Act No. 272

Public Acts of 1999

Approved by the Governor

December 29, 1999

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 29, 1999

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2000

STATE OF MICHIGAN

90TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 1999

Introduced by Reps. Van Woerkom, Faunce, Wojno, Richner, Kowall, Law and Scranton

Reps. Baird, Basham, Birkholz, Bishop, Bogardus, Cameron Brown, Callahan, Cassis, Dennis, DeWeese, Garcia, Hager, Hansen, Howell, Jacobs, Jamnick, Jansen, Jelinek, Jellema, Julian, Kuipers, Kukuk, LaSata, Lemmons, Mead, O'Neil, Patterson, Rocca, Sanborn, Scott, Shackleton, Shulman, Spade, Stallworth, Vander Roest, Vaughn, Voorhees and Woodward named co-sponsors

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4718

AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled "An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, and intermediate school districts; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, and intermediate school districts; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts," (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1137a.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1137a. If a school district, local act school district, public school academy, intermediate school district, or nonpublic school is the holder of records pertaining to a minor pupil, if a parent of the minor pupil is prohibited by a personal protection order issued under section 2950 or 2950a of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2950 and 600.2950a, from having access to information in records concerning the minor pupil that will inform the parent about the minor's or other parent's address or telephone number or the other parent's employment address, and if the school district, local act school district, public school academy, intermediate school district, or nonpublic school has received a copy of the personal protection order, the school district, local act school district, public school academy, intermediate school district, or nonpublic school shall not release that information to the parent who is subject to the personal protection order.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect July 1, 2000.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.