Bill Text: MI SB0747 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Higher education; state universities; concurrent enrollment arrangements with school districts; encourage and provide procedures for. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: SB 0745'14
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-29 - Referred To Committee On Education [SB0747 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SB0747-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 747
January 29, 2014, Introduced by Senators HANSEN, BOOHER, JANSEN, COLBECK and MEEKHOF and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to authorize state universities to offer academic
credit for concurrent enrollment courses provided by public high
schools in this state; and to authorize lower tuition rates for
those courses.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "state
university concurrent enrollment act".
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Concurrent enrollment course" means a concurrent
enrollment course described in part 20B of the revised school code,
1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1476 to 380.1477.
(b) "Eligible public high school" means either of the
following:
(i) A public high school that is operated by a school district
or public school academy in this state, if the board of the school
district or board of directors of the public school academy and the
board of a state university have agreed that the public high school
may provide concurrent enrollment courses for which the state
university shall provide college credit.
(ii) An intermediate school district, as defined in section 4
of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.4, that provides 1
or more concurrent enrollment courses on behalf of 1 or more public
high schools described in subparagraph (i).
(c) "Public high school" means a public school, as defined in
section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.5, that
includes grades 9 to 12 or 10 to 12 and that awards high school
diplomas.
(d) "Public school academy" means that term as defined in
section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.5.
(e) "School district" means that term as defined in section 6
of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.6.
(f) "State university" means a university described in section
4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963.
Sec. 3. (1) The board of a state university may authorize the
university to participate in a concurrent enrollment program
described in this act with an eligible public high school. A state
university that participates in a concurrent enrollment program
shall develop an agreement with the eligible public high school as
described in section 1477(6) of the revised school code, 1976 PA
451, MCL 380.1477.
(2) A state university that participates in a concurrent
enrollment program under this act shall provide each student who
successfully completed 1 or more concurrent enrollment courses,
while he or she was a pupil at an eligible public high school,
college credit for the courses at the state university that
correspond to those concurrent enrollment courses.
(3) For purposes of implementing subsection (2), a state
university that participates in a concurrent enrollment program
under this act shall provide the eligible public high school with
the assessments for the state university courses that correspond to
the concurrent enrollment courses offered by that high school.
(4) If a state university participates in a concurrent
enrollment program under this act, the board of the state
university may establish a reduced tuition rate for any course at
the state university for which the university gives college credit
for successful completion of a concurrent enrollment course. It is
the intent of the legislature that a tuition rate established under
this subsection will reflect a pro rata share of the cost the state
university incurs to administer and oversee the program; will not
exceed the in-state tuition rate for that state university course;
and will be reduced by a pro rata share of each of the following:
(a) The instructor's salary for teaching that course if the
eligible public high school is providing that instructor.
(b) The amount of operational costs normally incurred by the
state university for having a student on campus.
Enacting section 1. This act does not take effect unless
Senate Bill No.745 of
the 97th Legislature is enacted into law.
