Bill Text: MI HB4136 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Education; examinations; high school competency requirement; include a civics component. Amends sec. 1166 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 350.1166).
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)
Status: (Passed) 2016-12-31 - Approved By The Governor 12/28/2016 @ 10:53 Am [HB4136 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB4136-Chaptered.html
Act No. 391
Public Acts of 2016
Approved by the Governor
December 28, 2016
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 28, 2016
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 29, 2017
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
Introduced by Reps. Lucido, Barrett, Theis, Glenn, Hooker, Webber, Forlini, Geiss, Runestad, Poleski, Tedder and Chatfield
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4136
AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to make appropriations for certain purposes; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 1166 (MCL 380.1166).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1166. (1) In all public and nonpublic schools in this state regular courses of instruction shall be given in the constitution of the United States, in the constitution of Michigan, and in the history and present form of government of the United States, Michigan, and its political subdivisions. Instruction shall begin not later than the opening of the eighth grade, or its equivalent, except in schools maintaining a junior high school, in which case it may begin in the ninth grade.
(2) A high school in this state shall require a 1-semester course of study of 5 periods per week in civics. The course shall include the form and functions of the federal, state, and local governments and shall stress the rights and responsibilities of citizens. A diploma shall not be issued by a high school to a pupil who has not successfully completed this course. This course requirement is not a graduation requirement for a high school pupil who has enlisted or been inducted into military service.
(3) By not later than May 1, 2018 or the next update of the state curriculum content standards after the effective date of this subsection, whichever occurs first, the state board shall revise the state curriculum content standards for high school social studies to ensure that those content standards cover the same content as covered by the 100 questions on the civics portion of the naturalization test used by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services as of December 1, 2016.
(4) Beginning with the first state high school social studies assessment administered after the state academic curriculum content standards are revised as required under subsection (3), the superintendent of public instruction shall ensure that the high school social studies assessment includes questions related to the learning objectives in the state curriculum standards for high school social studies as revised under subsection (3).
(5) As used in this section, “state curriculum content standards” means the state board recommended model curriculum content standards developed and periodically updated under section 1278.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
