Bill Text: MI HB4780 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Public employees and officers: compensation and benefits; certain references in public act relating to disability compensation for firefighters; make gender neutral. Amends sec. 3 of 1942 (1st Ex Sess) PA 9 (MCL 419.203). TIE BAR WITH: HJR F'23
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-20 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/15/2023 [HB4780 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4780-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4780
A bill to amend 1942 (1st Ex Sess) PA 9, entitled
"An act providing for compensation to certain fire fighters injured in the safeguarding of life and property, and payment to the surviving spouse and dependents in case of death; and to make an appropriation therefor,"
by amending section 3 (MCL 419.203), as amended by 1983 PA 207.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 3. The surviving spouse and dependents of a fire fighter firefighter who is killed in safeguarding life or property outside his or her jurisdiction from damage due to an explosion, fire, or other disaster, however caused, or in transportation to or from a fire, explosion, or other disaster, however caused, outside his or her jurisdiction, shall receive the sum of $500.00 for defraying the expense of burial, and compensation equivalent to the amount provided at the time of death of the fire fighter firefighter under the worker's disability compensation act of 1969, Act No. 317 of the Public Acts of 1969, being sections 418.101 to 418.941 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. 1969 PA 317, MCL 418.101 to 418.941. Compensation shall must be payable to the spouse of the fire fighter, firefighter, if living, and until remarriage; the children of the fire fighter, firefighter, while dependent; the mother, father, or both, parent or parents of the fire fighter, firefighter, while dependent; and the brothers and sisters siblings of the fire fighter, firefighter, while dependent; in the order named. If the fire fighter firefighter does not leave a surviving spouse or any dependents as defined in this section, the estate of the fire fighter firefighter shall receive the sum of $500.00 for the expense of the fire fighter's firefighter's burial.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Joint Resolution ____ or House Joint Resolution F (request no. 00367'23) of the 102nd Legislature becomes a part of the state constitution of 1963 as provided in section 1 of article XII of the state constitution of 1963.
