Bill Text: MI HB4342 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Education: teachers; exception for college credit requirements for an individual to serve as a substitute teacher; provide for family member of pupil. Amends sec. 1233 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1233).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-02 - Referred To Second Reading [HB4342 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB4342-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4342
March 13, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Paquette and LaFave and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 1233 (MCL 380.1233), as amended by 2018 PA 418.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1233. (1) Except as otherwise provided by law, and
subject to sections 1233b and 1233c, the board of a school district
or intermediate school district shall not permit a teacher who does
not hold a valid teaching certificate to teach in a grade or
department of the school.
(2) The board of a school district or intermediate school
district shall not allow an individual to serve in a counseling
role in the school district or intermediate school district, as the
role is defined by the superintendent of public instruction, unless
the individual meets 1 or more of the following:
(a) The individual holds a valid teaching certificate with a
school counseling endorsement.
(b) The individual meets all of the following:
(i) Holds a master's degree awarded after completion of an
approved school counselor education program that includes at least
all of the following skills and content areas or their equivalent:
(A) Guidance services--philosophy, principles, and practices.
(B) Individual and group analysis--nature and range of human
characteristics and appraisal methods.
(C) Guidance information--vocational development theory,
educational and occupational information.
(D) Counseling theory and practice--individual and group
procedures, administration and coordination relationships,
professional relationships, and ethics.
(E) Supervised experiences--laboratory, practicum, or
internship.
(F) Evaluation--statistics and research methodology, follow-up
evaluation, and measurement methods.
(ii) Has successfully completed the department's guidance
counselor examination.
(iii) Has been recommended by an approved school counselor
education program to provide services as a school counselor.
(c) The individual meets both of the following:
(i) Has at least 5 years of successful experience serving in a
school counseling role in another state within the immediately
preceding 7-year period.
(ii) Has successfully completed the department's guidance
counselor examination.
(3) Except for teachers engaged to teach under section 1233b
and teachers engaged to teach in a community district under section
1233c, the intermediate superintendent shall notify the
superintendent of public instruction immediately of the names of
noncertificated teachers teaching in violation of subsection (1)
and the names of individuals serving in counseling roles in
violation of subsection (2), the employing district, and the amount
of time the noncertificated teachers or unqualified individuals
were employed.
(4) A vocational teacher preparation institution shall utilize
the employment experience of an annually authorized teacher for the
purpose of waiving student teaching as a requirement for vocational
certification if the annually authorized teacher is supervised by
the teacher preparation institution.
(5)
The Subject to subsection
(10), the board of a school
district or intermediate school district may employ an individual
without a teaching certificate as a substitute teacher if either of
the following requirements are met, if applicable:
(a) The individual has at least 60 semester hours of college
credit or an associate degree from a college, university, or
community college. The 60 semester hours do not need to be from the
same college, university, or community college.
(b) For substitute teaching a course in an industrial
technology education program or a career and technical education
program, the individual is engaged to substitute teach in a subject
matter or field in which the individual has achieved expertise, as
determined by the board of a school district or intermediate school
district and satisfies all of the following, if applicable:
(i) Has a high school diploma or a high school equivalency
certificate as defined in section 4 of the state school aid act of
1979, MCL 388.1604.
(ii) For substitute teaching in a subject matter or field in
which a professional license or certification is required, at least
1 of the following:
(A) Holds a professional license or certification in that same
subject matter or field.
(B) Previously held a professional license or certification in
that same subject matter or field that expired not more than 2
years before the noncertificated substitute teacher's initial
employment under this section and was in good standing immediately
before the license or certification expired.
(iii) Has at least 2 cumulative years of professional
experience in that same subject matter or field in the immediately
preceding 10 years.
(6) Beginning February 6, 2020, the department shall not renew
an individual's school counselor credential unless the department
determines that, within the time period since the individual's
school counselor credential was issued or last renewed, whichever
is most recent, the individual has completed at least 25 hours of
professional development approved by the department under
subsection (8) covering counseling about the college preparation
and selection process and at least 25 hours of professional
development approved by the department under subsection (8)
covering career counseling. For the purposes of this subsection,
career counseling includes, but is not limited to, exploration of
military career options and the skilled trades as well as other
careers and pathways that lead to industry credentials awarded in
recognition of an individual's attainment of measurable technical
or occupational skills necessary to obtain employment or advance
within an occupation. The hours of professional development
required under this subsection covering career counseling must
include at least 5 hours covering military career options. The
hours of professional development required under this subsection
are a part of and not in addition to professional development
requirements under department rule.
(7) An individual may complete the professional development
hours for the purposes of subsection (6) as part of the
professional development provided by a school district,
intermediate school district, public school academy, or nonpublic
school under section 1527 if the content and curriculum of the
professional development provided under section 1527 are approved
by the department under subsection (8).
(8) The department shall approve the professional development
for the purposes of subsection (6). The department shall only
approve a professional development program or course for the
purposes of subsection (6) if the department determines that the
content and curriculum for the professional development meet
standards that are developed by the department in consultation with
the department of talent and economic development and groups
representing school counselors, college admissions professionals,
financial aid officers, employers, and others as determined
appropriate by the department. The department shall develop these
standards by July 1, 2018 and shall facilitate the involvement in
the development of the standards of the groups required under this
subsection.
(9) The superintendent of public instruction shall promulgate
or modify rules as necessary to implement subsections (6) to (8).
(10) The board of a school district or intermediate school
district may employ an individual who does not meet the
requirements under subsection (5) as a substitute teacher if the
individual has a high school diploma or high school equivalency
certificate as defined in section 4 of the state school aid act of
1979, MCL 388.1604 and the individual is a family member of a pupil
who is enrolled in the school district or intermediate school
district in which the individual seeks employment. If the board of
a school district or intermediate school district employs an
individual under this subsection, the board of a school district or
intermediate school district may continue to employ the individual
as a substitute teacher after the pupil to whom the individual is a
family member is no longer enrolled in the school district or
intermediate school district.
(11) As used in this section, "family member" includes, but is
not limited to, any of the following relationships as created by
marriage or adoption:
(a) A pupil's parent or legal guardian or the pupil's parent's
or legal guardian's spouse or sibling.
(b) A pupil's parent's or legal guardian's sibling's child.
(c) A pupil's grandparent or the pupil's grandparent's spouse
or sibling.
(d) A pupil's grandparent's sibling's child.
(e) A pupil's sibling or the pupil's sibling's spouse or
child.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
