Bill Text: MI SB0915 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Education: teachers; teachers' tenure; modify. Amends sec. 1, art. IV of 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4 (MCL 38.101). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0901'22
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-24 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SB0915 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-SB0915-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL NO. 915
A bill to amend 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4, entitled
"An act relative to continuing tenure of office of certificated teachers in public educational institutions; to provide for probationary periods; to regulate discharges or demotions; to provide for resignations and leaves of absence; to create a state tenure commission and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof; and to prescribe penalties for violation of the provisions of this act,"
by amending section 1 of article IV (MCL 38.101), as amended by 2011 PA 100.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
ARTICLE IV
Sec. 1. (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 1a of this article, discharge or demotion of a teacher on continuing tenure may be made as follows:
(a) Before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this subdivision, only for a reason that is not arbitrary or capricious and only as provided in this act.
(b) On or after the effective date of the amendatory act that that added this subdivision, only for reasonable and just cause and only as provided in this act.
(2) This act does not prevent any controlling board from establishing a reasonable policy for retirement to apply equally to all teachers who are eligible for retirement under the public school employees retirement act of 1979, 1980 PA 300, MCL 38.1301 to 38.1437, or, having established a reasonable retirement age policy, from temporarily continuing on a year-to-year basis on criteria equally applied to all teachers the contract of any teacher whom the controlling board might wish to retain beyond the established retirement age for the benefit of the school system.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 901 of the 101st Legislature is enacted into law.
