Bill Text: MI HB4763 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public employees and officers; state; office of state poet laureate; create. Creates new act.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-13)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-07-15 - Printed Bill Filed 07/15/2015 [HB4763 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB4763-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4763

July 14, 2015, Introduced by Reps. Sarah Roberts, Potvin, Pagan, Plawecki, Irwin, Pscholka, Poleski, Yanez, Zemke, Love, Faris, Chirkun, Dillon, Derek Miller, Rutledge, Durhal, Guerra, Moss, Smiley, Kelly, Canfield, Singh, Townsend, Greimel, Dianda, Byrd, Darany, Callton, Gay-Dagnogo, Banks, Geiss, Pettalia, Lucido, LaFontaine, Hughes, Crawford, Tedder, McBroom, Phelps, LaVoy, Driskell and Hovey-Wright and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to create the office of state poet laureate in the

 

department of education; to provide for the appointment and term of

 

certain state officers; and to impose duties and responsibilities

 

on certain state officers.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. (1) The office of state poet laureate is created

 

within the department of education and housed in the library of

 

Michigan.

 

     (2) The governor may appoint the state poet laureate for a

 

term not to exceed the governor's term. The state poet laureate

 

shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and is exempt from the

 

classified state civil service. The state poet laureate shall be a

 

resident of this state.

 

     (3) The state poet laureate shall serve without compensation.

 

However, the state poet laureate may be reimbursed for his or her

 

actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his or

 

her duties as assigned by the governor.

 

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

 

date it is enacted into law.