Bill Text: MI HB4697 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Communications; broadcasting; emergency broadcasts; modify. Amends secs. 2 & 3 of 2016 PA 235 (MCL 28.672 & 28.673).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-06-12 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/12/2019 [HB4697 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB4697-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4697
June 11, 2019, Introduced by Rep. Coleman and referred to the Committee on Military, Veterans and Homeland Security.
A bill to amend 2016 PA 235, entitled
"Public threat alert system act,"
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. A
public threat includes, but is not limited to, an act of terrorism,
an
unresolved mass shooting, or an unresolved mass shooting spree,
or any catastrophic incident as that term is defined under 6 USC
311.
Sec. 3. (1) The department of state police shall establish and
maintain the public threat alert system plan.
(2) The department of state police shall design the public
threat
alert system plan shall be designed to rapidly disseminate
useful information in a predetermined manner to radio and
television
stations within in this state and to wireless devices
through the existing wireless emergency alert system operated under
federal law.
(3)
The public threat alert system plan shall must be
activated only in accordance with the policies established by the
department of state police.
(4) The public threat alert system plan must require that a
qualified interpreter, as that term is defined in section 2 of the
deaf persons' interpreters act, 1982 PA 204, MCL 393.502, is
included in any televised broadcast of a developing or ongoing
public threat.
