HOUSE BILL No. 4387

 

 

March 21, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Hughes, Howrylak, Yaroch, Marino, Wittenberg, Leutheuser, Pagel, Kelly, Kesto and Iden and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.

 

     A bill to require departments and regulatory agencies of this

 

state to acknowledge timely receipt of information requests

 

submitted by mail as the postmark date; and to provide for rule-

 

making authority.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the

 

"postmark acknowledgment act".

 

     Sec. 2. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Information submission" means information required to be

 

submitted by a regulated person to a regulatory agency through use

 

of the United States Postal Service.

 

     (b) "Regulated person" means an individual or legal entity

 

subject to the authority of a regulatory agency.

 

     (c) "Regulatory agency" means a department, bureau, or agency

 

of this state that has statutory regulatory authority over

activities of an individual, business, profession, or industry.

 

     Sec. 3. Except as otherwise provided for by law, a regulatory

 

agency shall accept and acknowledge the postmark date as the date

 

of receipt of an information submission made by a regulated person.

 

     Sec. 4. Except as otherwise provided for by law, a regulatory

 

agency may promulgate rules or amend existing rules under the

 

administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to

 

24.328, to implement this act.

 

     Sec. 5. This act takes effect 60 days after the date it is

 

enacted into law.