state of michigan

102nd Legislature

Regular session of 2024

Introduced by Reps. Brixie, MacDonell, Glanville, Rheingans, Conlin, Dievendorf, Byrnes, Wilson, Brabec, Martus, Paiz and Weiss

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5451

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 make appropriations for certain purposes; 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 1313b.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1313b. (1) Beginning October 1, 2025, and every October 1 thereafter, the board of a school district or intermediate school district, the board of directors of a public school academy, or the governing body of a nonpublic school shall distribute the informational notice developed under section 1313a to the parent or legal guardian of each student enrolled in the school district, intermediate school district, public school academy, or nonpublic school. The informational notice may be distributed electronically or by mail.

(2) By not later than October 1, 2025, the department shall post the English, Spanish, and Arabic versions of the informational notice developed under section 1313a on the department?s website.

(3) By not later than October 1, 2025, the board of a school district or intermediate school district, the board of directors of a public school academy, or the governing body of a nonpublic school shall post links to the department webpages described in subsection (2) on the website of the school district, public school academy, or nonpublic school.

(4) The department, the department of health and human services, a school district, an intermediate school district, a public school academy, a nonpublic school, and any officers, board members, or employees of those institutions are immune from civil liability, both personally and professionally, for any damages allegedly caused by, arising out of, or relating to the informational notice developed under section 1313a.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 5450 of the 102nd Legislature is enacted into law.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor