Bill Text: MI HB4061 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Law enforcement: communications; restrictions for use of the emergency alert system; provide for. Amends secs. 2 & 3 of 2016 PA 235 (MCL 28.672 & 28.673).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2021-09-14 - Re-referred To Committee On Government Operations [HB4061 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2021-HB4061-Enrolled.html

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state of michigan

101st Legislature

Regular session of 2021

Introduced by Reps. Slagh, O’Malley, Allor, Bezotte, Damoose, Fink and Beeler

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4061

AN ACT to amend 2016 PA 235, entitled “An act to prescribe the public threat alert system as the official response to public threat situations in this state; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and authorities,” by amending sections 2 and 3 (MCL 28.672 and 28.673).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 2. As used in this act, “public threat” means a clear, present, persistent, ongoing, and random threat to public safety that is likely to lead to an immediate or nearly immediate loss of life or property. A public threat includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:

(a) An act of terrorism.

(b) An unresolved mass shooting.

(c) An unresolved mass shooting spree.

(d) A natural disaster including, but not limited to, a severe storm or flood.

(e) An industrial explosion.

(f) A train derailment.

(g) An announcement of an endangered missing individual.

 

Sec. 3. (1) The department of state police shall establish and maintain the public threat alert system plan.

(2) The public threat alert system plan must be designed to rapidly disseminate useful information in a predetermined manner to radio and television stations within this state and to wireless devices through the existing wireless emergency alert system operated under federal law.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), the public threat alert system plan must be activated only in accordance with the policies established by the department of state police.

(4) The public threat alert system plan must not be activated to transmit an announcement of a new law or executive order, including transmitting to wireless devices through the existing wireless emergency alert system operated under federal law, unless it is necessary to transmit the announcement of the new law or executive order using the public threat alert system plan to respond to an immediate or nearly immediate loss of life or property.

 

Clerk of the House of Representatives

 

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor