MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE(legislature.mi.gov)
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Michigan Compiled Laws Complete Through PA 5 of 2025

Committee Bill Records 2025-2026 Education

Committee : Education
Chamber : Senate
Sorted By : Status, Ascending
Committee Chair Person : Dayna Polekanki
Clerk Phone Number : (517) 373-5314
Committee Homepage: https://committees.senate.michigan.gov/committees/2025-2026/education/

All Bills Ever Referred To This Committee

Bill Committee Sponsor Subject Meetings Status
SB 0083 of 2025 Education Stephanie Chang School aid: other; future educator student teacher stipend program; modify. Amends sec. 27c of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1627c). 2025-03-05 REFERRED 2/12/2025
REFERRED 3/5/2025
REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT 3/5/2025
SB 0058 of 2025 Education Jon C. Bumstead Education: curriculum; firearm safety instruction; provide for. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1163a. REFERRED 2/4/2025
HB 4060 of 2025 Education Curtis VanderWall Education: financing; requirements concerning taxes levied for area career and technical education programs; modify. Amends secs. 681 & 684 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.681 & 380.684). REFERRED 3/18/2025
HB 4151 of 2025 Education David Martin Education: teachers and administrators; endorsement requirements; modify. Amends sec. 1531 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1531). REFERRED 3/18/2025
HB 4150 of 2025 Education Mark Tisdel Education: other; fees for evaluation of applications; eliminate. Amends secs. 1531h & 1538 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1531h & 380.1538). REFERRED 3/18/2025
HB 4153 of 2025 Education Nancy DeBoer Education: teachers and administrators; district-level certifications; provide for. Amends secs. 501, 521, 551, 1231, 1233, 1311b, 1526, 1535a & 1809 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.501 et seq.) & adds sec. 1531l. REFERRED 3/18/2025
SB 0189 of 2025 Education Joseph N. Bellino Jr. Education: teachers and administrators; waiver for certain certification tests; provide for. Amends sec. 1531 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1531). REFERRED 3/19/2025
SB 0119 of 2025 Education Jonathan Lindsey Education: curriculum; biology content standards and subject area content expectations and guidelines; modify to require instruction on human development. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1170c. REFERRED 3/5/2025
HB 4154 of 2025 Education Brian BeGole Education: career and technical; trade schools; include in the postsecondary enrollment options act. Amends sec. 3 of 1996 PA 160 (MCL 388.513). REFERRED 4/15/2025
HB 4147 of 2025 Education Donni Steele School aid: other; use of funding for consolidation of administrative and service functions; allow. Amends sec. 11x of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1611x). REFERRED 4/15/2025
SB 0204 of 2025 Education Stephanie Chang Education: school districts; policy and procedures regarding closure of a school building; require. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1258. 2025-06-10 REFERRED 4/15/2025
HB 4149 of 2025 Education Thomas Kuhn Education: school districts; certain information on the school district's, intermediate school district's, or public school academy's website; require a school district, an intermediate school district, or a public school academy to post. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1280h. REFERRED 4/15/2025
SB 0206 of 2025 Education Joseph N. Bellino Jr. Education: curriculum; instruction in organ and tissue donation; require. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1170c. REFERRED 4/16/2025
SB 0211 of 2025 Education Joseph N. Bellino Jr. Education: other; purple star school program; create. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1138a. REFERRED 4/16/2025
SB 0228 of 2025 Education Jonathan Lindsey Education: meals; certain substances served in school foods; prohibit. Amends 2000 PA 92 (MCL 289.1101 - 289.8111) by adding sec. 7134. REFERRED 4/17/2025
HB 4156 of 2025 Education Jaime Greene Education: curriculum; merit curriculum; modify. Amends secs. 1278a & 1278b of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1278a & 380.1278b) & adds sec. 1278e. REFERRED 4/22/2025
HB 4157 of 2025 Education Jaime Greene Education: examinations; pilot programs for a state-administered assessment system; create. Amends secs. 11, 104, 104b & 104c of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1611 et seq.) & adds sec. 104d. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4158'25 REFERRED 4/22/2025
HB 4158 of 2025 Education Jamie Thompson Education: examinations; references to M-STEP to include a state-administered assessment system under section 104d of the state school aid act of 1979; modify. Amends secs. 502, 503, 522, 552 & 1279g of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.502 et seq.). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4157'25 REFERRED 4/22/2025
HB 4159 of 2025 Education Rylee Linting Education: curriculum; core academic curriculum requirements; modify. Amends sec. 1278 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1278). REFERRED 4/22/2025
SB 0234 of 2025 Education Dayna Polehanki Education: students; wireless communications device policy; require the board of a school district or board of directors of a public school academy to implement. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1304. 2025-04-29 REFERRED 4/22/2025
REFERRED 4/30/2025
REPORTED FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE (S-1) 4/29/2025
HB 4345 of 2025 (PA 5 of 2025) Education Cameron Cavitt School aid: penalties; exception to minimum days of pupil instruction requirement for district closure during a declared state of emergency; provide for. Amends sec. 101 of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1701). REFERRED 5/13/2025
SB 0295 of 2025 Education Roger Victory Education: curriculum; instruction in water safety; require. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1170c. REFERRED 5/13/2025
HB 4258 of 2025 Education Angela Rigas Education: safety; notification of certain tips related to a school; require the department of state police to provide. Amends sec. 3 of 2013 PA 183 (MCL 752.913). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4259'25 REFERRED 5/20/2025
HB 4229 of 2025 Education Cynthia Neeley Education: safety; office of school safety quarterly reporting of tips received; require. Amends sec. 3 of 2018 PA 435 (MCL 28.683). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4225'25 REFERRED 5/20/2025
HB 4225 of 2025 Education Donni Steele Education: safety; OK2SAY program contact information; require inclusion on certain student identification cards. Amends title & secs. 3 & 5 of 2020 PA 211 (MCL 380.1893 & 380.1895). REFERRED 5/20/2025
SB 0315 of 2025 Education John Damoose Education: financing; sinking funds to be used for teacher housing; allow. Amends secs. 11a, 1141, 1212 & 1351a of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.11a et seq.). REFERRED 5/20/2025
HB 4315 of 2025 Education Joseph Pavlov Education: safety; certain school safety and security training; require the department of state police and the office of school safety within the department of state police to provide to certain school personnel. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1308f. REFERRED 5/20/2025
HB 4222 of 2025 Education Kathy Schmaltz Education: safety; procedures for school emergency operations plans; modify. Amends sec. 1308b of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1308b). REFERRED 5/20/2025
HB 4223 of 2025 Education Mike Harris Education: safety; certain school safety and security training; require that public schools and nonpublic schools ensure that certain school workers complete. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1308g. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4228'25 REFERRED 5/20/2025
HB 4226 of 2025 Education Rylee Linting Fire: other; number of school fire and security drills; modify. Amends sec. 19 of 1941 PA 207 (MCL 29.19). REFERRED 5/20/2025
HB 4259 of 2025 Education Samantha Steckloff Education: safety; definitions in the student safety act; modify. Amends sec. 2 of 2013 PA 183 (MCL 752.912). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4258'25 REFERRED 5/20/2025
SB 0320 of 2025 Education Aric Nesbitt Education: other; student opportunity scholarship accounts; create. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: SB 0321'25 REFERRED 5/21/2025
SB 0321 of 2025 Education Lana Theis Individual income tax: credit; credit for contributions to scholarship-granting organizations and deduction of funds distributed to student opportunity scholarship accounts; provide for. Amends sec. 30 of 1967 PA 281 (MCL 206.30) & adds secs. 279 & 679. TIE BAR WITH: SB 0320'25 REFERRED 5/21/2025
SB 0379 of 2025 Education John Damoose Education: teachers and administrators; performance evaluation systems for public school teachers and school administrators; modify. Amends secs. 1248, 1249, 1249a, 1249b & 1280f of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1248 et seq.) & adds secs. 1250a, 1531l & 1531m. TIE BAR WITH: SB 0380'25 REFERRED 6/10/2025
SB 0378 of 2025 Education Ruth A. Johnson Education: school districts; letter grade system for ranking public schools; provide for. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1280h. REFERRED 6/10/2025
SB 0380 of 2025 Education Ruth A. Johnson Education: teachers and administrators; references regarding teacher performance evaluations; modify. Amends sec. 4, art. I, secs. 2a & 3b, art. II & sec. 3, art. III of 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4 (MCL 38.74 et seq.). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0379'25 REFERRED 6/10/2025
SB 0376 of 2025 Education Thomas A. Albert Education: school districts; requirements related to the retention of certain grade 3 pupils; provide for. Amends sec. 1280f of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1280f). REFERRED 6/10/2025
SB 0377 of 2025 Education Thomas A. Albert Education: curriculum; alternative merit curriculum; provide for. Amends secs. 1278a, 1278b & 1531e of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1278a et seq.) & adds secs. 1278e & 1526c. REFERRED 6/10/2025
SB 0381 of 2025 Education Thomas A. Albert Labor: collective bargaining; calendar and schedule for school year; make prohibited subjects of bargaining. Amends sec. 15 of 1947 PA 336 (MCL 423.215). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0379'25 REFERRED 6/10/2025
SB 0368 of 2025 Education Lana Theis Education: other; definition of qualified higher education expenses under Michigan education savings program; expand to include certain K-12 tuition expenses. Amends sec. 2 of 2000 PA 161 (MCL 390.1472). REFERRED 6/11/2025
SB 0349 of 2025 Education Dayna Polehanki Education: examinations; opt-out option for the WorkKeys examination; provide for. Amends sec. 1279g of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1279g). 2025-06-10 REFERRED 6/4/2025
SB 0350 of 2025 Education Dayna Polehanki Education: examinations; funding for schools that opt out of the WorkKeys examination; allow. Amends sec. 104b of 1979 PA 94 (MCL 388.1704b). 2025-06-10 REFERRED 6/4/2025