Act No. 215

Public Acts of 2006

Approved by the Governor

June 24, 2006

Filed with the Secretary of State

June 26, 2006

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 26, 2006

STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2006

Introduced by Reps. Acciavatti, Sheltrown, Palmer, Robertson, Pavlov, Gosselin, LaJoy, Nitz, Gaffney, Walker, McConico, Anderson, Stewart, Phillips, Lipsey, Kooiman, Meyer, Newell, Brown, Pastor, Hopgood, Brandenburg, Bieda, Wojno, Clack, Condino, Vagnozzi, Taub, Accavitti, Stakoe, Garfield, Hune, Gleason, Hoogendyk, Nofs, Ward, Sak, Stahl, Farhat, Moolenaar, Palsrok, Dillon, Ball, Booher, Caul, Cheeks, Clemente, Donigan, Elsenheimer, Espinoza, Gonzales, Hansen, Jones, Kahn, Kehrl, Lemmons, Jr., Mayes, McDowell, Pearce, Polidori, Proos, Rocca, Schuitmaker, Spade and Mortimer

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4118

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," (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1318.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1318. (1) The board of a school district or board of directors of a public school academy shall ensure that its policies concerning a pupil's eligibility for participation in interscholastic athletics include use of a performance-enhancing substance by the pupil as a violation that will affect a pupil's eligibility, as determined by the board or board of directors. The governing body of a nonpublic school is encouraged to adopt an eligibility policy that meets the requirements of this section.

(2) For the purposes of this section, the department of community health shall develop, periodically update, and make available to school districts, public school academies, and nonpublic schools a list of performance-enhancing substances. The department of community health shall base the list on the list of banned drugs contained in bylaw 31.2.3.1 of the bylaws of the national collegiate athletic association.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor