HB 4936 Summary

• Adds "bathing beach" definition to the Public Health Code as a beach or bathing area offered to the public for recreational bathing or swimming, excluding public swimming pools.

• Includes bathing beaches and buoyed bathing or swimming areas open to the public in the definition of "public place" where smoking is prohibited.

• Renumbers existing definitions in MCL 333.12601 from (a)-(u) to (b)-(v) to accommodate the new bathing beach definition.

• Makes conforming language changes to existing definitions, including changing "a food service establishment" and "a meeting" to "that term" when referencing other statutory definitions.