2024 House Bill 5549 / Public Act 272

Education: other; behavioral threat assessment and management teams; require schools to create.

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 1308e.

AI Analysis – Experimental

The bill requires Michigan schools to form teams to assess and manage behavioral threats, including specific roles and duties, by July 1, 2024.

Introduced in the House

March 6, 2024

Introduced by Rep. Kelly Breen (D-21) and two co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Luke Meerman (R-89) and Matt Koleszar (D-22)

Referred to the Committee on Education

Dec. 4, 2024

Reported with substitute H-2

Dec. 10, 2024

Substitute H-2 concurred in by voice vote

Substitute H-3 offered by Rep. Gina Johnsen (R-78)

The substitute failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 57 to 51 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Rep. Abraham Aiyash (D-9)

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Received in the Senate

Dec. 18, 2024

Referred to the Committee on Government Operations

Dec. 20, 2024

Discharged from committee

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

Reported without amendment

Passed in the Senate 24 to 14 (details)

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Jan. 22, 2025