Act No. 228

Public Acts of 2014

Approved by the Governor

June 21, 2014

Filed with the Secretary of State

June 27, 2014

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 27, 2014

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

Introduced by Rep. Graves

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5478

AN ACT to amend 1969 PA 317, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to worker’s disability compensation; to increase the administrative efficiency of the adjudicative processes of the worker’s compensation system; to improve the qualifications of the persons having adjudicative functions within the worker’s compensation system; to prescribe certain powers and duties; to create the board of worker’s compensation magistrates and the worker’s compensation appellate commission; to create certain other boards; to provide certain procedures for the resolution of claims, including mediation and arbitration; to prescribe certain benefits for persons suffering a personal injury under the act; to prescribe certain limitations on obtaining benefits under the act; to create, and provide for the transfer of, certain funds; to prescribe certain fees; to prescribe certain remedies and penalties; to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 501 (MCL 418.501), as amended by 1993 PA 198.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 501. (1) A self-insurers’ security fund and a second injury fund are created.

(2) A silicosis, dust disease, and logging industry compensation fund is created.

(3) An uninsured employer’s security fund is created. The fund shall succeed to all of the assets, if any, of the former uninsured employer’s security account of the workplace health and safety fund created in former section 723.

(4) The private employer group self-insurers security fund is created on January 1, 2020. The PEGSISF shall receive assessments from and be responsible for payment of eligible claims made against individual members of groups of self-insured private employers who pool their liabilities under this act as group funds in the manner provided in section 611, if the group is otherwise unable to pay.

(5) As used in this chapter:

(a) “Employment in the logging industry” means employment in the logging industry as described in the section in the workmen’s compensation and employers liability insurance manual, entitled, “logging or lumbering and drivers code no. 2702,” which is filed with and approved by the commissioner of insurance.

(b) “Private employer group self-insurers security fund” or “PEGSISF” means the fund created in subsection (4).

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 5479.

(b) House Bill No. 5480.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor