SB-0514, As Passed House, June 9, 2005
May 19, 2005, Introduced by Senators CASSIS, HAMMERSTROM and SIKKEMA and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending sections 4 and 5 (MCL 380.4 and 380.5), as amended by
2003 PA 299.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 4. (1) "Educational media center" means a program
operated by an intermediate school district and approved by the
state board that provides services to local school districts or
constituent districts under section 671.
(2) "Handicapped person" shall be defined by rules promulgated
by the state board. Handicaps include, but are not limited to,
mental, physical, emotional, behavioral, sensory, and speech
handicaps.
(3) "Intermediate school board" means the board of an
intermediate school district.
(4) "Intermediate school district" means a corporate body
established under part 7.
(5) "Intermediate school district election" means an election
called by an intermediate school board and held on the date of the
regular school elections of constituent districts or on a date
determined
by the intermediate school board under section 642b
642
or 642a of the Michigan
election law, MCL 168.642b MCL
168.642 and 168.642a.
(6) "Intermediate school elector" means a person who is a
school elector of a constituent district and who is registered in
the city or township in which the person resides.
(7) "Intermediate superintendent" means the superintendent of
an intermediate school district.
Sec. 5. (1) "Local act school district" or "special act school
district" means a district governed by a special or local act or
chapter of a local act. "Local school district" and "local school
district board" as used in article 3 include a local act school
district and a local act school district board.
(2) "Membership" means the number of full-time equivalent
pupils in a public school as determined by the number of pupils
registered for attendance plus pupils received by transfer and
minus pupils lost as defined by rules promulgated by the state
board.
(3) "Michigan election law" means the Michigan election law,
1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 to 168.992.
(4) "Nonpublic school" means a private, denominational, or
parochial school.
(5) "Objectives" means measurable pupil academic skills and
knowledge.
(6) "Public school" means a public elementary or secondary
educational entity or agency that is established under this act,
has as its primary mission the teaching and learning of academic
and vocational-technical skills and knowledge, and is operated by a
school district, local act school district, special act school
district, intermediate school district, public school academy
corporation, strict discipline academy corporation, urban high
school academy corporation, or by the department or state board.
Public school also includes a laboratory school or other elementary
or secondary school that is controlled and operated by a state
public university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII
of the state constitution of 1963.
(7) "Public school academy" means a public school academy
established under part 6a and, except as used in part 6a, also
includes an urban high school academy established under part 6c and
a strict discipline academy established under sections 1311b to
1311l.
(8) "Pupil membership count day" of a school district means
that term as defined in section 6 of the state school aid act of
1979, MCL 388.1606.
(9) "Regular school election" or "regular election" means the
election held in a school district, local act school district, or
intermediate school district to elect a school board member in the
regular course of the terms of that office and held on the school
district's
regular election date as determined under section 642b
642
or 642a of the Michigan
election law, MCL 168.642b MCL
168.642 and 168.642a.
(10) "Reorganized intermediate school district" means an
intermediate school district formed by consolidation or annexation
of 2 or more intermediate school districts under sections 701 and
702.
(11) "Rule" means a rule promulgated under the administrative
procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.