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2009 1 (2009)

handle is hein.ssl/ssmi0223 and id is 1 raw text is: Act No. 1
Public Acts of 2009
Approved by the Governor
March 11, 2009
Filed with the Secretary of State
March 11, 2009
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 11, 2009
STATE OF MICHIGAN
95TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2009
Introduced by Rep. Constan
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4239
AN ACT to amend 1936 (Ex Sess) PA 1, entitled An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state through
the establishment of an unemployment compensation fund, and to provide for the disbursement thereof; to create
certain other funds; to create the Michigan employment security commission, and to prescribe its powers and duties; to
provide for the protection of the people of this state from the hazards of unemployment; to levy and provide for
contributions from employers; to provide for the collection of such contributions; to enter into reciprocal agreements
and to cooperate with agencies of the United States and of other states charged with the administration of any
unemployment insurance law; to furnish certain information to certain governmental agencies for use in administering
public benefit and child support programs and investigating and prosecuting fraud; to provide for the payment of
benefits; to provide for appeals from redeterminations, decisions and notices of assessments; and for referees and a
board of review to hear and decide the issues arising from redeterminations, decisions and notices of assessment; to
provide for the cooperation of this state and compliance with the provisions of the social security act and the Wagner-
Peyser act passed by the Congress of the United States of America; to provide for the establishment and maintenance
of free public employment offices; to provide for the transfer of funds; to make appropriations for carrying out the
provisions of this act; to prescribe remedies and penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal all
acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, by amending sections 11 and 19a (MCL 421.11 and
421.19a), section 11 as amended by 2005 PA 182 and section 19a as amended by 1983 PA 247.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 11. (a) In the administration of this act, the commission shall cooperate with the appropriate agency of the
United States under the social security act. The commission shall make reports, in a form and containing information as
the appropriate agency of the United States may require, and shall comply with the provisions that the appropriate
agency of the United States prescribes to assure the correctness and verification of the reports. The commission,
subject to this act, shall comply with the regulations prescribed by the appropriate agency of the United States relating
to the receipt or expenditure of the sums that are allotted and paid to this state for the purpose of assisting in the
administration of this act. As used in this section, social security act means the social security act, chapter 531,
49 Stat. 620.
(b)(1) Information obtained from any employing unit or individual pursuant to the administration of this act and
determinations as to the benefit rights of any individual are confidential and shall not be disclosed or open to public
inspection other than to public employees and public officials in the performance of their official duties under this act
and to agents or contractors of those public officials, including those described in subdivision (viii), in any manner that
reveals the individual's or the employing unit's identity or any identifying particular about any individual or any past
or present employing unit or that could foreseeably be combined with other publicly available information to reveal
identifying particulars. However, all of the following apply:
(i) Information in the commission's possession that might affect a claim for worker's disability compensation under
the worker's disability compensation act of 1969, 1969 PA 317, MCL 418.101 to 418.941, shall be available to interested
parties as defined in R 421.201 of the Michigan administrative code, regardless of whether the commission is a party to
an action or proceeding arising under that act.
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