Bill Text: MI HB5649 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Education; curriculum; instruction on basic voter education and training; include in required civics course. Amends sec. 1166 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1166) & adds sec. 1166a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-28 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 02/27/2018 [HB5649 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB5649-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5649
February 27, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Hertel, Elder, Pagan, Zemke, Moss, Gay-Dagnogo, Sabo and Chirkun and referred to the Committee on Education Reform.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 1166 (MCL 380.1166), as amended by 2016 PA 391,
and by adding section 1166a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1166. (1) In all public and nonpublic schools in this
state regular courses of instruction shall be given in the
constitution of the United States, in the constitution of Michigan,
and in the history and present form of government of the United
States, Michigan, and its political subdivisions. Instruction shall
begin not later than the opening of the eighth grade, or its
equivalent, except in schools maintaining a junior high school, in
which case it may begin in the ninth grade.
(2) A high school in this state shall require a 1-semester
course of study of 5 periods per week in civics. The course shall
include the form and functions of the federal, state, and local
governments and shall stress the rights and responsibilities of
citizens. Beginning in the 2018-2019 school year, the course shall
also include the program of instruction on basic voter education
and training developed or adopted under section 1166a. A diploma
shall not be issued by a high school to a pupil who has not
successfully completed this course. This course requirement is not
a graduation requirement for a high school pupil who has enlisted
or been inducted into military service.
(3) By not later than May 1, 2018 or the next update of the
state
curriculum content standards after the effective date of this
subsection,
March 29, 2017, whichever occurs first, the state board
shall revise the state curriculum content standards for high school
social studies to ensure that those content standards cover the
same content as covered by the 100 questions on the civics portion
of the naturalization test used by the United States Citizenship
and Immigration Services as of December 1, 2016.
(4) Beginning with the first state high school social studies
assessment administered after the state academic curriculum content
standards are revised as required under subsection (3), the
superintendent of public instruction shall ensure that the high
school social studies assessment includes questions related to the
learning objectives in the state curriculum standards for high
school social studies as revised under subsection (3).
(5) As used in this section, "state curriculum content
standards" means the state board recommended model curriculum
content standards developed and periodically updated under section
1278.
Sec. 1166a. (1) Not later than July 1, 2018, the department
shall develop or adopt, and make available to schools, a model
program of instruction for pupils in grades 8 to 12 on basic voter
education and training.
(2) The program of instruction developed or adopted under
subsection (1) shall include, but is not limited to, instruction on
all of the following:
(a) Voter identification laws.
(b) Voter registration.
(c) The voting process.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
