LANSING, MI (MPRN)— Funding school health centers and safety positions will be some priorities for Michigan lawmakers when they return from a legislative break later this month.
The bi-partisan School Safety Task Force within the Michigan House of Representatives recently unveiled a progress report after three months of meetings. The letter outlines several potential recommendations focused on health support and threat reduction, but none involve firearm safety.
Republican state Representative Luke Meerman:
“It’s definitely something we, the taskforce, have had conversations about. And long conversations. And sometimes hard conversations, but we’ll be recommending things all eight members can get behind. So we’ll see yet.”
Meerman says he hopes to see legislation on consensus recommendations move by this summer.
The group—evenly split between Republican and Democratic members—formed in the wake of November’s deadly shooting at Oxford High School.