Bill Text: MI SB0734 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Holidays; other; "Utility Workers Safety Awareness Day"; designate as December 6. Creates new act.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - Referred To Committee On Government Operations [SB0734 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB0734-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 734

 

 

January 8, 2014, Introduced by Senators CASWELL, MARLEAU, JONES, HUNTER, JANSEN, BOOHER, COLBECK and PAPPAGEORGE and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

 

 

     A bill to designate December 6 of each year as "Utility

 

Workers Safety Awareness Day".

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. (1) The legislature recognizes that utility workers

 

put their lives on the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days

 

a year. Utility workers regularly perform their duties along the

 

roadside at sites identified by rotating amber lights on the

 

utility vehicles and by signs and cones. Utility workers are

 

frequently endangered by drivers who do not slow down or provide

 

sufficient clearance.

 

     (2) In commemoration of the significant role utility workers

 

play in our lives and to educate the public to "slow down and go

 

around" utility workers, just as they do for police officers,

 

firefighters, and ambulance personnel, the legislature designates

 

December 6 of each year as "Utility Workers Safety Awareness Day".