Vehicles: driver training; homeschool driver training; provide for. Amends 2006 PA 384 (MCL 256.621 - 256.705) by adding sec. 40. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5978’26
Key claim: HB5977 amends Michigan’s 2006 driver training act to add a new section providing for homeschool driver training.
Abstract
(HB5977 · 103rd Legislature) Vehicles: driver training; homeschool driver training; provide for. Amends 2006 PA 384 (MCL 256.621 - 256.705) by adding sec. 40. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5978’26 Latest action (2026-06-24): Placed On Third Reading
Why this matters
Homeschooling families in Michigan currently must route their children through commercial driver-ed providers or segment 1/2 programs governed by 2006 PA 384. HB 5977 would carve out a homeschool-specific pathway to driver training, expanding parental control over driver education for the roughly tens of thousands of Michigan homeschool students who reach driving age each year. Because a separate bill (HB 5767) also proposes adding a ‘section 40’ to the same act, lawmakers will need to reconcile competing uses of the same statutory slot.