Bill Text: MI HB4181 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Education; counseling; requirements for employment as a school counselor; revise. Amends sec. 1233 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1233).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-11-09 - Assigned Pa 151'17 With Immediate Effect [HB4181 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4181-Chaptered.html
Act No. 151
Public Acts of 2017
Approved by the Governor
November 8, 2017
Filed with the Secretary of State
November 8, 2017
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 6, 2018
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2017
Introduced by Reps. Roberts, Wentworth and Frederick
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4181
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 1233 (MCL 380.1233), as amended by 2016 PA 192.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1233. (1) Except as otherwise provided by law, and subject to section 1233c, the board of a school district or intermediate school board of an intermediate school district shall not permit a teacher who does not hold a valid teaching certificate to teach in a grade or department of the school.
(2) The board of a school district or intermediate school board of an intermediate school district shall not allow an individual to serve in a counseling role in the school district or intermediate school district, as the role is defined by the superintendent of public instruction, unless the individual meets 1 or more of the following:
(a) The individual holds a valid teaching certificate with a school counseling endorsement.
(b) The individual meets all of the following:
(i) Holds a master’s degree awarded after completion of an approved school counselor education program that includes at least all of the following skills and content areas or their equivalent:
(A) Guidance services—philosophy, principles, and practices.
(B) Individual and group analysis—nature and range of human characteristics and appraisal methods.
(C) Guidance information—vocational development theory, educational and occupational information.
(D) Counseling theory and practice—individual and group procedures, administration and coordination relationships, professional relationships, and ethics.
(E) Supervised experiences—laboratory, practicum, or internship.
(F) Evaluation—statistics and research methodology, follow-up evaluation, and measurement methods.
(ii) Has successfully completed the department’s guidance counselor examination.
(iii) Has been recommended by an approved school counselor education program to provide services as a school counselor.
(c) The individual meets both of the following:
(i) Has at least 5 years of successful experience serving in a school counseling role in another state within the immediately preceding 7-year period.
(ii) Has successfully completed the department’s guidance counselor examination.
(3) Except for teachers engaged to teach in a community district under section 1233c, the intermediate superintendent shall notify the superintendent of public instruction immediately of the names of noncertificated teachers teaching in violation of subsection (1) and the names of individuals serving in counseling roles in violation of subsection (2), the employing district, and the amount of time the noncertificated teachers or unqualified individuals were employed.
(4) A vocational teacher preparation institution shall utilize the employment experience of an annually authorized teacher for the purpose of waiving student teaching as a requirement for vocational certification if the annually authorized teacher is supervised by the teacher preparation institution.
(5) All vocational education teachers certified after June 1, 1995 shall pass a competency test.
(6) The board of a school district or intermediate school district may employ an individual without a teaching certificate as a substitute teacher if the individual has at least 90 semester hours of college credit from a college or university.
(7) Beginning 2 years after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection, the department shall not renew an individual’s school counselor credential unless the department determines that, within the time period since the individual’s school counselor credential was issued or last renewed, whichever is most recent, the individual has completed at least 25 hours of professional development approved by the department under subsection (9) covering counseling about the college preparation and selection process and at least 25 hours of professional development approved by the department under subsection (9) covering career counseling. For the purposes of this subsection, career counseling includes, but is not limited to, exploration of military career options and the skilled trades as well as other careers and pathways that lead to industry credentials awarded in recognition of an individual’s attainment of measurable technical or occupational skills necessary to obtain employment or advance within an occupation. The hours of professional development required under this subsection covering career counseling shall include at least 5 hours covering military career options. The hours of professional development required under this subsection are a part of and not in addition to professional development requirements under department rule.
(8) An individual may complete the professional development hours for the purposes of subsection (7) as part of the professional development provided by a school district, intermediate school district, public school academy, or nonpublic school under section 1527 if the content and curriculum of the professional development provided under section 1527 are approved by the department under subsection (9).
(9) The department shall approve the professional development for the purposes of subsection (7). The department shall only approve a professional development program or course for the purposes of subsection (7) if the department determines that the content and curriculum for the professional development meet standards that are developed by the department in consultation with the department of talent and economic development and groups representing school counselors, college admissions professionals, financial aid officers, employers, and others as determined appropriate by the department. The department shall develop these standards by July 1, 2018 and shall facilitate the involvement in the development of the standards of the groups required under this subsection.
(10) The superintendent of public instruction shall promulgate or modify rules as necessary to implement subsections (7) to (9).
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
