Act No. 640

Public Acts of 2002

Approved by the Governor

December 22, 2002

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 23, 2002

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 23, 2002

STATE OF MICHIGAN

91ST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2002

Introduced by Reps. Scranton, Godchaux, Hart, Dennis, Gilbert, LaSata, Stamas, Hager, Woronchak, Kowall, Bishop, Voorhees, DeWeese, Cameron Brown, Vander Roest, Stewart, Mead, Vear, Bradstreet, Faunce, Van Woerkom, Vander Veen, Stallworth, Basham, Toy, Mortimer, Ehardt, Ruth Johnson, Howell, Spade, Callahan, Lockwood, O'Neil, Mans, Hardman, Reeves, Gieleghem, Shackleton, Meyer, George, Caul, Richner, Bisbee, Thomas, Kolb, Switalski, Daniels, Sanborn, Pumford, Jelinek, Birkholz, Schauer, Garza, Middaugh, Minore, Hansen, Newell, Tabor, Kooiman, Clark, Cassis, Koetje, DeRossett, Hale, Bogardus, Bovin, Jamnick, Rich Brown, Adamini, Rivet, Neumann, Anderson, Rison, Jacobs, Murphy, Whitmer, Zelenko, Waters, Phillips, Pestka, Woodward, Jansen, Rocca, Wojno, Williams, Lipsey, McConico, Bernero, Bob Brown, Patterson, Richardville, Kuipers, Raczkowski, Allen and Lemmons

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5049

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 1279d.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1279d. If the department of treasury or any other state agency has reason to suspect that there are irregularities in a school district's or public school academy's administration of, or preparation of pupils for, a Michigan educational assessment program (MEAP) test, the department of treasury or any other state agency shall not report the suspected irregularities to any person or entity not involved in the scoring or administration of the test before notifying the school district or public school academy of the suspected irregularities and allowing at least 5 business days for school officials to respond.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.