MI SB0886

Requires high school civics courses beginning in 2023-2024 school year to include instruction on election mechanics, voter registration, political candidate registration, public meeting procedures, contacting public officials, voting district drawing, and vote counting/certification processes.

Mandates state board develop American government curriculum standards by May 30, 2023 that ensure students understand voting and political participation by grade 3, branches and levels of government by grade 8, and mechanics of democracy by grade 11.

Modifies language throughout statute from "shall" to "must" for grammatical consistency and updates references to "Constitution" and "this state" instead of "constitution of Michigan."

Allows civics course requirements to be satisfied across multiple social science credits when the 1-semester civics course does not cover all required mechanics of democracy content.

Expands social studies assessment standards to include questions on civics content aligned with the 100-question U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization test as of December 1, 2016.