Bill Text: MI SB0637 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Education; school districts; certain display of United States flag in public school; require. Amends sec. 1347 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1347). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4934'11
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-10-17 - Assigned Pa 0320'12 [SB0637 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SB0637-Chaptered.html
Act No. 320
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
October 5, 2012
Filed with the Secretary of State
October 5, 2012
EFFECTIVE DATE: 91st day after final adjournment of 2012 Regular Session
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Senators Kahn, Jones, Colbeck, Green, Schuitmaker, Walker, Hansen, Brandenburg and Pappageorge
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 637
AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 1347 (MCL 380.1347).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1347. (1) For each public school building it operates, the board of a school district shall purchase or possess a United States flag of a size of not less than 4 feet 2 inches by 8 feet, flag staff, and the necessary appliances for displaying the flag upon the flag staff; shall erect the flag staff on the public school building or on a conspicuous place upon the school grounds; and shall display the flag upon the flag staff at all times during school hours, inclement weather excepted, in which case the flag shall be prominently displayed within the school building.
(2) In addition to the display of the flag at the school required under subsection (1), the board or board of directors shall ensure that a United States flag is displayed in each classroom or other instructional site in which pupils recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 4934 of the 96th Legislature is enacted into law.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
