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American Sign Language Act (State)

Act No. 18 Public Acts of 1987 Approved by the Governor April 23, 1987

Filed with the Secretary of State April 24, 1987

STATE OF MICHIGAN 84TH LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION OF 1987

Introduced by Senators Barcia, Pollack, Fredricks, Cherry and Kelly

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 37

AN ACT to amend Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of 1976. entitled as amended " An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools: to revise. consolidate. and classify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the classification. organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools. school districts, and intermediate school districts; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, and intermediate school districts; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto: to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; too provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness: to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties: and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts." as amended. being sections 380.1 to 380.1852 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, by adding section 1157b.

The people of the State of Michigan enact:

Section 1. Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of 1976. as amended. being sections 380.1 to 380.1852 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, is amended by adding section 1157b to read as follows:

Sec. 1157b. The board of a school district may grant high school credit in a foreign language to a pupil enrolled in high school who has satisfactorily completed a high school course offered in American sign language or who has attained proficiency in American sign language outside of a public or private high school curriculum.

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