Act No. 264

Public Acts of 2003

Approved by the Governor

January 5, 2004

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 5, 2004

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 5, 2004

STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2003

Introduced by Reps. LaJoy, Richardville, Bisbee, Mortimer, Palsrok, Stahl, Vander Veen, Kooiman, Pappageorge, Amos, Shackleton, Palmer, Ehardt, DeRoche, Voorhees, Newell, Farhat, McConico, Stewart, Rocca, Drolet, Phillips, Kolb, Jamnick, DeRossett, Meyer, Julian, Dennis, Ruth Johnson, Hunter, Pastor, Bieda, Condino, Vagnozzi, Taub, Stakoe, Garfield, Gleason, Milosch, Caswell, Nofs, Ward, Sak, Gillard and Casperson

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5247

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," (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1140.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1140. If a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy allows institutions of higher education access to school facilities or activities to provide information to pupils about educational, vocational, or apprenticeship opportunities, the board of the school district or intermediate school district or board of directors of the public school academy shall allow the same access to representatives of associations to provide information about skilled trades training and apprenticeship programs.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor