SB-0804, As Passed Senate, April 18, 2018
February 1, 2018, Introduced by Senator HILDENBRAND and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 260, entitled
"An act to revise and codify the laws relating to blind persons and
persons with a visual disability; to create a commission; to
prescribe its powers and duties and those of other state agencies
relative to blind persons; to provide services, education,
training, and assistance to blind persons; to regulate concessions
operated by blind persons; to transfer powers, duties, functions,
and appropriations; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"
by amending section 9 (MCL 393.359) and by adding section 10a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
9. (1) A Except
as provided in sections 10 and 10a, a
concession in a building or on property owned or occupied by this
state
shall must be operated by a blind person, regardless of race,
creed,
color, sex, marital status, or religious preference. ,
except
in cases provided for in section 10.
(2) The building division of the department of technology,
management, and budget shall submit plans relative to concessions
in state buildings or on state property to the commission, which
shall
have has the final authority relative to the location of
concessions.
Sec. 10a. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), section 9
does not apply to a building or part of a building owned or
occupied by this state if the building is larger than 1,000,000
square feet.
(2) The commission shall exercise its authority under section
9 to provide for automated vending machine concessions in a
building described in subsection (1).
(3) The department of technology, management, and budget shall
provide 1,700 square feet of space to the commission at the same
rental rate provided to state agency tenants in buildings described
in subsection (1).
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.