Act No. 167

Public Acts of 2001

Approved by the Governor

November 26, 2001

Filed with the Secretary of State

November 26, 2001

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 26, 2001

STATE OF MICHIGAN

91ST LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2001

Introduced by Reps. Shackleton, Allen, Gilbert, Meyer, Gosselin, Lockwood, Rich Brown, Adamini, Neumann, Sheltrown, Kowall, Julian, Middaugh, Kooiman, Birkholz and Lemmons

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4491

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, and intermediate school districts; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, and intermediate school districts; 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 1284b (MCL 380.1284b), as added by 1999 PA 141.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1284b. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), the board of a school district, local act school district, public school academy, or intermediate school district shall ensure that the district's or public school academy's schools are not in session on the Friday before Labor day. As used in this section, "Labor day" means the first Monday in September.

(2) If a collective bargaining agreement that provides a complete school calendar is in effect as of May 1, 1999 for employees of a school district, local act school district, public school academy, or intermediate school district, and if that school calendar is not in compliance with subsection (1), then subsection (1) does not apply to that school district, local act school district, public school academy, or intermediate school district until after the expiration of that collective bargaining agreement.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.