Bill Text: MI HB4599 | 2025-2026 | 103rd Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Crimes: organized; certain definitions related to gift card fraud; provide for. Amends 2012 PA 455 (MCL 752.1081 - 752.1087) by adding sec. 3a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4598'25

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2026-10-06 - Assigned Pa 110'26 With Immediate Effect [HB4599 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2025-HB4599-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 110

Public Acts of 2026

Approved by the Governor

October 5, 2026

Filed with the Secretary of State

October 5, 2026

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 3, 2027

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

state of michigan

103rd Legislature

Regular session of 2026

Introduced by Reps. Steckloff, Harris, B. Carter, Rigas, BeGole, Roth, Linting, T. Carter, Bierlein, Schuette, DeBoyer, Tisdel, Aragona, Kunse, Robinson, McFall, Pohutsky, Koleszar, Fitzgerald, Wooden, Foreman, Rheingans, Longjohn, Breen, Arbit, Weiss, Martus, Witwer, Neeley, Tate, O�Neal, Hope, Hoskins, Rogers, Wilson, Morgan, Dievendorf, Byrnes, Glanville, Mueller, Mentzer, Slagh, Outman, Neyer, Frisbie, Prestin, Bohnak, Schmaltz, Wozniak, Meerman, Green and Beson

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4599

AN ACT to amend 2012 PA 455, entitled �An act to prohibit organized retail crime and to provide penalties for that crime; to provide for forfeiture of and restitution for stolen retail merchandise in certain circumstances; to create the organized retail crime advisory board and to prescribe its powers and duties; and to provide for the administration of this act,� (MCL 752.1081 to 752.1087) by adding section 3a.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 3a. As used in section 4:

(a) �Gift card� means a physical or digital closed-loop gift card or open-loop gift card that is either activated or inactivated.

(b) �Gift card redemption information� means information unique to each gift card that allows the cardholder to access, transfer, or spend the funds on the gift card.

(c) �Issuer� means a person that issues a gift card or the agent of the person with respect to that gift card.

(d) �Seller� means a merchant that is engaged in the business of selling gift cards to consumers.

 

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

 

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 4598 of the 103rd Legislature is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

 

Clerk of the House of Representatives

 

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

 

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Governor