Bill Text: MI HB4546 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Elections; local; revised school code; amend to allow nonresident owners of real property the right to vote on millage issues. Amends sec. 6 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.6).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-14 - Printed Bill Filed 04/14/2011 [HB4546 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4546-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4546

 

April 13, 2011, Introduced by Rep. LeBlanc and referred to the Committee on Redistricting and Elections.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

by amending section 6 (MCL 380.6), as amended by 2009 PA 205.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 6. (1) "School district" or "local school district" means

 

a general powers school district organized under this act,

 

regardless of previous classification, or a school district of the

 

first class.

 

     (2) "School district filing official" means the school

 

district election coordinator as defined in section 4 of the

 

Michigan election law, MCL 168.4, or an authorized agent of the

 

school district election coordinator.

 

     (3) "School elector" means a person qualified as an elector

 

under section 492 of the Michigan election law, MCL 168.492, and

 

resident of the school district or intermediate school district on

 

or before the thirtieth day before the next ensuing regular or

 

special school election. For purposes of registering to vote and

 

voting at an election or special election on the question of

 

imposing a new millage or increasing or renewing an existing

 

millage on real property only, a person is considered a resident of

 

the school district or intermediate school district to be affected

 

by the result of that election if that person owns real property

 

located in the school district or intermediate school district.

 

     (4) "School month" means a 4-week period of 5 days each unless

 

otherwise specified in the teacher's contract.

 

     (5) "School of excellence" means a school of excellence

 

established under part 6e.

 

     (6) "Special education building and equipment" means a

 

structure or portion of a structure or personal property accepted,

 

leased, purchased, or otherwise acquired, prepared, or used for

 

special education programs and services.

 

     (7) "Special education personnel" means persons engaged in and

 

having professional responsibility for students with a disability

 

in special education programs and services including, but not

 

limited to, teachers, aides, school social workers, diagnostic

 

personnel, physical therapists, occupational therapists,

 

audiologists, teachers of speech and language, instructional media-

 

curriculum specialists, mobility specialists, teacher consultants,

 

supervisors, and directors.

 

     (8) "Special education programs and services" means

 

educational and training services designed for students with a

 

disability and operated by local school districts, local act school

 

districts, intermediate school districts, the Michigan schools for

 

the deaf and blind, the department of community health, the

 

department of human services, or a combination of these, and

 

ancillary professional services for students with a disability

 

rendered by agencies approved by the state board. The programs

 

shall include vocational training, but need not include academic

 

programs of college or university level.

 

     (9) "Special school election" or "special election" means a

 

school district election to fill a vacancy on the school board or

 

submit a ballot question to the school electors that is held on a

 

regular election date established under section 641 of the Michigan

 

election law, MCL 168.641.

 

     (10) "State approved nonpublic school" means a nonpublic

 

school that complies with 1921 PA 302, MCL 388.551 to 388.558.

 

     (11) "State board" means the state board of education unless

 

clearly otherwise stated.

 

     (12) "Student with a disability" means that term as defined in

 

R 340.1702 of the Michigan administrative code.

 

     (13) "Department" means the department of education created

 

and operating under sections 300 to 305 of the executive

 

organization act of 1965, 1965 PA 380, MCL 16.400 to 16.405.

 

     (14) "State school aid" means allotments from the general

 

appropriating act for the purpose of aiding in the support of the

 

public schools of the state.

 

     (15) "The state school aid act of 1979" means the state school

 

aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1601 to 388.1772.