Bill Text: MI HB5486 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered

Michigan House Bill 5486 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Worker's compensation; administration; availability of private self-insurer's records in bankruptcy; provide for private employer group self-insurers security fund. Amends sec. 561 of 1969 PA 317 (MCL 418.561). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5478'14, HB 5479'14, HB 5480'14, HB 5483'14

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-07-16 - Assigned Pa 235'14 With Immediate Effect [HB5486 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB5486-Chaptered.html

Act No. 235

Public Acts of 2014

Approved by the Governor

June 21, 2014

Filed with the Secretary of State

June 27, 2014

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 27, 2014

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

Introduced by Rep. Santana

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5486

AN ACT to amend 1969 PA 317, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to worker’s disability compensation; to increase the administrative efficiency of the adjudicative processes of the worker’s compensation system; to improve the qualifications of the persons having adjudicative functions within the worker’s compensation system; to prescribe certain powers and duties; to create the board of worker’s compensation magistrates and the worker’s compensation appellate commission; to create certain other boards; to provide certain procedures for the resolution of claims, including mediation and arbitration; to prescribe certain benefits for persons suffering a personal injury under the act; to prescribe certain limitations on obtaining benefits under the act; to create, and provide for the transfer of, certain funds; to prescribe certain fees; to prescribe certain remedies and penalties; to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 561 (MCL 418.561).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 561. The application for self-insurance by a private employer shall contain an agreement that in case of insolvency the employer shall make its records available to an agent of the self-insurers’ security fund or the private employer group self-insurers security fund, as applicable, to help defend the fund and shall disclose the employer’s inability to pay the injured employee.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 5478.

(b) House Bill No. 5479.

(d) House Bill No. 5483.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor