HOUSE BILL No. 4948

 

June 15, 2005, Introduced by Reps. Kathleen Law, Plakas, Hopgood, Byrum, Clack, Farrah, Meisner, Gonzales, Alma Smith, Espinoza, McDowell, Lipsey, Kolb, Hood, Adamini, Brown, Gillard, Anderson and Williams and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, Great Lakes, Land Use, and Environment.

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

(MCL 324.101 to 324.90106) by adding section 17210.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 17210. A person who is in the business of replacing or

 

repairing household items shall not place a mercury-added product

 

into the waste stream except under 1 of the following

 

circumstances:

 

     (a) As universal waste managed and disposed of under part 2 of

 

the hazardous waste management rules, R 299.9201 to 299.9230 of the

 

Michigan administrative code.

 

     (b) As hazardous waste managed and disposed of under part 111.

 

     (c) By delivery to a take-back program established by a

 

manufacturer described in section 17207(3)(d).

 

     Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are


 

enacted into law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No. 186 or House Bill No. 4058.

 

     (b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No.____ (request no.

 

03396'05).