law.
Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/10/1999

SB 291   Bennett     Election Scheduling
Amends the Election Law to consolidate school elections and general elections.
Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/10/1999

SB 292   Steil     Election Scheduling
Amends the Revised School Code to require school elections to be held with general elections.
Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/10/1999

SB 297   DeGrow     Detroit School Reform
Amends the Revised School Code to provide for the appointment of a reform school board in the Detroit Public Schools.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/10/1999

SB 318   Steil     FOIA
Amends FOIA to prohibit release of social security number.
Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/17/1999

SB 328   Jaye     Election
Amends the Revised School Code to allow nonresident taxpayers to vote on certain local and tax issues.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/18/1999

SB 337   Bullard     Pupil Counts
Amends the School Aid Act to provide for current year pupil count, using three count days, as basis for calculating school aid membership beginning in FY 1999-2000.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

SB 338   Bullard     Pupil Counts
Amends the Revised School Code to provide for current year pupil count, using three count days, as basis for school aid.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

SB 340   Steil     Sinking Fund
Amends the Revised School Code to allow districts to use sinking fund to lease certain school buildings from developers.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

SB 341   Steil     School Leases
Exempts certain buildings leased to school district from property tax.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

SB 358   Gast     Capital Outlay Budget
Provides for FY 1999-2000 capital outlay appropriations.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

SB 359   Gast     Comm Colleges Budget
Provide FY 1999-2000 community and junior colleges appropriations.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

SB 363   Bennett     Education Budget
Provides FY 1999-2000 Department of Education appropriations.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

SB 366   Schwarz     General Gov't Budget
Provides FY 1999-2000 general government appropriations.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

SB 367   Schwarz     Higher Education Budget
Provides FY 1999-2000 higher education appropriations
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/1999

SB 392   Bennett     School Speed Limit
Establishes school zone speed limits around high schools.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/25/1999

SB 428   Jaye     Millage Exemption
Exempts senior citizens from taxes levied for K-12 and community college operating a debt millage.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/11/1999

SB 435   Bullard     Endorsement Test
Amends the School Aid Act to allow the MEAP High School Test score to be deleted from the student's transcript upon a request from the parent.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: No Position, 4/15/99 Introduced: 3/11/1999

SB 441   McCotter     School Counselors
Amends the Revised School Code to allow counselor who is not certified as a teacher to work as counselor in public schools under certain circumstances.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/16/1999

SB 444   Bennett     US Products Assessment
Amends the School Aid Act to provide definitions for "American Goods" and "American Services"; makes certain technical changes in assessment provision.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/17/1999

SB 445   Bennett     Sinking Fund
Amends the Revised School Code to allow use of sinking fund to lease computers.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/17/1999

SB 446   Bennett     School Code
Provides general and technical amendments to the Revised School Code. Requires DMB to prepare and implement a state plan for the creation of a Michigan Information Network.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/17/1999

SB 447   Emmons     Kindergarten Age
Amends the Revised School Code to change eligibility to start kindergarten to age 5 on September 1.
Senate Ed reported 9/22/99
  SBE Position: Nonsupport, 10/21/99 Introduced: 3/17/1999

SB 448   Emmons     Ex-con Administrators
Amends the Revised School Code to prohibit employment of individual convicted of certain crimes as school administrator.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/17/1999

SB 450   Emmons     Kindergarten Age
Changes eligibility to be counted in kindergarten membership in school aid to age 5 on September 1.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/18/1999

SB 455   Young     School Book Exemption
Exempts K-12 school books from sales tax.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/23/1999

SB 459   Bullard     Student Test Privacy
Amends the Revised School Code to allow the MEAP High School Test score to be deleted from a student's transcript upon a request from the parent.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: No Position, 4/15/99 Introduced: 3/23/1999

SB 463   Stille     Construction Code
Provided amendments in the construction code.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/23/1999

SB 472   Rogers     Education Plates
Requires secretary of state to develop and sell specialty license plates with education theme; earmarks proceeds to technology for schools fund.
Senate Transportation & Tourism
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/24/1999

SB 483   Bennett     Student Loan Deduction
Allows income tax deduction of interest on student loans.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/24/1999

SB 498   Rogers     Metal Detectors
Amends the School Aid Act to provide grants for schools for installing weapon detection equipment.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/14/1999

SB 499   Jaye     Teacher Competency Test
Amends the Revised School Code to require that teachers must pass college level competency test in subject to teach that subject in middle school or high school.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/14/1999

SB 501   Emmons     Speech Therapists
Amends the Revised School Code by allowing a person not holding a teaching certificate to provide speech and language services.
  SBE Position: No Position, 10/21/99 Introduced: 4/14/1999

SB 525   Bennett     University Riots
Allows court to order individual convicted of crime relating to riot or unlawful assembly not to enter property of institution of higher education.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/20/1999

SB 540   Bennett     Donation Deduction
Provides single business tax deduction for the donation of certain goods or services to schools and school districts.
Senate Finances
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/27/1999

SB 562   Rogers     Internet Crimes
Prohibits and provides penalties for use of computer network to commit or attempt to certain crimes involving explosives.
Passed Senate 5/12/99; House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/1999

SB 575   Smith, A.     College Tuition Credit
Provides tuition income tax for Michigan community colleges.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/6/1999

SB 576   Gast     College Textbook Credit
Provides colleges textbook income tax credit
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/6/1999

SB 588   Schuette     School Records
Brings Michigan law into compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/1999

SB 599   Rogers     Education Savings
Establishes tax deferred education savings account.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/1999

SB 600   Rogers     Ed Savings Account
Provides income tax deduction for tax deferred education savings account contributions.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/1999

SB 614   Hoffman     Medicine Distribution
Amends the Revised School Code to revise qualified immunity for administering medication in public schools for certain school employees.
  SBE Position: Support, 10/21/99 Introduced: 5/25/1999

SB 631   Schwarz     School Inhaler Use
Amends the Revised School Code to allow students possessing and using inhalers for asthma at school; exempts school personnel from liability under certain circumstances.
  SBE Position: Support, 10/21/99 Introduced: 6/2/1999

SB 633   VanRegenmorter     Bomb Threats
Revises penalties for certain false crime reports.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/1999

SB 634   VanRegenmorter     Bomb Threats
Amends sentencing guidelines for certain false crime reports.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/1999

SB 635   Shugars     Bomb Threats
Amends reimbursement of costs for certain bomb threat related offenses.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/1999

SB 641   McManus     Teacher Retirement
Revises definition of health insurance dependent for public school employee retirement.
Senate
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/9/1999

SB 656   Stille     Sch Millage Exemption
Exempts certain residential development property from school operating millage to the same extent that a homestead is exempt.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/1999

SB 657   Shugars     Social Worker
Amends the Public Health Code to provide licensure and regulations of social workers.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/1999

SB 658   Sikkema     Braille Literacy
Amends the Revised School Code to provide braille literacy provisions for visually impaired pupils.
  SBE Position: Support Concept, 10/21/99 Introduced: 6/16/1999

SB 663   Bennett     Collective Bargaining
Amends the Public Employment Relations Act to allow chief executive officer of the Detroit Public Schools to prohibit the district's principals from unionizing.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/1999

SB 706   Stille     Athletic Supplements
Amends the Revised School Code to prohibit school district employees from promoting or marketing performance enhancing dietary supplements to students.
  SBE Position: Support, 10/21/99 Introduced: 9/21/1999

SB 714   Goschka     Teacher Arbitration
Provides binding arbitration for public school employees.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/21/1999

SB 721   Jaye     Athlete GPA
Amends the Revised School Code to require 2.0 on a 4.0 scale or equivalent for students to participate in sports.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/23/1999

SB 723   Jaye     Bilingual Ed Repeal
Amends the Revised School Code to prohibit public schools from providing bilingual education.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/23/1999

SB 724   Jaye     Tuition Welfare
Requires students in welfare families to reimburse taxpayer-paid college education program funds.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/23/1999

SB 728   Smith, A.     Tuition Tax Credit
Uses appropriation level to define institutions of higher education qualified to allow taxpayer to claim the tuition tax credit.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/23/1999

SB 730   Smith, A.     Guns in School
Eliminates exceptions to ban of firearm possession in schools except for peace officer.
Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/23/1999

SB 735   McCotter     School Safety
Prohibits certain threats on school property.
Passed Senate 10/21/99; House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/23/1999

SB 736   Johnson, S.     School Safety
Provides sentencing guidelines for making threats on school property.
Passed Senate 10/21/99; House Criminal Law & Corrections
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/23/1999

SB 739   Young     Young
Amends the Revised School Code to require the Department to establish "hot line" for the reporting by students of criminal activity.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/23/1999

SB 744   Stille     School Infrastructure
Amends the State School Aid Act to provide infrastructure payments for certain school districts.
Passed Senate 11/5/03; House Land Use & Environment reported 3/25/04
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

SB 754   Hammerstrom     Juvenile Animal Cruelty
Amends the Juvenile Code to require that the family division of circuit court order a juvenile that commits animal cruelty to be evaluated.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

SB 758   Peters     Truancy
Amends the Revised School Code to increase truancy enforcement.
Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

SB 759   Peters     Truancy
Amends Vehicle Code to permit suspension or denial of driver license of a juvenile for truancy.
Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

SB 760   Peters     Truancy
Amends Probate Code to revise procedures in family division of circuit court for truant juveniles; gives court jurisdiction over parents and guardians of truants.
Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

SB 761   Peters     Truancy
Amends Child Protection Law to add truancy as a basis for report and investigation for child neglect.
Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/1999

SB 766   Bennett      School Board Vacancies
Amends Revised School Code to extend time limit to fill local school board vacancy to 30 days.
  SBE Position: No Position, 2/17/00 Introduced: 9/29/1999

SB 772   Shugars     School Tax Credit
Provides income tax credit for donations to educational organization.
Passed Senate 5/31/00; House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/1999

SB 787   Goschka     Coach Background Checks
Amends the Revised School Code to require criminal background check for employment of interscholastic coaches.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: No Position, 4/13/00 Introduced: 10/5/1999

SB 795   McManus     Youth Employment
Amends the Youth Employment Standards Act to revise the number of hours 16-year olds can work.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/7/1999

SB 802   Stille     School Aid
Amends the School Aid Act to revise qualifications for early reading intervention grant program.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/13/1999

SB 805   Rogers     School Construction
Requires construction of public schools to be under construction code and to be subjected to all necessary inspections.
Passed Senate 6/8/00; House Emp Relations, Training & Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/13/1999

SB 816   Koivisto     School Aid
Amends the school aid to provide school aid payments to certain districts.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/19/1999

SB 865   Emmons     School Hours
Revises hours of pupil instruction requirement to include transportation time for one year.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/28/1999

SB 877   Hammerstrom     Administrative Rules
Revises procedures & duties regarding administrative procedure rule processing and publishing.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/2/1999

SB 878   Steil     Administrative Rules
Transfers administrative procedures rule publication functions to other state agencies.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/2/1999

SB 879   North     Administrative Rules
Transfers administrative procedures rules publication functions to other state agencies.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/2/1999

SB 899   Stille     Public School Academies
Amends the Revised School Code to provide general amendments to public school academies
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/1/1999

SB 901   Peters     Michigan Youth Authority
Creates the Michigan Youth Authority in the Family Independence Agency; prescribes powers and duties.
Senate Families, Mental Health & Human Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/1/1999

SB 902   Peters     Michigan Youth Authority
Transfers authority for youth committed under Youth Rehabilitation Services Act to Michigan Youth Authority.
Senate Families, Mental Health & Human Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/1/1999

SB 903   Peters     Michigan Youth Authority
Specifies Michigan Youth Authority as agency responsible for court committed juveniles.
Senate Families, Mental Health & Human Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/1/1999

SB 904   Peters     Michigan Youth Authority
Transfers establishment and operation of juvenile boot camps to Michigan Youth Authority.
Senate Families, Mental Health & Human Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/1/1999

SB 905   Peters     Michigan Youth Authority
Transfers responsibility for juveniles in Social Welfare Act to Michigan Youth Authority.
Senate Families, Mental Health & Human Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/1/1999

SB 909   Goschka     Teacher Arbitration
Provides binding arbitration for public school employees.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/7/1999

SB 926   Young     Bus Driver Assault
Prohibits assault or battery of school bus driver; provides penalty.
Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/25/2000

SB 927   Young     Bus Driver Assault
Enacts sentencing guidelines for crime of assaulting or battering school bus driver and causing injury.
Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/25/2000

SB 936   Rogers     Internet Access
Restricts certain internet access to persons under 18 years of age.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/25/2000

SB 943   Stille     Expulsion
Amends the Revised School Code to allow the school board's designee to suspend or expel a student who commits verbal assault or bomb threat. Also changes reporting requirements.
Senate Ed reported 3/4/04
  SBE Position: No Position, 5/18/00 Introduced: 1/26/2000

SB 944   Stille     Expulsion
Amends the Revised School Code to allow the school board's designee to suspend or expel a student who commits physical assault against another student.
Senate Ed reported 3/4/04
  SBE Position: No Position, 5/18/00 Introduced: 1/26/2000

SB 945   Stille     LEIN Access
Allows school administrators to access the law enforcement information network.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/2000

SB 959   Emmons     Bond Authority
Provides that the Michigan municipal bond authority has the power to allow public school academies to issue infrastructure bonds.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

SB 960   Bullard     School Bus Safety
Requires fire suppression systems on all school buses.
Senate Trans & Tourism
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

SB 963   Gast     Comm College Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for community colleges
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

SB 966   Stille     Education Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for the Department of Education.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

SB 967   Schwarz     Higher Ed Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for higher education.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

SB 968   Gast     Supplemental Budget
Provides FY 99-00 supplemental appropriations.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2000

SB 980   Smith, V.     Detroit School Reform
Amends the Revised School Code to eliminate superintendent of public instruction veto authority over Detroit school reform board chief executive officer appointment.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/2000

SB 1004   Jaye     Social Promotion
Amends the Revised School Code to prohibit social promotion in public schools.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/10/2000

SB 1005   Stille     Benton Harbor Takeover
Amends the Revised School Code to allow state takeover of the Benton Harbor School District.
Passed Senate 3/9/00; House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/10/2000

SB 1017   Gast     Education Budget
Amends driver training school regulation act to remove subsides. Test
Enrolled 3/31/04
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/17/2000

SB 1018   Gast     School Aid Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for the multisection school aid bill.
Passed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

SB 1019   Gast     School Aid Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for the single section school aid bill.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

SB 1023   Gast     Higher Ed Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for higher education.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

SB 1031   Gast     Comm College Budget
Provides FY 2000-2001 appropriations for community colleges.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

SB 1032   Gast     Supplemental Budget
Provides FY 1999-2000 supplemental appropriations.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2000

SB 1044   Stille     School Aid Budget
Provides school aid appropriations for FY 1999-2003.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/24/2000

SB 1049   Johnson, S     Sch Construction Taxes
Eliminates sales tax on construction and improvements of schools.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2000

SB 1050   Stille     Sch Construction Taxes
Eliminates use tax on construction and improvements of schools.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2000

SB 1054   DeBeaussaert     Spec Ed Funding
Changes special education funding for FY 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2000

SB 1057   Emmons     MSU -Obsolete Law
Repeals requirement for military courses at Michigan State University.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/7/2000

SB 1058   Emmons     MSU - Obsolete Law
Repeals obsolete language that requires the president, professors, and associate professors of the Michigan Agricultural College constitute the faculty of MSU.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/7/2000

SB 1059   Emmons     MSU - Obsolete Law
Repeals obsolete language that requires the MSU faculty to pass all rules and regulations necessary to the government and discipline of the college and for the preservation of morals, decorum, and health.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/7/2000

SB 1060   Emmons     MSU - Obsolete Law
Repeals obsolete language which provides that the MSU faculty has charge of the laboratories, library, and museums of the institutions.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/7/2000

SB 1120   Smith     UM - Obsolete Law
Repeals provisions relating to fees and tuition at University of Michigan.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/8/2000

SB 1121   Emerson     MSB - Obsolete Law
Deletes reference to specific location in statute creating Michigan School for the Blind.
Passed Senate 3/28/00; House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/8/2000

SB 1167   Shugars     Ten Commandments
Amends the Revised School Code to allow display of the Ten Commandments in public schools and public school academies.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/15/2000

SB 1204   Bennett     Property Transfer
Amends the Revised School Code to allow direct referral of property transfer request submitted to ISD to state superintendent.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/6/2000

SB 1221   McCotter     School Violence
Prohibits threatening to damage or destroy school property or to kill or injure school students or personnel and provides penalties.
Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/2/2000

SB 1222   McCotter     School Violence
Allows warrantless arrest for threatening to damage or destroy school property or to kill or injure school students or personnel.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/2/2000

SB 1234   Peters     Charter Schools
Amends the Revised School Code to require disclosure by charter schools regarding affiliation with management companies.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/2/2000

SB 1243   Bullard     Driver Education
Revises titling requirements for driver education vehicles.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2000

SB 1249   Johnson     Substitute Teacher
Amends the Revised School Code to allow school officials to contract for substitute teachers.
Passed Senate 10/3/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/9/2000

SB 1262   Johnson     School Mercury Use
Amends the Revised School Code to eliminate use of mercury in schools.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/2000

SB 1281   Dingell     School Construction
Provides Department of Consumer & Industry Services regulation of construction, reconstruction and remodeling of public and nonpublic schools.
Senate Human Resources, Labor, Senior Citizens & Veterans Affairs
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/17/2000

SB 1284   Sikkema     Sch Board Candidate
Amends the Revised School Code to revise signature requirements for office of school board.
Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/18/2000

SB 1286   Johnson     Classroom Emer Hot-line
Amends the Revised School Code to require classrooms be equipped with direct phone links to the local police and fire departments.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/18/2000

SB 1292   Bullard     Local Gov't Accounting
Revises Uniform budgeting and accounting standards and procedures for local units of government.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/30/2000

SB 1305   Byrum     School Bus Safety
Increases penalties against drivers who cause or contribute to a school bus accident.
Senate Trans & Tourism
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/7/2000

SB 1306   Byrum     School Bus Safety
Includes in sentencing guidelines reckless driving causing serious impairment of body function or death to minor in school vehicle.
Senate Trans & Tourism
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/7/2000

SB 1307   Byrum     State Emp Retirement
Provides state employees with option to choose defined benefit pension system or defined contribution system.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/7/2000

SB 1317   VanRegenmorter     Day Care Deregulation
Deregulates certain child care centers.
Senate Families, Mental Health & Human Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/20/2000

SB 1323   Smith     College Savings Account
Modifies provisions for Michigan Education Savings Program appropriations.
Senate Approps, discharge defeated 9/26/00
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/20/2000

SB 1333   DeBeaussaert     Casino School Tax
Requires school aid fund revenue from Detroit casinos to be appropriated only for technology in classrooms.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/20/2000

SB 1334   DeBeaussaert     Casino School Tax
Earmarks money deposited in school aid fund under the casino act for distribution on a per pupil basis for technology.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/20/2000

SB 1338   Bullard     Deaf School Trustees
Creates a board of trustees for the state school of the deaf.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/20/2000

SB 1353   Steil     Charter School Wages
Amends the Revised School Code by eliminating the provision for prevailing wage on public school academies.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/21/2000

SB 1354   Steil     Charter School Wages
Eliminates requirement that charter schools comply with prevailing wage act.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/21/2000

SB 1356   Steil     SBT Education Credit
Provides for credit for contributions to public school authorities.
Passed Senate 11/14/00; House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/20/2000

SB 1357   Steil     Sch Building Authorities
Creates school building act.
Passed Senate 11/14/00; House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/20/2000

SB 1362   Jaye     School Insurance
Prohibits third party administrators for insurance from entering into service contracts with public schools or school employee unions.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/20/2000

SB 1363   Johnson     Convicted Teachers
Amends the Revised School Code to provide notification to school district and state when teacher is convicted of certain crimes.
Senate Passed 12/8/00; House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/21/2000

SB 1404   Gougeon     Public School Benefits
Revises employment after retirement benefit provisions for public school employees.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/2000

SB 1414   Peters     Arts Tax Credit
Provides income tax credit for donations to arts and education facilities or organizations.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/3/2000

SB 1431   Jaye     Day Care Background
Requires criminal background check for persons employed in child care organizations.
Senate Families, Mental Health & Human Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/13/2000

SB 1434   Schuette     Coach Safety Training
Amends the Revised School Code to require interscholastic coaches to be certified in sport safety training.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/28/2000

SCR    Schwarz     University Boards
Provides appointment by governor rather than election of board members for the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University; limits number of appointments from a political party.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/1/1999

SCR 14   Hoffman     School Prayer
Urges Congress to strongly support voluntary, individual, unorganized and non-mandatory prayer in the public schools of this nation.
House Oversight & Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/6/1999

SCR 38   Hoffman     School Prayer
Urges Congress to support voluntary, individual, unorganized and nonmandatory prayer in public schools.
House Oversight & Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/13/2000

SJR    Emmons     Teacher Merit Pay
Amends constitution to allow merit pay for teachers.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/10/2000

SJR    Jaye     Election
Amends the constitution to grant nonresident owners of property the right to vote on millage increases and other issues that affect property.
Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/18/1999

SJR    Jaye     Affirmative Action
Amends Constitution to prohibit preferential treatment based on religion, race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin to an individual or group in employment, education, or contracting.
Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

SJR    Jaye     Parochiaid
Repeals provision in constitution banning use of state funds for nonpublic schools. Provides vouchers for nonpublic education.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/1999

SJR    Schuette     Parochiaid
Provides for public funding for certain students at nonpublic schools.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/1999

SJR 1   Cherry     Admin Rule Approval
Amends the constitution to allow Joint Committee on Administrative Rules to approve or disapprove administrative rules.
Senate Gov't & Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/16/2000

SR 26   Emerson     Emerson
Recognizes and celebrates March as Reading month.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/2/1999

SR 30   Emmons     Parenting Awareness
Commemorates March 1999 as Parenting Awareness Month.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/5/1999

SR 55   Hoffman     School Prayer
Urges Congress to strongly support voluntary, individual, unorganized and non-mandatory prayer in the public schools of this nation.
House Oversight & Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/6/1999

SR 79   North     School Bus Safety
Observes October 17-23, 1999 as Michigan School Bus Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/23/1999

SR 145   Byrum     School Modernization
Urges Congress to support the president's school modernization tax credit bond proposal.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/9/2000

SR 157   Schwarz     Character Ed
Proclaims the week of April 17, 2000 as Character Education week.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/13/2000

SR 158   Hoffman     School Prayer
Urges Congress to support voluntary, individual, unorganized and nonmandatory prayer in public schools.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/13/2000

SR 201   North     Bus Safety
Observes October 16-22 as school bus safety week.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/21/2000

SR 211   Rogers     Children's Internet Safety
Desginates October 2000 as Children's Internet Safety Month.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/2000

SR 276   DeWeese     Friends of Education
Supports Michigan Friends of Education.
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2000