Act No. 133

Public Acts of 2016

Approved by the Governor

May 25, 2016

Filed with the Secretary of State

May 26, 2016

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 24, 2016

STATE OF MICHIGAN

98TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

Introduced by Reps. Brinks, Phelps, Yanez, Faris, Howrylak, Chang, Singh, Plawecki, Hoadley, Rutledge, Talabi, Love, Chirkun, Derek Miller, Glenn, Wittenberg, Schor, Moss, Guerra, Durhal, Santana, Sarah Roberts, LaVoy, Zemke, Cochran, Irwin, Brunner, Gay-Dagnogo, Darany, Dianda, Liberati, Pagan, Neeley, Smiley, Callton, Graves, Price, Crawford, Hooker, Pagel, Bizon, Inman, Lucido, Runestad, Vaupel, Garcia, Cox, LaFontaine and Aaron Miller

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5186

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 1534 (MCL 380.1534).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1534. For a deaf, deafblind, or hard of hearing person who has completed all of the requirements for a teaching certificate under this act, other than the student teaching experience with hearing students, and who is verified as having successfully completed the student teaching experience in a special program serving deaf, deafblind, or hard of hearing students, upon that person’s request, the department shall issue to that person a teaching certificate limited to teaching deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing students in appropriate programs.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor