Act No. 12

Public Acts of 2018

Approved by the Governor

February 6, 2018

Filed with the Secretary of State

February 6, 2018

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 7, 2018

STATE OF MICHIGAN

99TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2018

Introduced by Rep. Leutheuser

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4218

AN ACT to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled “An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state; to provide general assistance, hospitalization, infirmary and medical care to poor or unfortunate persons; to provide for compliance by this state with the social security act; to provide protection, welfare and services to aged persons, dependent children, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled; to administer programs and services for the prevention and treatment of delinquency, dependency and neglect of children; to create a state department of social services; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department; to provide for the interstate and intercounty transfer of dependents; to create county and district departments of social services; to create within certain county departments, bureaus of social aid and certain divisions and offices thereunder; to prescribe the powers and duties of the departments, bureaus and officers; to provide for appeals in certain cases; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state department with respect to county and district departments; to prescribe certain duties of certain other state departments, officers, and agencies; to make an appropriation; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,” (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 14d.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 14d. (1) In a juvenile residential care facility operated by a court under section 14 that is located in a county with a population of less than 50,000, a direct care worker is qualified to and shall be allowed to work in the facility if he or she has completed high school or obtained a general equivalency diploma (GED).

(2) If an administrative rule conflicts with the provisions of this section, the provisions of this section prevail.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor