Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to promote the health, safety and welfare of the people by regulating the maintenance, alteration, health, safety, and improvement of dwellings; to define the classes of dwellings affected by the act, and to establish administrative requirements; to prescribe procedures for the maintenance, improvement, or demolition of certain commercial buildings; to establish remedies; to provide for enforcement; to provide for the demolition of certain dwellings; and to fix penalties for the violation of this act,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
Protest
Senator Irwin, under his constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against the passage of House Bill No. 6193.
Senator Irwin’s statement is as follows:
Just very briefly, I wanted to get this on the record. Tried to fix this in committee, but House Bill No. 6193 also affects our building officials and I believe that what happened was just what happened now is that the Senate amended—I just want to alert my colleagues and the Journal to I think what is an unintended consequence of what was just passed. I tried to fix this in committee, but essentially it seems to me that the changes to the emergency powers act are all relative to the public health officials but this also affects our building officials. Usually in a city or a township, if you have a building that is unsafe and uninhabitable, the building official can come along and say this building needs to be tagged and marked as unsafe and uninhabitable, but through House Bill No. 6193 we just took that power away from local building officials. I don’t think that was intended and I wanted to include that in my “no” vote explanation.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 6194, entitled
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “Public health code,” (MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 2251a.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows: