Education committee approves substitutes and reports multiple bills to rules or recommendation

The House Education and Workforce Committee voted to adopt substitutes and reported several bills to the next procedural step during its meeting.

Votes at a glance: - House Bill 53 58 (substitute H-2): Vice Chair Linting moved to report the bill with recommendation that it be referred to the committee on rules. The motion passed, 7 ayes, 3 nays. - House Bill 56 48: After the clerk read a card registering support from the Michigan College Access Network, the committee voted to report the bill with recommendation, 7 ayes, 3 nays. - House Bill 58 03 (H-1 substitute): The committee adopted the H-1 substitute (which exempts preschool classrooms at nonpublic schools and restores "before or after school program" to the childcare-center definition) by a vote of 10 yays, 0 nays; the committee then reported the bill as substitute H-1 with recommendation, 7 yeas, 3 nays. - House Bill 60 80 (Representative Colazar's H-1 substitute): Representative Colazar moved and explained his substitute would allow baccalaureate and post-baccalaureate coursework to count as degree-eligible credit and remove "graduate level" language. The committee adopted the substitute and reported the bill with recommendation; recorded votes were 10 yays, 0 nays on both actions.

Procedural notes: Several substitutions and reports were moved by Vice Chair Linting and Representative Colazar; clerks recorded roll-call tallies for each motion. The motions that prevailed will move the indicated bills forward with the committee's recommendations.