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 1300.
House Bills 4853 and 4854 would amend the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) and the Revised School Code, respectively, to prohibit discrimination against individuals who possess traditional objects or wear traditional regalia and to require schools to allow individuals to possess or wear those items in school buildings and at graduation ceremonies.
Co-sponsored by Reps.
Referred to the Committee on Higher Education
Reported with substitute H-2
Substitute H-2 concurred in by voice vote
Referred to the Committee on Government Operations
Discharged from committee
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Reported without amendment
Passed in the Senate 27 to 10 (details)
