Democrats and Republicans in the Michigan House of Representatives passed a bipartisan amendment to the state’s K-12 budget containing a provision that encourages students to report on their parents for “improperly” stored firearms, the Detroit Free Press reported.
School leaders around the state were skeptical of the fiscal year 2025 school budget that the state legislature passed and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed in July, and so the Democrats rammed through HB 5503, a budget amendment to the 2025 budget, with the help of some Republicans.
Addressing those demands for more money, lawmakers moved to sweeten the deal for public schools by adding $126 million, $125 million of which is allocated to mental health programs, which are often ways in which public schools promote the LGBT agenda, and school safety programs.
The final $1 million in the bill–ostensibly a part of the school safety aspect of the bill–will create a “tip line” number which children could call in order to anonymously tell on their parents for engaging in alleged improper firearm storage practices.
“This amendment was inserted into the conference committee report of the Michigan School Aid bill (HB 5503 CR-1) today,’ the Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners tweeted. “The conference committee report is expected to be voted on immediately in the House and Senate with no testimony allowed.”
The tweet continued: “This amendment would allow ISDs to establish a tip hotline for students to anonymously report parents who improperly store a firearm. While we all support responsible firearms storage, this is the type of thing we’d expect to see from a totalitarian police state.”
Despite the alleged safety provision, the bill passed Tuesday in the state House by a 98-11 margin, and the Senate by a 23-15 margin.
