Nullifying Certification

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STATE OF MICHIGAN
93RD LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2006
Introduced by Senator Kuipers
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1327
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 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 section 1532 (MCL 380.1532), as
amended by 1995 PA 289.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1532. (1) Before a teaching certificate is valid in this state, the
holder shall record the certificate in the office of the intermediate
superintendent or of the superintendent of schools of the school
district in which the holder expects to teach. (2) Before a teaching
certificate is valid in this state, the holder shall make and subscribe
the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I will support the constitution of the United States of America and the
constitution of the state of Michigan and that I will faithfully
discharge the duties of the office of teacher according to the best of
my ability”. (3) The oath set forth in subsection (2) shall be signed by
the holder of the teaching certificate, notarized, and attached to or
superimposed on the teaching certificate. (4) Except as provided in this
act, a teacher’s teaching certificate shall not be nullified except by
the state board and for a cause that would have initially justified the
withholding of the certificate. (5) Upon the request of a teacher, the
state board immediately shall nullify that teacher’s teaching
certificate. Upon the request of a teacher, the state board may nullify
1 or more endorsements on the teaching certificate, or a grade level
certification included in the teaching certificate, if the grade level
certification or endorsement has not been used for 12 or more years. (6)
The state board shall not reinstate, reissue, or renew a teaching
certificate, endorsement on a teaching certificate, or a grade level
certification that has been nullified pursuant to subsection (5).
(269)
Act No. 619
Public Acts of 2006
Approved by the Governor
January 3, 2007
Filed with the Secretary of State
January 3, 2007
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 3, 2007
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This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor