Bill Text: MI HB4720 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Civil rights: other; language access plan; require state agencies to create and implement for individuals with limited English proficiency. Creates new act. TIE BAR WITH: SB 0382'23
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-12-31 - Assigned Pa 242'23 [HB4720 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4720-Chaptered.html
Act No. 242
Public Acts of 2023
Approved by the Governor
November 29, 2023
Filed with the Secretary of State
November 30, 2023
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 28, 2024
state of michigan
102nd Legislature
Regular session of 2023
Introduced by Reps. Puri, Fitzgerald, Churches, McKinney, Wilson, MacDonell, Hope, Rheingans and Aiyash
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4720
AN ACT to provide for the statewide coordination of meaningful language access to state services by individuals with limited English proficiency; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; and to establish a process for submitting complaints and obtaining remedies for lack of meaningful language access and for denials of meaningful language access based on one’s national origin.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1. This act may be cited as the “statewide meaningful language access coordination act”.
(a) “Covered entity”, “limited English proficiency”, and “meaningful language access” mean those terms as defined in the meaningful language access to state services act.
(b) “Office of global Michigan” means that term as used in 2022 PA 166.
Sec. 3. The office of global Michigan shall do all of the following:
(a) Coordinate steps taken by covered entities throughout this state to provide meaningful language access to public services pursuant to the meaningful language access to state services act.
(b) Designate at least 1 language access liaison to work with covered entities to train staff, develop resources, conduct outreach activities that inform the public of available language services, and facilitate compliance with the meaningful language access to state services act.
(c) Create a complaint form and a process for members of the public to use to report and pursue a remedy for instances of noncompliance with the meaningful language access to state services act. The complaint form created under this subdivision is subject to the translation requirements described in section 2(c) of the meaningful language access to state services act.
(d) In collaboration with the department of civil rights and consistent with section 602 of the Elliot-Larsen civil rights act, 1976 PA 453, MCL 37.2602, create a complaint process under which individuals who believe that they have been denied full and equal access to a covered entity because of their national origin may submit a complaint and seek a remedy against a covered entity.
Sec. 4. Any individual who believes that they were denied
full and equal access to a covered entity because of their national origin has
the right to separately seek a remedy with the department of civil rights
pursuant to the complaint process described in section 3(d).
Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 382 of the 102nd Legislature is enacted into law.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
