Bill Text: MI SB1302 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Human services; county services; reorganization for certain administrative efficiency; provide for 2 or more counties to combine. Amends sec. 48 of 1939 PA 280 (MCL 400.48).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-12-01 - Assigned Pa 0212'10 With Immediate Effect [SB1302 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-SB1302-Chaptered.html
Act No. 212
Public Acts of 2010
Approved by the Governor
November 17, 2010
Filed with the Secretary of State
November 17, 2010
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 17, 2010
STATE OF MICHIGAN
95TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2010
Introduced by Senator Switalski
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1302
AN ACT to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled “An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state; to provide general assistance, hospitalization, infirmary and medical care to poor or unfortunate persons; to provide for compliance by this state with the social security act; to provide protection, welfare and services to aged persons, dependent children, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled; to administer programs and services for the prevention and treatment of delinquency, dependency and neglect of children; to create a state department of social services; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department; to provide for the interstate and intercounty transfer of dependents; to create county and district departments of social services; to create within certain county departments, bureaus of social aid and certain divisions and offices thereunder; to prescribe the powers and duties of the departments, bureaus and officers; to provide for appeals in certain cases; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state department with respect to county and district departments; to prescribe certain duties of certain other state departments, officers, and agencies; to make an appropriation; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,” by amending section 48 (MCL 400.48), as amended by 1996 PA 423.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 48. Subject to the provisions of this subsection, the department director may organize not more than 3 counties into a single administrative unit for purposes of administrative efficiency. Before a decision is made to organize counties into a single administrative unit as allowed under this section, the department shall have a formal consultation with the boards of those counties. The director of the single administrative unit shall be appointed by the department from among persons certified as eligible and recommended by the department and by all of the affected county boards. If the affected county boards are unable to reach agreement on recommended candidates within 3 months after being notified of a vacancy, the director of the single administrative unit shall be appointed by the department from among persons certified as eligible and recommended by the department and by 1 or more of the affected county boards.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
