SB-0750, As Passed House, February 20, 2008
September 6, 2007, Introduced by Senators BASHAM, ALLEN, GARCIA, PAPPAGEORGE, RICHARDVILLE, BIRKHOLZ, KAHN, JELINEK, VAN WOERKOM, PATTERSON, CROPSEY, HARDIMAN, GILBERT, CASSIS, McMANUS, KUIPERS, OLSHOVE, JANSEN, SWITALSKI, STAMAS, JACOBS, BROWN, CHERRY, BARCIA, GLEASON, WHITMER, SANBORN, BISHOP, ANDERSON, SCHAUER, HUNTER, SCOTT, CLARK-COLEMAN and CLARKE and referred to the Committee on Senior Citizens and Veterans Affairs.
A bill to amend 1897 PA 205, entitled
"An act to prefer honorably discharged members of the armed forces
of the United States for public employments,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 35.401).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. In every public department and upon the public works
of
the state and of every county and municipal corporation thereof
of
this state, an honorably discharged
veteran, as defined by Act
No.
190 of the Public Acts of 1965, as amended, being sections
35.61
and 35.62 of the Michigan Compiled Laws 1965 PA 190, MCL
35.61 to 35.62, shall be preferred for appointment and employment.
Age,
loss of limb, or other physical impairment which that does
not,
in fact, incapacitate, shall not be deemed to does not
disqualify
them. When it shall become If
it is necessary to fill by
appointment a vacancy occurring in an elective office, the
appointment
shall be deemed to be is within this act. The applicant
shall be of good moral character and shall have been a resident of
the
state for at least 2 years and of the county in which the
office
or position is located for at least one year, and possess
other requisite qualifications, after credit allowed by the
provisions
of any civil service laws. In any instance where If
there
is a conflict between the provisions of this act and Act No.
370
of the Public Acts of 1941, as amended, being sections 38.401
to
38.428 of the Michigan Compiled Laws 1941 PA 370, MCL 38.401 to
38.428, the provisions of Act No. 370 of the Public
Acts of 1941,
as
amended 1941 PA 370, MCL
38.401 to 38.428, shall prevail.