Bill Text: MI HB4778 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: State financing and management: other; state agencies using messaging apps that allow deletion of messages to avoid FOIA: prohibit. Amends 1984 PA 431 (MCL 18.1101 - 18.1594) by adding sec. 270.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-1)

Status: (Passed) 2021-11-30 - Assigned Pa 114'21 With Immediate Effect [HB4778 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2021-HB4778-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 114

Public Acts of 2021

Approved by the Governor

November 22, 2021

Filed with the Secretary of State

November 22, 2021

EFFECTIVE DATE:  November 22, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

state of michigan

101st Legislature

Regular session of 2021

Introduced by Reps. Steven Johnson, Bezotte, Slagh, Hornberger, Yaroch, Beeler, Aiyash, Frederick and Meerman

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4778

AN ACT to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled “An act to prescribe the powers and duties of the department of management and budget; to define the authority and functions of its director and its organizational entities; to authorize the department to issue directives; to provide for the capital outlay program; to provide for the leasing, planning, constructing, maintaining, altering, renovating, demolishing, conveying of lands and facilities; to provide for centralized administrative services such as purchasing, payroll, record retention, data processing, and publishing and for access to certain services; to provide for a system of internal accounting and administrative control for certain principal departments; to provide for an internal auditor in certain principal departments; to provide for certain powers and duties of certain state officers and agencies; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the powers, duties, and laws relative to budgeting, accounting, and the regulating of appropriations; to provide for the implementation of certain constitutional provisions; to create funds and accounts; to make appropriations; to prescribe remedies and penalties; to rescind certain executive reorganization orders; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594) by adding section 270.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 270. The department shall issue directives that all state departments and all state agencies must not use any app, software, or other technology that prevents it from maintaining or preserving a public record as required by law on an electronic device that is used to create a public record.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

 

Clerk of the House of Representatives

 

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor