2023 House Bill 4185 / 2024 Public Act 17

Labor: health and safety; provisions related to civil penalties; modify with respect to repeated violations and asbestos-related violations.

An act to amend 1974 PA 154, entitled “An act to prescribe and regulate working conditions; to prescribe the duties of employers and employees as to places and conditions of employment; to create certain boards, commissions, committees, and divisions relative to occupational and construction health and safety; to prescribe their powers and duties and powers and duties of the department of labor and department of public health; to prescribe certain powers and duties of the directors of the departments of labor, public health, and agriculture; to impose an annual levy to provide revenue for the safety education and training division; to provide remedies and penalties; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; and to repeal certain acts and parts of act on specific dates,” by amending sections 4, 35, and 36 (MCL 408.1004, 408.1035, and 408.1036), section 4 as amended by 2012 PA 416 and sections 35 and 36 as amended by 1991 PA 105.

House Fiscal Agency Analysis

House Bills 4185 to 4190 would create new acts and amend several existing acts relating to the regulation of asbestos handling and removal activities and how public entities may enter into contracts and agreements with contractors engaging in those activities. Broadly speaking, the bills would add requirements regarding which entities may enter into agreements with public entities for certain asbestos abatement activities and conditions under which an entity would either be eligible or ineligible to enter into a contract.

Introduced in the House

March 7, 2023

Introduced by Rep. Denise Mentzer (D-61) and 16 co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Abraham Aiyash (D-9), Donavan McKinney (D-14), Tyrone Carter (D-1), Penelope Tsernoglou (D-75), Emily Dievendorf (D-77), Carrie Rheingans (D-47), Jimmie Wilson (D-32), Veronica Paiz (D-11), Jason Morgan (D-23), Curtis VanderWall (R-102), Dylan Wegela (D-26), Kara Hope (D-74), Erin Byrnes (D-15), Ranjeev Puri (D-24), Tullio Liberati (D-2) and Regina Weiss (D-6)

Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, Environment, Tourism and Outdoor Recreation

May 18, 2023

Reported with substitute H-2

Oct. 25, 2023

Substitute H-2 concurred in by voice vote

Oct. 31, 2023

Passed in the House 73 to 37 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Rep. Jimmie Wilson (D-32)

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Received in the Senate

Nov. 1, 2023

Referred to the Committee on Energy and Environment

Feb. 15, 2024

Reported without amendment

Feb. 20, 2024

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

Feb. 22, 2024

Reported without amendment

Feb. 27, 2024

Passed in the Senate 20 to 18 (details)

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

March 12, 2024