Introduced
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To allow school districts to establish a single-gender school, class, or program within a school if a comparable school, class, or program were available to pupils of each gender. Current law prohibits the establishment of a separate school or department for a person on account of race, color, or sex. The bill would create an exception to this prohibition.
Referred to the Committee on Education
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance of the bill as previously described. The language of the bill was revised to make it better able to stand up to a challenge of unfairly discriminating on the basis of sex.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To further clarify language establishing that children may not be required to attend single-sex schools or classes, and that comparable schools and classes must be available to students of both sexes.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 33 to 5 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Education
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance of the bill as previously described.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To clarify that the single-sex class or school is only legal if a comparable school, class, or program were made available to pupils of each gender, if practicable.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 79 to 27 (details)
To allow school districts to establish a single-gender school, class, or program within a school if a comparable school, class, or program were available to pupils of each gender, and if a co-ed program were also available. Current law prohibits the establishment of a separate school or department for a person on account of race, color, or sex. The bill would create an exception to this prohibition.
Amendment offered
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To break a tie-bar the bill to House Bills 4264 and 6247 and Senate Bill 1305, meaning those bill need not become law in order for this one to. One of those bills would allow just the Detroit school district to have single sex schools, and the other would amend the state civil rights law to explicitly allow single sex schools.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To eliminate an "if practical" qualification on the requirement that school districts would have to provide a comparable single-sex school, class, or program to pupils of each gender.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 32 to 5 (details)
To concur with the House-passed version of the bill, except for the Thomas amendments.
To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill.
Passed in the House 79 to 25 (details)
