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Committee reports several education bills; substitute adopted to require future-skills credits
Summary
The House Education and Workforce Committee adopted a substitute requiring two 'future skills' credits and reported multiple bills with recommendations. Roll-call results recorded in the hearing were mixed and several committee members indicated further work with appropriations and stakeholders.
The Michigan House Education and Workforce Committee conducted roll calls and moved several bills forward during the hearing.
Key actions recorded in the publicly available hearing transcript included adoption of an H2 substitute to House Bill 4,156 (changing graduation/course-credit requirements to require two future-skills credits: a half-credit in personal finance, a half-credit in workplace development, and one credit from math, science, English, CTE or an approved course). The clerk announced the H2 substitute to HB 4,156 was adopted.
The committee also reported several bills with recommendation to the full House. The clerk recorded the following outcomes in the hearing transcript: - House Bill 4,155 was reported with recommendation (clerk: “7 ayes, 1 nay, 3 pass”). - House Bill 4,156 was reported as substitute H2 with recommendation (clerk: “6 yays, 4 nays, 1 passed”). - House Bill 4,157, House Bill 4,158 and House Bill 4,159 were read into the record for testimony and later reported as recommended or as substitutes; the transcript records that motions to report prevailed and gives mixed roll‑call responses but several counts in the record are garbled and were not repeated here verbatim.
Where votes were clear in the transcript, the clerk’s roll-call totals are reported above. For other roll calls in the hearing record the committee clerk announced that motions prevailed and that bills were reported with recommendation; the transcript’s audio or text renderings contain some garbled counts for a few items.
Ending: The committee proceeded to detailed testimony on the school-safety package after completing these roll-call actions; sponsors indicated further work would continue with appropriations and stakeholders.
