HOUSE BILL No. 4252


     February 6, 1997, Introduced by Reps. Profit, DeHart, Kelly, LaForge, Callahan, Mans, Gire, Bogardus and Kilpatrick and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.


        A bill to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled

   "The state school aid act of 1979,"

   by amending sections 6, 11, 17b, 18, 20, 20c, 20i, 24, 31a, 36,

   39, 41, 51a, 53a, 54, 56, 57, 58, 61a, 62, 74, 81, 94, 95, 99,

   147, and 167 (MCL 388.1606, 388.1611, 388.1617b, 388.1618,

   388.1620, 388.1620c, 388.1620i, 388.1624, 388.1631a, 388.1636,

   388.1639, 388.1641, 388.1651a, 388.1653a, 388.1654, 388.1656,

   388.1657, 388.1658, 388.1661a, 388.1662, 388.1674, 388.1681,

   388.1694, 388.1695, 388.1699, 388.1747, and 388.1767), sections

   6, 11, 17b, 18, 20, 20c, 24, 31a, 36, 39, 41, 54, 56, 57, 58,

   61a, 62, 74, 81, 94, 99, 147, and 167 as amended and sections

   20i, 51a, and 53a as added by 1996 PA 300 and section 95 as

   amended by 1995 PA 130, and by adding sections 21a and 107a; and

   to repeal acts and parts of acts.




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               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 6.  (1) "Center program" means a program operated by a

 2    district or intermediate district for special education pupils

 3    from several districts in programs for the autistically impaired,

 4    trainable mentally impaired, severely mentally impaired, severely

 5    multiply impaired, hearing impaired, physically and otherwise

 6    health impaired, and visually impaired.  Programs for emotionally

 7    impaired pupils housed in buildings that do not serve regular

 8    education pupils shall also qualify.  Unless otherwise approved

 9    by the department, a center program either shall serve all con-

10    stituent districts within an intermediate district or shall serve

11    several districts with less than 50% of the pupils residing in

12    the operating district.  In addition, special education center

13    program pupils placed part-time in noncenter programs to comply

14    with the least restrictive environment provisions of section 612

15    of part B of the individuals with disabilities education act,

16    title VI of Public Law 91-230, 20 U.S.C. 1412, may be considered

17    center program pupils for pupil accounting purposes for the time

18    scheduled in either a center program or a noncenter program.

19         (2) "District pupil retention rate" means the proportion of

20    pupi