Bill Text: MI HB5055 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Employment security; administration; privilege for testimony in Michigan employment security commission proceedings; provide waiver under certain circumstances. Amends 1936 (Ex Sess) PA 1 (MCL 421.1 - 421.75) by adding sec. 11a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 27-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-12-27 - Assigned Pa 422'12 With Immediate Effect [HB5055 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB5055-Chaptered.html
Act No. 422
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
December 20, 2012
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 21, 2012
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 21, 2012
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Reps. Hughes, Heise, Goike, Gilbert, Damrow, LaFontaine, Kowall, Forlini, Foster, Hooker, Potvin, Johnson, Horn, Lori, Agema, Denby, Somerville, Cotter, Yonker, Outman, Zorn, Pettalia, Knollenberg, Daley, Walsh, Bumstead and Wayne Schmidt
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5055
AN ACT to amend 1936 (Ex Sess) PA 1, entitled “An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state through the establishment of an unemployment compensation fund, and to provide for the disbursement thereof; to create certain other funds; to create the Michigan employment security commission, and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the protection of the people of this state from the hazards of unemployment; to levy and provide for contributions from employers; to levy and provide for obligation assessments; to provide for the collection of those contributions and assessments; to enter into reciprocal agreements and to cooperate with agencies of the United States and of other states charged with the administration of any unemployment insurance law; to furnish certain information to certain governmental agencies for use in administering public benefit and child support programs and investigating and prosecuting fraud; to provide for the payment of benefits; to provide for appeals from redeterminations, decisions and notices of assessments; and for referees and a board of review to hear and decide the issues arising from redeterminations, decisions and notices of assessment; to provide for the cooperation of this state and compliance with the provisions of the social security act and the Wagner-Peyser act passed by the Congress of the United States of America; to provide for the establishment and maintenance of free public employment offices; to provide for the transfer of funds; to make appropriations for carrying out the provisions of this act; to prescribe remedies and penalties for the violation of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act,” (MCL 421.1 to 421.75) by adding section 11a.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 11a. An individual who testifies voluntarily before another body concerning representations the individual made to the unemployment agency pursuant to the administration of this act waives any privilege under section 11 otherwise applying to the individual’s representations to the unemployment agency.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
