Act No. 43

Public Acts of 1998

Approved by the Governor

March 18, 1998

Filed with the Secretary of State

March 18, 1998

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 18, 1998

STATE OF MICHIGAN

89TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 1998

Introduced by Senators Koivisto, Conroy, Gougeon, North, Bullard, Vaughn, V. Smith, Peters, A. Smith, DeBeaussaert, Young, Stallings and Byrum

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 383

AN ACT to amend 1964 PA 232, entitled "An act to provide for educational and other needed services through a vocational rehabilitation program for disabled persons; to authorize an annual appropriation of funds for vocational rehabilitation; to authorize the state board of education to administer such a program; to provide for the proper custody and administration of funds received by the state from federal and other sources; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts," by amending section 2 (MCL 395.82).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 2. As used in this act:

(a) "State board" means the state board of education.

(b) "Vocational disability" means any disability except blindness which constitutes, contributes to, or if not corrected will probably result in an obstruction to occupational performance.

(c) "Disabled individual" means any person, other than a person who is blind, who has a vocational disability.

(d) "Vocational rehabilitation" and "vocational rehabilitation services" mean any educational or other needed services including, but not limited to, determination of extent of disability, vocational diagnosis, vocational guidance, rehabilitation training, medical services, transportation, maintenance, and training books and materials, found to be necessary to compensate a disabled individual for his or her vocational disability, and to enable him or her to engage in a suitable occupation or to be assisted into independent living.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.