Bill Text: MI SB0933 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Worker's compensation; benefits; medical marihuana expenses incurred to treat work-related injury; exclude from reimbursement requirements. Amends 1969 PA 317 (MCL 418.101 - 418.941) by adding sec. 315a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-12-31 - Assigned Pa 0481'12 With Immediate Effect [SB0933 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SB0933-Chaptered.html
Act No. 481
Public Acts of 2012
Approved by the Governor
December 27, 2012
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 28, 2012
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 28, 2012
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2012
Introduced by Senators Jones, Hune, Marleau, Kahn, Proos, Booher, Schuitmaker, Pappageorge and Jansen
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 933
AN ACT to amend 1969 PA 317, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to worker’s disability compensation; to increase the administrative efficiency of the adjudicative processes of the worker’s compensation system; to improve the qualifications of the persons having adjudicative functions within the worker’s compensation system; to prescribe certain powers and duties; to create the board of worker’s compensation magistrates and the worker’s compensation appellate commission; to create certain other boards; to provide certain procedures for the resolution of claims, including mediation and arbitration; to prescribe certain benefits for persons suffering a personal injury under the act; to prescribe certain limitations on obtaining benefits under the act; to create, and provide for the transfer of, certain funds; to prescribe certain fees; to prescribe certain remedies and penalties; to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 418.101 to 418.941) by adding section 315a.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 315a. Notwithstanding the requirements in section 315, an employer is not required to reimburse or cause to be reimbursed charges for medical marihuana treatment.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
