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MI HB4843
Bill
Status
11/13/2025
Primary Sponsor
Mike Mueller
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AI Summary
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Expands authorized users of electronic control devices (tasers/stun guns) to include private security guards who possess valid concealed pistol licenses, with written employer authorization and device ownership by the employer
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Adds a new category of "electronic control device that uses conducted electrical energy technology" alongside existing electro-muscular disruption devices, requiring downloadable memory storage to record date, time, and duration of each use
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Requires aircraft pilots and crew members to have written employer authorization to possess and use electronic control devices, and restricts use to course of employment duties
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Clarifies lawful use of electronic control devices includes de-escalation, temporary incapacitation, deterring assault, overcoming illegal resistance, or any other objectively reasonable purpose
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Updates terminology throughout the statute, including changing "Department of Environmental Quality" to "Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy" and standardizing language from "person" to "individual"
Legislative Description
Weapons: other; exceptions to use of portable device or weapon directing electrical current, impulse, wave, or beam; modify. Amends sec. 224a of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.224a).
Weapons: other
Last Action
Referred To Committee On Civil Rights, Judiciary, And Public Safety
12/2/2025