HOUSE BILL No. 4218

 

February 7, 2007, Introduced by Reps. Robert Jones, LeBlanc, Vagnozzi, Young, Kathleen Law, Clack, Coulouris, Meadows and Hopgood and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1164.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1164. The board of a school district or board of

 

directors of a public school academy shall ensure that, if a course

 

includes dissection of an animal or part of an animal in a

 

classroom and a pupil expresses a moral objection to the

 

dissection, the teacher shall offer an alternative activity to the

 

dissection.