HB-4144, As Passed House, April 12, 2005
February 2, 2005, Introduced by Rep. Moolenaar and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 2000 PA 258, entitled
"Career and technical preparation act,"
by amending section 3 (MCL 388.1903), as amended by 2004 PA 592.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3. As used in this act:
(a) "Career and technical preparation program" means a program
that teaches a trade, occupation, or vocation and that is operated
by an eligible postsecondary educational institution located in
this state.
(b) "Community college" means a community college established
under the community college act of 1966, 1966 PA 331, MCL 389.1 to
389.195, or under part 25 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451,
MCL 380.1601 to 380.1607, or a federal tribally controlled
community college located in this state that is recognized under
the tribally controlled community college assistance act of 1978,
25 USC 1801 to 1852, and is determined by the department to meet
the requirements for accreditation by a recognized regional
accrediting body.
(c) "Department" means the department of labor and economic
growth.
(d) "Eligible charges" means tuition and mandatory course
fees, material fees, and registration fees required by a career and
technical preparation program for enrollment in an eligible course.
Eligible charges also include any late fees charged by a career and
technical preparation program due to the school district's failure
to make a required payment according to the timetable prescribed
under this act. Eligible charges do not include transportation or
parking costs or activity fees.
(e) "Eligible course" means a course offered by a career and
technical preparation program that is not offered through the
school district, intermediate school district, or area vocational-
technical education program in which the eligible student is
enrolled, or that is offered through the school district,
intermediate school district, or area vocational-technical
education program but is determined by its governing board to not
be available to the eligible student because of a scheduling
conflict beyond the eligible student's control; that is a career
and technical preparation course not ordinarily taken as an
activity course; that is a course that the career and technical
preparation program normally applies toward satisfaction of
certificate, degree, or program completion requirements; and that
is not a hobby craft or recreational course.
(f) "Eligible postsecondary educational institution" means a
state university, community college, or independent nonprofit
degree-granting college or university that is located in this state
and that chooses to comply with this act.
(g) "Eligible student" means a student enrolled in at least 1
high school class in at least grade 11 in a school district in this
state, except a foreign exchange pupil enrolled in a school
district under a cultural exchange program. Until the 2006-2007
school year, to be an eligible student a student must have achieved
state endorsement in all subject areas under section 1279 of the
revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1279, and the student
shall not have been enrolled in high school for more than 4 school
years including the school year in which the student seeks to
enroll in an eligible course under this act. However, if the
student has not achieved state endorsement in all subject areas
under that section, the student is an eligible student if the
student achieves state endorsement in mathematics and a qualifying
score on a nationally or industry recognized job skills assessment
test as determined by the department. Beginning with eligibility to
participate under this act during the 2006-2007 school year, to be
an eligible student a student who has not taken the Michigan merit
examination must have achieved a qualifying score in all subject
areas on a readiness assessment and a student who has taken the
Michigan merit examination must have achieved a qualifying score in
all subject areas on the Michigan merit examination, and the
student shall not have been enrolled in high school for more than 4
school years including the school year in which the student seeks
to enroll in an eligible course under this act. However, if the
student has not achieved a qualifying score in all subject areas on
a readiness assessment or the Michigan merit examination, as
applicable for the student, the student is an eligible student if
the student achieves a qualifying score in mathematics and a
qualifying score on a nationally or industry recognized job skills
assessment test as determined by the superintendent of public
instruction. For the purposes of determining whether a pupil has
been enrolled in high school for more than 4 school years, a pupil
who is enrolled in high school for less than 90 days of a school
year due to illness or other circumstances beyond the control of
the pupil or the pupil's parent or guardian is not considered to be
enrolled in high school for that school year.
(h) "Intermediate school district" means that term as defined
in section 4 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.4.
(i) "Michigan merit examination" means that examination
developed under section 1279g of the revised school code, 1976 PA
451, MCL 380.1279g.
(j) "Qualifying score" means a score on a readiness assessment
or on a nationally or industry recognized job skills assessment
test that has been determined by the superintendent of public
instruction to indicate readiness to enroll in a course under this
act.
(k) "Readiness assessment" means assessment instruments that
are aligned with state learning standards; that are used nationally
to provide high school students with an early indication of college
readiness proficiency in English, mathematics, reading, social
studies, and science and may contain a comprehensive career
planning program; and that are approved by the superintendent of
public instruction for the purposes of this act.
(l) "School district" means that term as defined in section 6
of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.6, a local act
school district as defined in section 5 of the revised school code,
1976 PA 451, MCL 380.5, or a public school academy organized under
the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1 to 380.1852.
(m) "State university" means a state institution of higher
education described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the
state constitution of 1963.