HOUSE BILL No. 4644

 

May 17, 2011, Introduced by Rep. Genetski and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     A bill to amend 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4, entitled

 

"An act relative to continuing tenure of office of certificated

teachers in public educational institutions; to provide for

probationary periods; to regulate discharges or demotions; to

provide for resignations and leaves of absence; to create a state

tenure commission and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof;

and to prescribe penalties for violation of the provisions of this

act,"

 

by amending section 1 of article II (MCL 38.81), as amended by 1993

 

PA 59.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

ARTICLE II

 

     Sec. 1. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), a teacher is

 

in a probationary period during his or her first 4 7 full school

 

years of employment.

 

     (2) A teacher under contract but not on continuing tenure as

 

of the effective date of the 2011 amendatory act that added amended

 

this subsection is in a probationary period during his or her first


 

2 4 full school years of employment.

 

     (3) A teacher on continuing tenure as of the effective date of

 

the 2011 amendatory act that added amended this subsection

 

continues to be on continuing tenure even if the teacher has not

 

served for at least 4 7 full school years of employment.