Bill Text: MI HB4407 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Education; curriculum; health curriculum; instruction on prescription opioid drug abuse prevention; require. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1170b. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4406'17
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-12-28 - Assigned Pa 255'17 With Immediate Effect [HB4407 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4407-Chaptered.html
Act No. 255
Public Acts of 2017
Approved by the Governor
December 27, 2017
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 27, 2017
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 27, 2018
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2017
Introduced by Reps. Griffin and Bellino
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4407
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,” (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1170b.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1170b. (1) Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, the department shall ensure that the state model academic standards for health education under section 1278a include instruction on prescription opioid drug abuse, including, at least, the model program of instruction made available under subsection (2).
(2) Not later than July 1, 2019, the department shall make available to school districts and public school academies a grade- and age-appropriate model program of instruction on prescription opioid drug abuse based on the recommendations developed by the prescription drug and opioid abuse commission under section 7113a of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.7113a. The model program of instruction made available by the department shall include at least instruction on the prescription drug epidemic and the connection between prescription opioid drug abuse and addiction to other drugs.
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 House Bill No. 4406 of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
