Bill Text: MI HB5455 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Higher education; financial aid; administration of police officer's and fire fighter's survivor tuition act; transfer to department of treasury. Amends sec. 2 of 1996 PA 195 (MCL 390.1242).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-08 - Printed Bill Filed 03/07/2012 [HB5455 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB5455-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5455
March 6, 2012, Introduced by Rep. Forlini and referred to the Committee on Local, Intergovernmental, and Regional Affairs.
A bill to amend 1996 PA 195, entitled
"Police officer's and fire fighter's survivor tuition act,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 390.1242).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Child" means an individual who is a natural or adopted
child of a deceased Michigan police officer or deceased Michigan
fire fighter and who was under the age of 21 at the time of the
Michigan police officer's or Michigan fire fighter's death.
(b)
"Department" means the department of state
police.treasury.
(c) "Killed" means that the Michigan police officer's or
Michigan fire fighter's death is the direct and proximate result of
a traumatic injury incurred in the line of duty.
(d) "Line of duty" means an action that a Michigan police
officer or Michigan fire fighter is obligated or authorized to
perform by rule, regulation, condition of employment or service, or
law, including, but not limited to, a social, ceremonial, or
athletic function that the Michigan police officer or Michigan fire
fighter is assigned to or compensated for by the public agency he
or she serves.
(e) "Michigan police officer" means a sheriff or sheriff's
deputy of a sheriff's department in this state; village or township
marshal of a village or township in this state; officer of the
police department of any city, village, or township in this state;
officer of the Michigan state police; or any other police officer
or
law enforcement officer trained and certified pursuant to under
the
Michigan law enforcement officers training council act of 1965,
Act
No. 203 of the Public Acts of 1965, being sections 28.601 to
28.616
of the Michigan Compiled Laws.commission
on law enforcement
standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 to 28.616.
(f) "Michigan fire fighter" means a member including volunteer
members and members paid on call of a fire department, or other
organization that provides fire suppression and other fire-related
services, of a city, township, village, or county who is
responsible for or is in a capacity that includes responsibility
for the extinguishment of fires. Michigan fire fighter does not
include a person whose job description, duties, or responsibilities
do not include direct involvement in fire suppression.
(g) "Occupational disease" means a disease that routinely
constitutes a special hazard in, or is commonly regarded as
concomitant of, the Michigan police officer's or Michigan fire
fighter's occupation.
(h) "State institution of higher education" means a public
community or junior college established under section 7 of article
VIII of the state constitution of 1963 or part 25 of the revised
school
code, Act No. 451 of the Public Acts of 1976, being sections
380.1601
to 380.1607 of the Michigan Compiled Laws, 1976 PA 451,
MCL 380.1601 to 380.1607, or a state university described in
section 4, 5, or 6 of article VIII of the state constitution of
1963.
(i) "Traumatic injury" means a wound or the condition of the
body caused by external force, including, but not limited to, an
injury inflicted by bullet, explosive, sharp instrument, blunt
object or other physical blow, fire, smoke, chemical, electricity,
climatic condition, infectious disease, radiation, or bacteria, but
excluding an injury resulting from stress, strain, or occupational
disease.
(j) "Tuition" means tuition at the rate charged for residents
of this state.
