2574 REGULAR SESSION OF 2009

2009 JOURNAL OF THE SENATE 2575

Addenda

Messages from the Governor

Subsequent to the final adjournment of the Regular Session of the Legislature, the following messages from the Governor were received:

Date: January 4, 2010

Time: 10:34 a.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 926 (Public Act No. 203), being

An act to amend 1979 PA 94, entitled “An act to make appropriations to aid in the support of the public schools and the intermediate school districts of the state; to make appropriations for certain other purposes relating to education; to provide for the disbursement of the appropriations; to supplement the school aid fund by the levy and collection of certain taxes; to authorize the issuance of certain bonds and provide for the security of those bonds; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to create certain funds and provide for their expenditure; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 6, 11, 94a, and 101 (MCL 388.1606, 388.1611, 388.1694a, and 388.1701), section 6 as amended by 2009 PA 187 and sections 11, 94a, and 101 as amended by 2009 PA 121, and by adding section 166c.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 4, 2010, at 1:53 p.m.)

Date: January 4, 2010

Time: 11:34 a.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 981 (Public Act No. 205), being

An act to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 5, 6, 502, 503, 504, 507, 522, 523, 524, 1246, 1250, 1278a, 1311e, 1536, and 1701a (MCL 380.5, 380.6, 380.502, 380.503, 380.504, 380.507, 380.522, 380.523, 380.524, 380.1246, 380.1250, 380.1278a, 380.1311e, 380.1536, and 380.1701a), section 5 as amended by 2005 PA 61, sections 6, 504, and 1701a as amended by 2008 PA 1, sections 502 and 507 as amended and section 1250 as added by 1995 PA 289, section 503 as amended by 2003 PA 299, sections 522, 523, and 524 as added by 2003 PA 179, section 1246 as amended by 2004 PA 148, section 1278a as amended by 2008 PA 316, section 1311e as added by 1999 PA 23, and section 1536 as added by 2006 PA 335, and by adding sections 502a and 1249 and part 6e.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 4, 2010, at 1:57 p.m.)

Date: January 4, 2010

Time: 11:58 a.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 21 (Public Act No. 206), being

An act to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “An act to reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws; to provide for election officials and prescribe their powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees; to provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office; to provide for the resignation, removal, and recall of certain public officers; to provide for the filling of vacancies in public office; to provide for and regulate primaries and elections; to provide for the purity of elections; to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise; to define violations of this act; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and all other acts inconsistent with this act,” by amending section 413 (MCL 168.413), as amended by 1999 PA 218.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 4, 2010, at 1:59 p.m.)

Date: January 4, 2010

Time: 12:00 noon

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 22 (Public Act No. 207), being

An act to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “An act to reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws; to provide for election officials and prescribe their powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees; to provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office; to provide for the resignation, removal, and recall of certain public officers; to provide for the filling of vacancies in public office; to provide for and regulate primaries and elections; to provide for the purity of elections; to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise; to define violations of this act; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and all other acts inconsistent with this act,” by amending section 467b (MCL 168.467b), as amended by 1999 PA 218.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 4, 2010, at 2:01 p.m.)

Date: January 4, 2010

Time: 12:02 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 23 (Public Act No. 208), being

An act to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “An act to reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws; to provide for election officials and prescribe their powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees; to provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office; to provide for the resignation, removal, and recall of certain public officers; to provide for the filling of vacancies in public office; to provide for and regulate primaries and elections; to provide for the purity of elections; to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise; to define violations of this act; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and all other acts inconsistent with this act,” by amending section 433 (MCL 168.433), as amended by 1999 PA 218.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 4, 2010, at 2:03 p.m.)

Date: January 4, 2010

Time: 12:04 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 126 (Public Act No. 209), being

An act to amend 1974 PA 198, entitled “An act to provide for the establishment of plant rehabilitation districts and industrial development districts in local governmental units; to provide for the exemption from certain taxes; to levy and collect a specific tax upon the owners of certain facilities; to impose and provide for the disposition of an administrative fee; to provide for the disposition of the tax; to provide for the obtaining and transferring of an exemption certificate and to prescribe the contents of those certificates; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state tax commission and certain officers of local governmental units; and to provide penalties,” by amending section 2 (MCL 207.552), as amended by 2008 PA 581.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 4, 2010, at 2:05 p.m.)

Date: January 4, 2010

Time: 12:06 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 284 (Public Act No. 210), being

An act to amend 1978 PA 566, entitled “An act to encourage the faithful performance of official duties by certain public officers and public employees; to prescribe standards of conduct for certain public officers and public employees; to prohibit the holding of incompatible public offices; and to provide certain judicial remedies,” by amending section 3 (MCL 15.183), as amended by 2008 PA 22.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 4, 2010, at 2:07 p.m.)

Date: January 4, 2010

Time: 12:08 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 597 (Public Act No. 211), being

An act to amend 2008 PA 23, entitled “An act to authorize the secretary of state to issue enhanced driver licenses and state personal identification cards to United States citizens who reside in Michigan to facilitate travel between the United States and Canada; to establish certain funds and prescribe duties for certain officials; and to prohibit certain conduct and prescribe penalties,” by amending section 6 (MCL 28.306).

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 4, 2010, at 2:09 p.m.)

Date: January 4, 2010

Time: 12:10 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 786 (Public Act No. 212), being

An act to amend 1943 PA 148, entitled “An act to provide for the regulation and licensing of proprietary schools in the state; to require surety; to provide for collection and disposition of fees; and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act,” by amending sections 1, 1a, 2, 2a, 2b, and 3 (MCL 395.101, 395.101a, 395.102, 395.102a, 395.102b, and 395.103), sections 1, 2, 2a, 2b, and 3 as amended and section 1a as added by 1983 PA 60, and by adding section 2c.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 4, 2010, at 2:11 p.m.)

Date: January 4, 2010

Time: 12:14 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 1006 (Public Act No. 214), being

An act to amend 1980 PA 450, entitled “An act to prevent urban deterioration and encourage economic development and activity and to encourage neighborhood revitalization and historic preservation; to provide for the establishment of tax increment finance authorities and to prescribe their powers and duties; to authorize the acquisition and disposal of interests in real and personal property; to provide for the creation and implementation of development plans; to provide for the creation of a board to govern an authority and to prescribe its powers and duties; to permit the issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness by an authority; to permit the use of tax increment financing; to reimburse authorities for certain losses of tax increment revenues; and to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state agencies and officers,” by amending section 12b (MCL 125.1812b), as added by 2008 PA 156.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 4, 2010, at 2:15 p.m.)

Date: January 5, 2010

Time: 3:23 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 744 (Public Act No. 219), being

An act to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation or formation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide their rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which companies and associations organized, existing, or authorized under this act may exercise their powers; to provide the rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which other persons, firms, corporations, associations, risk retention groups, and purchasing groups engaged in an insurance or surety business may exercise their powers; to provide for the imposition of a privilege fee on domestic insurance companies and associations and the state accident fund; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide for the imposition of a tax on risk retention groups and purchasing groups; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of surplus line agents; to provide for the imposition of regulatory fees on certain insurers; to provide for assessment fees on certain health maintenance organizations; to modify tort liability arising out of certain accidents; to provide for limited actions with respect to that modified tort liability and to prescribe certain procedures for maintaining those actions; to require security for losses arising out of certain accidents; to provide for the continued availability and affordability of automobile insurance and homeowners insurance in this state and to facilitate the purchase of that insurance by all residents of this state at fair and reasonable rates; to provide for certain reporting with respect to insurance and with respect to certain claims against uninsured or self-insured persons; to prescribe duties for certain state departments and officers with respect to that reporting; to provide for certain assessments; to establish and continue certain state insurance funds; to modify and clarify the status, rights, powers, duties, and operations of the nonprofit malpractice insurance fund; to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state; to provide for regulation over worker’s compensation self-insurers; to provide for the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for the protection of policyholders, claimants, and creditors of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for associations of insurers to protect policyholders and claimants in the event of insurer insolvencies; to prescribe educational requirements for insurance agents and solicitors; to provide for the regulation of multiple employer welfare arrangements; to create an automobile theft prevention authority to reduce the number of automobile thefts in this state; to prescribe the powers and duties of the automobile theft prevention authority; to provide certain powers and duties upon certain officials, departments, and authorities of this state; to provide for an appropriation; to repeal acts and parts of acts; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act,” (MCL 500.100 to 500.8302) by adding section 3829a.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 5, 2010, at 3:46 p.m.)

Date: January 5, 2010

Time: 3:29 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 968 (Public Act No. 223), being

An act to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,” by amending section 16401 (MCL 333.16401), as amended by 2002 PA 734.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 5, 2010, at 3:54 p.m.)

Date: January 5, 2010

Time: 3:31 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 970 (Public Act No. 224), being

An act to amend 1984 PA 233, entitled “An act to authorize certain organizations to enter into prudent purchaser agreements with health care providers; to control health care costs, assure appropriate utilization of health care services, and maintain quality of health care; to provide for the regulation of certain organizations, health care providers, health care facilities, and prudent purchaser arrangements; to establish a joint legislative committee to investigate the degree of competition in the health care coverage market in this state; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state officers and agencies,” by amending section 3 (MCL 550.53), as amended by 1996 PA 518.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 5, 2010, at 3:56 p.m.)

Date: January 5, 2010

Time: 3:33 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 971 (Public Act No. 225), being

An act to amend 1980 PA 350, entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation of nonprofit health care corporations; to provide their rights, powers, and immunities; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state officers relative to the exercise of those rights, powers, and immunities; to prescribe certain conditions for the transaction of business by those corporations in this state; to define the relationship of health care providers to nonprofit health care corporations and to specify their rights, powers, and immunities with respect thereto; to provide for a Michigan caring program; to provide for the regulation and supervision of nonprofit health care corporations by the commissioner of insurance; to prescribe powers and duties of certain other state officers with respect to the regulation and supervision of nonprofit health care corporations; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to regulate the merger or consolidation of certain corporations; to prescribe an expeditious and effective procedure for the maintenance and conduct of certain administrative appeals relative to provider class plans; to provide for certain administrative hearings relative to rates for health care benefits; to provide for certain causes of action; to prescribe penalties and to provide civil fines for violations of this act; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 502 and 502a (MCL 550.1502 and 550.1502a), section 502 as amended by 2003 PA 59 and section 502a as amended by 1998 PA 446.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 5, 2010, at 3:58 p.m.)

Date: January 5, 2010

Time: 3:35 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 972 (Public Act No. 226), being

An act to amend 1969 PA 317, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to worker’s disability compensation; to increase the administrative efficiency of the adjudicative processes of the worker’s compensation system; to improve the qualifications of the persons having adjudicative functions within the worker’s compensation system; to prescribe certain powers and duties; to create the board of worker’s compensation magistrates and the worker’s compensation appellate commission; to create certain other boards; to provide certain procedures for the resolution of claims, including mediation and arbitration; to prescribe certain benefits for persons suffering a personal injury under the act; to prescribe certain limitations on obtaining benefits under the act; to create, and provide for the transfer of, certain funds; to prescribe certain fees; to prescribe certain remedies and penalties; to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 315 (MCL 418.315), as amended by 1998 PA 447.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 5, 2010, at 4:00 p.m.)

Date: January 5, 2010

Time: 3:37 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 973 (Public Act No. 227), being

An act to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation or formation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide their rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which companies and associations organized, existing, or authorized under this act may exercise their powers; to provide the rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which other persons, firms, corporations, associations, risk retention groups, and purchasing groups engaged in an insurance or surety business may exercise their powers; to provide for the imposition of a privilege fee on domestic insurance companies and associations and the state accident fund; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide for the imposition of a tax on risk retention groups and purchasing groups; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of surplus line agents; to provide for the imposition of regulatory fees on certain insurers; to provide for assessment fees on certain health maintenance organizations; to modify tort liability arising out of certain accidents; to provide for limited actions with respect to that modified tort liability and to prescribe certain procedures for maintaining those actions; to require security for losses arising out of certain accidents; to provide for the continued availability and affordability of automobile insurance and homeowners insurance in this state and to facilitate the purchase of that insurance by all residents of this state at fair and reasonable rates; to provide for certain reporting with respect to insurance and with respect to certain claims against uninsured or self-insured persons; to prescribe duties for certain state departments and officers with respect to that reporting; to provide for certain assessments; to establish and continue certain state insurance funds; to modify and clarify the status, rights, powers, duties, and operations of the nonprofit malpractice insurance fund; to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state; to provide for regulation over worker’s compensation self-insurers; to provide for the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for the protection of policyholders, claimants, and creditors of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for associations of insurers to protect policyholders and claimants in the event of insurer insolvencies; to prescribe educational requirements for insurance agents and solicitors; to provide for the regulation of multiple employer welfare arrangements; to create an automobile theft prevention authority to reduce the number of automobile thefts in this state; to prescribe the powers and duties of the automobile theft prevention authority; to provide certain powers and duties upon certain officials, departments, and authorities of this state; to provide for an appropriation; to repeal acts and parts of acts; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act,” by amending sections 3405, 3475, and 3631 (MCL 500.3405, 500.3475, and 500.3631), sections 3405 and 3631 as amended by 1994 PA 438 and section 3475 as amended by 1984 PA 280.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 5, 2010, at 4:02 p.m.)

Date: January 5, 2010

Time: 3:39 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 851 (Public Act No. 228), being

An act to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of the courts, and of the judges and other officers of the courts; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in the courts; pleading, evidence, practice, and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in the courts; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 507, 517, and 550 (MCL 600.507, 600.517, and 600.550), section 507 as amended by 2006 PA 607, section 517 as amended by 2006 PA 101, and section 550 as amended by 1990 PA 54.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 5, 2010, at 4:04 p.m.)

Date: January 8, 2010

Time: 2:53 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 99 (Public Act No. 233), being

An act to amend 1982 PA 294, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to the friend of the court; to provide for the appointment or removal of the friend of the court; to create the office of the friend of the court; to establish the rights, powers, and duties of the friend of the court and the office of the friend of the court; to establish a state friend of the court bureau and to provide the powers and duties of the bureau; to prescribe powers and duties of the circuit court and of certain state and local agencies and officers; to establish friend of the court citizen advisory committees; to prescribe certain duties of certain employers and former employers; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 2, 2a, 5, 5a, 9a, 11a, 13, 15, 17, 17b, 19, 27, and 28 (MCL 552.502, 552.502a, 552.505, 552.505a, 552.509a, 552.511a, 552.513, 552.515, 552.517, 552.517b, 552.519, 552.527, and 552.528), sections 2 and 2a as amended by 2004 PA 210, sections 5, 13, and 15 as amended and section 5a as added by 2002 PA 571, section 9a as added by 1999 PA 150, section 11a as added by 2002 PA 569, sections 17, 17b, and 19 as amended by 2004 PA 207, and section 28 as added by 1996 PA 365.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 8, 2010, at 3:23 p.m.)

Date: January 8, 2010

Time: 2:55 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 105 (Public Act No. 234), being

An act to amend 1846 RS 84, entitled “Of divorce,” by amending sections 23 and 24 (MCL 552.23 and 552.24), section 23 as amended and section 24 as added by 1999 PA 159.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 8, 2010, at 3:25 p.m.)

Date: January 8, 2010

Time: 2:57 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 106 (Public Act No. 235), being

An act to amend 1956 PA 205, entitled “An act to confer upon circuit courts jurisdiction over proceedings to compel and provide support of children born out of wedlock; to prescribe the procedure for determination of such liability; to authorize agreements providing for furnishing of such support and to provide for the enforcement thereof; and to prescribe penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act,” by amending sections 2, 7, and 19a (MCL 722.712, 722.717, and 722.729a), section 2 as amended by 2004 PA 253, section 7 as amended by 2004 PA 209, and section 19a as added by 1999 PA 157; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 8, 2010, at 3:27 p.m.)

Date: January 8, 2010

Time: 2:59 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 107 (Public Act No. 236), being

An act to amend 1966 PA 138, entitled “An act to confer jurisdiction upon the circuit courts to order and enforce the payment of money for the support, in certain cases, of parents having physical custody of minor children or children who have reached the age of majority and of minor children or children who have reached the age of majority by noncustodial parents and to enter orders governing custody and parenting time for those children; to provide for the termination of the effectiveness of the support orders; and to provide for the payment of fees and assessment of costs in those cases,” by amending sections 1, 2, and 8a (MCL 552.451, 552.452, and 552.458a), section 1 as amended by 2002 PA 8 and sections 2 and 8a as amended by 2002 PA 574; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 8, 2010, at 3:29 p.m.)

Date: January 8, 2010

Time: 3:09 p.m.

To the President of the Senate:

Sir—I have this day approved and signed

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 818 (Public Act No. 241), being

An act to amend 2007 PA 36, entitled “An act to meet deficiencies in state funds by providing for the imposition, levy, computation, collection, assessment, reporting, payment, and enforcement of taxes on certain commercial, business, and financial activities; to prescribe the powers and duties of public officers and state departments; to provide for the inspection of certain taxpayer records; to provide for interest and penalties; to provide exemptions, credits, and refunds; to provide for the disposition of funds; to provide for the interrelation of this act with other acts; and to make appropriations,” by amending section 437 (MCL 208.1437), as amended by 2008 PA 578.

(Filed with the Secretary of State on January 8, 2010, at 3:39 p.m.)

Respectfully,

Jennifer M. Granholm

Governor

Pocket Veto

The following entitled enrolled bill was presented to the Governor on December 22, 2009, at 3:26 p.m., for her approval:

Enrolled Senate Bill No. 24, being

An act to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “An act to reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws; to provide for election officials and prescribe their powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees; to provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office; to provide for the resignation, removal, and recall of certain public officers; to provide for the filling of vacancies in public office; to provide for and regulate primaries and elections; to provide for the purity of elections; to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise; to define violations of this act; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and all other acts inconsistent with this act,” by amending section 426d (MCL 168.426d), as amended by 1999 PA 218.

The enrolled bill, not having been approved as of January 5, 2010, at 3:26 p.m., did not become a law, in accordance with the provisions of Article IV, Section 33 of the Constitution.

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