HB 6114 Summary

• Requires the Michigan Law Revision Commission to review occupational regulations bills upon introduction to determine whether they use the least restrictive regulation necessary to protect consumers from significant harms threatening public health and safety.

• Mandates the Commission evaluate legislation's effects on worker opportunities, consumer choices and costs, unemployment, market competition, and governmental costs, and compare proposed regulations to how other states regulate the same occupations.

• Establishes annual reviews beginning January 1, 2019, covering approximately 20% of regulated occupations each year to complete a full 5-year review cycle of all state occupational regulations.

• Applies a rebuttable presumption that market competition and private remedies are sufficient to protect consumers; if rebutted, tailors regulations to address specific market failures through fraud enforcement, inspections, bonding, registration, certification, or occupational licenses.

• Requires annual reports by January 31 to legislative leaders and the Attorney General recommending whether to repeal, modify, or maintain occupational regulations based on compliance with least-restrictive-regulation policy.