HB-4264, As Passed Senate, August 30, 2006

SENATE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 4264

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

"The revised school code,"

(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 475.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 475. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the board of a first

class school district may establish and maintain a school, class,

or program within a school in which enrollment is limited to pupils

of a single gender if the school district also makes available to

pupils a substantially equal coeducational school, class, or

program and a substantially equal school, class, or program for

pupils of the other gender.

     (2) If the board of a first class school district establishes

a single-gender school, class, or program described in subsection

(1), the school district shall not require participation by any of

its pupils in the single-gender school, class, or program. The

board shall ensure that participation by pupils in a single-gender

school, class, or program is wholly voluntary. For the purposes of

this subsection, participation by a pupil in a single-gender

school, class, or program is not considered to be voluntary unless

the school district also makes available to the pupil a

substantially equal coeducational school, class, or program.

     Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take effect

unless all of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are

enacted into law:

     (a) Senate Bill No. 1296.

     (b) Senate Bill No. 1305 or House Bill No. 6247.