Bill Text: MI HB6021 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Labor; fair employment practices; whistleblower protection; expand to include reporting of planned wrongdoings and coverups. Amends sec. 2 of 1980 PA 469 (MCL 15.362).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-11-10 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 11/09/2016 [HB6021 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB6021-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 6021

 

 

November 9, 2016, Introduced by Rep. Irwin and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to amend 1980 PA 469, entitled

 

"The whistleblowers' protection act,"

 

by amending section 2 (MCL 15.362).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 2. An employer shall not discharge, threaten, or

 

otherwise discriminate against an employee regarding the employee's

 

compensation, terms, conditions, location, or privileges of

 

employment because the employee, or a person acting on behalf of

 

the employee, reports or is about to report, verbally or in

 

writing, a violation, or a suspected violation, a planned

 

violation, or a direction to participate in or cover up a violation

 

or planned violation of a law or regulation or rule promulgated

 

pursuant to law of this state, a political subdivision of this

 

state, or the United States to a public body, unless the employee

 

knows that the report is false, or because an employee is requested

 

by a public body to participate in an investigation, hearing, or

 

inquiry held by that public body, or a court action.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.