state of michigan

101st Legislature

Regular session of 2022

Introduced by Reps. Brann, Allor, Thanedar, Bellino, Glenn, Paquette, Peterson and Beson

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4074

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 1166b.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1166b. (1) Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, the board of a school district or board of directors of a public school academy is encouraged to ensure that the school district’s or public school academy’s social studies curriculum for grades 9 to 12 includes a program of instruction in free enterprise and entrepreneurship.

(2) Subsection (1) does not preclude a school district or public school academy from including instruction described in subsection (1) in other subject areas or grade levels.

(3) A program of instruction under this section must be project-based and may provide instruction on any of the following subjects:

(a) Business vocabulary, including, at least, entrepreneurship, free enterprise, business finance, goods and services, and innovation.

(b) Entrepreneurs from this state and around the world.

(c) Action activities, including, at least, setting short-term and long-term goals.

(d) Business basics, including, at least, taxes for businesses and corporations, essential skills for business owners, and product- and service-based business ideas.

(e) Creating a student project-based business plan.

(4) As used in this section, “entrepreneur” means an individual who organizes and operates a business or businesses and takes on greater than normal financial risk to do so.

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

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor