Bill Text: MI SB0211 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Education; curriculum; instruction in certain American heritage documents; allow and prohibit censorship or restraint of. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1168.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-11-10 - Referred To Second Reading [SB0211 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0211-Engrossed.html

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SB-0211, As Passed Senate, June 11, 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 211

 

 

March 17, 2015, Introduced by Senators SHIRKEY, KOWALL, COLBECK, HORN, KNOLLENBERG, MARLEAU, BOOHER, ROBERTSON, MACGREGOR and PAVLOV and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1168.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1168. (1) The board of a school district or intermediate

 

school district or board of directors of a public school academy

 

shall permit grade-level instruction for pupils to read and study

 

America's founding documents, including documents that contributed

 

to the foundation or maintenance of America's representative form

 

of limited government, the Bill of Rights, our free-market economic

 

system, and patriotism.

 

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

 

district or board of directors of a public school academy, or a

 

school official or employee of a school district, intermediate

 

school district, or public school academy, shall not censor or

 

restrain study or instruction in American history or heritage or

 

Michigan state history or heritage based on religious references in

 

original source documents, writings, speeches, proclamations, or

 

records.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.