Bill Text: MI HB5015 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Gaming; horse racing; access to family independence program assistance from certain automated teller machines (ATMs) with bridge card; prohibit. Amends 1995 PA 279 (MCL 431.301 - 431.336) by adding sec. 9b.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 19-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-12-31 - Assigned Pa 198'13 With Immediate Effect 2013 Addenda [HB5015 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB5015-Chaptered.html
Act No. 198
Public Acts of 2013
Approved by the Governor
December 17, 2013
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 18, 2013
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 1, 2014
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2013
Introduced by Reps. Zorn, Johnson, Pagel, Yonker, VerHeulen, MacMaster, Kurtz, Graves, Daley, Lauwers, Rendon, Jenkins, LaFontaine, O’Brien, Lori, Denby, Price, Kowall and Howrylak
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5015
AN ACT to amend 1995 PA 279, entitled “An act to license and regulate the conducting of horse race meetings in this state with pari-mutuel wagering on the results of horse races and persons involved in horse racing and pari-mutuel gaming activities at such race meetings; to create the office of racing commissioner; to prescribe the powers and duties of the racing commissioner; to prescribe certain powers and duties of the department of agriculture and the director of the department of agriculture; to provide for the promulgation of rules; to provide for the imposition of taxes and fees and the disposition of revenues; to impose certain taxes; to create funds; to legalize and permit the pari-mutuel method of wagering on the results of live and simulcast races at licensed race meetings in this state; to appropriate the funds derived from pari-mutuel wagering on the results of horse races at licensed race meetings in this state; to prescribe remedies and penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 431.301 to 431.336) by adding section 9b.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 9b. (1) The holder of a track license shall work with the department of human services and with persons that provide point of sale device or automated teller machine services on the license holder’s premises to prevent an individual’s access to cash benefits from Michigan bridge cards through a point of sale device or withdrawal from an automated teller machine on the license holder’s premises.
(2) As used in this section, “Michigan bridge card” means the card that is used to distribute cash benefits by the department of human services.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect February 1, 2014.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
