Messages from the Governor
Subsequent to the final adjournment of the Regular Session of the Legislature, the following messages from the Governor were received:
Time: 1:00 p.m.
To the President of the Senate:
Sir—I have this day approved and signed
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1059 (Public Act No. 273), being
An act to amend 1964 PA 283, entitled “An act to regulate and provide standards for weights and measures, and the packaging and advertising of certain commodities; to provide for a state director and other officials and to prescribe their powers and duties; to provide a fee system for certain inspections and tests; to provide penalties for fraud and deception in the use of false weights and measures and other violations; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 2, 9a, 9b, 24, 27, 28c, 28e, 28f, 31, and 31a (MCL 290.602, 290.609a, 290.609b, 290.624, 290.627, 290.628c, 290.628e, 290.628f, 290.631, and 290.631a), sections 2, 9a, and 9b as amended by 2012 PA 253, section 28c as amended by 2016 PA 464, section 28e as amended by 2012 PA 469, section 28f as added by 2017 PA 168, and sections 31 and 31a as amended by 2012 PA 254.
(Filed with the Secretary of State on December 29, 2022, at 1:38 p.m.)
Time: 1:02 p.m.
To the President of the Senate:
Sir—I have this day approved and signed
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 450 (Public Act No. 274), being
An act to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,” by amending sections 2253 and 2453 (MCL 333.2253 and 333.2453), section 2253 as amended by 2006 PA 157.
(Filed with the Secretary of State on December 29, 2022, at 1:40 p.m.)
Time: 1:04 p.m.
To the President of the Senate:
Sir—I have this day approved and signed
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1222 (Public Act No. 275), being
An act to amend 2008 PA 554, entitled “An act to create and provide for the incorporation of certain regional convention facility authorities; to provide for the membership of the authorities; to provide for the powers and duties of the authorities; to provide for the conveyance of ownership of and operational jurisdiction over certain convention facilities to authorities and to provide for the transfer of certain real and personal property utilized as convention facilities to authorities; to provide for the assumption of certain contracts, bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness and liabilities related to convention facilities by authorities; to authorize the creation of certain funds; to authorize expenditures from certain funds; to finance the acquisition of land and the development of certain convention facilities and of public improvements or related facilities; to provide for the issuance of bonds and notes; to authorize certain investments; to provide for the transfer of public employees to the employment of authorities; to provide for the allocation of liabilities related to employee benefits; to protect certain rights of local government employees; and to impose certain powers and duties upon state and local departments, agencies, and officers,” by amending sections 5, 17, and 23 (MCL 141.1355, 141.1367, and 141.1373), section 5 as amended by 2009 PA 63.
(Filed with the Secretary of State on December 29, 2022, at 1:42 p.m.)
Time: 1:06 p.m.
To the President of the Senate:
Sir—I have this day approved and signed
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1223 (Public Act No. 276), being
An act to amend 1985 PA 106, entitled “An act to impose a state excise tax on persons engaged in the business of providing rooms for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes to transient guests in certain counties; to provide for the levy, assessment, and collection of the tax; to provide for the disposition and appropriation of the collections from the tax; to create a convention facility development fund; to authorize the distributions from the fund; to authorize the use of distributions from the tax as security for any bonds, obligations, or other evidences of indebtedness issued to finance convention facilities as provided by law; to prescribe certain other matters relating to bonds, obligations, or other evidences of indebtedness issued for such purposes,” by amending sections 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 20 (MCL 207.623, 207.629, 207.630, 207.631, 207.632, and 207.640), sections 3, 9, and 12 as amended by 2009 PA 61, section 10 as amended by 2020 PA 205, section 11 as amended by 2002 PA 237, and section 20 as amended by 2008 PA 553.
(Filed with the Secretary of State on December 29, 2022, at 1:44 p.m.)
Time: 1:08 p.m.
To the President of the Senate:
Sir—I have this day approved and signed
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1047 (Public Act No. 277), being
An act to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of the courts, and of the judges and other officers of the courts; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in the courts; pleading, evidence, practice, and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in the courts; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 510 and 549 (MCL 600.510 and 600.549), section 510 as amended by 1988 PA 134 and section 549 as amended by 1990 PA 54.
(Filed with the Secretary of State on December 29, 2022, at 1:46 p.m.)
Time: 1:10 p.m.
To the President of the Senate:
Sir—I have this day approved and signed
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1085 (Public Act No. 278), being
An act to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation or formation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide their rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which companies and associations organized, existing, or authorized under this act may exercise their powers; to provide the rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which other persons, firms, corporations, associations, risk retention groups, and purchasing groups engaged in an insurance or surety business may exercise their powers; to provide for the imposition of a privilege fee on domestic insurance companies and associations and the state accident fund; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide for the imposition of a tax on risk retention groups and purchasing groups; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of surplus line agents; to provide for the imposition of regulatory fees on certain insurers; to provide for assessment fees on certain health maintenance organizations; to modify tort liability arising out of certain accidents; to provide for limited actions with respect to that modified tort liability and to prescribe certain procedures for maintaining those actions; to require security for losses arising out of certain accidents; to provide for the continued availability and affordability of automobile insurance and homeowners insurance in this state and to facilitate the purchase of that insurance by all residents of this state at fair and reasonable rates; to provide for certain reporting with respect to insurance and with respect to certain claims against uninsured or self-insured persons; to prescribe duties for certain state departments and officers with respect to that reporting; to provide for certain assessments; to establish and continue certain state insurance funds; to modify and clarify the status, rights, powers, duties, and operations of the nonprofit malpractice insurance fund; to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state; to provide for regulation over worker’s compensation self-insurers; to provide for the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for the protection of policyholders, claimants, and creditors of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for associations of insurers to protect policyholders and claimants in the event of insurer insolvencies; to prescribe educational requirements for insurance agents and solicitors; to provide for the regulation of multiple employer welfare arrangements; to create an automobile theft prevention authority to reduce the number of automobile thefts in this state; to prescribe the powers and duties of the automobile theft prevention authority; to provide certain powers and duties upon certain officials, departments, and authorities of this state; to provide for an appropriation; to repeal acts and parts of acts; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act,” by amending section 7040 (MCL 500.7040), as added by 1986 PA 121.
(Filed with the Secretary of State on December 29, 2022, at 1:48 p.m.)
Respectfully,
Gretchen Whitmer
Governor
The following entitled enrolled bill was presented to the Governor on December 28, 2022, at 2:32 p.m., for approval:
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 39, being
An act to amend 1909 PA 283, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, discontinuing, vacating, closing, altering, improvement, maintenance, and use of the public highways and private roads; the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; maintaining public access to waterways under certain conditions; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, and cutting weeds and brush within this state; providing for the election or appointment and defining the powers, duties, and compensation of state, county, township, and district highway officials; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” by amending section 21 (MCL 224.21), as amended by 1996 PA 23.
The enrolled bill, not having been approved as of January 11, 2023, by 2:32 p.m., did not become law, in accordance with the provisions of Article IV, Section 33, of the Constitution.
The following entitled enrolled bill was presented to the Governor on December 28, 2022, at 2:34 p.m., for approval:
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 43, being
An act to amend 1964 PA 170, entitled “An act to make uniform the liability of municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and the state, its agencies and departments, officers, employees, and volunteers thereof, and members of certain boards, councils, and task forces when engaged in the exercise or discharge of a governmental function, for injuries to property and persons; to define and limit this liability; to define and limit the liability of the state when engaged in a proprietary function; to authorize the purchase of liability insurance to protect against loss arising out of this liability; to provide for defending certain claims made against public officers, employees, and volunteers and for paying damages sought or awarded against them; to provide for the legal defense of public officers, employees, and volunteers; to provide for reimbursement of public officers and employees for certain legal expenses; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 2 (MCL 691.1402), as amended by 2012 PA 50.
The enrolled bill, not having been approved as of January 11, 2023, by 2:34 p.m., did not become law, in accordance with the provisions of Article IV, Section 33, of the Constitution.
The following entitled enrolled bill was presented to the Governor on December 28, 2022, at 2:36 p.m., for approval:
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 642, being
An act to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled “An act to prescribe the powers and duties of the department of management and budget; to define the authority and functions of its director and its organizational entities; to authorize the department to issue directives; to provide for the capital outlay program; to provide for the leasing, planning, constructing, maintaining, altering, renovating, demolishing, conveying of lands and facilities; to provide for centralized administrative services such as purchasing, payroll, record retention, data processing, and publishing and for access to certain services; to provide for a system of internal accounting and administrative control for certain principal departments; to provide for an internal auditor in certain principal departments; to provide for certain powers and duties of certain state officers and agencies; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the powers, duties, and laws relative to budgeting, accounting, and the regulating of appropriations; to provide for the implementation of certain constitutional provisions; to create funds and accounts; to make appropriations; to prescribe remedies and penalties; to rescind certain executive reorganization orders; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 237b (MCL 18.1237b), as added by 2002 PA 504.
The enrolled bill, not having been approved as of January 11, 2023, by 2:36 p.m., did not become law, in accordance with the provisions of Article IV, Section 33, of the Constitution.
Announcements of Printing and Enrollment
Subsequent to the final adjournment of the Regular Session of the Legislature, the Secretary of the Senate enrolled and presented to the Governor on Wednesday, December 28, for her approval the following bills:
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 39 at 2:32 p.m.
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 43 at 2:34 p.m.
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 642 at 2:36 p.m.
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1047 at 2:38 p.m.
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1059 at 2:40 p.m.
Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1085 at 2:42 p.m.