Bill Text: MI HB4153 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Public employees and officers; state; designation of legislative open records act (LORA) coordinator; provide for. Amends 1976 PA 442 (MCL 15.231 - 15.246) by adding secs. 56, 57, 58 & 59. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4150'17

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-03-21 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [HB4153 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB4153-Engrossed.html

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HB-4153, As Passed House, March 16, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL No. 4153

 

 

February 2, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Hauck, Alexander, Bellino, Kahle, VanderWall, Moss, Hoitenga, Yaroch, Schor, Faris, Elder, Camilleri, Chatfield, Lasinski, Lucido, Hammoud, Banks, Bizon, Yanez, Sabo, Greig, Green, Marino, Jones, Barrett, Cox, Brinks, Tedder, Geiss, Liberati, Byrd, Wittenberg, Cochran, LaGrand, Zemke, Hertel, Chang, Rabhi, Howrylak, Singh, Hoadley, Hornberger, Glenn, Lower, Wentworth, Ellison, Sowerby, Miller, Sneller, Sheppard, Guerra, Theis, Frederick, Gay-Dagnogo, Hughes, Inman, Rendon, Farrington, Greimel and LaFave and referred to the Committee on Michigan Competitveness.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 442, entitled

 

"Freedom of information act,"

 

(MCL 15.231 to 15.246) by adding sections 56, 57, 58, and 59.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 56. Subject to sections 57 and 58, the council

 

administrator shall designate an individual as the LORA coordinator

 

for all public bodies.

 

     Sec. 57. The house of representatives may designate an

 

individual as the LORA coordinator for the house of

 

representatives.

 

     Sec. 58. The senate may designate an individual as the LORA

 

coordinator for the senate.

 

     Sec. 59. A LORA coordinator may designate another individual

 

to act on his or her behalf in accepting and processing requests

 

for the public body's public records and in approving a denial

under section 55.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January

 

1, 2019.

 

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4150 (request no.

 

00089'17 *) of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.