Act No. 233

Public Acts of 2014

Approved by the Governor

June 21, 2014

Filed with the Secretary of State

June 27, 2014

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 27, 2014

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

Introduced by Rep. Santana

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5484

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 515 (MCL 418.515).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 515. (1) The trustees shall have general authority to carry out the purposes of this chapter, shall make such rules as they consider necessary, shall maintain records and institute systems and procedures or take any other administrative action as they consider necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.

(2) The trustees may appoint an administrative officer to be referred to as the funds administrator who shall perform duties as shall be designated or delegated by the trustees.

(3) The worker’s compensation agency shall provide the trustees of the funds with suitable office space and clerical assistance. All other expenses authorized by the trustees for the proper administration of the funds, including but not limited to, the salary and expenses of the funds administrator and the investigation, determination and defense of claims against the funds shall be borne ratably by and paid from the assets of the funds. The trustees may secure legal advice and be represented by the attorney general or any assistant designated by the attorney general in any matter involving the affairs of the funds. The self-insurers’ security fund and the private employer group self-insurers security fund shall be represented by an assistant attorney general who is not representing the second injury fund or the silicosis and dust disease fund. The cost of such services and expenses in connection therewith shall be borne ratably by and paid from the funds. All expenses so incurred and charged to the funds shall be accounted for on a fiscal year basis.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 5478.

(b) House Bill No. 5479.

(d) House Bill No. 5483.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor