HOUSE BILL No. 6571

 

 

December 4, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Runestad and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1974 PA 381, entitled

 

"An act to encourage and contribute to the rehabilitation of former

offenders and to assist them in the assumption of the

responsibilities of citizenship; to prescribe the use of the term

"good moral character" or similar term as a requirement for an

occupational or professional license or when used as a requirement

to establish or operate an organization or facility regulated by

this state; and to provide administrative and judicial procedures

to contest licensing board or agency rulings thereon,"

 

by amending section 1 (MCL 338.41).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. (1) The phrase "good moral character", or words of

 

similar import, when used as a requirement for an occupational or

 

professional license, or when used as a requirement to establish or

 

operate an organization or facility regulated by this state, in the

 

Michigan Compiled Laws under a law of this state, or administrative

rules promulgated under those laws shall be construed to mean a law

 

of this state, means the propensity on the part of the person an

 

individual to serve the public in the licensed area in a fair,

 

honest, and open manner.

 

     (2) As used in this act: , "principal

 

     (a) "Agency" or "board" does not mean the Michigan commission

 

on law enforcement standards created in section 3 of the Michigan

 

commission on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL

 

28.603.

 

     (b) "Principal department" means the department which that has

 

jurisdiction over the board or agency issuing the license.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.