January 13, 2016, Introduced by Senators WARREN, O'BRIEN, KNOLLENBERG, ZORN, GREGORY, JOHNSON, HERTEL, BIEDA, HOOD, KNEZEK, HUNE, SMITH, SCHUITMAKER, PAVLOV, BOOHER and EMMONS and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1937 PA 72, entitled
"Division on deafness act,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 408.202), as amended by 1988 PA 434.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a)
"Council" means the advisory council on deafness deaf,
deafblind, and hard of hearing established in section 5.
(b)
"Deaf person" means a person whose hearing is totally
impaired
or whose hearing, who is not
able to process information
aurally,
with or without amplification, is so
seriously impaired
that
the and whose primary means of communication is visual or by
receiving
spoken language is through other sensory input,
including, but not limited to, lipreading, sign language, finger
spelling,
and or reading.
(c) "Deafblind person" means a person who has a combination of
hearing loss and vision loss, and that combination necessitates
specialized interpretation of spoken and written information in a
manner appropriate to each person's dual sensory loss.
(d) (c)
"Department" means the
department of labor.civil
rights.
(e) (d)
"Division" means the
division on deafness deaf,
deafblind, and hard of hearing established in section 3.
(f) (e)
"Hearing impaired "Hard
of hearing person" means a
person
who has a degree of hearing loss that ranges from mild to
profound.
Hearing impaired person includes a deaf person.A hard of
hearing person uses his or her residual hearing, a hearing aid, a
cochlear implant, hearing assistive technology, communication
access realtime translation (CART), speech reading, or other
communication strategies and remains in the hearing world. A hard
of hearing person may or may not use sign language.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.