Bill Text: MI SB1258 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Labor: fair employment practices; requirement that an employee not report to work if the employee tests positive for COVID-19 or displays a principal symptom of COVID-19; exempt certain energy workers and public health and safety employees from. Amends secs. 1, 5 & 12 of 2020 PA 238 (MCL 419.401 et seq.) & adds sec. 13.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-12-30 - Assigned Pa 0339'20 With Immediate Effect [SB1258 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB1258-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL NO. 1258
December 10, 2020, Introduced by Senators
MACGREGOR and SCHMIDT and referred to the Committee of the Whole.
A bill to amend 2020 PA 238, entitled
"An act to prohibit an employer from
taking certain actions against an employee who does not report to work under
certain circumstances related to COVID-19; to prohibit an employee from
reporting to work under certain circumstances related to COVID-19; to prohibit
discrimination and retaliation for engaging in certain activities; and to
provide remedies,"
by amending sections 1 and 5 (MCL 419.401
and 419.405).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
(a) "Close contact" means being within approximately 6 feet of an individual for 15 minutes or longer.
(b) "COVID-19" means the novel coronavirus identified as SARS-CoV-2 or a virus mutating from SARS-CoV-2.
(c) "Employee" means an individual employed by an employer and whose primary workplace is not the individual's residence.
(d) "Employer" means a person or a state or
local governmental entity that employs 1 or more individuals.
(e)
"Essential critical energy infrastructure worker" means a worker in
the energy industry who performs essential energy services as described in the
United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Guidance on
the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community and
National Resilience in COVID-19 Response, Version 2.0, March 28, 2020.
(f) (e) "First responder" means any of the following:
(i) A law enforcement officer.
(ii) A firefighter.
(iii) A paramedic.
(g) (f) "Health care facility" means any of the following facilities, including those that may operate under shared or joint ownership, and a facility used as surge capacity by any of the following facilities:
(i) An entity listed in section 20106(1) of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.20106.
(ii) A state-owned hospital or surgical center.
(iii) A state-operated outpatient facility.
(iv) A state-operated veterans' facility.
(h) (g) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity.
(i) (h) "Principal symptoms of COVID-19" has the definition provided means that term as defined in an order by order of the director or chief medical executive of the Michigan department of health and human services. In the event that the term If principal symptoms of COVID-19 is not defined in an order by the director or chief medical executive of the Michigan department of health and human services at the time of an action taken under section 5, principal symptoms of COVID-19 means either or both of the following:
(i) One or more of the following not explained by a known medical or physical condition:
(A) Fever.
(B) Shortness of breath.
(C) Uncontrolled cough.
(ii) Two or more of the following not explained by a known medical or physical condition:
(A) Abdominal pain.
(B) Diarrhea.
(C) Loss of taste or smell.
(D) Muscle aches.
(E) Severe headache.
(F) Sore throat.
(G) Vomiting.
Sec. 5. (1) An employee who tests positive for COVID-19 or displays the principal symptoms of COVID-19 shall not report to work until all of the following conditions are met:
(a) If the employee has a fever, 24 hours have passed since the fever has stopped without the use of fever-reducing medications.
(b) Ten days have passed since either of the following, whichever is later:
(i) The date the employee's symptoms first appeared.
(ii) The date the employee received the test that yielded a positive result for COVID-19.
(c) The employee's principal symptoms of COVID-19 have improved.
(2) Except as provided in subsection (3), an employee who has close contact with an individual who tests positive for COVID-19 or with an individual who displays the principal symptoms of COVID-19 shall not report to work until 1 of the following conditions is met:
(a) Fourteen days have passed since the employee last had close contact with the individual.
(b) The individual with whom the employee had close contact receives a medical determination that they the individual did not have COVID-19 at the time of the close contact with the employee.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to an employee who is any of the following:
(a) A health care professional.
(b) A worker at a health care facility.
(c) A first responder.
(d) A child protective service employee.
(e) A worker at a child caring institution, as that term is defined in section 1 of 1973 PA 116, MCL 722.111.
(f) A worker at an adult foster care facility, as that term is defined in section 3 of the adult foster care facility licensing act, 1979 PA 218, MCL 400.703.
(g) A worker at a correctional facility.
(h) An essential critical energy infrastructure worker who does not display principal symptoms of COVID-19. However, the essential critical energy infrastructure worker must comply with the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Interim Guidance for Implementing Safety Practices for Critical Infrastructure Workers Who May Have Had Exposure to a Person with Suspected or Confirmed COVID-19.
