SENATE BILL No. 38

 

 

January 27, 2015, Introduced by Senators HANSEN, BOOHER, COLBECK, MARLEAU, JONES, MACGREGOR, MEEKHOF and HILDENBRAND and referred to the Committee on Education.

 

 

 

     A bill to authorize state universities to offer academic

 

credit for concurrent enrollment courses provided by public high

 

schools in this state; and to authorize lower tuition rates for

 

those courses.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "state

 

university concurrent enrollment act".

 

     Sec. 2. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Concurrent enrollment course" means a concurrent

 

enrollment course described in part 20c of the revised school code,

 

1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1485 to 380.1487.

 

     (b) "Eligible public high school" means either of the

 

following:

 

     (i) A public high school that is operated by a school district

 


or public school academy in this state, if the board of the school

 

district or board of directors of the public school academy and the

 

board of a state university have agreed that the public high school

 

may provide concurrent enrollment courses for which the state

 

university shall provide college credit or award the appropriate

 

course certificate or other course credential.

 

     (ii) An intermediate school district, as defined in section 4

 

of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.4, that provides 1

 

or more concurrent enrollment courses on behalf of 1 or more public

 

high schools described in subparagraph (i).

 

     (c) "Public high school" means a public school, as defined in

 

section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.5, that

 

includes grades 9 to 12 or 10 to 12 and that awards high school

 

diplomas.

 

     (d) "Public school academy" means that term as defined in

 

section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.5.

 

     (e) "School district" means that term as defined in section 6

 

of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.6.

 

     (f) "State university" means a university described in section

 

4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963.

 

     Sec. 3. (1) The board of a state university may authorize the

 

university to participate in a concurrent enrollment program

 

described in this act with the governing board of an eligible

 

public high school. A state university that participates in a

 

concurrent enrollment program shall develop a concurrent enrollment

 

partnership agreement with the governing board of the eligible

 

public high school as described in section 1486(6) of the revised

 


school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1486.

 

     (2) A state university that participates in a concurrent

 

enrollment program under this act shall provide each student who

 

successfully completed 1 or more concurrent enrollment courses,

 

while he or she was a pupil at an eligible public high school,

 

college credit or an award of the appropriate course certificate or

 

other course credential for the courses at the state university

 

that correspond to those concurrent enrollment courses.

 

     (3) For purposes of implementing subsection (2), a state

 

university that participates in a concurrent enrollment program

 

under this act shall provide the eligible public high school with

 

the assessments for the state university courses included in the

 

program and other course materials as provided in the agreement

 

described in subsection (1).

 

     (4) If a state university participates in a concurrent

 

enrollment program under this act, the board of the state

 

university may establish a reduced tuition rate for any course at

 

the state university for which the university gives college credit

 

or awards the appropriate course certificate or other course

 

credential for successful completion of a concurrent enrollment

 

course. It is the intent of the legislature that a tuition rate

 

established under this subsection will reflect the cost the state

 

university incurs to administer and oversee the program.

 

     Enacting section 1. This act does not take effect unless all

 

of the following bills of the 98th Legislature are enacted into

 

law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No. 36.                                    

 


         

 

     (b) Senate Bill No. 37.