LEGISLATOR SERVING AS SUB. TEACHER S.B. 196 (S-1): FLOOR ANALYSIS
Senate Bill 196 (Substitute S-1 as reported)
Sponsor: Senator Ron Jelinek
Committee: Education
CONTENT
The bill would amend the Revised School Code to exclude a currently serving State legislator, who served as a volunteer substitute teacher without pay, from the Code's criminal background check requirements. The bill also specifies that the Code's teacher certification requirements would not apply to a legislator who served in that capacity for not more than five school days per school year.
The Code requires a school board or the governing body of a public school academy (PSA) making an offer of initial employment to a teacher to request a criminal history check of the individual from the Michigan Department of State Police (MSP). A school board or PSA also must request the MSP to conduct a criminal records check through the FBI. With certain exceptions, a school board or PSA must receive a report on the criminal background checks before employing a teacher. For a substitute teacher, a school board or PSA may use a report received by another district, PSA, or nonpublic school, or maintained by the Department of Education.
Under the bill, the Code would not require a State criminal history or FBI criminal records check on a person currently serving as a member of the Michigan Senate or House of Representatives who served as a substitute teacher, as a volunteer without pay. A school district, PSA, or nonpublic school, at its own expense, could obtain a State criminal history or FBI criminal records check on the legislator.
The Code generally prohibits a school board from allowing a teacher who does not hold a valid teaching certificate to teach in the school. Under the bill, a school board could employ or assign a person without a teaching certificate to serve as a substitute teacher if the person were a currently serving member of the Michigan Senate or House and served as a substitute teacher, as a volunteer without pay for not more than five school days per school year. The legislator also would not be required to hold a substitute teacher permit.
MCL 380.1230 et al. Legislative Analyst: Patrick Affholter
FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
Date Completed: 5-2-05 Fiscal Analyst: Joe Carrasco
floor\sb196 Analysis available @ http://www.michiganlegislature.org
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.
Analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent. sb196/0506