Act No. 271

Public Acts of 2024

Approved by the Governor

January 22, 2025

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 22, 2025

EFFECTIVE DATE:  April 2, 2025

state of michigan

102nd Legislature

Regular session of 2024

Introduced by Reps. Puri, Breen, Tsernoglou, Arbit, Rheingans, Byrnes, Young, Miller, Hood, Posthumus, Bierlein, BeGole, St. Germaine, Martin, Neyer, Conlin, Steckloff, Schuette, Hope, Hoskins, Zorn, Haadsma, Fox, Meerman, Alexander, Johnsen, Wozniak, Tisdel, Bezotte, Brixie, Kunse, Price, MacDonell and Whitsett

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4096

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 make appropriations for certain purposes; 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,” (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1308c.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1308c. (1) By not later than July 1, 2026, the department of state police, in collaboration with the school safety and mental health commission, shall promulgate rules, in compliance with the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, establishing standardized response terminology and provide the terminology, as established in rule, to public schools, nonpublic schools, and local law enforcement agencies. The standardized response terminology described in this subsection must include, at a minimum, both of the following:

(a) Direction concerning terminology that should be utilized by public schools, nonpublic schools, and local law enforcement agencies in response to certain situations that occur in or at a school building operated by the public school or nonpublic school.

(b) Direction concerning the use of a color-coding system to indicate when the terminology described in subdivision (a) should be in use at a public school or nonpublic school.

(2) As used in this section, “school building” means any of the following:

(a) A building intended to be used to provide instruction for pupils, including an addition to an existing building.

(b) A recreational or athletic structure or field intended to be used by pupils.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor