MI SB0300

Creates a lead task force within the department consisting of a department representative and 6 appointed members: a public health official and Michigan State Housing Development Authority representative (governor appointments), a water infrastructure professional and state citizen (senate majority leader appointments), and a building trades professional and state citizen (house speaker appointments).

Task force members serve 1-year terms without compensation but may be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses; vacancies filled through the same appointment process; members may be removed for incompetence, dereliction of duty, malfeasance, misfeasance, nonfeasance, or other good cause.

First task force members must be appointed within 30 days of the amendatory act's effective date; department calls first meeting where task force elects a chairperson and officers; thereafter meets at least quarterly or more frequently at chairperson's call or if 3 or more members request it.

Task force shall develop a toolkit within 90 days of its first meeting with funding recommendations to the department for lead removal from homes and businesses, and to provide resources and services to parents of children with lead poisoning or elevated blood lead levels.

Task force must conduct all business at public meetings in compliance with the Open Meetings Act; all documents subject to the Freedom of Information Act; task force is dissolved 1 year after the amendatory act's effective date.