Introduced
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To require first- through eighth-grade classes in public schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance each day, and to require the pledge at all public high school athletic and after-school events. The bill would prohibit compelling a student to recite the pledge.
Referred to the Committee on Education
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that also requires the National Anthem at all public high school athletic and after-school events.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 36 to 0 (details)
To require first- through eighth-grade classes in public schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance each day, and to require the pledge and/or the National Anthem at all public high school athletic and after-school events. The bill would prohibit compelling a student to recite the pledge.
Referred to the Committee on Education
Reported without amendment
Without amendment and with the recommendation that the bill pass.
Amendment offered
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To allow schools to substitute for the pledge student recitations of a pledge to the flag of Michigan, the preamble to the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, or any of the Federalist papers. The Senate did not concur with this change to the bill, which caused it to die in the 92nd legislature.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 100 to 3 (details)
To require first- through eighth-grade classes in public schools to recite each day either the Pledge of Allegiance, a pledge to the flag of Michigan, the preamble to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address, Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, or any of the Federalist papers.
