Bill Text: MI SB0150 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Military affairs: other; 28 day limit for national guard activation; create. Amends sec. 151 of 1967 PA 150 (MCL 32.551).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 15-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-18 - Referred To Committee On Families, Seniors, And Veterans [SB0150 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-SB0150-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL NO. 150
February 18, 2021, Introduced by Senators
BARRETT, HORN, THEIS, RUNESTAD, DALEY, VICTORY, ZORN, LASATA, SHIRKEY,
BUMSTEAD, STAMAS, VANDERWALL, MCBROOM, OUTMAN and JOHNSON and referred to
the Committee on Families, Seniors, and Veterans.
A bill to amend 1967 PA 150, entitled
"Michigan military act,"
by amending section 151 (MCL 32.551), as amended by 2016 PA 311.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 151. (1) The
governor is the commander-in-chief of the Michigan National Guard. He Except
as provided in subsection (3), he or she may order to active
state service any members of the Michigan National Guard in case of riot,
tumult, breach of the peace, or resistance of process, or for service in aid of
civil authority, whether state or federal, or in time of actual or imminent
public danger, disaster, crisis, catastrophe, or other public emergency within
this state or to respond to acts or threats of terrorism or to safeguard
military or other vital resources of this state or of the United States. If the
governor and his or her legal successor are absent or disabled or cannot be
communicated with, the adjutant general, if he or she believes the danger great
and imminent, may order out, in the name of the governor, such troops of the
Michigan National Guard as he or she believes necessary to meet the emergency.
(2) In Except as provided in subsection (3), in circumstances
other than those described in subsection (1), the governor may order any member
of the Michigan National Guard to active state service for duties in support of
the full-time operation of the Michigan National Guard. However, a member of
the Michigan National Guard who is called to active service under this
subsection does not have any police powers or arrest authority.
(3)
The governor may order a member of the Michigan National Guard to active state
service under subsection (1) or (2) for not longer than 28 days. After 28 days
of active state service, the governor shall order the member of the Michigan
National Guard out of active state service, unless a request by the governor
for an extension of the period of active state service for a specific number of
days is approved by resolution of both houses of the legislature.
