Bill Text: MI SB0283 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Education: school districts; authority of school districts and school employees to administer opioid antagonists in the revised school code; repeal. Amends secs. 5 & 1178 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.5 & 380.1178) & repeals sec. 1179b of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1179b). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0200'19, HB 4367'19
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-27 - Assigned Pa 0038'19 With Immediate Effect [SB0283 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB0283-Chaptered.html
Act No. 38
Public Acts of 2019
Approved by the Governor
June 26, 2019
Filed with the Secretary of State
June 26, 2019
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 24, 2019
STATE OF MICHIGAN
100TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2019
Introduced by Senator Lucido
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 283
AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to make appropriations for certain purposes; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 5 and 1178 (MCL 380.5 and 380.1178), as amended by 2016 PA 385; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 5. (1) “Local act school district” means a district governed by a local act or chapter of a local act. “Local school district” and “local school district board” as used in article 3 include a local act school district and a local act school district board.
(2) “Membership” means the number of full-time equivalent pupils in a public school as determined by the number of pupils registered for attendance plus pupils received by transfer and minus pupils lost as defined by rules promulgated by the superintendent of public instruction.
(3) “Michigan election law” means the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.1 to 168.992.
(4) “Nonpublic school” means a private, denominational, or parochial school.
(5) “Objectives” means measurable pupil academic skills and knowledge.
(6) “Public school” means a public elementary or secondary educational entity or agency that is established under this act or under other law of this state, has as its primary mission the teaching and learning of academic and vocational-technical skills and knowledge, and is operated by a school district, intermediate school district, school of excellence corporation, public school academy corporation, strict discipline academy corporation, urban high school academy corporation, or by the department, the state board, or another public body. Public school also includes a laboratory school or other elementary or secondary school that is controlled and operated by a state public university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963.
(7) “Public school academy” means a public school academy established under part 6a and, except as used in part 6a, also includes an urban high school academy established under part 6c, a school of excellence established under part 6e, and a strict discipline academy established under sections 1311b to 1311m.
(8) “Pupil membership count day” of a school district means that term as defined in section 6 of the state school aid act of 1979, MCL 388.1606.
(9) “Qualifying school district” means a school district that was previously organized and operated as a first class school district governed by part 6 that has a pupil membership of less than 100,000 enrolled on its most recent pupil membership count day, including, but not limited to, a school district that was previously organized and operated as a first class school district before June 21, 2016.
(10) “Regular school election” or “regular election” means the election held in a school district, local act school district, or intermediate school district to elect a school board member in the regular course of the terms of that office and held on the school district’s regular election date as determined under section 642c of the Michigan election law, MCL 168.642c.
(11) “Reorganized intermediate school district” means an intermediate school district formed by consolidation or annexation of 2 or more intermediate school districts under sections 701 and 702.
(12) “Rule” means a rule promulgated under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.
Sec. 1178. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a school administrator, teacher, or other school employee designated by the school administrator, who in good faith administers medication to a pupil in the presence of another adult or in an emergency that threatens the life or health of the pupil, pursuant to written permission of the pupil’s parent or guardian, and in compliance with the instructions of a physician, physician’s assistant, or certified nurse practitioner, or a school employee who in good faith administers an epinephrine auto-injector to an individual consistent with the policies under section 1179a, is not liable in a criminal action or for civil damages as a result of an act or omission in the administration of the medication or epinephrine auto-injector, except for an act or omission amounting to gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct.
(2) If a school employee is a licensed registered professional nurse, subsection (1) applies to that school employee regardless of whether the medication or epinephrine auto-injector is administered in the presence of another adult.
(3) A school district, nonpublic school, member of a school board, or director or officer of a nonpublic school is not liable for damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property allegedly arising from a person acting under this section.
Enacting section 1. Section 1179b of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1179b, is repealed.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 3. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 100th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 200.
(b) House Bill No. 4367.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
