Act No. 130

Public Acts of 2016

Approved by the Governor

May 25, 2016

Filed with the Secretary of State

May 26, 2016

EFFECTIVE DATE: August 24, 2016

STATE OF MICHIGAN

98TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

Introduced by Reps. Bizon, Howrylak, Runestad, LaVoy, Zemke, Garrett, Phelps, Sarah Roberts, Cochran, Faris, Brinks, Irwin, Darany, Dianda, Chirkun, Wittenberg, Brunner, Chang, Rutledge, Talabi, Plawecki, Hoadley, Liberati, Greig, Byrd, Gay-Dagnogo, Pagan, Neeley, Smiley, Callton, Graves, Price, Crawford, Hooker, Pagel, Inman, Hughes, Lucido, Vaupel, Garcia, Cox, LaFontaine and Aaron Miller

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5183

AN ACT to amend 1937 PA 72, entitled “An act to establish the division on deafness and the advisory council on deafness within the department of labor; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department, the division, the council, and certain state officers; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; and to provide for an appropriation,” by amending section 3 (MCL 408.203), as amended by 1988 PA 434.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 3. (1) The division on deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing is established within the department. The purpose of the office is to protect and assist all deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing persons, with special emphasis on deaf persons.

(2) The division shall be supervised by a director of the division who shall be appointed by the director of the department. The director of the division shall be a member of the classified state civil service, hold not less than a bachelor’s degree, be fluent in American sign language, and have the ability to communicate in various ways with deaf persons.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor