2026 House Bill 5646 / Public Act 27

Education: other; certain requirements for the approval of teacher preparation programs; 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 1531l.

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House Bill No. 5646 requires all Michigan teacher preparation and alternative teaching programs, as well as their instructors, to implement LETRS training and demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the science of reading by September 30, 2027, as a condition for program approval.

Introduced in the House

March 3, 2026

Introduced by Rep. Tim Kelly (R-93) and eight co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Jason Woolford (R-50), Matt Bierlein (R-97), Doug Wozniak (R-59), Regina Weiss (D-5), Matt Koleszar (D-22), Tom Kunse (R-100), Nancy DeBoer (R-86) and Gina Johnsen (R-78)

Referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce

June 10, 2026

Reported with substitute H-2

June 17, 2026

Substitute H-2 concurred in by voice vote

June 18, 2026

Passed in the House 104 to 2 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Rep. Bryan Posthumus (R-90)

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Received in the Senate

June 23, 2026

Referred to the Committee on Education

July 2, 2026

Discharged from committee

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

July 3, 2026

Reported without amendment

Amendment offered by Sen. Ed McBroom (R-38)

1. Amend page 3, following line 11, by inserting:

“Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 103rd Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 4007.

(b) House Bill No. 4283.”.

The amendment was withdrawn

Passed in the Senate 35 to 1 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Sen. Sam Singh (D-28)

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

July 21, 2026