2024 House Bill 5660 / Public Act 264

Education: safety; reference to school safety commission; update.

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,” by amending sections 6, 1241, and 1310a (MCL 380.6, 380.1241, and 380.1310a), section 6 as amended by 2016 PA 192, section 1241 as added by 2018 PA 549, and section 1310a as amended by 2016 PA 532; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.

AI Analysis – Experimental

Mandates the designation of liaisons to work with the School Safety Commission and the Office of School Safety, introduces requirements for reporting certain incidents to the Department of State Police, and outlines consequences for non-compliance with these requirements.

Introduced in the House

April 24, 2024

Introduced by Rep. Nancy DeBoer (R-86) and two co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Kelly Breen (D-21) and Luke Meerman (R-89)

Referred to the Committee on Education

Dec. 4, 2024

Reported with substitute H-1

Dec. 10, 2024

Substitute H-1 concurred in by voice vote

Passed in the House 89 to 19 (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 38 to 0 (details)

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Jan. 22, 2025