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MI HB6315

Bill

Status

Introduced

10/28/2020

Primary Sponsor

Joseph Tate

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Origin

House of Representatives

100th Legislature

AI Summary

  • 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.

  • Defines "entertainment venue" as a facility primarily used for sporting events or other entertainment.

  • 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.

  • Requires Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to cooperate with health department director in response to epidemics involving avian influenza or animal-spread diseases.

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Ways And Means10/28/2020

Full Bill Text

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