Bill Text: MI SB0192 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced

Michigan Senate Bill 192 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-02 - Referred To Committee On Education And Career Readiness [SB0192 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2021-SB0192-Introduced.html

SENATE BILL NO. 192

March 02, 2021, Introduced by Senators HERTEL, POLEHANKI, GEISS, BULLOCK, CHANG, ALEXANDER and MCCANN and referred to the Committee on Education and Career Readiness.

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 By not later than the 2022-2023 school year, 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 must 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.

(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 and descriptions of the 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. The board or board of directors shall ensure that a notice to parents under this subsection includes a description of the instruction provided to pupils under subsection (1). If a school district or public school academy incorporates a model program or materials described under subsection (3) in the instruction it provides to pupils under subsection (1), the board or board of directors shall ensure that the notice to parents under this subsection includes the description of the program or materials made available to the school district or public school academy by the department under subsection (3).

(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.