Bill Text: MI SB1114 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Education; curricula; opt-out from instruction regarding child sexual abuse and opportunity for parental preview; provide for. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1505a. TIE BAR WITH: SB 1113'12
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2012-12-31 - Assigned Pa 0595'12 With Immediate Effect [SB1114 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SB1114-Chaptered.html
Act No. 595
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
January 8, 2013
Filed with the Secretary of State
January 9, 2013
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 9, 2013
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Senators Emmons, Proos, Warren, Booher, Hopgood, Hansen, Brandenburg, Jones, Bieda, Nofs, Whitmer, Gregory, Anderson, Young and Marleau
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1114
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,” (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1505a.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1505a. If a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy provides instruction to pupils on child sexual abuse pursuant to the policy adopted under section 1505, both of the following apply:
(a) A pupil shall not be provided with the instruction unless the pupil’s parent or guardian is notified in advance of the instruction and the content of the instruction, is given a prior opportunity to review the materials to be used in the instruction, and is notified in advance of his or her right to have the pupil excused from the instruction.
(b) Upon the written request of a pupil’s parent or legal guardian, a pupil shall be excused from the instruction without penalty or loss of academic credit.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 1113 of the 96th Legislature is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
