Bill Text: MI SB0621 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered

Michigan Senate Bill 621 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: School aid; other; conditions under which public school may receive school aid for instruction provided to nonpublic school students at nonpublic school site; revise. Amends sec. 166b of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1766b).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-05-16 - Assigned Pa 0130'12 With Immediate Effect [SB0621 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-SB0621-Chaptered.html

Act No. 130

Public Acts of 2012

Approved by the Governor

May 15, 2012

Filed with the Secretary of State

May 15, 2012

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 15, 2012

STATE OF MICHIGAN

96TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2012

Introduced by Senator Hansen

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 621

AN ACT to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled “An act to make appropriations to aid in the support of the public schools, the intermediate school districts, community colleges, and public universities of the state; to make appropriations for certain other purposes relating to education; to provide for the disbursement of the appropriations; to authorize the issuance of certain bonds and provide for the security of those bonds; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to create certain funds and provide for their expenditure; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 166b (MCL 388.1766b), as amended by 2010 PA 204.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 166b. (1) This act does not prohibit a parent or legal guardian of a minor who is enrolled in any of grades 1 to 12 in a nonpublic school or who is being home-schooled from also enrolling the minor in a district, public school academy, or intermediate district in any curricular offering that is provided by the district, public school academy, or intermediate district at a public school site and is available to pupils in the minor’s grade level or age group, subject to compliance with the same requirements that apply to a full-time pupil’s participation in the offering. However, state school aid shall be provided under this act for a minor enrolled as described in this subsection only for curricular offerings that are offered to full-time pupils in the minor’s grade level or age group during regularly scheduled school hours.

(2) This act does not prohibit a parent or legal guardian of a minor who is enrolled in any of grades 1 to 12 in a nonpublic school or who resides within the district and is being home-schooled from also enrolling the minor in the district in a curricular offering being provided by the district at the nonpublic school site. However, state school aid shall be provided under this act for a minor enrolled as described in this subsection only if all of the following apply:

(a) Either of the following:

(i) The nonpublic school site is located, or the nonpublic students are educated, within the geographic boundaries of the district.

(ii) If the nonpublic school has submitted a written request to the district in which the nonpublic school is located for the district to provide certain instruction under this subsection for a school year and the district does not agree to provide some or all of that instruction by May 1 immediately preceding that school year or, if the request is submitted after March 1 immediately preceding that school year, within 60 days after the nonpublic school submits the request, the instruction is instead provided by an eligible other district. This subparagraph does not require a nonpublic school to submit more than 1 request to the district in which the nonpublic school is located for that district to provide instruction under this subsection, and does not require a nonpublic school to submit an additional request to the district in which the nonpublic school is located for that district to provide additional instruction under this subsection beyond the instruction requested in the original request, before having the instruction provided by an eligible other district. A public school academy that is located in the district in which the nonpublic school is located or in an other eligible district also may provide instruction under this subparagraph under the same conditions as an eligible other district. As used in this subparagraph, “eligible other district” means a district that is located in the same intermediate district as the district in which the nonpublic school is located or is located in an intermediate district that is contiguous to that intermediate district.

(b) The nonpublic school is registered with the department as a nonpublic school and meets all state reporting requirements for nonpublic schools.

(d) The instruction is provided directly by a certified teacher at the district or public school academy or at an intermediate district.

(e) The curricular offering is also available to full-time pupils in the minor’s grade level or age group in the district or public school academy during the regular school day at a public school site.

(f) The curricular offering is restricted to nonessential elective courses for pupils in grades 1 to 12.

(3) A minor enrolled as described in this section is a part-time pupil for purposes of state school aid under this act.

(4) A district that receives a written request to provide instruction under subsection (2) shall reply to the request in writing by May 1 immediately preceding the applicable school year or, if the request is made after March 1 immediately preceding that school year, within 60 days after the nonpublic school submits the request. The written reply shall specify whether the district agrees to provide or does not agree to provide the instruction for each portion of instruction included in the request.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor