Bill Text: MI HB4256 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: State; other; concession operations by blind persons; modify exceptions. Amends sec. 10 of 1978 PA 260 (MCL 393.360).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-19 - Printed Bill Filed 02/15/2013 [HB4256 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4256-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4256

 

February 14, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Denby, Rogers and Kelly and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 260, entitled

 

"An act to revise and codify the laws relating to blind persons and

persons with a visual disability; to create a commission; to

prescribe its powers and duties and those of other state agencies

relative to blind persons; to provide services, education,

training, and assistance to blind persons; to regulate concessions

operated by blind persons; to transfer powers, duties, functions,

and appropriations; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"

 

by amending section 10 (MCL 393.360).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 10. (1) This act shall does not apply to a concession

 

operated in connection with the state fair, with the use of state

 

fairgrounds, with a state educational institution, state penal

 

institution, military establishment, armory, or state park, or in a

 

building that is operated by a house of the legislature.

 

     (2) A sighted person operating a concession under contract or

 

lease at the time this act becomes effective shall not be on

 

October 1, 1978 is not required to surrender the rights before the

 

contract or lease expires.

 

     (3) A sighted person operating a concession which that has not

 

been applied for by a blind person may be permitted to continue in

 

charge until the concession is applied for and a qualified blind

 

person is chosen to operate the concession.