HOUSE BILL No. 4176

February 2, 2005, Introduced by Reps. Farrah, Bieda, Vagnozzi, Gleason, Condino, Clack, Murphy, Brown and Gonzales and referred to the Committee on Employment Relations, Training, and Safety.

 

     A bill to amend 1936 (Ex Sess) PA 1, entitled

 

"Michigan employment security act,"

 

by amending the title and section 5b (MCL 421.5b), the title as

 

amended by 1991 PA 10 and section 5b as added by 2002 PA 192.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

TITLE

 

     An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state

 

through the establishment of an unemployment compensation fund, and

 

to provide for the disbursement thereof; to create certain other

 

funds; to create the  Michigan employment security commission  

 

unemployment insurance agency, and to prescribe its powers and

 

duties; to provide for the protection of the people of this state

 

from the hazards of unemployment; to levy and provide for


 

contributions from employers; to provide for the collection of such

 

contributions; to enter into reciprocal agreements and to cooperate

 

with agencies of the United States and of other states charged with

 

the administration of any unemployment insurance law; to furnish

 

certain information to certain governmental agencies for use in

 

administering public benefit and child support programs and

 

investigating and prosecuting fraud; to provide for the payment of

 

benefits; to provide for appeals from redeterminations, decisions,

 

and notices of assessments;  and  to provide for referees and a

 

board of review to hear and decide the issues arising from

 

redeterminations, decisions, and notices of assessment; to provide

 

for the cooperation of this state and compliance with the

 

provisions of the social security act and the Wagner-Peyser act

 

passed by the Congress of the United States of America; to provide

 

for the establishment and maintenance of free public employment

 

offices; to provide for the transfer of funds; to make

 

appropriations for carrying out the provisions of this act; to

 

prescribe remedies and penalties for the violation of the

 

provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts

 

inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

 

     Sec. 5b. (1) The  bureau of worker's and unemployment

 

compensation  unemployment insurance agency is created within the

 

department of  consumer and industry services  labor and economic

 

growth.

 

     (2) The  bureau  agency shall be headed by a director.  who

 

shall be appointed by the governor.

 

     (3) All of the authority, powers, functions, duties, and


 

responsibilities of the unemployment agency provided under this act

 

are transferred to the  bureau  unemployment insurance agency as

 

provided in Executive Order No.  2002-1  2003-18.

 

     (4) All of the powers, functions, duties, and responsibilities

 

of the director of the unemployment agency, defined as the director

 

of employment security in Executive Order No. 1997-12, provided

 

under this act are transferred to the director of the unemployment

 

insurance agency as provided in Executive Order No.  2002-1  2003-

 

18.

 

     Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are

 

enacted into law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4174(request no.

 

01676'05).

 

     (b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4175(request no.

 

01677'05).

 

     (c) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4177(request no.

 

01679'05).

 

     (d) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4178(request no.

 

01680'05).