Act No. 159
Public Acts of 2018
Approved by the Governor
May 23, 2018
Filed with the Secretary of State
May 23, 2018
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 21, 2018
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
Introduced by Senator Hildenbrand
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 804
AN ACT 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) Except as provided in sections 10 and 10a, a concession in a building or on property owned or occupied by this state must be operated by a blind person, regardless of race, creed, color, sex, marital status, or religious preference.
(2) The department of technology, management, and budget shall submit plans relative to concessions in state buildings or on state property to the commission, which 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.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor