Committee Bill Records 2025-2026 Education and Workforce
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Education and Workforce
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Nancy DeBoer
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All Bills Ever Referred To This Committee
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| Bill ▲▼ | Committee | Sponsor ▲▼ | Subject | Meetings ▲▼ | Status ▲▼ |
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| HB 4020 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Helena Scott | Education: curriculum; requirement for schools to provide instruction on African-American history; provide for, and create the commission to update African-American history in K to 12 instruction. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1164. | Referred 01/22/2025 | |
| HB 4022 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Noah Arbit | Local government: other; educational instruction access act; repeal. Repeals 2017 PA 98 (MCL 123.1041 - 123.1047). | Referred 01/28/2025 | |
| HB 4024 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Joseph Fox | Civil rights: privacy; restriction of student access to certain restrooms and changing areas based on biological sex; provide for. Creates new act. | 2025-08-27 | Referred 01/28/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-1) |
| HB 4030 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Mike Hoadley | Labor: youth employment; parent or legal guardian of a minor being educated at the minor's home; allow to issue a work permit for the minor. Amends sec. 2 of 1978 PA 90 (MCL 409.102). | Referred 01/28/2025 | |
| HB 4031 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Jaime Greene | Recreation: athletics and sports; publicly funded individual sports programs that provide separate programs for males and females; require athletes to be scored according to their biological sex. Creates new act. | Referred 01/28/2025 | |
| HB 4036 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Carrie Rheingans | Higher education: education programs; authorization and distance education reciprocal exchange act; remove sunset. Repeals sec. 7 of 2015 PA 45 (MCL 390.1697). | Referred 01/29/2025 | |
| HB 4060 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Curtis VanderWall | Education: financing; requirements concerning taxes levied for area career and technical education programs; modify. Amends secs. 681 & 684 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.681 & 380.684). | 2025-02-19, 2025-02-26 | Referred 02/04/2025 reported with recommendation without amendment |
| HB 4141 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Mark Tisdel | Education: students; a wireless communications device policy: require the board of a school district or board of directors of a public school academy to implement. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1303a & repeals sec. 1303 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1303). | 2025-04-23, 2025-05-14 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-2) |
| HB 4147 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Donni Steele | School aid: other; use of funding for consolidation of administrative and service functions; allow. Amends sec. 11x of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1611x). | 2025-03-12 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation without amendment |
| HB 4148 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Cameron Cavitt | Education: board members; state board of education; require members to be selected from districts. Amends sec. 282a of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.282a) & adds sec. 282b. | 2025-03-12 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation without amendment |
| HB 4149 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Thomas Kuhn | Education: school districts; certain information on the school district's, intermediate school district's, or public school academy's website; require a school district, an intermediate school district, or a public school academy to post. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1280h. | 2025-03-12 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-1) |
| HB 4150 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Mark Tisdel | Education: other; fees for evaluation of applications; eliminate. Amends secs. 1531h & 1538 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1531h & 380.1538). | 2025-03-05 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation without amendment |
| HB 4151 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | David Martin | Education: teachers and administrators; endorsement requirements; modify. Amends sec. 1531 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1531). | 2025-03-05 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation for referral to Committee on Rules |
| HB 4152 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Kathy Schmaltz | Education: other; certain requirements for the approval of teacher preparation institutions; create. Amends sec. 1531e of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1531e). | 2025-03-05 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-1) |
| HB 4153 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Nancy DeBoer | Education: teachers and administrators; district-level certifications; provide for. Amends secs. 501, 521, 551, 1231, 1233, 1311b, 1526, 1535a & 1809 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.501 et seq.) & adds sec. 1531l. | 2025-03-05 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation for referral to Committee on Rules with substitute (H-1) |
| HB 4154 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Brian BeGole | Education: career and technical; trade schools; include in the postsecondary enrollment options act. Amends sec. 3 of 1996 PA 160 (MCL 388.513). | 2025-03-12 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation for referral to Committee on Rules |
| HB 4155 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Alicia St. Germaine | Education: curriculum; recommendations for curriculum companies and assessment companies; require the department to provide. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1278e. | 2025-03-19, 2025-03-26 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation without amendment |
| HB 4156 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Jaime Greene | Education: curriculum; merit curriculum; modify. Amends secs. 1278a & 1278b of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1278a & 380.1278b) & adds sec. 1278e. | 2025-03-19, 2025-03-26 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-2) |
| HB 4157 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Jaime Greene | Education: examinations; pilot programs for a state-administered assessment system; create. Amends secs. 11, 104, 104b & 104c of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1611 et seq.) & adds sec. 104d. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4158'25 | 2025-03-19, 2025-03-26 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation without amendment |
| HB 4158 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Jamie Thompson | Education: examinations; references to M-STEP to include a state-administered assessment system under section 104d of the state school aid act of 1979; modify. Amends secs. 502, 503, 522, 552 & 1279g of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.502 et seq.). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4157'25 | 2025-03-19, 2025-03-26 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation without amendment |
| HB 4159 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Rylee Linting | Education: curriculum; core academic curriculum requirements; modify. Amends sec. 1278 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1278). | 2025-03-19, 2025-03-26 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-1) |
| HB 4198 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Mark Tisdel | Education: school districts; mobile panic alert system in schools; require. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1308c. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4199'25 | Referred 03/11/2025 | |
| HB 4199 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Donni Steele | Education: financing; funding for mobile panic alert system in schools; provide for. Amends sec. 11 of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1611) & adds sec. 97n. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4198'25 | Referred 03/11/2025 | |
| HB 4222 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Kathy Schmaltz | Education: safety; procedures for school emergency operations plans; modify. Amends sec. 1308b of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1308b). | 2025-03-26, 2025-04-16 | Referred 03/12/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-2) |
| HB 4223 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Mike Harris | Education: safety; certain school safety and security training; require that public schools and nonpublic schools ensure that certain school workers complete. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1308g. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4228'25 | 2025-04-23, 2025-04-30 | Referred 03/12/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-1) |
| HB 4224 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Jaime Greene | Construction: code; safety guidelines for lockdown procedures of a school building and installation of emergency responder radio coverage systems in K-12 educational facilities; require. Amends title of 1937 PA 306 (MCL 388.851 - 388.855a) & adds secs. 1e & 3a. | Referred 03/12/2025 | |
| HB 4225 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Donni Steele | Education: safety; OK2SAY program contact information; require inclusion on certain student identification cards. Amends title & secs. 3 & 5 of 2020 PA 211 (MCL 380.1893 & 380.1895). | 2025-04-16, 2025-04-23 | Referred 03/12/2025 reported with recommendation without amendment |
| HB 4226 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Rylee Linting | Fire: other; number of school fire and security drills; modify. Amends sec. 19 of 1941 PA 207 (MCL 29.19). | 2025-03-26, 2025-04-16 | Referred 03/12/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-1) |
| HB 4227 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Parker Fairbairn | Education: safety; 1 emergency and safety manager and at least 1 mental health coordinator; require each intermediate school district to employ. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1308g. | 2025-03-26, 2025-04-16 | Referred 03/12/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-2) |
| HB 4228 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Carol Glanville | Education: safety; certain school safety and security training; require the department of state police and the office of school safety within the department of state police to provide to certain school personnel. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1308f. | 2025-03-26 | Referred 03/12/2025 |
| HB 4229 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Cynthia Neeley | Education: safety; office of school safety quarterly reporting of tips received; require. Amends sec. 3 of 2018 PA 435 (MCL 28.683). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4258'25 | 2025-04-16, 2025-04-23 | Referred 03/12/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-1) |
| HB 4258 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Angela Rigas | Education: safety; notification of certain tips related to a school; require the department of state police to provide. Amends sec. 3 of 2013 PA 183 (MCL 752.913). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4259'25 | 2025-03-26, 2025-04-16 | Referred 03/18/2025 |
| HB 4259 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Samantha Steckloff | Education: safety; definitions in the student safety act; modify. Amends sec. 2 of 2013 PA 183 (MCL 752.912). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4258'25 | 2025-04-16 | Referred 03/18/2025 reported with recommendation without amendment |
| HB 4286 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Gina Johnsen | Education: curriculum; health education standards and guidelines; modify to include instruction on human development. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1170c. | Referred 03/25/2025 | |
| HB 4315 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Joseph Pavlov | Education: safety; certain school safety and security training; require the department of state police and the office of school safety within the department of state police to provide to certain school personnel. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1308f. | 2025-04-23, 2025-04-30 | Referred 04/16/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-2) |
| HB 4330 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Jennifer Wortz | Education: alternative; enrollment in a core subject at a public school; allow without being required to take the remaining core subjects. Amends sec. 166b of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1766b). | Referred 04/17/2025 | |
| HB 4345 of 2025 (PA 5 of 2025) | Education and Workforce | Cameron Cavitt | School aid: penalties; exception to minimum days of pupil instruction requirement for district closure during a declared state of emergency; provide for. Amends sec. 101 of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1701). | 2025-04-23, 2025-04-30 | Referred 04/17/2025 reported with recommendation for referral to Committee on Rules with substitute (H-1) |
| HB 4367 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Jason Woolford | Education: other; purple star school program; create. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1138a. | 2025-05-21, 2025-06-04 | Referred 04/22/2025 reported with recommendation without amendment |
| HB 4369 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Brad Paquette | Education: meals; certain substances served in school foods; prohibit. Amends 2000 PA 92 (MCL 289.1101 - 289.8111) by adding sec. 7134. | 2025-05-21, 2025-06-11 | Referred 04/22/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-3) |
| HB 4416 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Thomas Kuhn | Education: students; guidelines for unenrolling students; provide for. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1598. | Referred 05/01/2025 | |
| HB 4477 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Donni Steele | Education: curriculum; instruction in water safety; require. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1170c. | Referred 05/08/2025 | |
| HB 4520 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Will Snyder | Higher education: other; program to designate certain college and university campuses as hunger-free campuses; create. Creates new act. | Referred 05/22/2025 | |
| HB 4556 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Tom Kunse | Education: examinations; certain requirements concerning the Michigan merit examination; modify. Amends sec. 1279g of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1279g). | 2025-08-27, 2025-09-24 | Referred 06/05/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-2) |
| HB 4557 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Matt Koleszar | Education: examinations; certain requirements concerning the Michigan merit examination; modify. Amends secs. 22p & 104c of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1622p & 388.1704c) & repeals sec. 104b of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1704b). | 2025-08-27, 2025-09-24 | Referred 06/05/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-3) |
| HB 4585 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Matt Maddock | Education: school districts; salary cap for school administrators and certain other school employees; require. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1246a. | Referred 06/10/2025 | |
| HB 4665 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Angela Witwer | Education: attendance; excused absence from public school for participating in events offered by the National FFA Organization, the Michigan FFA, a 4-H club, or other livestock-related activities; provide for. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1138a. | Referred 06/17/2025 | |
| HB 4675 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Brenda Carter | Education: curriculum; model program of instruction in cursive handwriting; create, and make optional for public schools. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1164c. | Referred 06/25/2025 | |
| HB 4813 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Joseph Pavlov | Education: other; interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children; modify. Amends secs. 1 & 2 of 2008 PA 160 (MCL 3.1041 & 3.1042). | 2025-09-24, 2025-10-01 | Referred 08/26/2025 |
| HB 4829 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Josh Schriver | Education: curriculum; instruction in constitutional literacy; provide for. Amends secs. 1278a & 1531 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1278a & 380.1531) & adds secs. 1166d, 1174 & 1531k. | Referred 08/27/2025 | |
| HB 4836 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Brad Paquette | Education: examinations; opt-out option for the workforce readiness assessment portion of the Michigan merit examination; provide for. Amends sec. 104b of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1704b). | Referred 09/04/2025 | |
| HB 4849 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Matt Maddock | Civil rights: speech and assembly; student free press act for public high schools and public community colleges and universities; create. Creates new act. | Referred 09/09/2025 | |
| HB 4856 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | William Bruck | Education: athletics; children who are homeschooled or attending nonpublic school; require the board of a school district or intermediate school district to allow to participate in certain extracurricular activities. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1290. | Referred 09/09/2025 | |
| HB 4895 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Rylee Linting | Occupations: individual licensing and registration; continuing education requirements; allow to be fulfilled with online remote learning. Amends sec. 314 of 1980 PA 299 (MCL 339.314). | 2025-09-24 | Referred 09/11/2025 |
| HB 4916 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Brad Paquette | Occupations: architects, professional engineers, and surveyors; licensure requirements for architects; modify. Amends sec. 2004 of 1980 PA 299 (MCL 339.2004). | Referred 09/11/2025 | |
| HB 4922 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Tim Kelly | Education: all other employees; licensing of school librarians; eliminate. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1531k. | 2025-10-01 | Referred 09/11/2025 |
| HB 4970 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Brad Paquette | Education: school districts; letter grade system for ranking public schools; provide for. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1280h. | Referred 09/17/2025 | |
| HB 5044 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Pauline Wendzel | Health occupations: health professionals; policy for the receipt of medically necessary treatment by pupils; require. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1178b. | Referred 09/24/2025 | |
| HB 5049 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Regina Weiss | Health: pharmaceuticals; administration of epinephrine; modify. Amends sec. 1179a of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1179a). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5054'25, HB 5050'25, HB 5051'25, HB 5052'25, HB 5053'25 | Referred 09/24/2025 | |
| HB 5050 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Will Snyder | Health: pharmaceuticals; administration of epinephrine; modify. Amends secs. 17744a & 17744d of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.17744a & 333.17744d). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5054'25, HB 5049'25, HB 5051'25, HB 5052'25, HB 5053'25 | Referred 09/24/2025 | |
| HB 5051 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Nancy DeBoer | Health: pharmaceuticals; administration of epinephrine; modify. Amends title & secs. 1, 2 & 3 of 2020 PA 312 (MCL 28.821 et seq.). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5054'25, HB 5049'25, HB 5050'25, HB 5052'25, HB 5053'25 | Referred 09/24/2025 | |
| HB 5052 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Nancy DeBoer | Health: other; administration of epinephrine; modify. Amends sec. 17a of 1973 PA 116 (MCL 722.127a). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5054'25, HB 5049'25, HB 5050'25, HB 5051'25, HB 5053'25 | Referred 09/24/2025 | |
| HB 5053 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Nancy DeBoer | Health: pharmaceuticals; administration of epinephrine; modify. Amends sec. 20919 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.20919). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5054'25, HB 5049'25, HB 5050'25, HB 5051'25, HB 5052'25 | Referred 09/24/2025 | |
| HB 5054 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Nancy DeBoer | Health: pharmaceuticals; administration of epinephrine; modify. Amends secs. 1178 & 1179 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1178 & 380.1179). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5049'25, HB 5050'25, HB 5051'25, HB 5052'25, HB 5053'25 | Referred 09/24/2025 | |
| HB 5081 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Kathy Schmaltz | Education: special education; at least 1 teacher trained in Orton-Gillingham approach principles; require each school district to employ. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1253. | Referred 09/26/2025 | |
| HJR E of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Bill Schuette | Constitutional amendments: state; governor-appointed superintendent of public instruction; provide for. Amends sec. 3, art. VIII of the state constitution. | 2025-03-12, 2025-03-19 | Referred 02/26/2025 reported with recommendation with substitute (H-1) |
| HJR G of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Ann Bollin | Constitutional amendments: state; state board of education; eliminate. Amends secs. 3 & 7, art. VIII of the state constitution. | Referred 03/18/2025 | |
| SB 0234 of 2025 | Education and Workforce | Dayna Polehanki | Education: students; wireless communications device policy; require the board of a school district or board of directors of a public school academy to implement. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1304. | Referred 05/06/2025 |