Act No. 427

Public Acts of 2008

Approved by the Governor

January 5, 2009

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 6, 2009

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 6, 2009

STATE OF MICHIGAN

94TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2008

Introduced by Senators Brater, Schauer, Jacobs, Whitmer, Gleason, Olshove, Basham and Prusi

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 152

AN ACT to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled "An act to protect the environment and natural resources of the state; to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify laws relating to the environment and natural resources of the state; to regulate the discharge of certain substances into the environment; to regulate the use of certain lands, waters, and other natural resources of the state; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials; to provide for certain charges, fees, assessments, and donations; to provide certain appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts," by amending section 3902 (MCL 324.3902).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 3902. A person shall not sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale or use in this state any of the following:

(a) Subject to subdivision (b), a cleaning agent that contains phosphorus in any form in excess of 8.7% by weight expressed as elemental phosphorus.

(b) A cleaning agent that is intended for use in household clothes washing machines or, beginning July 1, 2010, in household dishwashers and that contains phosphorus in any form in excess of 0.5% by weight expressed as elemental phosphorus.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 362 of the 94th Legislature is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor