Act No. 230

Public Acts of 2022

Approved by the Governor

December 13, 2022

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 13, 2022

EFFECTIVE DATE:  December 13, 2022

state of michigan

101st Legislature

Regular session of 2022

Introduced by Reps. Morse, Wendzel, Weiss, Hood and Rabhi

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6040

AN ACT to amend 1996 PA 160, entitled “An act to establish a postsecondary enrollment options program for certain students enrolled in Michigan schools; to prescribe certain duties of public schools, certain nonpublic schools, and certain postsecondary institutions; to prescribe certain powers and duties of certain state departments, officials, and agencies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 5 (MCL 388.515).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 5. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, an eligible student enrolled in a postsecondary institution under this act shall not participate in intercollegiate athletics at the postsecondary institution while he or she is enrolled under this act. An eligible student who violates this subsection forfeits his or her eligibility under this act.

(2) This section does not apply to an eligible student to whom all of the following apply:

(a) The eligible student is enrolled in an early middle college program.

(b) The eligible student is in his or her fifth year of high school in the early middle college program described in subdivision (a).

(c) The eligible student is not eligible to participate in interscholastic athletic activities in the high school, but not because of academic ineligibility.

(3) As used in this section, “early middle college program” means a 5-year high school program.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor