VIETNAM VETERANS' MEMORIAL
House Bill 6091
Sponsor: Rep. Randy Richardville
Committee: Veterans Affairs
Complete to 11-13-00
A SUMMARY OF HOUSE BILL 6091 AS INTRODUCED 11-9-00
The Michigan Vietnam Veterans Memorial Act (Public Act 234 of 1988) created a Vietnam veterans memorial fund and established a commission to govern the fund. The bill would amend the act to establish a 2½ acre veterans' memorial park bounded on three sides by Ottawa, Butler, and Allegan Streets in Lansing, and to require that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Monument be located on a one-acre site within the proposed veterans' memorial park "within a line of site of the capitol."
The bill also contains a more precise technical description of the site referencing the east right-of-way line of Butler Street as the west line of the parcel and the north line of the parcel as 20 feet south of and parallel to the centerline of Michigan Avenue.
Public Act 234 of 1988 created a Michigan Vietnam Veterans Fund, while Public Act 122 of 1992 amended the 1988 act to specify a site for a memorial monument that was to be "directly west of the peak of the capitol dome" and midway between Allegan and Ottawa Streets in Lansing, Michigan.
MCL 35.1052 and 35.1055
Analyst: S. Ekstrom