Bill Text: MI HB4591 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; board members; monthly board meetings for all public schools; require. Amends sec. 1201 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1201).

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-16 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/16/2019 [HB4591 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-HB4591-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4591

 

 

May 15, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Sowerby, Ellison, Kuppa, Hope, Cambensy, Byrd, Cynthia Johnson, Stone, Clemente, Sneller, Gay-Dagnogo, Pohutsky, Tyrone Carter, Rabhi, Howell and Coleman and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

by amending section 1201 (MCL 380.1201), as amended by 2001 PA 27.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1201. (1) The business that the board of a school

 

district or board of directors of a public school academy is

 

authorized to perform shall must be conducted at a public meeting

 

of the board or board of directors held in compliance with the open

 

meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275. An act of the

 

board or board of directors is not valid unless the act is

 

authorized at a meeting by a majority vote of the members elected

 

or appointed to and serving on the board or board of directors and

 

a proper record is made of the vote.

 

     (2) The board or board of directors may hold closed sessions

 

only as authorized by section 8 of the open meetings act, 1976 PA

267, MCL 15.268.

 

     (3) A meeting at which all members are present, with or

 

without proper notice to members of the board or board of

 

directors, and for which proper notice is given to the public

 

pursuant to under subsection (4), is considered a legal meeting for

 

the transaction of business.

 

     (4) The board or board of directors shall give public notice

 

of the time, date, and place of the meeting in the manner required

 

by the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275.

 

     (5) The minutes of each board or board of directors meeting

 

shall must be signed by the secretary. In the absence of the

 

secretary, the president shall appoint a temporary secretary who

 

shall sign the minutes of the meeting. The vice-president shall act

 

in the absence of the president.

 

     (6) The board or board of directors shall hold a regular

 

public meeting at least once a month. The board of directors of a

 

public school academy shall hold its public meeting under this

 

subsection at the public school academy. The board of directors of

 

a school of excellence that is a cyber school, as described in

 

section 553a, shall hold a public meeting at least once each month

 

within the school district in which the greatest number of pupils

 

enrolled in the cyber school reside and shall broadcast each

 

meeting on the cyber school's website free of charge.