HB 5991 Summary

• Suspends the application of Michigan's third-grade reading retention law for the 2022-2023 school year only, allowing students who do not meet reading proficiency standards to advance to grade 4 without meeting normal promotion requirements.

• Replaces "shall" with "must" throughout the statute for grammatical consistency and clarifies that the Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI) is defined in the definitions section.

• Maintains all other requirements for reading assessments, intervention programs, early literacy coaches, and individual reading improvement plans for grades K-3 students with reading deficiencies.

• Removes the effective date specification of "beginning in the 2017-2018 school year" from the school board requirements section to reflect current implementation status.

• Adds CEPI as a defined term meaning the center for educational performance and information created under the state school aid act of 1979.