Bill Text: MI HB5154 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-12-16 - Printed Bill Filed 12/16/2015 [HB5154 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB5154-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5154

December 15, 2015, Introduced by Rep. Lucido and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     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 instruction for pupils and 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 board of the school

 

district or board of directors of the public school academy shall

 

notify the parents of all pupils of each school in which the

 

instruction 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) 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.