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MI HB6315
Bill
Status
10/28/2020
Primary Sponsor
Joseph Tate
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AI Summary
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Adds exception to director's authority to prohibit gatherings during epidemics: director cannot prohibit professional or collegiate sporting events at entertainment venues, but may limit occupancy to 20% capacity or maximum 12,500 spectators, whichever is less.
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Defines "entertainment venue" as a facility primarily used for sporting events or other entertainment.
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Defines "professional or collegiate sporting event" to include sanctioned major professional league or NCAA games in ice hockey, football, soccer, baseball, and basketball; sanctioned motorsports races; and international soccer club tournament matches.
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Requires Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to cooperate with health department director in response to epidemics involving avian influenza or animal-spread diseases.
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Updates terminology from "insure" to "ensure" and "shall not be" to "are not" in existing epidemiological authority language.
Legislative Description
Health: diseases; exemption for professional and collegiate sporting events from emergency orders issued by director of the department to control an epidemic; provide for under certain circumstances. Amends sec. 2253 of 1978 PA 368 (MCL 333.2253).
Health: emergency response
Last Action
Referred To Second Reading
11/5/2020