Bill Text: MI HB4313 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Veterans; other; use of service dogs by veterans diagnosed with symptoms of certain injuries; allow. Amends sec. 502c of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.502c).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 31-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-17 - Referred To Second Reading [HB4313 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB4313-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4313
March 5, 2015, Introduced by Reps. Hughes, Glenn, Yonker, Barrett, Victory, Callton, Lyons, Muxlow, Lauwers, Garcia, Kelly, Pagel, Outman, Brett Roberts, Bizon, Iden, Aaron Miller, Jenkins, Sheppard, Graves, Runestad, Maturen, LaFontaine, Forlini, Heise, Kesto, Webber, Lucido, Theis, Price and McCready and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled
"The Michigan penal code,"
by amending section 502c (MCL 750.502c), as amended by 1998 PA 38.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 502c. (1) A person who is an owner, lessee, proprietor,
manager, superintendent, agent, or employee of any place of public
or private housing, accommodation, amusement, or recreation,
including but not limited to any inn, hotel, motel, apartment
building, trailer park, restaurant, barbershop, billiard parlor,
store, public conveyance on air, land, or water, theater, motion
picture house, public or private educational institution, or
elevator, who refuses to permit a person with disabilities to enter
or use the place when the place is available because the person
with disabilities is being led or accompanied by a guide or leader
dog, hearing dog, or service dog is guilty of a misdemeanor if the
guide or leader dog is wearing a harness or if the hearing dog or
service dog is wearing a blaze orange leash and collar, hearing dog
cape, or service dog backpack, and the person with disabilities
being led or accompanied has in his or her possession a pictured
identification card certifying that the dog was trained by a
qualified
organization or trainer. The department of labor civil
rights shall maintain a list of organizations or trainers that
train guide or leader dogs, hearing dogs, and service dogs.
(2) A person who is an owner, lessee, proprietor, manager,
superintendent, agent, or employee of any place of public or
private housing, accommodation, amusement, or recreation,
including, but not limited to, the places listed in subsection (1),
who refuses to permit a trainer of guide or leader dogs, hearing
dogs, or service dogs to enter or use the place when the place is
available because the trainer is being led or accompanied by a
guide or leader dog, hearing dog, or service dog is guilty of a
misdemeanor if the guide or leader dog is wearing a harness or if
the hearing dog or service dog is wearing a hearing dog cape or
service dog backpack, if the trainer is being led or accompanied by
an adult dog for the purpose of training the dog, and if the
trainer has in his or her possession picture identification and
identification stating that he or she is a representative or
employee of an organization or trainer, or is a trainer, included
on
the department of labor civil
rights list of organizations or
trainers that train guide or leader dogs, hearing dogs, or service
dogs.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) "Adult dog" means a domestic dog of the species canis
familiaris that is 12 months of age or older.
(b)
"Audibly impaired" means audibly impaired that term as
defined in section 1 of 1981 PA 82, MCL 752.61.
(c)
"Blind person" means a blind person that term as defined
in section 1 of 1978 PA 260, MCL 393.351.
(d)
"Deaf person" means a deaf person that term as defined in
section 1 of 1981 PA 82, MCL 752.61.
(e)
"Person with disabilities" means a person who is meets 1
or more of the following conditions:
(i) Is audibly impaired, is a blind person, is a deaf person,
or is otherwise physically limited.
(ii) Is a veteran who has been diagnosed with 1 or more of the
following:
(A) Symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.
(B) Symptoms associated with traumatic brain injury.
(C) Other service-related disabilities.
(f)
"Physically limited" means physically limited that term as
defined in section 1 of 1966 PA 1, MCL 125.1351.
(g) "Veteran" means any of the following:
(i) A person who served on active duty in the armed forces for
a period of more than 180 days and separated from the armed forces
in a manner other than a dishonorable discharge.
(ii) A person discharged or released from active duty because
of a service-related disability.
(iii) A member of a reserve branch of the armed forces at the
time he or she was ordered to active duty during a period of war,
or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge is
authorized, and was released from active duty in a manner other
than a dishonorable discharge.