House Introduced Bill 4639

HOUSE BILL No. 4639


     May 5, 1999, Introduced by Rep. Jelinek and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.


        A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

   "The revised school code,"

   by amending section 1284 (MCL 380.1284), as amended by 1997 PA

   53.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 1284.  (1) The board of a school district or of a

 2    public school academy shall determine the length of the school

 3    term.  However, except as otherwise provided in subsections (2)

 4    and (3), if the board does not want the school district's or

 5    public school academy's state school aid payments to be withheld

 6    as described in section 101 of the state school aid act of 1979,

 7    MCL 388.1701, the board shall ensure that  the minimum number of

 8     days of pupil instruction in a school year is 180 through the

 9     1996-1997 school year and is 181 in the 1997-1998 school year,

10     182 in the 1998-1999 school year, 183 in the 1999-2000 school


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 1    year, 184 in the 2000-2001 school year, 185 in the 2001-2002

 2     school year, 186 in the 2002-2003 school year, 187 in the

 3     2003-2004 school year, 188 in the 2004-2005 school year, 189 in

 4     the 2005-2006 school year, and 190 in the 2006-2007 school year

 5     and each succeeding school year, and shall ensure that  the mini-

 6    mum number of hours of pupil instruction in a school year is 900

 7    for the 1994-95 school year, 990 for the 1995-96 and 1996-97

 8    school years, 1,041 for the 1997-1998 school year, 1,047 for the

 9    1998-1999 school year, 1,098 for the 1999-2000 school year, 1,104

10    for the 2000-2001 school year, 1,110 for the 2001-2002 school

11    year, 1,116 for the 2002-2003 school year, 1,122 for the

12    2003-2004 school year, 1,128 for the 2004-2005 school year, 1,134

13    for the 2005-2006 school year, and 1,140 for the 2006-2007 school

14    year and each succeeding school year.

15         (2) For a particular school year, if the department deter-

16    mines that the percentage growth in the basic foundation allow-

17    ance under section 20 of the state school aid act of 1979, MCL

18    388.1620, for the state fiscal year in which the school year

19    begins, as compared to the basic foundation allowance for the

20    immediately preceding state fiscal year, is less than the percen-

21    tage increase in the average United States consumer price index

22    for all urban consumers, as determined by the United States

23    bureau of labor statistics, for the calendar year immediately

24    preceding the calendar year in which the school year begins as

25    compared to the second preceding calendar year before the calen-

26    dar year in which the school year begins, then there shall be no

27    increase in the required minimum number of  days or  hours of



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 1    pupil instruction under subsection (1) for that particular school

 2    year.  For the next school year after a school year for which

 3    there is no increase in the required minimum number of  days and 

 4    hours of pupil instruction under subsection (1) because of the

 5    operation of this subsection, and if the first sentence of this

 6    subsection does not apply, the increase in the required minimum

 7    number of  days and  hours of pupil instruction shall only be  1

 8     day and the corresponding number of  6 hours.  This subsection

 9    shall apply and shall operate to limit increases under

10    subsection (1) until the required minimum number of  days and 

11    hours of pupil instruction under this section is  190 days and 

12    1,140 hours.

13         (3) The board of a school district or public school academy,

14    by resolution, may choose to provide  less than the  ANY number

15    of days of pupil instruction  required under subsection (1),  but

16    shall provide at least  180 days of pupil instruction and at

17     least  the number of hours of pupil instruction required under

18     subsection (1)  THIS SECTION.

19         (4) Not later than August 1, the board of each school dis-

20    trict and of each public school academy shall certify to the

21     state board  SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION the number of

22     days and  hours of pupil instruction in the previous school

23    year.

24         (5)  Days  HOURS lost because of strikes or teachers' con-

25    ferences shall not be counted as  days  HOURS of pupil

26    instruction.





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 1         (6) The  state board  SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

 2    shall promulgate rules for the implementation of this section.




















































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