Bill Text: MI HB4582 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; teachers; temporary licensing or certification of out-of-state military spouses; authorize. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1531l.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-09 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/04/2017 [HB4582 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB4582-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4582

 

 

May 4, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Bellino, LaFave, Marino, Barrett, Hughes, Sheppard, Hornberger and Hauck and referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1531l.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1531l. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), in

 

addition to other types of teaching certificates or interim

 

teaching certificates issued under this act, the superintendent of

 

public instruction shall grant a temporary teaching certificate to

 

an individual who meets all of the following:

 

     (a) He or she is married to a member of the Armed Forces of

 

the United States who is on active duty.

 

     (b) He or she holds a current teaching certificate or license

 

issued by an equivalent credentialing department, board, or

 

authority, as determined by the superintendent of public

 

instruction, in another state of the United States or the District

 

of Columbia.

 

     (c) He or she provides proof acceptable to the superintendent

 

of public instruction that his or her spouse is assigned to a duty

 

station in this state and that he or she is also assigned to a duty

 

station in this state under his or her spouse's official active

 

duty military orders.

 

     (2) The superintendent of public instruction shall deny a

 

temporary teaching certificate to an individual described in

 

subsection (1) for fraud, material misrepresentation, or

 

concealment in the individual's application for a temporary

 

teaching certificate or for a conviction for which an individual's

 

teaching certificate may be revoked under section 1535a.

 

     (3) A temporary teaching certificate issued under subsection

 

(1) is valid for 1 year and may be renewed for additional 1-year

 

terms if the superintendent of public instruction determines the

 

individual holding the temporary teaching certificate continues to

 

meet the requirements of subsection (1). The superintendent of

 

public instruction may revoke a temporary teaching certificate for

 

a conviction for which an individual's teaching certificate may be

 

revoked under section 1535a.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.