Bill Text: MI HB5014 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered


Bill Title: Liquor; retail sales; access to cash assistance from Michigan bridge cards from certain automated teller machines (ATMs); prohibit. Amends 1998 PA 58 (MCL 436.1101 - 436.2303) by adding sec. 1024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 19-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-12-31 - Assigned Pa 197'13 With Immediate Effect 2013 Addenda [HB5014 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB5014-Chaptered.html

Act No. 197

Public Acts of 2013

Approved by the Governor

December 17, 2013

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 18, 2013

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 1, 2014

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

Introduced by Reps. Zorn, Johnson, Pagel, Yonker, VerHeulen, MacMaster, Kurtz, Graves, Daley, Lauwers, Rendon, Jenkins, LaFontaine, O’Brien, Lori, Denby, Price, Kowall and Howrylak

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5014

AN ACT to amend 1998 PA 58, entitled “An act to create a commission for the control of the alcoholic beverage traffic within this state, and to prescribe its powers, duties, and limitations; to provide for powers and duties for certain state departments and agencies; to impose certain taxes for certain purposes; to provide for the control of the alcoholic liquor traffic within this state and to provide for the power to establish state liquor stores; to prohibit the use of certain devices for the dispensing of alcoholic vapor; to provide for the care and treatment of alcoholics; to provide for the incorporation of farmer cooperative wineries and the granting of certain rights and privileges to those cooperatives; to provide for the licensing and taxation of activities regulated under this act and the disposition of the money received under this act; to prescribe liability for retail licensees under certain circumstances and to require security for that liability; to provide procedures, defenses, and remedies regarding violations of this act; to provide for the enforcement and to prescribe penalties for violations of this act; to provide for allocation of certain funds for certain purposes; to provide for the confiscation and disposition of property seized under this act; to provide referenda under certain circumstances; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 436.1101 to 436.2303) by adding section 1024.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1024. (1) A retailer shall work with the department of human services and with persons that provide automatic teller machine services on the retailer’s premises to prevent an individual’s access to cash benefits from Michigan bridge cards through a point of sale device or withdrawal from an automatic teller machine on the retailer’s premises. For purposes of this section only, a retailer does not include a retail food store.

(2) As used in this section:

(a) “Michigan bridge card” means the card that is used to distribute cash benefits by the department of human services.

(b) “Retail food store” means that term as defined in 7 USC 2012.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect February 1, 2014.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor