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.

“This hotline is nothing more than a page out of the Stasi playbook—encouraging children to spy on their own families,” Rep. Angela Rigas, R-Caledonia, told The Midwesterner. “This is a dangerous step toward weaponizing children in households for the left, and an outrageous government overreach under the guise of public safety.”

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.

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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.

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“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.”

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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.

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Sen. John Damoose, R-Harbor Springs, said that the bill is meant to enforce the left’s “gun control agenda.” Sen. Thomas Albert, R-Lowell, called it “a tattletale provision.”

According to a WWMT report, however, Democrats celebrated the bill’s passage as they look to appeal to voters ahead of the 2024 election.

“Michigan Democrats are taking transformational steps to meet the needs of our kids, our parents, and our teachers,” Rep. Regina Weiss, D-Oak Park, told the media.

Rep. Bryan Posthumus, R-Rockford, warned that Democrats are simply trying to cozy up to the public school establishment leading up to the 2024 election.

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“Now that it’s election season and they’re up against public pressure, they’re going to try to push through this half measure to put a little bit of funding back in to say they actually increased funding, when in reality, they’ve cut it by $300 million,” Posthumus said.