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2007 House Bill 4216 (Impose new boiler operator regulations ) (House Roll Call 455)

Passed in the House (87 to 20) on June 3, 2008, to concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. [History, Amendments & Comments]

The vote was 87 in favor, 20 opposed, and 3 not voting
(House Roll Call 455 at House Journal 53)

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Undecided
Legislators (Democrat)
98298%
1000%
1991%
58 total votes
Legislators (Republican)
574357%
386238%
3973%
52 total votes

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The following legislators supported 2007 House Bill 4216 (Impose new boiler operator regulations ):

Accavitti (D) Acciavatti (R) Angerer (D) Ball (R) Bauer (D) Bennett (D)
Bieda (D) Booher (R) Brown (D) Byrnes (D) Byrum (D) Casperson (R)
Caswell (R) Caul (R) Cheeks (D) Clack (D) Clemente (D) Condino (D)
Constan (D) Corriveau (D) Coulouris (D) Cushingberry (D) Dean (D) Dillon (D)
Donigan (D) Ebli (D) Emmons (R) Espinoza (D) Farrah (D) Gaffney (R)
Gillard (D) Gonzales (D) Green (R) Griffin (D) Hammel (D) Hammon (D)
Hansen (R) Hildenbrand (R) Hood (D) Hopgood (D) Horn (R) Jackson (D)
Johnson (D) Jones, Rick (R) Jones, Robert (D) Lahti (D) LaJoy (R) Law, David (R)
Law, Kathleen (D) LeBlanc (D) Leland (D) Lemmons (D) Lindberg (D) Mayes (D)
McDowell (D) Meadows (D) Meisner (D) Melton (D) Miller (D) Moolenaar (R)
Moore (R) Nitz (R) Nofs (R) Palsrok (R) Pavlov (R) Pearce (R)
Polidori (D) Proos (R) Rocca (R) Sak (D) Schuitmaker (R) Shaffer (R)
Sheltrown (D) Simpson (D) Smith, Alma (D) Smith, Virgil (D) Spade (D) Stakoe (R)
Steil (R) Tobocman (D) Vagnozzi (D) Valentine (D) Walker (R) Warren (D)
Wenke (R) Wojno (D) Young (D)    

The following legislators opposed 2007 House Bill 4216 (Impose new boiler operator regulations ):

Agema (R) Amos (R) Brandenburg (R) Calley (R) DeRoche (R) Elsenheimer (R)
Garfield (R) Hoogendyk (R) Hune (R) Knollenberg (R) Marleau (R) Meekhof (R)
Meltzer (R) Moss (R) Opsommer (R) Palmer (R) Pastor (R) Robertson (R)
Sheen (R) Stahl (R)     

The following legislators did not vote on 2007 House Bill 4216 (Impose new boiler operator regulations ):

Huizenga (R) Scott (D) Ward (R)

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Most Recent Comments

1) Turbine operator/ Boiler oper. [by Anonymous Citizen on July 30, 2007]
I believe the idea is right but to grandfather everyone in without some type of testing defeats the purpose of certification.
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2) mech.eng/S.E. [by r_meier_2000 on April 19, 2007]
Concerning the requirements for becoming a stationary engineer #1 the way i read it is a person only needs 6yrs running a boiler with +20k HS to get to a #1 what about experience in gas turbines which is required to be a stationary eng in most other states, including ASOPE/NIULPE licenses
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3) stationary engineer from dearborn [by Anonymous Citizen on April 19, 2007]
I agree that this is a good thing but to give out licenses as if they were candy just for being a part of a operations team for 4-6 years is crazy i know i worked and studied hard for my dearborn test and i have 9 yrs as a millwight at consumers and 18 yrs running 150K to 360K boilers and 5-35 KW turbines and i had to do alot of catching up to todays standards to be current , its a ongoing process but to give out licenses based on time on job is crazy and undermines the work detroit and dearborn have provided for many years
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