Section 333.9307 - Registration of child for kindergarten or first grade; certificate of hearing and vision testing or screening or statement of exemption required; summary of hearing or vision report - Michigan Statutes

PUBLIC HEALTH CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 368 of 1978

333.9307 Registration of child for kindergarten or first grade; certificate of hearing and vision testing or screening or statement of exemption required; summary of hearing or vision reports; forms; records.

Sec. 9307.

(1) A parent, guardian, or person in loco parentis applying to have a child registered for the first time in a kindergarten or first grade in a school in this state shall present to school officials, at the time of registration or not later than the first day of school, a certificate of hearing and vision testing or screening or statement of exemption under section 9311.

(2) Before November 1 of each year, the principal or administrator of each school shall give the state and local health departments a summary of the hearing and vision reports at the time of school entry of new entering kindergarten and first grade students. The reports shall be made on forms provided or approved by the department.

(3) Records of testing and screening administered and conducted shall be made and preserved as provided by the department. The records shall be available to health agencies and other persons to assist in obtaining proper and necessary health and educational care, attention, and treatment as permitted by the department. Individual testing and screening records shall be confidential as required by section 2637.

History: 1978, Act 368, Eff. Sept. 30, 1978
Popular Name: Act 368