MI HB6430

Reduces civil penalties and fines for employers on family farms who fail to report workplace deaths or injuries within required timeframes, by decreasing penalties to the maximum amount allowed under the act.

Defines "family farm" as a farming operation wholly owned by the operator or family members where more than 50% of employees are family members and no more than 9 non-family employees are hired at any one time, excluding nonfamily corporations and operations with hired non-family managers.

Revises criminal penalty language for willful violations causing employee death from "$10,000.00 fine or 1 year imprisonment" to "1 year imprisonment or $10,000.00 fine or both" and for second convictions from "$20,000.00 fine or 3 years imprisonment" to "3 years imprisonment or $20,000.00 fine or both."

Updates department name references throughout the statute to "department of labor and economic opportunity" and "department of health and human services."

Makes technical grammatical changes including replacing "a person" with "an individual" and "which" with "that" in various penalty provisions.