Bill Text: MI HB4591 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Education; board members; monthly board meetings for all public schools; require. Amends sec. 1201 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1201).
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/16/2019 [HB4591 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB4591-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4591
May 15, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Sowerby, Ellison, Kuppa, Hope, Cambensy, Byrd, Cynthia Johnson, Stone, Clemente, Sneller, Gay-Dagnogo, Pohutsky, Tyrone Carter, Rabhi, Howell and Coleman and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 1201 (MCL 380.1201), as amended by 2001 PA 27.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1201. (1) The business that the board of a school
district or board of directors of a public school academy is
authorized
to perform shall must be conducted at a public meeting
of the board or board of directors held in compliance with the open
meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275. An act of the
board or board of directors is not valid unless the act is
authorized at a meeting by a majority vote of the members elected
or appointed to and serving on the board or board of directors and
a proper record is made of the vote.
(2) The board or board of directors may hold closed sessions
only as authorized by section 8 of the open meetings act, 1976 PA
267, MCL 15.268.
(3) A meeting at which all members are present, with or
without proper notice to members of the board or board of
directors, and for which proper notice is given to the public
pursuant
to under subsection (4), is considered a legal meeting for
the transaction of business.
(4) The board or board of directors shall give public notice
of the time, date, and place of the meeting in the manner required
by the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275.
(5) The minutes of each board or board of directors meeting
shall
must be signed by the secretary. In the absence of the
secretary, the president shall appoint a temporary secretary who
shall sign the minutes of the meeting. The vice-president shall act
in the absence of the president.
(6) The board or board of directors shall hold a regular
public meeting at least once a month. The board of directors of a
public school academy shall hold its public meeting under this
subsection at the public school academy. The board of directors of
a school of excellence that is a cyber school, as described in
section 553a, shall hold a public meeting at least once each month
within the school district in which the greatest number of pupils
enrolled in the cyber school reside and shall broadcast each
meeting on the cyber school's website free of charge.
