Bill Text: MI HB4772 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; curriculum; instruction and professional development in warning signs for suicide and depression; make mandatory. Amend sec. 1171 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1171).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-20 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/15/2017 [HB4772 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB4772-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4772

 

 

June 15, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Singh, Lucido and Marino and referred to the Committee on Education Reform.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

by amending section 1171 (MCL 380.1171), as added by 2006 PA 324.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1171. (1) The board of a school district or board of

 

directors of a public school academy is encouraged to shall provide

 

age-appropriate and medically accurate instruction for pupils and

 

medically accurate professional development for school personnel

 

concerning the warning signs and risk factors for suicide and

 

depression and the protective factors that help prevent suicide.

 

The instruction and professional development shall be designed to

 

achieve the following goals:

 

     (a) To prevent both fatal and nonfatal suicide behaviors among

youth.

 

     (b) To increase pupil awareness of the warning signs and risk

 

factors for suicide and depression.

 

     (c) To improve access to appropriate prevention services for

 

vulnerable youth groups.

 

     (2) The board of a school district or board of directors of a

 

public school academy is encouraged to work with school personnel

 

and local or state organizations and resources specializing in

 

suicide prevention and awareness.

 

     (3) The department shall develop or select model programs and

 

materials on suicide prevention and awareness that are appropriate

 

for the purposes of this section, such as the Michigan model for

 

comprehensive school health education, and shall make those model

 

programs and materials available to school districts and public

 

school academies.

 

     (4) If a school district or public school academy provides

 

instruction described in subsection (1), the The board of the a

 

school district or board of directors of the a public school

 

academy shall notify the parents of all pupils of each school in

 

which the instruction described in subsection (1) is provided about

 

the instruction using the communication method the school district

 

or public school academy normally uses for regular communications

 

with parents.

 

     (5) Failure of a school district or public school academy to

 

comply with subsection (4) does not create a cause of action or

 

constitute a breach of any legal duty in a civil action.

 

     (6) The legislature shall provide for funding to a school

district or public school academy for any increase in cost related

 

to compliance with this section.

 

     (7) (6) This section shall be known as the "Chase Edwards

 

law".

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.