Bill Text: MI HB5341 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Veterans; other; definition of veteran; update in the veterans' relief fund act. Amends sec. 2 of 1899 PA 214 (MCL 35.22). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5332'16
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2016-07-13 - Assigned Pa 208'16 With Immediate Effect [HB5341 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB5341-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5341
February 10, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Bizon, Barrett, Muxlow, Clemente, Lucido and Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs.
A bill to amend 1899 PA 214, entitled
"An act to provide relief outside of the soldiers' home for
honorably discharged indigent soldiers, sailors, marines, nurses
and members of women's auxiliaries and the indigent wives, widows
and minor children of such indigent or deceased soldiers, sailors,
marines, nurses and members of women's auxiliaries, and to repeal
certain acts and parts of acts,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 35.22).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. (1) The judge of probate in each county shall appoint
3
persons, veterans as that
term is defined in 1965 PA 190, MCL
35.61
to 35.62, who are residents of such the county , and who
shall
be were honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, marines,
nurses, or
members of the women's auxiliaries
, of the United
States
army and navy, volunteers or regulars, who served in a war
in
which the United States has been, is or may hereafter be, a
participant,
at least 1 of whom shall have served in World War I,
Armed Forces, to a commission to be known as the "soldiers' relief
commission" of the county, with the powers and duties as provided
in
this act. provided. If there is no World War I veteran who
is
willing
to serve, a veteran of a war as defined in Act No. 190 of
the
Public Acts of 1965, as amended, being sections 35.61 and 35.62
of
the Compiled Laws of 1948, may be appointed to serve on the
soldiers'
relief commission.
(2)
One Of the persons
appointed under subsection (1), 1 of
such
the persons shall be appointed for a term of 1 year; 1
for a
term of 2 years; and 1 for a term of 3 years, and at the expiration
of
the term for which each of such the
persons was appointed, his
or her successor shall be appointed for a term of 3 years.
thereafter.
The persons so appointed shall
organize by the
selection
of 1 of their number as chairman, chairperson and 1 as
secretary, and in the event of the death, resignation, change of
residence or other disability of any member of the commission,
creating
a vacancy, the judge of probate shall fill such the
vacancy by an appointment for the unexpired term. The members shall
each file the constitutional oath of office with the probate court,
and
receive the proper certificate of their appointment. They shall
be
are entitled to reasonable compensation for their services,
to
be
fixed and paid by the county board of supervisors commissioners
of
their respective counties. The judge of probate shall have
authority
to may remove any member of such the commission
for
cause.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. 5332 (request no.
02698'15 *) of the 98th Legislature is enacted into law.
