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HB 4005   Caswell     School Boundary Disputes
Empowers ISD to resolve disputes over school district boundaries.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4008   Caswell     Reciprocal Tuition Agreement
Provides for reciprocal agreements with other states establishing tuition rates for universities.
2005 PA 34
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4026   Stewart     Anti Bullying Policy
Requires schools to establish policy prohibiting bullying.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4030   Vagnozzi     State Retirement
Creates option for state employees to choose a defined benefit pension or defined contributions system for retirement.
House Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4049   Lemmons III     Compulsory School Attendance
Increases compulsory school attendance age to 18.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4059   Cheeks     Suicide Prevention
Creates instruction programs regarding warning signs and risk factors of suicide and depression.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4060   Cheeks     Class Size Reduction
Requires reduction of class size for K-3 over a 5-year period beginning in 2003-2004.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4074   Caswell     Teacher Retirement
Expands the definition of employees eligible for retirement benefits as public school employees to include administrators or faculty employed at community college on a part-time basis.
Passed House 12/8/05; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4078   Palmer     Charter School Oversight
Removes cap on number of public school academies.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4079   Palmer     Ed-Flex
Allows educational flexibility and empowerment contracts waiving certain statutory and administrative requirements as part of performance contract.
Passed House 6/7/05; Senate Ed reported 12/12/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4080   Palmer     Ed Flex
School aid requirements would be subject to educational flexibility and empowerment contracts.
Passed House 6/7/05; Senate Ed reported 12/12/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4085   Taub     School Property Transfer
Revises procedure for transfer of territory from one school district to another under certain circumstances.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

HB 4091   Smith, V.     Mandatory Kindergarten
Mandates kindergarten attendance.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

HB 4097   Accavitti     Public School Food Sales
Requires rules prohibiting the sale of certain foods and beverages in public schools.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

HB 4118   Accavitti     Student Steroid Use
Creates a state policy prescribing that students who are found to use steroids or certain dietary supplements are ineligible to participate in school sponsored athletics.
2006 PA 215
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

HB 4120   Clack     Youth Disability Rehab
Requires department to develop and implement an IEP for certain individuals with disabilities.
House Family and Children Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

HB 4122   Clack     Public Wards
Establishes policies and procedures to identify public wards certified as requiring special education services.
House Family and Children Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

HB 4125   Condino     Millage Exemption
Allows certain school districts to exempt principal residence and qualified agricultural property from certain school operating millage.
2006 PA 648
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

HB 4129   Mortimer     Student Loan Forgiveness
Creates a student loan forgiveness program for new teachers in at-risk schools.
Passed House 11/29/05; Senate Ed 11/30/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

HB 4142   Palmer     Statewide Assessment
Revises provisions in original MEAP authorizing statute relating to administration of state assessment program.
2005 PA 31
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

HB 4143   Moolenaar     Dual Enrollment
Revises the definition of "eligible student" in postsecondary enrollment options act.
2005 PA 180
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/2005

HB 4144   Moolenaar     Dual Enrollment
Clarifies the definition of "eligible student" in the career and technical preparation act.
2005 PA 181
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/2005

HB 4150   Condino     Students with Diabetes
Creates annual training and certain polices concerning students with diabetes.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/2005

HB 4179   Stewart     Merit Award
Includes the use of social studies assessment test results in qualifying for $500 merit award scholarship.
House Higher Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2005

HB 4183   Hunter     Declining Enrollment
Allows the use of a 3-year membership for funding in declining enrollment districts.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2005

HB 4184   Williams     School Aid Minimum Age
Eliminates the minimum age for a child to be counted in membership for school aid to allow funding beginning at birth.
House apropos
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2005

HB 4185   Accavitti     Student Records
Defines records that follow a student who transfers to another school to include disciplinary, attendance, and health records.
House Health Policy re-referred to House Ed 2/15/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2005

HB 4193   Gaffney     K-12 Income Tax Credit
Establishes an income tax credit to charitable organizations to benefit K-12 education.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2005

HB 4228   Ward     Absentee Voters
Requires local clerks or secretaries of a school board to maintain a list of permanent absentee voters.
Passed House 3/2/06; Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/8/2005

HB 4231   Anderson     Science Class Safety
Requires safety policies, supplies, and equipment for secondary science and technology classes.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/8/2005

HB 4238   Cheeks     Parenting Education
Includes parenting education in recommended model core curriculum and in professional development for teachers.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/8/2005

HB 4254   Lipsey     Dissection Objection
Requires schools to provide alternatives for students with a moral objection to dissection.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/10/2005

HB 4255   Lipsey     Corporal Punishment
Prescribes procedures for physical restraint, intervention or force in disciplining students.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/10/2005

HB 4255   Caswell     Teacher Background Check
Exempts from required criminal background checks those substitute teachers who are hired within three months of retiring from full-time employment.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/27/2005

HB 4264   Lemmons, III     Single Gender Schools
Allows single sex schools for Detroit public schools.
2006 PA 347
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2005

HB 4274   VanderVeen     MESSA Disclosure
Allows disclosure of certain insurance claims history to certain persons. ("MESSA" Reform)
House Ed reported 5/18/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2005

HB 4276   VanderVeen     Transfer Student
Revises school aid procedure to allow the per pupil allowance to follow a student who transfers after count day to apply to all districts and all pupils.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2005

HB 4277   Gosselin     Community Service
Eliminates requirement of community service or volunteer work as a condition of receiving the merit award scholarship.
House Higher Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2005

HB 4278   Gosselin     Community Service
Requires districts to provide parent's) right to appeal community service requirements.
Passed House 2/21/06; Senate Ed 2/22/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2005

HB 4295   Hummel     Education Budget 05-06
Provides FY 05-06 budget for Department of Education.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2005

HB 4305   Hummel     School Aid 05-06
Provides FY 05-06 budget for K-12 school aid.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2005

HB 4306   Hummel     Pupil Membership
Allow districts, for 2005-2006 only, to count for membership purposes students who were evacuated from another state and relocated in Michigan due to a natural disaster.
2005 PA 150
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2005

HB 4308   Hummel     Supplemental Budget
Provides fiscal year 2005-2006 budget supplemental appropriations.
2005 PA 11
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2005

HB 4319   Lemmons, III     Charter Schools
Allows Wayne County Community College to issue charters for public school academies.
House Ed discharged 12/7/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2005

HB 4336   Newell     Bidding Requirements
Exempts construction of certain buildings by vocational education students from competitive bidding requirements.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/17/2005

HB 4338   Clack     Truant - Driver License
Clarifies certain attendance requirements to maintain driver license.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/17/2005

HB 4339   Clack     Truancy
Provides for the family division of the circuit court to notify the secretary of state of truancy disposition.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/17/2005

HB 4340   Clack     Truancy
Requires adoption and implementation of local truancy policies by schools and prosecutors.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/17/2005

HB 4351   Hildenbrand     Prevailing Wage
Eliminates the requirement for payment of the prevailing wage on public school construction projects.
House Employment Relations, Training and Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/17/2005

HB 4360   Bieda     Community College Board
Allows for removal of a member of board of trustees of a community college if members fails to attend six consecutive regularly scheduled meetings of the board without a valid excuse.
House Higher Ed reported 4/13/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/22/2005

HB 4365   Condino     School Supply Credit
Provides tax credit to teachers and school administrators for certain school costs.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/22/2005

HB 4375   Ward     Suicide Risk Curriculum
Encourages schools to provide instruction programs regarding warning signs and risk factors of suicide and depression.
2006 PA 324
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

HB 4381   Whitmer     Education Budget 05-06
Executive budget recommendations for Department of Education for FY -05-06
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

HB 4391   Whitmer     School Aid
Executive budget recommendations for k-12 school aid for FY 05-06.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

HB 4395   Caul     School Counselor Tenure
Clarifies eligibility of school counselors for teacher tenure.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

HB 4402   Hansen     Sch Employee Criminal Check
Requires state criminal history checks on all school personnel and prohibits persons convicted of certain offenses from being allowed to work in schools. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 129
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/24/2005

HB 4406   Bieda     Dropout Stats
Requires dropout statistics to be submitted to the federal clearinghouse for education.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/24/2005

HB 4412   Elsenheimer     Prevailing Wage
Eliminates the prevailing wage on public school academy and strict discipline academy construction projects.
House Ed; referred to House Employment Relations, Training & Safety 3/23/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/24/2005

HB 4422   Sheen     Early Retirement
Allows early retirement for certain state employees.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2005

HB 4427   Kolb     School Bus Emissions
Creates a pilot program for state police to monitor the effect of school bus emissions on children riders.
House Trans
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2005

HB 4430   Wenke     School District Tax Vote
Eliminates the authority of school districts to vote a tax to fund recreation systems and playgrounds.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2005

HB 4433   Casperson     Ten Commandments Display
Authorizes and regulates certain display of ten commandments on public property.
Passed House 3/25/05; Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2005

HB 4435   Waters     Declining Enrollment
Provides for 3-year average membership for school districts with a declining enrollment over a certain amount during a certain fiscal year.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/2/2005

HB 4436   Hummel     Supplemental Approps
FY 2004-2005 supplemental appropriations.
2005 PA 109
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/2/2005

HB 4439   VanderVeen     Speech Pathologists
Provides for licensure of speech-language pathologists.
House Health Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/2/2005

HB 4460   VanRegenmorter     Lock Down School Drills
Requires schools to conduct lockdown drills.
2006 PA 187
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/8/2005

HB 4471   Stewart     School Elections
Allows a school district to conduct its own regular and special elections.
House Oversight, Elections & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/8/2005

HB 4494   Spade     ISD Boards
Revised timing for designating school district representatives to body selecting ISD board members.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/15/2005

HB 4495   Dillon     PSA Funding
Revises per pupil funding formulas for PSAs.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/15/2005

HB 4506   Dillion     Charter School Location
Restricts location of new charter schools authorized by a community college.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/16/2005

HB 4530   Gosselin     PSA Prevailing Wage
Eliminates the prevailing wage requirement for public school academies.
House Employment Relations, Training & Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/22/2005

HB 4531   Hildenbrand     Prevailing Wage
Eliminates the requirement of paying prevailing wage on public school projects.
House Employment Relations, Training & Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/22/2005

HB 4534   VanderVeen     Insurance Bidding
Requires solicitation of group insurance benefits bids in public employment bargaining. ("MESSA" Reform)
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/22/2005

HB 4535   Nofs     Teacher Cert Advisory Comm
Establishes committee of principals and school board members to recommend revisions to teacher certification rules and new teacher mentorship practices.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/22/2005

HB 4537   Robertson     Reading Instruction
Creates specific requirements for reading instruction.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/22/2005

HB 4570   Ward     Millage Election
Revises effective date of millage after voter approval.
2005 PA 12
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/24/2005

HB 4571   Meyer     School Board Write-Ins
Revises filing deadline for write-in candidates for school board elections.
House Oversight, Elections & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/24/2005

HB 4574   VanderVeen     Diploma Seals
Provides for diploma seals for exemplary performance.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/24/2005

HB 4575   VanderVeen     Sinking Funds
Allows sinking funds to be used for any purpose for which bonds may be issued.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/24/2005

HB 4579   Waters     Declining Enrollment
Provides for alternative counts for districts with declining enrollment.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/24/2005

HB 4581   Vagnozzi     Anti-Bullying Policy
Requires all school districts to establish a policy prohibiting bullying at school.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/24/2005

HB 4582   Hopgood     K-12 Education Spending
Provides for minimum funding level for K-12 education.
House Approps; Notice of intent to discharge 6/22/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/24/2005

HB 4594   Mortimer     Steroid Free Zones
Amends school drug free zones to ban possession of anabolic steroids.
2006 PA 216
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/13/2005

HB 4607   Stakoe     School Signs
Allows year-round posting of school session signage.
2005 PA 88
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/13/2005

HB 4611   Whitmer     Sinking Fund
Expands a school district's use of sinking funds to include purposes for which bonds may be used.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/14/2005

HB 4619   Sak     Paroled Sex Crime Prisoners
Allows prisoners convicted of certain sex crimes involving minors to be prohibited from residing near or entering school property or child care center.
House Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/14/2005

HB 4621   Kolb     School Contamination
Requires notice and monitoring of schools and playgrounds at sites of environmental contamination.
House Natural Resources, Great Lakes, Land Use & Environment
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/14/2005

HB 4637   Cushingberry     Detroit Board Salary
Allows the salary rate for board members of Detroit Public Schools not to exceed 90 percent of county commissioners salary.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/20/2005

HB 4639   Waters     Collective Bargaining
Restores the right of certain public school administrators to organize for collective bargaining.
House Employment Relations, Training & Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/20/2005

HB 4646   Cushingberry     Jobs Today School Bonds
Amends the revised school code to conform with jobs today school bond qualification, approval, and loan act.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/21/2005

HB 4652   Lemmons III     Criminal Sexual Conduct
Increase age of consent for certain criminal sexual conduct violations to 18.
House Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/21/2005

HB 4657   Hansen     School Aid Overpayments
Revises the provision regarding reimbursement of school aid overpayments.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/21/2005

HB 4660   Hopgood     School Bond Qualification
Creates the school bond qualification, approval and loan act.
House Commerce
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/26/2005

HB 4661   Waters     Jobs Today Shared Credit
Amends the shared credit rating act to conform with jobs today school bond qualification, approval and loan act.
House Commerce
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/26/2005

HB 4662   Miller     School Bond Loan Program
Revised the school bond loan fund program.
House Commerce
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/26/2005

HB 4663   Mayes     School Bond Loan
Amends the state school aid act to conform with school bond qualification, approval and loan act.
House Commerce
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/26/2005

HB 4664   Clack     School Bond Crimes
Enacts sentencing guidelines for certain crimes relating to school bonds.
House Commerce
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/26/2005

HB 4678   Hunter     Merit Award
Creates a new merit award scholarship program and repeals the Michigan merit award scholarship program.
House Higher Ed & Career Prep
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/27/2005

HB 4704   Emmons     School Health Savings Plan
Requires school districts to offer health savings plan as part of benefits package.
House Insurance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2005

HB 4707   Meyer     School District Mills
Revises the number of mills school districts are authorized to levy for school operating purposes.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2005

HB 4708   Waters     Large District Contracts
Requires approval by superintendent of public instruction of contracts entered into by the chief executive officer of a qualifying school district that are in excess of $25,000.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2005

HB 4717   Gaffney     Student Privacy Policy
Requires school districts to adopt student privacy policy to prohibit certain practices.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2005

HB 4726   Mortimer     Meningitis Information
Requires distribution of information to parents on meningitis.
2005 PA 240
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2005

HB 4755   Ward     November School Elections
Requires school board and village elections to be held in November.
Passed House 5/3/06; Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/10/2005

HB 4765   Hoogendyk     HS College Enrollment
Allows enrollment of high students as full-time students in community colleges and universities.
House Higher Education & Career Prep
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/10/2005

HB 4766   Hoogendyk     HS College Enrollment
Waives high school compulsory attendance requirements for participants in accelerated college education program.
House Higher Education and Career Preparation
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/10/2005

HB 4772   McDowell     School District Elections
Allows school district elections to be held at November general election in even years.
House Oversight, Elections & Ethics
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/2005

HB 4779   Lemmons III     School District Contracts
Limits the power of a chief executive officer to enter into contract for first class school district and allows elected school board to void the contracts.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/12/2005

HB 4781   Miller     PSA Conflict of Interest
Requires a conflict of interest policy for employees, board members, and officials of a public school academy.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/12/2005

HB 4782   Hopgood     Ed Management - FOIA
Requires educational management companies that have contracts with public school academies to comply with the freedom of information act.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/12/2005

HB 4788   Pearce     Ed Donation Tax Credit
Establishes an income tax credit for contribution to charitable organizations to benefit K-12 education.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/12/2005

HB 4803   Gaffney     Labor Day School Delay
Requires school year to begin after Labor Day.
2005 PA 144
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/17/2005

HB 4810   Gosselin     School Property Sale
Prohibits discrimination in sale of school district property because of buyer's intended use for property.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/19/2005

HB 4828   LaJoy     Per Pupil Funding
Provides for an additional $750 funding per pupil if a school district meets certain requirements.
House Approps; House Ed 9/28/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/24/2005

HB 4831   Hummel     Education Budget FY 05-06
Provides FY 05-06 appropriations for multiple departments, including Education.
2005 PA 154
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/25/2005

HB 4835   Stakoe     Internat'l Baccalaureate
Provides for grant funding for international baccalaureate programs.
Passed House 11/3/05; Senate Ed 11/8/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/26/2005

HB 4840   Gosselin     Funds for Union Activities
Prohibits use of school funds for certain employee union activities.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/31/2005

HB 4842   Gosselin     Clothing Sales Tax Exemption
Provides a clothing exemption from sales tax during the first ten days of August.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/31/2005

HB 4843   Hopgood     Teacher Conviction
Provides for development and implementation of a computer program to compare state police conviction information with department of education information on a monthly basis.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/31/2005

HB 4859   Mortimer     Physical Education
Provides for minimum requirements for health and physical education in public education curricula.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/2/2005

HB 4864   Clack     Driver Education
Requires driver education training schools to require a student to submit a certificate of good standing before undergoing segment 1 and segment 2 instruction.
House Trans
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/2/2005

HB 4876   Moolenaar     Education Budget
FY 2005-2006 Department of Education budget.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/7/2005

HB 4887   Moolenaar     School Aid Budget FY 05-06
FY 2005-2006 school aid budget.
2005 PA 155
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/7/2005

HB 4928   Palmer     Teacher Crime Notification
Provides for change in procedures for notification of teachers being convicted of certain offenses; discontinues salaries; and establishes Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 130
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/14/2005

HB 4929   Palmer     Teacher Crimes
Restricts protections of teacher tenure act for teachers convicted of certain crimes.
Passed House 6/29/05; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/14/2005

HB 4930   Elsenheimer     Teacher Crime
Sets reporting requirements for teacher convicted of certain crimes. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 131
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/14/2005

HB 4932   Gaffney     Student Safety Zone
Establishes student safety zones for teachers paroled after conviction of certain crimes. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 127
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/14/2005

HB 4933   Jones     Student Safety Zones
Establishes sentencing guidelines for crimes of living, working, or loitering in a student safety zone.
Passed House 6/29/05; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/14/2005

HB 4934   Ball     Sex Offender Reporting
Revises penalties for failing to report certain sex offender registration information to police agency and requires report upon vacating residence. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 132
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/15/2005

HB 4935   Rocca     Sex Offender Reporting
Revises sentencing guidelines for crime of failing to report sex offender registration information to police agency to reflect increased penalties.
Passed House 6/29/05; Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/15/2005

HB 4936   Baxter     Child Care Background Check
Requires criminal background checks for licensees, employees, and certain contract workers at child care centers and day care centers. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 133
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/14/2005

HB 4937   Law     Character Evidence
Allows the use of certain evidence to prove the character of defendant. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 135
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/14/2005

HB 4947   Palmer     Teacher Retirement
Defines the retirement contribution for teachers.
Passed House 12/1/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/15/2005

HB 4957   Taub     Child Labor
Enacts sentencing guidelines for crime of accepting employment or volunteer status with certain entities in which children are present.
Passed House 6/29/05; Passed Senate 8/31/05; re-referred to House Judiciary 2/28/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

HB 4958   Caul     Child Care Crime
Enacts crime of child care or day care center employee failing to self-report certain criminal charges. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 134
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

HB 4964   Clack     Parent ID
Requires pictured identification and signed form when picking up a child from school.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

HB 4975   Hoogendyk     Classroom Spending
Requires a certain percentage of the expenditure of education operation budget to be used on classroom instruction.
House Approps; House Ed 9/28/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/21/2005

HB 4985   Kolb     Smoking in Schools
Eliminates exception for outdoor areas for the use of the tobacco products on school property.
House Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/22/2005

HB 4986   Kolb     Smoking in Schools
Prohibits the use of tobacco products on school property and provides penalties.
House Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/22/2005

HB 4991   Emmons     Teacher Tenure
Restricts teacher tenure act protection for teachers convicted of certain crimes. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 136
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/22/2005

HB 5016   Caswell     Teacher Health Insurance
Requires school districts to offer certain health insurance options.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/29/2005

HB 5048   Huizenga     Tobacco Settlement Funds
Provides for securitization of certain tobacco settlement funds.
House Commerce reported 7/13/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 7/6/2005

HB 5058   Williams     Juneteenth Instruction
Includes Juneteenth celebration in school curriculum.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 7/13/2005

HB 5110   Kooiman     Before-After Sch Programs
Provides procedures for deemed status for before-and-after school programs.
2005 PA 202
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/31/2005

HB 5161   VanderVeen     Choice
Require school districts to give approval for nonresident to count pupil in membership.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/13/2005

HB 5171   Wenke     Prefunding Health Care
Require prefunding of health care benefits.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/13/2005

HB 5173   Wenke     Teacher Retirement
Eliminate 5-year vesting and allow retired teachers to continue working under certain circumstances.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/13/2005

HB 5210   Steil     Loan Forgiveness Notice
Requires the Department of Education to notify colleges of teacher loan forgiveness program.
Passed House 11/29/05; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/22/2005

HB 5222   Tobocman     Bilingual Education
Reinstates mandatory bilingual education.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/27/2005

HB 5232   Caswell     Merit Scholarship
Requires return of unused Michigan Merit Award Scholarship funds if a student leaves school.
Passed House 12/1/05; Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/27/2005

HB 5240   Palmer     Business District Speed Limit
Revises speed limit in business districts.
2006 PA 85
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/2005

HB 5241   Palmer     School Bus Speed Limit
Changes Pupil Transportation Act to reflect speed limit change for busses. (Tie-barred to HB 5240)
2006 PA 86
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/28/2005

HB 5251   Moolenaar     Science Curriculum
Require state board to revise model core academic curriculum content standards for science.
House Ed reported 6/28/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/2005

HB 5265   Lemmons, III     Student Weight
Requires schools to report the body mass index of students to parents.
House Ed; Notice of intent to discharge 9/20/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/6/2005

HB 5279   Miller     Sixth Grade Certificate
Revises certification to teach 6th grade to be included in both elementary and secondary education.
House Ed reported 6/14/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/11/2005

HB 5282   Wenke     Career Prep Sunset
Eliminates June 30, 2006 sunset on career and technical preparation act.
2006 PA 94
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/11/2005

HB 5309   Green     Merit Award Eligibility
Conditions eligibility for Michigan Merit Award Scholarship on being a U.S. citizen or legal alien with permanent residency status.
Veto 1/3/07
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/18/2005

HB 5310   Baxter     Merit Award Eligibility
Conditions eligibility for Michigan Merit Award Scholarship on being a U.S. citizen or legal alien with permanent residency status.
House Higher Ed & Career Prep; House Gov't Operations reported 3/7/06; House Veterans Affairs & Homeland Security 3/30/06; Passed House 4/25/06; Senate Approps; Senate Ed reported 12/12/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/19/2005

HB 5314   Wenke     College Retirees
Removes community college retirees from public school employment retirement system.
House Higher Ed & Career Prep reported 11/9/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/18/2005

HB 5331   Ball     Nurse Practitioners
Allows schools to use written instructions for administering medication to students from a certified nurse practitioner.
2006 PA 48
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/19/2005

HB 5341   Hunter     School Retirement
Provides options for public school employees to expand purchase of maternity, paternity, or child rearing service credits.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/20/2005

HB 5342   Pavlov     School Operation
Requires Department of Education to take steps to assist public schools to operate more efficiently, including consolidation of services.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/20/2005

HB 5354   Murphy     Blind School
Provides for conveyance of the Michigan School for the Blind in Ingham county.
2006 PA 180
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/25/2005

HB 5397   Gaffney     School Safety
Clarifies prerequisite for second or subsequent violation of student safety zones.
2005 PA 322
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/2/2005

HB 5400   Wenke     Comm College Districts
Reorganization of community college districts.
House Higher Ed & Career Prep reported 3/9/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/2/2005

HB 5415   Stewart     Pupil Increase
Provide for an additional $750 funding per pupil if school district meets certain requirements.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2005

HB 5419   Pavlov     Consolidation
Clarifies education financing procedure to consolidate services and save tax dollars.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2005

HB 5423   Byrnes     School Readiness
Increases funding and participation opportunities for school readiness programs.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/10/2005

HB 5424   Donigan     TEACH Scholarships
Requires teacher education and compensation helps scholarships fund for all applicants for Department of Human Services assistance programs.
House Family & Children Services
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/10/2005

HB 5432   Lemmons     Class Size
Provide for limitation of classroom size to 25 students in grades k-3.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/10/2005

HB 5436   Moolenaar     Middle School Math Initiative
Provides for supplemental state school aid appropriations for middle school mathematics initiative for fiscal years 2005-2006.
Passed House 12/8/05; Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/22/2005

HB 5452   Moore     School Aid
Revises per pupil funding for districts receiving a foundation allowance of less than $7,200.
Passed House 12/8/05; Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/29/2005

HB 5458   Robertson     Operating Mills
Exempt qualified forest property from operating mills.
Passed House 2/8/06; Senate Agriculture, Forestry & Tourism
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/29/2005

HB 5473   Schuitmaker     Psychologists
Revises licensing requirements for psychologists.
House Health Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/1/2005

HB 5479   LaJoy     School Site Plans
Allows for local input into school site plans.
2006 PA 276
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/1/2005

HB 5494   Pavlov     Pupil Transportation
Modifies the pupil transportation act.
2006 PA 107
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/8/2005

HB 5504   Accavitti     School Career Day
Allows alternative education students to attend high school career days.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/13/2005

HB 5519   Lemmons III     Bus Safety Belts
Requires use of safety belts on school buses.
House Trans; Notice of intent to discharge 9/20/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/14/2005

HB 5522   Gosselin     School Vehicle Use
Requires school districts to make available records concerning motor vehicles.
House Gov't Operations reported 2/7/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/14/2005

HB 5526   Caswell     False Student Accusations
Includes falsely accusing a school employee or contractor of criminal sexual conduct as provision requiring suspension or expulsion of pupils.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/14/2005

HB 5528   Meisner     School Safety Officers
Creates grant program for the placement of safety officers and mental health professionals in public schools.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/14/2005

HB 5546   Cushingberry     African American Curriculum
Requires school curriculum to provide for African American history instruction.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/17/2006

HB 5547   Condino     School Aid Option
Provides for separate supplemental payment as reimbursement for districts that opt not to levy certain millage school aid.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/17/2006

HB 5554   Hune     Green School
Establishes criteria for the designation of a school as a "green school."
2006 PA 146
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/18/2006

HB 5569   Dillion     Pension Task Force
Creates pension oversight task force to investigate reform issues relating to amount of pension.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/19/2006

HB 5581   Jones     School Bus
Clarifies when a school bus is considered "clearly and continuous visible."
2006 PA 320
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/24/2006

HB 5600   Lemmons, III     Detroit Public Schools
Requires state to assume deficit incurred while Detroit Public Schools was under reform board control.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/24/2006

HB 5601   Lemmons, III     SBE Per Diem
Revises per diem payments for State Board of Education.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/24/2006

HB 5606   Palmer     Graduation Requirements
Establishes statewide graduation requirements.
2006 PA 123
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/24/2006

HB 5609   Moolenaar     Fingerprinting
Provides funding for fingerprinting teachers and administrators.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/24/2006

HB 5616   Anderson     Anti-Bullying Policy
Requires school discipline policy prohibiting harassment and bullying at school.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/31/2006

HB 5617   VanderVeen     Schools of Choice
Provides for requirement for school district to adopt policy on waivers for children to attend school district outside district of residence.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/31/2006

HB 5626   Smith     Detroit School Board
Increases the amount of per diem payment to Detroit board members.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2006

HB 5635   Sak     Assessment
Requires department of education to work with school districts to ensure there are no adverse consequences from logistical problems with state assessments.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/2006

HB 5636   Hopgood     Graduation Requirements
Establishes statewide graduation requirements.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/7/2006

HB 5675   Baxter     Criminal Records
Requires measures to ensure accuracy of reports concerning criminal convictions of school employees; clarifies disclosure requirements under FOIA.
2006 PA 84
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/14/2006

HB 5678   Ward     School Aid Gap
Requires reduction in gap between highest and lowest foundation grants to K-12 schools to no more than 10 percent.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/14/2006

HB 5696   Law     Sch Model Behavioral Policy
Requires the Department to develop a model policy regarding chronic behavioral issues and psychotropic medication for students.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2006

HB 5704   Gaffney     Local Ballot Wording
Amends time frame to certify ballot wording for local, school district, or county ballot questions.
2006 PA 647
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2006

HB 5708   Proos     Vocational Ed Funds
Revises definition of vocational education and use of vocational education funds.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2006

HB 5709   Casperson     Sinking Funds
Revises purposes for which sinking funds may be used.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2006

HB 5725   Brown     Executive MDE Budget
Establishes the executive budget for FY 06-07 for the Department of Education.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/21/2006

HB 5735   Brown     Executive School Aid Budget
Provides executive appropriations for FY 06-07 for school aid.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/21/2006

HB 5760   Palsrok     School Retirees
Revises the date reference from 2006 to 2011 regarding public school employee retirement.
2006 PA 158
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/28/2006

HB 5766   Hummel     School Aid Supplemental
Provides school aid supplemental for FY 05-06.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/28/2006

HB 5767   Hummel     Supplemental School Aid
Provides for school aid supplemental for FY 05-06.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/28/2006

HB 5778   Moolenaar     Zero Budget 06-07
Creates a zero budget for the Department of Education FY 06-07.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2006

HB 5789   Moolenaar     Zero Budget 06-07
Creates zero budget for the multisection school aid bill.
Passed House 5/24/06; Passed Senate 5/31/06; House Conferees; Moolenaar, Farhat & Plakas
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2006

HB 5790   Moolenaar     Zero Budget 06-07
Creates a zero budget for the single section school aid bill.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2006

HB 5795   Hummel     Omnibus Budget 06-07
Creates the omnibus budget bill.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2006

HB 5796   Hummel     Omnibus Budget 06-07
Creates the omnibus budget bill.
2006 PA 345
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/1/2006

HB 5865   Kahn     Fire Marshal
Amends the Revised School Code to reflect transfer of fire marshal from State Police to Department of Labor and Economic Growth
2006 PA 198
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/14/2006

HB 5890   Espinoza     School Board Volunteers
Allows school board members to volunteer for certain posts in a school under certain conditions.
Passed House 12/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/16/2006

HB 5903   Hoogendyk     Accelerated College
Creates higher education enrollment option grant program for high school students.
House Gov't Operations reported 4/25/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/22/2006

HB 5904   Palmer     Accelerated College
Waives high school compulsory attendance requirements for students enrolled in accelerated college program.
House Gov't Operations reported 4/25/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/22/2006

HB 5920   Plakas     Student Dental Exams
Requires students have dental examinations prior to entering school.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/29/2006

HB 5921   Clack     Student Dental Exams
Requires students have dental examinations prior to entering school.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/29/2006

HB 5963   Elsenheimer     Teacher Cert Exemption
Allows exception to requirement that teachers be certified to teach in field related to degree.
House Ed reported 12/6/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/25/2006

HB 5977   Moolenaar     ISD Academic Year
Revises start date for school year for ISDs.
2006 PA 235
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/25/2006

HB 6004   Palmer     ISD Boards
Revises procedures for the election of ISD boards and certain provisions concerning ISD expenditures.
Pocket Veto 1/10/07
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/26/2006

HB 6014   Elsenheimer     Bible College
Exempts Grace Baptist College from general corporations act requirements for educational corporations.
2006 PA 420
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/27/2006

HB 6015   Hummel     Educational Corporations
Exempts ecclesiastical corporation from licensing requirements applicable to certain proprietary schools.
House Higher Ed & Career Prep reported 6/22/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/27/2006

HB 6016   Palmer     Bible College
Exempts Grace Baptist College from requirements for unincorporated private institutions that offer postsecondary degrees or certificates.
2006 PA 421
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/27/2006

HB 6025   Caswell     Instructional Time
Revised required number of days and hours of instructional time.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/2/2006

HB 6026   Ward     School Board Elections
Provides technical amendments regarding school board elections.
Passed House 5/9/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/2/2006

HB 6027   Ward     Fake Teachers
Provides sentencing guidelines for engaging in unauthorized practice of teaching occupation or operation of a school teaching an occupation.
House Regulatory Reform reported 11/28/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/2/2006

HB 6028   Taub     Sch Emp Home Tax Exemption
Provides residential property tax exemption for property owners who as employees of boarding school must live on campus during academic year.
House Passed 11/28/06; Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/3/2006

HB 6033   Ward     School Aid Matching Funds
Provides general fund appropriations to match a portion of lottery money for school aid.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/4/2006

HB 6042   Cheeks     Medical High School
Provides funding for a medical-themed high school in Detroit
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/9/2006

HB 6052   Moore     Teacher Certification
Revises requirements for teacher certification to teach in school readiness programs.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/2006

HB 6054   Cushingberry     School Retirement
Provides access to certain groups of teachers to pension programs.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/2006

HB 6059   Hildenbrand     Sch Aid Budget Deadline
Requires legislature to pass annual school aid budget prior to July 1.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/16/2006

HB 6067   Meisner     Collective Bargaining
Removes from subjects prohibited for public school collective bargaining contracts with third parties for noninstructional support services.
House Employment Relations, Training & Safety
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/16/2006

HB 6069   Baxter     School Borrowing
Revises permissible duration of school aid anticipation notes.
2006 PA 285
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/16/2006

HB 6094   Stakoe     Work-Based Learning
Provides for counting work-based learning as pupil instruction time for eighth grade pupils for purposes of school aid.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/18/2006

HB 6117   Jones     Early Retirement
Provides for early retirement for state employees.
House Senior Health, Security & Retirement
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/31/2006

HB 6151   Angerer     Parent Notification
Requires parent notification of students not making satisfactory progress.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/7/2006

HB 6173   Taub     Background Checks
Revises provisions concerning the criminal history background checks and revocation of teaching certificates.
2006 PA 680
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/2006

HB 6174   Schuitmaker     Background Checks
Requires that criminal history checks and criminal record checks for child care providers be performed only once if the person remains licensed continuously and is required to follow school code procedures if operated in a school.
2006 PA 580
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/2006

HB 6216   Hoogendyk     School Operating Budget
Requires school districts to publish information on the percentage of general operating budget spent on instruction.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/20/2006

HB 6217   Green     Fundraising - Nonpublic
Exempts fundraising stores operated by nonpublic schools from property taxes.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/20/2006

HB 6236   Booher     School Bonds
Exempts certain types of federally subsidized bonds from the calculation of school district bonding limits.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/21/2006

HB 6247   McConico     Single Gender Schools
Allows single gender schools under the Elliott-Laren Civil Rights Act.
2006 PA 348
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/21/2006

HB 6265   Law D.     Student Reinstatement
Provides for reinstatement and admittance standards for individuals expelled for possessing a dangerous weapon from a nonpublic school.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/22/2006

HB 6284   Meyer     Virtual HS Course
Requires high schools to offer a virtual course as an elective.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/29/2006

HB 6285   Meyer     Prevention Grants
Provides for general and federal fund allocation toward services for parents of children age zero to three who live in school districts with percentage rate of at-risk pupils.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/29/2006

HB 6287   Pastor     Conflict of Interest
Requires school districts to adopt and implement a conflict of interest policy for board members and administrators concerning the use of public funds.
Passed House 12/7/06; Senate Ed 12/12/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/29/2006

HB 6296   Nofs     African History
Provides for public schools that teach world history to contain certain content requirements regarding African history.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/29/2006

HB 6297   Kooiman     African History
Provides for public schools to teach African history in elementary grades.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/29/2006

HB 6298   Baxter     African History
Provides for public schools to teach African history in middle school grades.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/29/2006

HB 6301   McConico     Athletic Competition
Prohibits membership in an athletic competition or association with a policy on distance a high school athletic team can travel to compete.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/29/2006

HB 6302   Hunter     Michigan Merit Award
Creates new Michigan Merit Award program.
2006 PA 478
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/29/2006

HB 6307   Emmons     Coaches Sexual Conduct
Adds coaches to the list of individuals who can be charged with criminal sexual conduct.
House Judiciary reported 9/13/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 7/12/2006

HB 6350   Kolb     Student Internet Safety
Includes internet safety in school curriculum on computer and information technology.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/16/2006

HB 6370   Emmons     Career Ed Transfer
Transfers authority of federal vocational education programs and King-Chavez-Parks program to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6371   Emmons     Postsecy Transfer
Transfers the authority under the State Board of Education Act to appoint the members of the state board for public community and junior colleges to the State Board of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6372   Emmons     Postsecy Transfer
Transfers authority under Private Trade Schools, Business Schools, and Institutes Act for proprietary schools to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6373   Emmons     Postsecy Transfer
Transfers authority under the Private Trade Schools, Business Schools, Correspondence Schools and Institutes Act to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6374   Emmons     Postsecy Transfer
Transfers administration of reciprocal agreements with other states for higher education services under the Reciprocal Exchange of Education Services Act to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6375   Emmons     Postsecy Transfer
Transfers authority under the General Corporation Act for the review and approval of postsecondary educational corporations to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6376   Emmons     Postsecy Transfer
Transfers authority under the Community College Act for the review and approval of higher education institutions to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6377   Emmons     Adult Ed Transfer
Transfers administration of adult education under the State School Aid Act to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6378   Mortimer     Adult Ed Transfer
Transfers administration under the Adult Education Act for the approval of adult education programs established by county boards of commissioners to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6379   Moore     Postsecy Transfer
Transfers authority to determine the service area for the operation of an area vocational-technical education program to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6380   Moore     Career Ed Transfer
Transfers authority to determine which vocational schools are approved to receive loans under the Higher Education Loan Authority Act to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6381   Farhat     Postsecy Transfer
Transfer authority to determine eligible postsecondary institutions under the Part-Time Independent Student Program Act to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6382   Farhat     Postsecy Transfer
Transfer authority to determine eligible postsecondary institutions under the Michigan Educational Opportunity Grant Program Act to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6383   Nitz     Postsecy Transfer
Transfers authority to determine eligible postsecondary institutions under the Graduate Work-Study Program Act to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6384   Nitz     Postsecy Transfer
Transfers authority to determine eligible postsecondary institutions under the Michigan Work Study Program Act to the Department of Education.
Passed House 9/7/06; Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/30/2006

HB 6403   Casperson     School PPO
Provides for personal protection orders to prohibit conduct on or near school property or students.
Passed House 9/21/06; Senate Judiciary reported 12/5/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/5/2006

HB 6404   Moore     School PPO
Authorizes State Police to serve personal protection orders in school zones and to make arrests.
Passed House 9/21/06; Senate Judiciary reported 12/5/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/5/2006

HB 6405   Baxter     School PPO
Provides for probate code jurisdiction over juvenile violations of school zone personal protection orders.
Passed House 9/21/06; Senate Judiciary reported 12/5/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/5/2006

HB 6406   Farhat     School PPO
Allows arrest without a warrant of violators of school zone personal protection orders.
Passed House 9/21/06; Senate Judiciary reported 12/5/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/5/2006

HB 6419   Gaffney     Hold Harmless
Allows school districts to be held harmless to levy millages at levels that would increase with the rate of inflation.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/6/2006

HB 6420   Gaffney     Hold Harmless
Allows the foundation allowance for "hold harmless" school districts to increase equal to the rate of inflation.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/6/2006

HB 6446   Mortimer     Kindergarten Age
Revises the eligibility to start kindergarten in the Revised School Code.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/7/2006

HB 6448   Mortimer     Kindergarten Age
Revises the beginning age to start school (kindergarten) and be counted in membership in the school aid act.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/7/2006

HB 6450   Condino     School Bus Lights
Extends distance for school buses displaying alternately flashing lights.
House Trans
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/12/2006

HB 6451   Condino     School Bus Approach
Clarifies the procedures for a driver of a vehicle when approaching a school bus displaying alternatively flashing lights.
House Trans
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/12/2006

HB 6528   Pavlov     Teacher Strikes
Provides for changes to provisions regarding teacher strikes.
House Ed reported 12/6/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/14/2006

HB 6531   Waters     School Purchases
Provides a sales tax moratorium on school-related purchases during the last two weeks of August and first two weeks of September.
House Tax Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/14/2006

HB 6594   Dillon     Merit Award Scholarship
Converts the Michigan Merit Award Scholarship into a loan program and provides for loan forgiveness under certain circumstances.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2006

HB 6595   Pastor     Foundation Allowance
Includes supplemental funding in the calculation of the foundation allowance.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2006

HB 6596   Pastor     Foundation Allowance
Includes certain supplemental funding for the foundation allowance.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2006

HB 6598   Robertson     School Start
Allows exemption for school year to begin after Labor Day for public schools that offer enrichment programs during extended breaks during school year.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2006

HB 6617   Kolb     Year-Round School Study
Provides for a task force to study and report on the impact and feasibility of year-round schools.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2006

HB 6670   Financial Ed Programs     Kolb
Requires reporting on whether schools are providing financial education programs and evaluate the need for a mandate.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/29/2006

HB 6694   Hildenbrand     Health Care
Prefunding retiree health care.
Pocket Veto 1/10/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/20/2006

HCR 21   Stahl     Pledge of Allegiance
Expresses support for keeping "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
House Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/27/2005

HCR 22   Stahl     Pledge of Allegiance
Expresses to Congress the support for keeping "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
House Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/27/2005

HCR 35   Pearce     After School Partnership
Requests DCH, DLEG and HAL to be added as co-chairs of the After-School Partnership and urges partnership to expand programs.
Passed House 5/17/06; Passed Senate 5/18/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/26/2006

HJR L   Hoogendyk     Classroom Spending
Provides for a constitutional amendment to require a certain percentage of educational operation budget to be used on classroom instruction and to expand audit authority of the auditor general.
House Approps; House Ed 9/28/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/21/2005

HJR M   Palmer     K-12/ISD Audits
Allow auditor general to audit public intermediate and local school districts.
House Ed reported 6/28/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 7/13/2005

HJR T   Ward     School Aid Gap
Amends constitution to require reduction in gap between highest and lowest foundation grant to K-12 schools to no more than 10 percent.
House Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/14/2006

HJR 0C   Moolenaar     Superintendent Appointment
Amends constitution to provide for gubernatorial appointment of superintendent of public instruction.
House Ed reported (H-3) 3/2/05; House Defeated 5/3/05; House Ed 9/28/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

HR 14   Palmer     Pension/Health Costs
Expresses intention of House to address the rising costs of health care and retirement of public schools.
Passed House 2/16/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

HR 21   Palmer     Reading Month
Recognizes March 2005 as Reading Month in Michigan.
House adopted 2/16/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2005

HR 43   Green     Youth Financial Literacy
Establishes April as Youth Financial Literacy Month.
House Adopted 3/24/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/24/2005

HR 52   Byrum     Autism Awareness Month
Declares April as Autism Awareness Month.
House Adopted
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/20/2005

HR 61   Miller     Teacher Appreciation Day
Recognizes May 3, 2005 as teacher appreciation day.
Senate Adopted 4/28/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/28/2005

HR 62   Palmer     Teacher Appreciation Week
Recognizes May 1-7, 2005 as teacher appreciation week.
Senate Adopted 4/28/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/28/2005

HR 74   Hildenbrand     Education Funding
Urges the Congress of the United States to fully fund education mandates.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/10/2005

HR 142   Sak     MEAP Distribution
Urges Department of Education to ensure school districts and students are not penalized because of difficulties distributing MEAP tests.
House Adopted 10/25/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/25/2005

HR 187   Palmer     Catholic Schools
Recognizes January 29 - February 4 as Catholic Schools Week.
House adopted 1/24/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/24/2006

HR 190   Law     Holocaust History
Encourages schools to emphasize the history of the Holocaust in history course offerings.
House Adopted 1/26/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/2006

HR 207   Moolenaar     School Social Work Week
Proclaims March 5-11 as School Social Work Week.
House adopted 3/7/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/7/2006

HR 210   Newell     Meth Dangers
Encourages the Department and school districts to educate teachers and administrators on the dangers of methamphetamine.
Passed House 4/27/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/8/2006

HR 211   Palmer     Financial Literacy
Recognizes April as youth financial literacy month.
House adopted 3/8/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/8/2006

HR 283   Stakoe     Social Science Curriculum
Urges the Department of Education to develop fair and unbiased social science curriculum standards.
House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/27/2006

SB 4   Brater     Compulsory Attendance Age
Increases the age for compulsory attendance of school to 18 and provides for certain alternative education options.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/12/2005

SB 8   Brown     Lottery Revenue
Revises the formula for distribution of lottery revenue.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/12/2005

SB 15   Clark-Coleman     K-3 Class Size Reduction
Requires the reduction of class size for K-3 over a 5-year period beginning in 2005-2006.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/12/2005

SB 20   Clark-Coleman     Pupil Promotion Standards
Requires pupil promotion standards and policy.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/12/2005

SB 44   Thomas     Anti-Bullying Policy
Requires all school districts to establish a policy prohibiting bullying at school.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/25/2005

SB 55   Johnson     School Health Care
Expands the definition of state employees to include school district and community college employees for purposes of health care insurance. "MESSA bill"
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/25/2005

SB 56   Johnson     Health Ins - Coll Bargaining
Eliminates health insurance for certain public employees from mandatory collective bargaining. "MESSA bill"
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/25/2005

SB 57   Cherry     Physical Activity
Requires elementary students to participate in certain amounts of physical activity per week.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/25/2005

SB 69   Birkholz     Strict Discipline Academy
Expands the referral to the strict discipline academy to include pupils suspended or expelled.
2005 PA 28
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/25/2005

SB 72   Birkholz     Pledge of Allegiance
Requires the pledge of allegiance to be offered in public schools.
Passed Senate 3/15/05; House Ed reported 5/25/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/25/2005

SB 77   VanWoerkom     ROTC Pupil Instruction
Considers certain ROTC classes as pupil instruction time.
2005 PA 41
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/25/2005

SB 83   Cassis     Spec Ed Advisory Board
Revises membership on special education advisory board.
2005 PA 137
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/25/2005

SB 91   Bernero     School Nutrition Policy
Requires public schools to adopt and implement and require other measures regarding school nutrition.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/2005

SB 93   Garcia     Character Education
Requires the Department to develop model and encourage public schools to provide character development program.
Passed Senate 2/17/05; House Ed; Notice of intent to discharge 12/7/05; Re-referred to House Gov't Operations 12/8/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/2005

SB 94   Garcia     Suicide Risk Programs
Includes instruction programs regarding warning signs and risk factors of suicide and depression in education curricula.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/2005

SB 95   Garcia     Instruction Hours
Revises instructional time requirement in the Revised School Code.
2006 PA 534
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/2005

SB 96   Garcia     Coach's Ethics Policy
Creates a model policy for coach's conduct and ethics policy.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/2005

SB 98   Garcia     MVU Finance Course
Establishes a basic finance course through Michigan Virtual University as an elective and receive high school credit for passing course.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/2005

SB 100   Garcia     School Zoning
Requires all public schools to adhere to local zoning ordinances.
Senate Natural Resources/Environmental Affairs
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/2005

SB 129   Sanborn     Child Sexual Assault
Prohibits an individual convicted of child sexual assault from residing within 1 mile of a school or entering upon school property as condition of probation and provides minimum term of probation. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 126
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2005

SB 156   Switalski     Student Publications
Prohibits school officials from censoring and provides for policies regarding student publications.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/3/2005

SB 179   Stamas     Youth Work Standards
Revises maximum number of hours of hours a minor may work.
Veto 3/3/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/2005

SB 180   Stamas     Teacher Retirement
Revises definition of public school for purposes of providing service credit in retirement system.
Senate Ed reported 4/14/05; House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/9/2005

SB 196   Jelinek     Legislator Teaching
Allows a legislator to substitute teach in public schools for no pay and substitute teacher permit.
Senate Ed reported 4/28/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/15/2005

SB 204   Jacobs     Speech-Language Pathologist
Provides for licensure of speech-language pathologists.
House Health Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2005

SB 205   Hammerstrom     Sport Safety Training
Establishes a requirement for certification in sport safety training for employment of interscholastic athletic coaches.
Passed Senate 5/18/05; House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/16/2005

SB 232   Cherry     Merit Award
Requires the return of unused Michigan Merit award money to the treasury if the student leaves school.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/22/2005

SB 237   Johnson     School Aid Supplemental
Provides single-section supplemental appropriation for FY 04-05.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

SB 238   Johnson     School Aid
Provides multisection supplemental appropriation for FY 04-05.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

SB 239   Johnson     School Aid
Provides single-section school aid for FY 05-06.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

SB 240   Johnson     School Aid
Provides multisection school aid for FY 05-06.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

SB 241   Johnson     School Aid
Provides multisection school aid for FY 05-06.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

SB 242   Johnson     Supplemental Approps
FY 2004-2005 supplemental appropriations budget.
2006 PA 153
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

SB 246   Emerson     School Funding Guarantee
Creates minimum funding level for K-16 education.
Senate Approps; Motion to discharge passed for the day 6/21/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

SB 247   Allen     Special Ed Personnel
Requires a background check on special education personnel employed by public schools.
Passed Senate 6/30/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

SB 269   Scott     MDE Budget 05-06
FY 05-06 executive budget for the Department of Education.
Passed Senate 6/15/05; Passed House 6/28/05; Returned to Senate 6/29/05; Senate nonconcurred 6/30/05; Conf Comm 9/13/05; 10/11/05 vote reconsidered; 10/11/05 Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/2/2005

SB 279   Switalzki     School Aid Budget 05-06
FY 04-05 supplemental school aid budget.
2005 PA 98
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/2/2005

SB 287   Garcia     Public School Retirement
Requires public school employees who purchase 5 years of service to have 10 years of service before employees can purchase.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/3/2005

SB 288   Olshove     Drug Related Expulsion
Allows suspension or expulsion of pupil for selling a controlled substance on or off campus.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/8/2005

SB 299   Garcia     School Aid
Increases the foundation allowance and requires Michigan virtual university to administer gifted and talented program and math and science centers.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/10/2005

SB 306   Birkholtz     Property Conveyance
Conveyance of two parcels of property to the Grand Ledge School District for $1 and a third parcel for fair market value.
2005 PA 99
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/15/2005

SB 324   Jelinek     Kindergarten Start
Revises the eligibility to start kindergarten in the Revised School Code.
Senate Ed reported 4/21/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/17/2005

SB 325   Jelinek     Kindergarten Start
Revises the beginning age to start school (kindergarten) and be counted in membership in the school aid act.
Senate Ed reported 4/21/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/17/2005

SB 326   Birkholz     Early Intervention Training
Requires a school district with a special education rate above state average to spend at least one professional development day on early intervention training.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/17/2005

SB 327   Cassis     Teaching Reading Requirement
Revises the requirement for teachers to teach reading.
2006 PA 118
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/17/2005

SB 328   Hardiman     Early Intervention Programs
Allows Durant funds in the school aid act to be allocated to early intervention programs.
2006 PA 119
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/17/2005

SB 329   Cassis     Early Intervention Grant
Establishes a grant program for early intervention programs and allows certain funds for small class size to be used for early intervention programs.
2006 PA 120
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/17/2005

SB 330   Kuipers     Early Intervention Programs
Requires a percentage of at-risk funds to be used for early intervention programs in districts with a learning-disabled population above state average.
2006 PA 121
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/17/2005

SB 349   Patterson     Public School License Plate
Creates a specialty license plate for public education.
Senate Transportation
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/24/2005

SB 360   Basham     School Bus Stops
Allows local school district authority to determine location and number of school bus stops within a manufactured housing park.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/12/2005

SB 369   Thomas     Anti-Bullying Policy
Requires all school districts to establish a policy prohibiting bullying at school.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/12/2005

SB 382   Bishop     Education Donation
Creates an income tax credit for donation to educational foundations and certain other educational organizations.
Senate Finance reported 6/28/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/14/2005

SB 384   Scott     Juneteenth Nat'l Freedom Day
Legislature encourages individuals, educational institutions, and social, community, religious, labor, and business organizations to pause on Juneteenth National Freedom Day.
2005 PA 48
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/14/2005

SB 385   Clark-Coleman     Collective Bargaining
Restores collective bargaining rights for certain public school administrators.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/14/2005

SB 406   Clark-Coleman     School Bond Act
Creates the school bond qualification, approval, and loan act.
2005 PA 92
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/21/2005

SB 407   Switalski     Jobs Today Shared Credit
Amends the shared credit rating act to conform with jobs today school bond qualification, approval, and loan act.
2005 PA 93
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/21/2005

SB 408   Clarke     Jobs Today School Bonds
Amend the school bond loan fund program.
2005 PA 94
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/22/2005

SB 409   Olshove     Jobs Today School Bonds
Amends the Revised School Code to conform with jobs today school bond qualification, approval, and loan act.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/21/2005

SB 410   Leland     School Bond School Aid
Amends the state school aid act to conform with school bond qualification, approval, and loan act.
2005 PA 95
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/21/2005

SB 411   Cherry     School Bond Crime
Enacts sentencing guidelines for certain crimes relating to school bonds.
2005 PA 96
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/21/2005

SB 417   Switalski     Single Gender Schools
Authorizes certain single sex classrooms.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/26/2005

SB 418   Clarke     Detroit Property Sale
Prohibits the sale of property by the Detroit Public Schools until elected board takes office in January 2006.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/26/2005

SB 437   VanWoerkom     School Aid Overpayments
Revises provision regarding reimbursement of school aid overpayment.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/27/2005

SB 442   Switalski     Scholarship Program
Creates a new Michigan scholarship program and repeals the Michigan merit award scholarship program.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/28/2005

SB 443   Olshove     Sixth Grade Certificate
Revises the certification to teach 6th grade to be included in both elementary and secondary education certificate.
2006 PA 334
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/28/2005

SB 451   Jacobs     MHSAA Public Records
Requires the Michigan High School Athletic Association to comply with the Freedom of Information Act.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/3/2005

SB 452   Jacobs     MHSAA Open Meetings
Requires the Michigan High School Athletic Association to comply with the Open Meetings Act.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/3/2005

SB 461   Bishop     Emergency Financial Manager
Revises the appointment procedure for emergency financial manager.
Senate Local, Urban & State Affairs reported 9/22/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/5/2005

SB 493   Basham     Vocational Training
Makes vocational training subject to MIOSHA health and safety standards.
Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/11/2005

SB 500   Switalski     School Steroid Testing
Requires random steroid testing for high school athletes in state tournaments.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/17/2005

SB 512   Hammerstrom     Library Board Election
Revises filing deadline for library board member election and certification process.
2005 PA 60
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/19/2005

SB 513   Hammerstrom     Elections Amendments
Provides general amendments to regular, school district, village, and recall elections.
2005 PA 71
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/19/2005

SB 514   Cassis     School Elections
Corrects certain references to election law in the Revised School Code.
2005 PA 61
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/19/2005

SB 527   Kuipers     Entrepreneurial Ed
Provides for entrepreneurial education programs.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/24/2005

SB 546   Bernero     School Lead Testing
Requires schools and day care centers to conduct testing for the presence of lead in drinking water.
Senate Technology & Energy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/26/2005

SB 555   Thomas     Playgrounds
Requires notice and monitoring of schools and playgrounds at sites of environment contamination.
Senate Natural Resources/Environmental Affairs
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/2/2005

SB 556   Thomas     Bilingual Education
Reinstates mandatory bilingual instruction in public education curricula.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/2/2004

SB 573   Birkholz     Sch Improvement - AYP
Requires a school improvement plan to describe the strategy to be used to meet adequate yearly progress in English language arts.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/8/2005

SB 582   Bishop     Administrative Rules
Revises the requirement for copies of administrative rules to be filed with the secretary of state.
2006 PA 247
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/14/2005

SB 601   VanWoerkom     Sch Employee Criminal Check
Requires FBI criminal record checks on all school personnel and prohibits persons convicted of certain offenses from being allowed to work in schools. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 138
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

SB 605   Gilbert     Child Labor
Enacts sentencing guidelines for crime of accepting employment or volunteer status with certain entities in which children are present.
Passed Senate 6/30/05; House Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

SB 606   Bishop     Sex Offender Reporting
Revises sentencing guidelines for crime of failing to report sex offender registration information to police agency to reflect increased penalties. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 122
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

SB 607   Patterson     Sex Offender Reporting
Revises penalties for failing to report certain sex offender registration information to police agency and requires report upon vacating residence. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 123
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

SB 609   Kuipers     Teacher Crime Protection
Restricts teacher tenure act protection for teachers convicted of certain crimes. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 124
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

SB 610   Kuipers     Teacher Crime Notification
Provides for change in procedure for notification of teachers being convicted of certain offenses and escrow of salaries for teachers convicted of certain offenses.
Passed Senate 6/30/05; House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

SB 611   Allen     Teacher Crime
Enacts sentencing guidelines for crime of school employees failing to report conviction for listed offenses. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 125
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

SB 612   Johnson     Teacher Crimes
Provides for reporting requirements for teachers convicted of certain crimes.
Passed Senate 6/30/05; House Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

SB 615   Hardiman     Child Care Crime
Requires criminal background checks for licensees, employees, and certain contract workers at child care centers and day care centers. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 128
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

SB 616   Cassis     Student Safety Zone
Establishes sentencing guidelines for crimes of living, working, or loitering in a student safety zone. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 139
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

SB 617   Toy     Student Safety Zone
Establishes student safety zones. (Student Safety Initiative)
2005 PA 121
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/16/2005

SB 635   Kuipers     Sch Employee Retirement
Establishes a defined contribution retirement system for all new teachers.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/22/2005

SB 636   Kuipers     Sch Emp Service Time
Requires 15 years of service for public school employees before purchase of service time option is available.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/22/2005

SB 637   Kuipers     Sch Emp Health Care
Provides for limitations on employer-paid health care premiums for public school employees.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/22/2005

SB 638   Kuipers     Sch Emp Health Care
Provides for restrictions on collective bargaining regarding health care premiums for certain employees.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/22/2005

SB 643   Bishop     Sch District Investments
Revises permissible investment opportunities for school districts.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/23/2005

SB 673   Jelinek     Sch Administrators
Provides for voluntary certification for school administrators.
2006 PA 335
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/30/2005

SB 674   Switalski     Sch Administrators
Provides for fees for voluntary school administrator certificate and for school counselor license.
Passed Senate 9/22/05; House Ed reported 4/26/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/30/2005

SB 697   Thomas     Pupil Portfolio
Provides for pupil portfolio for each student containing information about academic and nonacademic goals.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/31/2005

SB 699   Thomas     Single Gender Schools
Allows single sex schools for Detroit.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/31/2005

SB 730   Jacobs     Smoking in Schools
Prohibits smoking in outdoor areas of school property.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/6/2005

SB 731   Jacobs     Smoking in Schools
Prohibits use of tobacco on school property.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/6/2005

SB 801   Barcia     Defibrillator Grants
Appropriates $100,000 grants to districts for the purchase of external defibrillators.
Senate Appropriations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/6/2005

SB 807   Cassis     MEAP Time
Extends test taking time for MEAP exams.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/12/2005

SB 834   Switalski     Merit Award for Nurses
Allows use of Merit Award Scholarship to pay nursing school grants.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/20/2005

SB 853   Kuipers     School Investments
Revises ability of school districts to invest inn certificates of deposit.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/1/2005

SB 861   Emerson     Merit Award
Revises Michigan Merit Award Scholarship.
2006 PA 241
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/3/2005

SB 866   Gilbert     Consolidation
Clarifies education financing procedure to consolidate services and save tax dollars.
2006 PA 90
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2005

SB 872   Kuipers     Local Budgets
Revises process for adoption of local governments of budgets.
2006 PA 154
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/9/2005

SB 895   Johnson     School Health Benefits
Provide medical, optical and dental benefits in accordance with school employees health benefits act.
Passed Senate 12/1/05; House Ed reported 12/7/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/10/2005

SB 896   Johnson     School Health Benefits
Create school employees health benefits act.
Passed Senate 12/1/05; House Ed reported 12/7/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/10/2005

SB 897   Kuipers     School Health Benefits
Permit optical, and dental self-insurance for municipal corporations, pursuant to employees health benefit act.
Passed Senate 12/1/05; House Ed reported 12/7/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/10/2005

SB 898   Kuipers     School Health Benefits
Provide medical, optical and dental benefits in accordance with school employees health benefit act.
Passed Senate 12/1/05; House Ed reported 12/7/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 11/10/2005

SB 914   Allen     Forest Mills
Provides exemptions for operating mills under the qualified forest property tax.
2006 PA 380
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/1/2005

SB 932   Allen     Pupil Transportation
Modifies the pupil transportation act.
2006 PA 108
  SBE Position: Introduced: 12/13/2004

SB 953   Bernero     State Retirement
Provides for an 80-and-out benefits plan for state employees.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/11/2006

SB 956   Stamas     Zero Budget Approps
Provide for FY 05-06 zero budget supplemental appropriations.
2006 PA 4
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/11/2006

SB 977   Stamas     Teacher Supplies
Provides tax credit for certain teacher supplies.
Senate Finance
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/24/2006

SB 981   George     Physical Education
Requires certain physical education programs in public elementary schools.
Senate Health Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/24/2006

SB 1010   Jelinek     Fingerprinting
Provides for funding for refingerprinting of teachers and administrators.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/2006

SB 1012   Patterson     Anti-Bullying Policy
Requires all school districts to establish a discipline policy prohibiting bullying at school.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/26/2006

SB 1017   Jelinek     School Retirement
Allows public school employees to name a second spouse as retirement beneficiary if first spouse predeceases him or her and naming of spouse as beneficiary if marriage occurs after retirement allowance effective date.
2006 PA 617
  SBE Position: Introduced: 1/31/2006

SB 1021   Clark-Coleman     Graduation Requirements
Prescribes curriculum requirements for graduation.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/1/2006

SB 1054   Switalski     School Bus Inspection
Provides for voluntary school bus vehicles.
Senate Trans
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/22/2006

SB 1081   Prusi     06-07 Capital Outlay Budget
06-07 capital outlay budget.
Veto 12/21/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/28/2006

SB 1085   Scott     MDE Budget 06-07
Provides FY 06-07 appropriations for the Department of Education.
2006 PA 332
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/28/2006

SB 1095   Switalski     School Aid 06-07
Provides appropriations for FY 06-07 school aid.
2006 PA 342
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/28/2006

SB 1108   Gilbert     Drills During Recess
Requires schools to conduct some of the fire and tornado drills during lunch, recess or other nonclass time when a significant number of students gather.
2006 PA 337
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/2/2006

SB 1124   Kuipers     Graduation Requirements
Establishes statewide graduation requirements.
2006 PA 124
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/9/2006

SB 1133   Prusi     Fire Marshal
Creates Bureau of Fire Services in the Department of Labor and Economic Growth.
2006 PA 189
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/14/2006

SB 1138   Jelinek     Fire Marshall
Reflects transfer of Fire Marshall to Department of Labor and Economic Growth in school building construction act.
2006 PA 199
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/14/2006

SB 1155   Switalski     College Admission Waiver
Provides waiver of high school graduation requirements for admission to community colleges for outsourced workers and some low-income persons.
Senate Banking and Financial Institutions
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/16/2006

SB 1156   Thomas     Anti-Bullying Policy
Requires schools to have policy prohibiting harassment and bullying.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/16/2006

SB 1174   Stamas     Book-a-Month Grant
Establishes grant program for book-a-month program.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/21/2006

SB 1175   Jelinek     Book-a-Month Funding
Establishes funding for book-a-month grant program.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/21/2006

SB 1184   Kuipers     Special Ed Hearing Cost
Sets responsibility for paying for special education hearing costs.
2006 PA 186
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/22/2006

SB 1201   Jacobs     Financial Aid
Establishes student loan repayment grant program for math and science teachers.
Senate Approps
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/30/2006

SB 1227   Switalski     District Boundaries
Prohibit operating a school or any educational program outside district boundaries without written consent.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/25/2006

SB 1233   Patterson     Law Enforcement
Require sheriff's approval for any county in which the public body owns property for creation of law enforcement agencies by public bodies.
Passed Senate 5/9/06; House Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/27/2006

SB 1285   Stamas     Religious Colleges
Exempts religious colleges from general corporation act provisions applicable to educational corporations.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/25/2006

SB 1286   Stamas     Religious Colleges
Exempts bible colleges from state regulations.
Senate 5/25/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/25/2006

SB 1290   Gilbert     Driver Education
Creates new driver education program.
2006 PA 384
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/7/2006

SB 1296   Thomas     Single Gender Schools
Allows single gender schools, classrooms and programs in public schools.
2006 PA 303
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/7/2006

SB 1305   Thomas     Single Gender Schools
Amends Civil Rights Act to permit single gender schools in public schools.
Passed Senate 6/22/06;
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/14/2006

SB 1306   Clark-Coleman     Mandatory Kindergarten
Requires mandatory enrollment and full-day kindergarten.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/14/2006

SB 1327   Kuipers     Teacher Certificate
Revises procedures for nullifying teacher certificates.
2006 PA 619
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/22/2006

SB 1335   Cherry     Merit Award Scholarship
Creates new Michigan Merit Award Scholarship.
2006 PA 479
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/27/2006

SB 1376   Switalski     Strict Discipline Academies
Creates alternative provisions for funding students enrolled in strict discipline academies.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 8/9/2006

SB 1397   Switalski     Student Food Allergies
Requires districts to adopt policies for student with food allergies.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/5/2006

SB 1398   Kuipers     Food Surplus for Schools
Clarifies authority of school districts to enter into agreements to distribute federal agricultural surplus products.
2006 PA 515
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/5/2006

SB 1413   Switalski     Dropout Data
Requires auditing of graduation and dropout data by ISDs.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/12/2006

SB 1416   Hammerstrom     Immunization
Adds human papillomavirus immunization (HPV) in Michigan Care Improvement Registry.
Passed Senate 9/20/06; House Health Policy 11/9/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/12/2006

SB 1417   Hammerstrom     Immunization
Requires sixth grade girls to receive HPV immunization or information.
Passed Senate 9/20/06; House Health Policy
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/12/2006

SB 1427   Kuipers     HS Graduation
Makes technical changes to requirements for high school graduation.
2006 PA 623
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/13/2006

SB 1430   VanWoerkom     Career and Tech Ed
Revises definition of vocational education and use of vocational education funds.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/14/2006

SB 1464   Jacobs     School Bus Safety
Clarifies procedures for drivers when approaching a school bus displaying flashing lights.
Senate Trans
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/20/2006

SB 1465   Jacobs     School Bus Safety
Extends to 400 feet the distance for displaying alternately flashing lights on school vehicles.
Senate Trans
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/20/2006

SCR 29   Cropsey     Pledge of Allegiance
Expresses strong disappointment with the federal District Court ruling that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in a public school is unconstitutional.
Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/21/2005

SCR 33   Cropsey     Same Sex Benefits
Urges the Supreme Court to temporarily prevent benefits for same sex partners of state employees until the court has ruled the constitutionality of the issue.
Senate postponed for the day
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/2005

SCR 55   Cherry     Remedial Classes
Calls on colleges to release information on number of students taking remedial math and reading classes.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/7/2006

SJR B   Kuipers     State Supt Appointment
Creates a constitutional amendment to provide for gubernatorial appointment of the superintendent of public instruction and requires advice and consent of the Senate.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/23/2005

SR 21   Bishop     Youth Financial Literacy
Establishes April as Youth Financial Literacy Month.
Senate adopted 4/13/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/13/2005

SR 46   Jacobs     Proposal A Task Force
Urges the Legislature to establish a task force to study the effects of Proposal A on schools and local governments.
Senate Gov't Operations
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/22/2005

SR 54   Olshove     Internet Safety
Commemorates September 2005 as Children's Internet Safety Month.
Senate Adopted 9/6/05
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/6/2005

SR 65   Cropsey     Pledge of Allegiance
Expresses strong disappointment with the federal District Court ruling that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in a public school is unconstitutional.
Senate Judiciary
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/21/2005

SR 68   Cropsey     Same Sex Benefits
Urges the Supreme Court to temporarily prevent benefits for same sex partners of state employees until the court has ruled the constitutionality of the issue.
Senate postponed for the day
  SBE Position: Introduced: 9/29/2005

SR 78   Birkholtz     Rip Tides Education
Urges Department of Education to provide information to help educate students about dangers of rip tides and basic pier safety.
Senate Adopted 3/22/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 10/19/2005

SR 100   Garcia     Dangers of Meth
Encourages the Department of Education and schools to educate teachers and administrators on the dangers of methamphetamine.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/2/2006

SR 102   Clark-Coleman     School Social Work Week
Proclaims March 5-11 as School Social Work Week.
Senate adopted 3/7/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/7/2006

SR 107   Kuipers     Financial Literacy
Recognizes April as Youth Financial Literacy Month.
Senate Adopted 3/23/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/23/2006

SR 108   Kuipers     Social Studies
Urges Congress to add social studies to the testing requirements under NCLB.
Passed Senate 4/26/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 3/23/2006

SR 114   Birkholtz     Young Child
Designates April as Month of the Young Child
Senate Adopted 4/18/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 4/18/2006

SR 127   Hardiman     After-School
Urges Departments of Community Health, Labor & Economic Growth and History, Arts and Libraries to be named as co-chairs of Michigan After-School Partnership.
Passed Senate 5/17/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/2/2006

SR 146   Johnson     Suicide Prevention
A resolution encouraging the State Board of Education to incorporate suicide prevention and education as part of the state of Michigan's public school curriculum.
Passed Senate 6/29/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 2/2/2005

SR 150   Thomas     Social Science
Urges Congress and USDOE to require the testing of students on social science and civic literacy.
Senate Ed
  SBE Position: Introduced: 6/14/2006

SR 260   Palmer     Teacher Appreciation
Recognizes May 7-13, 2006 as teacher appreciation week.
House adopted 5/10/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/10/2006

SR 261   Sake     Teacher Appreciation
Recognizes May 9, 2006 as teacher appreciation day.
House adopted 5/10/06
  SBE Position: Introduced: 5/10/2006