Bill Text: MI HB5590 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Trade; consumer goods and services; gift cards and gift certificates; prohibit expiration within 10 years. Amends sec. 3g of 1976 PA 331 (MCL 445.903g).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 31-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-26 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 04/21/2016 [HB5590 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB5590-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5590
April 21, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Plawecki, LaGrand, Darany, Greig, Chirkun, Byrd, Robinson, Smiley, Talabi, Rutledge, Brinks, Yanez, Lane, Faris, Driskell, Banks, Gay-Dagnogo, Geiss, Irwin, Hovey-Wright, Love, Schor, Liberati, Clemente, Hoadley, Santana, Neeley, LaVoy, Phelps, Wittenberg and Pagan and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Trade.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 331, entitled
"Michigan consumer protection act,"
by amending section 3g (MCL 445.903g), as added by 2008 PA 209.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3g. A person engaged in the retail sale of goods or
services shall not sell a gift certificate to a consumer that
expires
within a period of less than 5 10 years.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.