Bill Text: MI HB4284 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; curriculum; high school diploma endorsement in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); direct department of education to issue for certain pupils. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1278e. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4285'15, SB 0170'15

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-09-10 - Recommendation Concurred In [HB4284 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB4284-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4284

March 4, 2015, Introduced by Reps. Price, Hughes, Lucido, Graves, Webber, Crawford, Schor, Santana, Brett Roberts and Gay-Dagnogo and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1278e.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1278e. (1) If the department receives a certification

 

from a school district or public school academy under section 1278d

 

that a pupil has met the requirements under that section for a STEM

 

diploma endorsement, the department shall issue and transmit to the

 

school district or public school academy a STEM diploma endorsement

 

for the pupil.

 

     (2) For an individual who is educated at home or in a

 

nonpublic school, as described under section 1561(3), if the

 

department receives a certification from the individual's parent or

 

legal guardian or, for a nonpublic school, the principal or chief

 

administrative officer of the nonpublic school, that the individual

 

has met substantially the same requirements as the requirements

 

under section 1278d for a STEM diploma endorsement, the department

 

shall issue and transmit to the individual's parent or legal

 

guardian or, for a nonpublic school, to the principal or chief

 

administrative officer of the nonpublic school, a STEM endorsement

 

for the individual.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.

 

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. 4285 (request no.

 

01150'15) of the 98th Legislature is enacted into law.