Bill Text: MI HB5669 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Education; teachers; use of school-provided professional development hours toward certification or renewal; allow for nonpublic school teachers. Amends sec. 1527 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1527).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-12-31 - Assigned Pa 484'14 With Immediate Effect 2014 Addenda [HB5669 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB5669-Enrolled.html
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Introduced by Reps. VerHeulen, Lyons and Yonker
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5669
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 section 1527 (MCL 380.1527), as added by 1995 PA 289.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1527. (1) The board of each school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy shall provide at least 5 days of teacher professional development each school year.
(2) A state-approved nonpublic school may provide teacher professional development for nonpublic school teachers. The department shall credit this professional development toward the issuance or renewal of a teaching certificate or endorsement to the same extent as professional development provided by a public school is credited for its teachers for those purposes if the department determines that all of the following are met:
(a) The professional development provides substantially the same program content as professional development provided by a public school that is credited by the department toward the issuance or renewal of a teaching certificate or endorsement.
(b) The nonpublic school submits to the same auditing and documentation requirements for professional development as a public school.
(3) Professional development days provided under this section shall not be counted toward the professional development required under section 1526.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
