SB 495 — Education: safety; emergency operations plan requirements; modify. Amends sec. 1308b of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1308b). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4141'25

SB-495,STATE AsOF PassedMICHIGAN Senate,103RD JanuaryLEGISLATURE 22,REGULAR SESSION OF 2026 Introduced by Senators Polehanki, Camilleri and McMorrow ENROLLED SENATE BILL NO.No.

495 AugustAN 12,ACT 2025,to Introducedamend by1976 SenatorsPA POLEHANKI451, andentitled CAMILLERI“An andact referred to Committeeprovide ona Education.system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools;

A bill to amendrevise, 1976consolidate, PAand 451,clarify entitledthe "Thelaws revisedrelating schoolto code,"elementary byand amendingsecondary sectioneducation; 1308b (MCL 380.1308b), as added by 2018 PA 436.

THEto PEOPLEprovide OFfor THEthe STATEorganization, OFregulation, MICHIGANand ENACT:maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities;

to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities;

to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees;

to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto;

to provide for the levy and collection of taxes;

to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness;

to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund;

to make appropriations for certain purposes;

to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials;

to provide for licensure of boarding schools;

to prescribe penalties;

and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 1308b (MCL 380.1308b), as added by 2018 PA 436.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(1) Beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, and at least biennially thereafter, a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy shall, in conjunction with at least 1 law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy, conduct a review of the emergency operations plan developed or adopted under subsection (2), including a review of CRM S03832'25_SB495_APS_1 32yq1r 1 the vulnerability assessment under subsection (3), or conduct a review of the statewide school safety information policy described under subsection (4), as applicable.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), not later than January 1, 2020, a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy shall develop an emergency operations plan for each school building operated by the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy with input from the public.

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(1) (l) Continuity of operations after an incident.

(7) The office of school safety within the department of state police shall coordinate with a law enforcement agency that has jurisdiction over a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy that has not developed and adopted an emergency operations plan under subsection (2) to notify the CRM S03832'25_SB495_APS_1 32yq1r 1 governing body of the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy that the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy has not developed and adopted an emergency operations plan.

, "school (a) "School“School building"building” means any of the following:

(i) (a) A buildingbuildingintended intended to be used to provide instruction forforpupils, pupils, including an additionadditionto to an existing building.

(ii) (b) A recreational or athletic structure or field intended to be used by pupils.

(b) "Wireless“Wireless communications device"device” means that term as defined in section 1303a.

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Secretary of the Senate Clerk of the House of Representatives Approved___________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Governor 2