Bill
HB 5660
Strengthens school-state safety coordination by requiring liaisons, annual crime/expulsion reporting, and weekly data collection to improve transparency and safety planning.
Status & Effective Date
- Enacted as Public Act 264 of 2024; approved by the Governor January 22, 2025; effective April 2, 2025.
- Amends the Revised School Code: sections 6, 1241, and 1310a (MCL 380.6, 380.1241, 380.1310a).
Purpose / Intent
- Update statutory definitions and administrative requirements to strengthen coordination between schools and statewide school safety authorities and to improve school-level crime and discipline reporting. The changes clarify which “school safety commission” entity schools should work with and require ongoing local reporting and data collection to support prevention and safety planning.
Key provisions
- Definition of “school safety commission” (MCL 380.6)
- Clarifies that “school safety commission” refers to the commission created under the Comprehensive School Safety Plan Act (2018 PA 548) and specifies a transition: the existing School Safety Commission before Jan 1, 2025, and the School Safety and Mental Health Commission beginning Jan 1, 2025.
- Designation of school liaison (MCL 380.1241)
- Requires each school district, intermediate school district (ISD), public school academy (PSA/charter), and nonpublic school governing body to designate a liaison to work with the school safety commission and the Office of School Safety.
- The liaison must be employed by (or regularly/continuously contracted to) the school entity.
- Liaisons are to help identify model practices for determining school safety measures.
- School crime and expulsion reporting (MCL 380.1310a)
- Schools must annually submit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction a report of pupils expelled during the prior year with brief incident descriptions; the Superintendent will forward this to the school safety commission.
- At least annually, each school board must post on its website incidents of crime occurring in its schools (form/manner prescribed by the Superintendent, developed in consultation with local districts and law enforcement).
- Required categories to be reported include: physical violence, gang-related activity, illegal possession of controlled substances (or analogues), other intoxicants, trespassing, and property crimes (the latter must include an estimate of cost to the district).
- Each school building must collect and keep the required information weekly and provide it within 7 days on request.
Who is affected
- Public school districts, intermediate school districts, public school academies/charter schools, and governing bodies of nonpublic schools in Michigan.
- State-level entities: Superintendent of Public Instruction and the School Safety (and Mental Health) Commission; local law enforcement stakeholders via consultation and data sharing.
Implementation & notable items
- Effective April 2, 2025.
- The act emphasizes improved data collection, local transparency, and formalized coordination between schools and state safety/mental health authorities.
- Note: earlier introduced drafts included a 24-hour reporting requirement to the Department of State Police (sec. 1308a); the enacted substitute focuses on amending sec. 1310a and does not include that 24-hour DPS reporting provision.
Impact
- Increases administrative reporting and website transparency burdens on school boards and building staff (weekly data collection; annual public postings; expulsion reports).
- Aims to supply statewide safety and mental-health planning bodies with better, standardized local data to inform prevention, intervention, and resource allocation.
Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.
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