MI HB6128

Employers are immune from liability under occupational safety and health law for employee COVID-19 exposure if the employer complied with all applicable federal, state, and local COVID-19 statutes, rules, regulations, executive orders, and agency orders at the time of exposure.

Minor deviations from strict compliance with COVID-19 requirements that are unrelated to the employee's actual exposure do not eliminate the employer's immunity protection.

The immunity provision does not create new causes of action, eliminate required claim elements like causation, affect workers' compensation protections, or alter other existing immunities or liability limitations.

The COVID-19 liability immunity applies retroactively to exposures occurring after March 1, 2020, but expires and does not apply to exposures occurring after July 1, 2022.

Sections 85 and 85a of the Michigan occupational safety and health act are repealed effective July 1, 2023.