HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1976.03.17 - 14270Robert A. Button, Chairman
Miscellaneous Resolution 7/43() /V-arch 18, 1976
BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE, Robert Button, Chairman
RE: OPPOSITION TO 5B 181 AND SB 1259, WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION
TO; THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, there exists before the State Legislature certain pending legislation,
specifically Senate Bills 181 and 1259 to change the current workers compensation laws;
and
WHEREAS, the adoption of such legislation on a wholesale or piecemeal basis
would have a substantial adverse effect on the business climate and the future of the
lobs of the working men and women of this Statei. and
WHEREAS, the residents, employees and employers of this County have .a
substantial and continuing interest in fair and reasonable workers compensation benefits
and costs; and
WHEREAS, the current system is fraught with abuses which deprive le,gitimate
claimants of reasonable benefits,.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
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Commissioner pose the passage of SB 161 and SB 1259 or similar legislation until it ists.s
addresses itself to the problem of correction of the abuses in the current system.,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the State Legislature take positive legislative
action immediately to correct the current abuses in the present system.
MR. CHAIRMAN, the General Government Committee, by Robert A. Button,
Chairman, moves the adoption of the foregoing resolution
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
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#7486
Moved by Button supported by Patterson the resolution be adopted,
Moved by Page supported by Gabler the resolution be amended in the NOW THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED paragraph by inserting the words after Board of Commissioners 'urge
the Legislature to oppose the passage of SB 181 and SB 1259 or similar legislation
until it addresses itself to the problem of correction of the abuses in the current
system'.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Vote on resolution, as amended,
AYES: Button, Daly, Douglas, Dunleavy, Fortino, Gahler,.Hoot, Houghten, •
Lennon, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Nowak, Page, Patterson, Perhloff, Pernick,
Price, Roth, Simmons, Wilcox, Wilson, Aaron. (23)
NAYS: None, (0) •
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution, as amended,
was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #7486 adopted by the Oakland County Board of
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Commissioners at their meeting held on March 18, 1976
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with the original record thereof now remaining in my
office, and that it is.a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
18th this .day of March
Lynn U. Allen ......Clerk
..... ..... ........Deputy Clerk