Bill Text: MI SB0554 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Civil rights; other; breastfeeding in public places; protect as civil right. Amends title and sec. 302 of 1976 PA 453 (MCL 37.2302).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-06-30 - Referred To Committee On Judiciary [SB0554 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SB0554-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 554
June 30, 2011, Introduced by Senators WARREN, HOPGOOD, YOUNG, WHITMER and JOHNSON and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 453, entitled
"Elliott-Larsen civil rights act,"
by amending the title and section 302 (MCL 37.2302), the title as
amended by 1992 PA 258.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
TITLE
An act to define civil rights; to prohibit discriminatory
practices, policies, and customs in the exercise of those rights
based upon religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex,
height,
weight, familial status, or marital status, or
breastfeeding; to preserve the confidentiality of records regarding
arrest, detention, or other disposition in which a conviction does
not result; to prescribe the powers and duties of the civil rights
commission and the department of civil rights; to provide remedies
and
penalties; to provide for fees; and to repeal certain acts and
parts of acts.
Sec. 302. Except where permitted by law, a person shall not:
(a)
Deny an individual the full and equal enjoyment of the
goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or
accommodations of a place of public accommodation or public service
to an individual because of religion, race, color, national origin,
age, sex, or marital status or to a woman because she is
breastfeeding a child.
(b) Print, circulate, post, mail, or otherwise cause to be
published
a statement, advertisement, notice, or sign which that
indicates that the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services,
facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of a place of
public accommodation or public service will be refused, withheld
from, or denied an individual because of religion, race, color,
national
origin, age, sex, or marital status
, or refused, withheld
from, or denied a woman because she is breastfeeding a child; that
an individual's patronage of or presence at a place of public
accommodation is objectionable, unwelcome, unacceptable, or
undesirable because of religion, race, color, national origin, age,
sex, or marital status; or that a woman's patronage or presence at
a place of public accommodation is objectionable, unwelcome,
unacceptable, or undesirable because she is breastfeeding a child.
