Bill Text: MI SB1179 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Food; service establishments; local government restaurant grading system for food service establishments; prohibit. Creates new act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-12-18 - Referred To Committee On Agriculture [SB1179 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB1179-Engrossed.html

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SB-1179, As Passed Senate, December 13, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

SENATE BILL NO. 1179

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to prohibit a local unit of government from imposing a

 

certain restaurant grading system on certain food service

 

establishments; and to prescribe the powers and duties of certain

 

local governmental entities.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "local

 

government restaurant grading system preemption act".

 

     Sec. 2. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Local unit of government" means any local government or

 

its subdivision, including, but not limited to, a city, village,

 

township, county, or educational institution; a local public

 

authority, agency, board, commission, or other local governmental,

 

quasi-governmental, or quasi-public body; or a public body that

 

acts or purports to act in a commercial, business, economic

development, or similar capacity for a local government or its

 

subdivision or local health department as that term is defined in

 

section 1105 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.1105.

 

     (b) "Restaurant grading system" means a system that requires a

 

food service establishment licensed in this state to display a

 

letter, color, or number representing the total violations found at

 

the food service establishment during public health inspections.

 

     Sec. 3. Except as otherwise provided by federal law or a law

 

of this state, a local unit of government shall not enact, enforce,

 

or administer an ordinance, regulation, resolution, policy, rule,

 

or directive imposing a restaurant grading system on a food service

 

establishment licensed in this state.

 

     Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the

 

date it is enacted into law.