Act No. 177

Public Acts of 1997

Approved by the Governor

December 30, 1997

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 30, 1997

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 30, 1997

STATE OF MICHIGAN

89TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 1997

Introduced by Reps. Jelinek, Dalman, LeTarte, Gire, Agee, Schauer, Bogardus, Kilpatrick, Callahan, Kaza, Martinez, Goschka, Middleton, Brackenridge, Schermesser, Cherry, London, Birkholz, Bodem, Hammerstrom, Wojno, Geiger, Byl, Sikkema, Scranton and Raczkowski

Reps. Baird, Bankes, Brater, Cassis, Crissman, Curtis, DeHart, Frank, Gilmer, Godchaux, Gubow, Johnson, Kelly, LaForge, Law, McBryde, Olshove, Prusi, Tesanovich and Vaughn named co-sponsors

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5230

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, and intermediate school districts; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, and intermediate school districts; 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 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 section 1279f (MCL 380.1279f), as added by 1996 PA 169.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1279f. Upon written request by the pupil's parent or legal guardian stating that the request is being made for the purpose of providing the pupil with an opportunity to qualify to take 1 or more postsecondary courses as an eligible student under the postsecondary enrollment options act, 1996 PA 160, MCL 388.511 to 388.524, the board of a school district shall allow a pupil who is in at least grade 10 to take an assessment administered under section 1279 without charge at any time the school district regularly administers the test or assessment or during a retesting period established under section 1279. A school district is not required to include in an annual education report, or in any other report submitted to the department for accreditation purposes, results of tests or assessments taken under this subsection by a pupil in grade 11 or lower until the results of that pupil's graduating class are otherwise reported. This section is repealed effective June 30, 2001.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 89th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 5228.

(b) House Bill No. 5229.

(c) House Bill No. 5232.

(d) House Bill No. 5234.

(e) House Bill No. 5235.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.