Bill Text: MI HB4697 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: State financing and management; other; definition of disaster; expand to include a cybersecurity incident. Amends sec. 2 of 1976 PA 390 (MCL 30.402).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-07 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/06/2017 [HB4697 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4697-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4697
June 6, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Green, Hertel, Phelps, Iden, Jones, Lasinski, Yanez, Lucido, Elder, Hoadley, LaGrand, Faris, Lower and Yaroch and referred to the Committee on Communications and Technology.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 390, entitled
"Emergency management act,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 30.402), as amended by 1990 PA 50.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Chief executive official" means:
(i) In the case of a county with an elected county executive,
the county executive.
(ii) In the case of a county without an elected county
executive, the chairperson of the county board of commissioners, or
the appointed administrator designated by appropriate enabling
legislation.
(iii) In the case of a city, the mayor or the individual
specifically identified in the municipal charter.
(iv) In the case of a township, the township supervisor.
(v) In the case of a village, the village president or the
individual specifically identified in the village charter.
(b) "Council" means the Michigan emergency management advisory
council.
(c) "Cybersecurity incident" means an event occurring on or
conducted through a computer network that actually or imminently
jeopardizes the integrity, confidentiality, or availability of
computers, information, or communications systems or networks,
physical or virtual infrastructure controlled by computers or
information systems, or information resident on any of these.
Cybersecurity incident includes, but is not limited to, the
existence of a vulnerability in an information system, system
security procedures, internal controls, or implementation that is
subject to exploitation.
(d) (c)
"Department" means the
department of state police.
(e) (d)
"Director" or "state
director of emergency management"
means the director of the department of state police or his or her
designee.
(f) (e)
"Disaster" means an
occurrence or threat of widespread
or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property resulting
from a natural or human-made cause, including, but not limited to,
fire, flood, snowstorm, ice storm, tornado, windstorm, wave action,
oil spill, water contamination, utility failure, cybersecurity
incident, hazardous peacetime radiological incident, major
transportation accident, hazardous materials incident, epidemic,
air contamination, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, or
hostile military action or paramilitary action, or similar
occurrences resulting from terrorist activities, riots, or civil
disorders.
(g) (f)
"Disaster relief forces"
means all agencies of state,
county, and municipal government, private and volunteer personnel,
public officers and employees, and all other persons or groups of
persons having duties or responsibilities under this act or
pursuant to a lawful order or directive authorized by this act.
(h) (g)
"District coordinator"
means the state police
emergency management division district coordinator.
(i) (h)
"Emergency" means any
occasion or instance in which
the governor determines state assistance is needed to supplement
local efforts and capabilities to save lives, protect property and
the public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a
catastrophe in any part of the state.
(j) (i)
"Emergency management
coordinator" means a person
appointed pursuant to section 9 to coordinate emergency management
within the county or municipality. Emergency management coordinator
includes a civil defense director, civil defense coordinator,
emergency services coordinator, emergency program manager, or other
person with a similar title and duties.
(k) (j)
"Local state of
emergency" means a proclamation or
declaration that activates the response and recovery aspects of any
and all applicable local or interjurisdictional emergency
operations plans and authorizes the furnishing of aid, assistance,
and directives under those plans.
(l) (k)
"Michigan emergency management
plan" means the plan
prepared and maintained by the emergency management division of the
department and signed by the governor.
(m) (l) "Municipality"
means a city, village, or township.
(n) (m)
"Person" means an
individual, partnership,
corporation, association, governmental entity, or any other entity.
(o) (n)
"Political subdivision"
means a county, municipality,
school district, or any other governmental unit, agency, body,
board,
or commission which that is not a state department, board,
commission, or agency of state government.
(p) (o)
"Rule" means a rule
promulgated pursuant to the
administrative
procedures act of 1969, Act No. 306 of the Public
Acts
of 1969, being sections 24.201 to 24.328 of the Michigan
Compiled
Laws.1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201
to 24.328.
(q) (p)
"State of disaster" means
an executive order or
proclamation that activates the disaster response and recovery
aspects of the state, local, and interjurisdictional emergency
operations plans applicable to the counties or municipalities
affected.
(r) (q)
"State of emergency"
means an executive order or
proclamation that activates the emergency response and recovery
aspects of the state, local, and interjurisdictional emergency
operations plans applicable to the counties or municipalities
affected.
