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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sorry to say it's not speculation any longer.
Note the wording at the end of the first section 1 of the proposed House bill
and tell me to my face that I was wrong when I said that there would be an
effort to exempt the Legislature from the BEP.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The Legislature is in session tomorrow, with the
senate starting at 10:00 AM and the House beginning at 1:30 PM.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Joe Sontag</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>HOUSE BILL No. 6006<BR>November 8, 2012, Introduced
by Reps. Denby and Rogers and referred to the Committee<BR>on Government
Operations.<BR> A bill to amend 1978 PA 260,
entitled<BR>"An act to revise and codify the laws relating to blind persons
and<BR>persons with a visual disability; to create a commission; to<BR>prescribe
its powers and duties and those of other state agencies<BR>relative to blind
persons; to provide services, education,<BR>training, and assistance to blind
persons; to regulate concessions<BR>operated by blind persons; to transfer
powers, duties, functions,<BR>and appropriations; and to repeal acts and parts
of acts,"<BR>by amending section 10 (MCL 393.360).<BR>THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF
MICHIGAN ENACT:<BR> Sec. 10. (1) This act shall does not
apply to a concession<BR>operated in connection with the state fair, with the
use of state<BR>fairgrounds, with a state educational institution, state
penal<BR>institution, military establishment, armory, or state park, or in
a<BR>building that is operated by a house of the
legislature.<BR> (2) A sighted person operating a
concession under contract or<BR>lease at the time this act becomes effective
shall not be on<BR>October 1, 1978 is not required to surrender the rights
before the<BR>contract or lease expires.<BR> (3) A
sighted person operating a concession which that has not<BR>been applied for by
a blind person may be permitted to continue in<BR>charge until the concession is
applied for and a qualified blind<BR>person is chosen to operate the
concession.<BR></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>