Senate Bill 834 Signed into Law
This week, POAM Legislative Director Kenneth E. Grabowski was Senator Kevin Hertel’s guest for a ceremonial bill signing for Senate Bill 834 with Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Senator Hertel sponsored Senate Bill 834, which doubled the financial benefit to a spouse or dependent of a police officer who was killed or totally disabled while in the line of duty. The financial benefit is now $50,000, and this new law went into effect in October 2024.
POAM is incredibly grateful to Senator Hertel for his leadership on this issue and his consistent support of law enforcement. We are also grateful to Governor Whitmer for signing this bill into law and the 141 Michigan legislators in both the House and Senate who supported this legislation.
This was a bipartisan effort and POAM is grateful to see this bill passed and signed into law.