HOUSE BILL No. 5106

December 2, 2015, Introduced by Rep. Barrett and referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs.

 

     A bill to amend 1967 PA 150, entitled

 

"Michigan military act,"

 

by amending section 151 (MCL 32.551), as amended by 2013 PA 99.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 151. (1) The governor is the commander-in-chief of the

 

organized militia. He or she may order to active state service any

 

members of the organized militia in case of riot, tumult, breach of

 

the peace, or resistance of process, or for service in aid of civil

 

authority, whether state or federal, or in time of actual or

 

imminent public danger, disaster, crisis, catastrophe, or other

 

public emergency within this state or to respond to acts or threats

 

of terrorism or to safeguard military or other vital resources of

 

this state or of the United States. If the governor and his or her


legal successor are absent , or disabled , or cannot be

 

communicated with, the adjutant general, if he or she believes the

 

danger great and imminent, may order out, in the name of the

 

governor, such troops of the organized militia as he or she

 

believes necessary to meet the emergency.

 

     (2) The governor or the adjutant general may order to active

 

state service any member of the Michigan National Guard for duties

 

in support of the full-time operation of the state military

 

establishment.

 

     (3) The department of military and veterans affairs shall

 

report to the legislature if any members of the Michigan National

 

Guard who have been ordered to active state service under

 

subsection (2) have served on active state service for more than 15

 

days during their service with the Michigan National Guard. The

 

department of military and veterans affairs shall annually submit a

 

report to the legislature that includes the name of each member of

 

the Michigan National Guard who has served more than 15 days on

 

active state service during his or her service with the Michigan

 

National Guard and the number of days that service member has

 

served on active state service.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.