Bill Text: MI SB1055 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Higher education: community colleges; granting of bachelor of science degrees in nursing; allow. Amends secs. 105 & 121 of 1966 PA 331 (MCL 389.105 & 389.121).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-24 - Referred To Committee Of The Whole [SB1055 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB1055-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL NO. 1055
August 15, 2020, Introduced by Senator NESBITT
and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.
A bill to amend 1966 PA 331, entitled
"Community college act of 1966,"
by amending sections 105 and 121 (MCL 389.105 and 389.121), as amended by 2012 PA 495.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 105. As used in this act:
(a) "Area", in
the term "area vocational-technical education program", means the
geographical territory of the district, and any territory outside of the
district that is designated as the service area of the district by the
superintendent of public instruction. A community college is eligible to
receive state aid and assistance appropriated by the legislature for the aid
and support of junior colleges or community colleges.
(b) "Area
vocational-education program" means a program of organized systematic
instruction designed to prepare the following individuals for useful employment
in recognized occupations:
(i) An individual who has completed or left high school and who
is available for full-time study in preparation for entering the labor market.
(ii) An individual who
has already entered the labor market and who needs training to achieve
stability or advancement in employment.
(iii) An individual
enrolled in high school. If a program or course is provided for an individual
enrolled in high school, the superintendent of the school district in which the
individual is enrolled or his or her designated representative shall request
that the program or course be provided to the individual.
(c) "Community college" means an educational
institution providing collegiate and noncollegiate level education primarily to
individuals above the twelfth grade age level within commuting distance. The
term includes an area vocational-technical education program that may result in
the granting of an associate degree or other diploma or certificate. The term
does not include an educational institution or program that grants
baccalaureate or higher degrees other than a bachelor of science in nursing degree or a baccalaureate
degree in cement technology, maritime technology, energy production technology,
or culinary arts.
(d) "General election" or "general state
election" means the term general election as defined in section 2 of the
Michigan election law, MCL 168.2.
(e) "Michigan election law" means the Michigan
election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 to 168.992.
(f) "Regular election" means that term as defined
in section 3 of the Michigan election law, MCL 168.3.
(g) "School district" means a school district, a
local act school district, or an intermediate school district, as those terms
are defined in the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1 to 380.1852, or
a community college district under this act.
(h) "School district filing official" means the
school district election coordinator as defined in section 4 of the Michigan
election law, MCL 168.4, or an authorized agent of the school district election
coordinator.
(i) "Special election" means that term as defined
in section 4 of the Michigan election law, MCL 168.4.
Sec. 121. The board
of trustees of the a community college
district has the power to may make plans for, to promote, or to acquire,
construct, own, develop, maintain, and operate a community college and an area
vocational-technical education program. The board of trustees may do all of the
following:
(a) Locate, acquire, purchase, or lease in the name of the
community college district a site or sites within or without the territory of
the community college district for college buildings, libraries, agricultural
farms, athletic fields, playgrounds, stadiums, gymnasiums, auditoriums, parking
areas, residence halls, and supporting facilities as may be necessary;
purchase, lease, acquire, erect or build and equip buildings, structures, and
other improvements for college or area vocational-technical education
buildings, libraries, agricultural farms, athletic fields, playgrounds, stadiums,
gymnasiums, auditoriums, parking areas, residence halls, and supporting
facilities as may be necessary; enter into installment purchase contracts for
real or personal property; pay for real or personal property out of the funds
of the community college district provided for that purpose; sell or exchange
any real or personal property of the community college district that is no
longer required for school purposes, and give proper deeds, bills of sale, or
other instruments passing title to the real or personal property.
(b) Establish and carry on schools and departments or courses
of study and other educational programs as may be consistent with the purposes
of this act, and take over and succeed to the operation of a community college
or vocational-technical department or departments previously operated by school
districts within the community college district.
(c) Establish, equip, and maintain agricultural, trade, and
other vocational-technical departments and have general control over them for
community college or area vocational-technical program purposes.
(d) Establish education programs and grant a baccalaureate degree degrees in cement
technology, maritime technology, energy production technology, or culinary arts.
(e) Establish a nursing education program that grants
bachelor of science in nursing degrees. All of the following apply to the
establishment and operation of a bachelor of science in nursing degree program
under this subdivision:
(i) The board of trustees shall not
eliminate any associate degree programs the community college offers at the
time it establishes a bachelor degree program under this subdivision unless the
board demonstrates that there is a lack of student demand for that associate
degree.
(ii) The community college shall not operate
an educational program that grants bachelor of science in nursing degrees
unless the program is determined to meet the requirements set forth in section
17241 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17241.
(iii) Before the community college begins
offering bachelor of science in nursing degrees, and while it offers those
degrees, the community college shall hold a national professional nursing
accreditation, hold candidacy status for that accreditation, or have applied
for that accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education or
its successors or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing or its
successors.
