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HB 4225

Education: safety; OK2SAY program contact information; require inclusion on certain student identification cards. Amends title & secs. 3 & 5 of 2020 PA 211 (MCL 380.1893 & 380.1895).

2025-2026 Regular Session Introduced by Kelly Breen and 10 co-sponsors

ID cards for grades 6–12 must include suicide prevention hotline info and OK2SAY contact details starting July 1, 2026.

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Bill Summary · HB 4225

HB 4225 — Summary (Save Our Students Act amendments)

Status: Referred to Committee on Education (House action: Passed House May 14, 2025; transmitted May 14; referred to Committee on Education May 20, 2025)
Introduced: March 10, 2025 (sponsor: Rep. Donni Steele)
Statutes amended: 2020 PA 211 (Save Our Students Act) — MCL 380.1893 & 380.1895

Purpose

Require student identification cards for students in schools that include grades 6–12 to display contact information that can help prevent suicide and enable confidential student safety reporting (OK2SAY), and make suicide-prevention informational materials more broadly available.

Key provisions

  • Student ID card content
    • Continues the existing requirement that ID cards issued to students enrolled in a school offering any of grades 6–12 include a local, state, or national suicide prevention hotline telephone number that is accessible 24/7.
    • Adds that, beginning July 1, 2026, ID cards must include contact information for the OK2SAY program (Michigan’s confidential student tip line) or a successor state program.
  • Nonpublic schools
    • The introduced bill required the same two items on nonpublic-school ID cards beginning July 1, 2026. The substitute and the version passed by the House change that mandate for nonpublic schools to an encouragement (nonpublic governing bodies are “encouraged” to include the information).
  • Model materials & DHHS duties
    • The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) must develop or adopt model informational materials on suicide prevention, depression, and anxiety and provide those materials to public and, upon request, to nonpublic schools.
  • Liability protection
    • Extends the existing immunity provision: a school, governing board, or specified school officials are not criminally or civilly liable solely for failing to include the suicide hotline number or OK2SAY contact information on student ID cards. This immunity applies to public and nonpublic entities as specified.

Who is affected

  • Public school districts, intermediate school districts (ISDs), public school academies (PSAs), public schools (grades 6–12 that issue ID cards), and encouraged nonpublic schools.
  • Students in grades 6–12 (recipients of ID cards).
  • DHHS (responsibility to create/disseminate model materials).

Fiscal impact

  • Minimal implementation cost for local education agencies to update ID cards (likely absorbed in routine ID updates).
  • Negligible DHHS costs to distribute materials to nonpublic schools.

Legislative/Timing notes

  • OK2SAY contact requirement effective beginning July 1, 2026.
  • Existing suicide hotline requirement continues with applicability tied to the act’s effective-date timing language (public-school requirement language begins “1 year after the effective date” in the bill text).
  • House passed the substitute (H‑1) May 14, 2025 (Roll Call: Yeas 99, Nays 7). The bill is pending further committee consideration.

Support

Recorded supporters include Michigan PTA, Michigan Catholic Conference, Michigan Association of Non‑public Schools, and Michigan Association of School Boards.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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