Bill Text: MI HB4387 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: State agencies (existing); generally; postmark date; allow as indication of timely submission for request. Creates new act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-22 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/21/2017 [HB4387 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4387-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4387
March 21, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Hughes, Howrylak, Yaroch, Marino, Wittenberg, Leutheuser, Pagel, Kelly, Kesto and Iden and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.
A bill to require departments and regulatory agencies of this
state to acknowledge timely receipt of information requests
submitted by mail as the postmark date; and to provide for rule-
making authority.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
"postmark acknowledgment act".
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Information submission" means information required to be
submitted by a regulated person to a regulatory agency through use
of the United States Postal Service.
(b) "Regulated person" means an individual or legal entity
subject to the authority of a regulatory agency.
(c) "Regulatory agency" means a department, bureau, or agency
of this state that has statutory regulatory authority over
activities of an individual, business, profession, or industry.
Sec. 3. Except as otherwise provided for by law, a regulatory
agency shall accept and acknowledge the postmark date as the date
of receipt of an information submission made by a regulated person.
Sec. 4. Except as otherwise provided for by law, a regulatory
agency may promulgate rules or amend existing rules under the
administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to
24.328, to implement this act.
Sec. 5. This act takes effect 60 days after the date it is
enacted into law.
