Bill Text: MI SB0686 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; reorganization; standards for consideration of an appeal concerning a request for transfer of territory; modify. Amends secs. 971 & 976 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.971 & 380.976).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-13 - Referred To Committee On Education [SB0686 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0686-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 686

 

 

January 13, 2016, Introduced by Senator COLBECK and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

by amending sections 971 and 976 (MCL 380.971 and 380.976), section

 

971 as amended by 1995 PA 289.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 971. (1) One or more resident owners of land considered

 

for transfer from 1 school district to another, or the board of a

 

school district whose territory is affected, may appeal the action

 

of the intermediate school board or joint intermediate school

 

boards in transferring the land, the failure to transfer the land,

 

or action relative to the accounting determination to the state

 

board superintendent of public instruction within 10 days after the

 

action or determination by the intermediate school board or the

 

joint intermediate school boards. If the intermediate school board

 

or the joint intermediate school boards fail to take action within

the time limit under section 951, the appeal may be made to the

 

state board superintendent of public instruction within 10 days

 

following the termination of the period. The pendency of an appeal

 

shall suspend the action or determination of the intermediate

 

school board or joint intermediate school boards.

 

     (2) The state board Subject to subsection (3), the

 

superintendent of public instruction may confirm, modify, or set

 

aside the order of the intermediate school board or the joint

 

intermediate school boards. In considering an appeal, the state

 

board superintendent of public instruction shall consider the

 

welfare of the affected pupil or pupils residing in the territory

 

to be transferred, including, but not limited to, the length of the

 

pupil's commute to and from school, on a school bus or otherwise.

 

The action of the state board superintendent of public instruction

 

on the appeal is final.

 

     (3) In considering an appeal, the superintendent of public

 

instruction shall take action as necessary to allow the transfer of

 

territory if all of the following are met:

 

     (a) The request for the transfer meets all of the requirements

 

under section 951.

 

     (b) More than 3/4 of the persons who own and reside on the

 

land to be transferred sign a petition for the transfer under

 

section 951.

 

     (c) The territory to be detached is located in its entirety in

 

a single city or township and a majority of the pupils who reside

 

in that city or township are enrolled in the school district to

 

which the territory is to be attached.

 

     (d) The board of the school district to which the territory is

 

to be attached adopts a resolution in support of the transfer of

 

territory.

 

     Sec. 976. If the boundaries of a school district are changed

 

pursuant to this part, a pupil in the twelfth grade any of grades 9

 

to 12 at the time of the change or entering twelfth grade any of

 

grades 9 to 12 at the beginning of the school year immediately

 

following the change shall be allowed to continue attending school

 

in the school district which that the pupil attended before the

 

change without payment of tuition.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.