June 15, 2017, Introduced by Senators HERTEL, KNEZEK, CONYERS, GREGORY, JONES, HOOD, ROCCA, PROOS, HUNE and ANANICH and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled
"The revised school code,"
by amending section 1171 (MCL 380.1171), as added by 2006 PA 324.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1171. (1) The board of a school district or board of
directors
of a public school academy is encouraged to shall provide
age-appropriate and medically accurate instruction for pupils and
medically accurate professional development for school personnel
concerning the warning signs and risk factors for suicide and
depression and the protective factors that help prevent suicide.
The instruction and professional development shall be designed to
achieve the following goals:
(a) To prevent both fatal and nonfatal suicide behaviors among
youth.
(b) To increase pupil awareness of the warning signs and risk
factors for suicide and depression.
(c) To improve access to appropriate prevention services for
vulnerable youth groups.
(2) The board of a school district or board of directors of a
public school academy is encouraged to work with school personnel
and local or state organizations and resources specializing in
suicide prevention and awareness.
(3) The department shall develop or select model programs and
materials on suicide prevention and awareness that are appropriate
for the purposes of this section, such as the Michigan model for
comprehensive school health education, and shall make those model
programs and materials available to school districts and public
school academies.
(4)
If a school district or public school academy provides
instruction
described in subsection (1), the The
board of the a
school
district or board of directors of the a public school
academy shall notify the parents of all pupils of each school in
which the instruction described in subsection (1) is provided about
the instruction using the communication method the school district
or public school academy normally uses for regular communications
with parents.
(5) Failure of a school district or public school academy to
comply with subsection (4) does not create a cause of action or
constitute a breach of any legal duty in a civil action.
(6) The legislature shall provide for funding to a school
district or public school academy for any increase in cost related
to compliance with this section.
(7) (6)
This section shall be known as the
"Chase Edwards
law".
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.