Bill Text: MI HB4454 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; attendance; religious holiday absences; prohibit from counting against a student's attendance record. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1566.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-12-09 - Referred To Committee On Education [HB4454 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4454-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4454

 

March 14, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Segal, Schor, Roberts, Tlaib, Barnett, Slavens, Irwin, Darany, Lipton, Kelly, Zemke, Callton and Oakes and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

(MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1566.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1566. If a public school gives an award or other

 

recognition to pupils for school attendance, school officials of

 

the public school shall not count a pupil's absence that is due to

 

a religious holiday or other religious observance as an absence in

 

the pupil's school attendance record for the purposes of

 

determining eligibility for the award or other recognition.