Act No. 61
Public Acts of 2005
Approved by the Governor
July 7, 2005
Filed with the Secretary of State
July 7, 2005
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 7, 2005
STATE OF MICHIGAN
93RD LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2005
Introduced by Senators Cassis, Hammerstrom and Sikkema
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 514
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, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; 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," 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 642 or 642a of the Michigan election law, 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 642 or 642a of the Michigan election law, MCL168.642 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.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor