Michigan Department of Commerce

Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs

Department overview
Preceding agencies	Department of Commerce Department of Labor
Type	principal department
Jurisdiction	Michigan
Headquarters	Lansing, Michigan
Minister responsible	, (etc.)
Department executive	Stanley "Skip" Pruss, Director , (etc.)
Child department	Bureau of Commercial Services Bureau of Employment Relations Bureau of Health Services Controlled Substances Advisory Commission Bureau of Fire Safety Michigan Administrative Hearing System Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration Office of Regulatory Reinvention Bureau of Services for Blind Persons Michigan Liquor Control Commission Michigan Public Service Commission Michigan Agency for Energy Workers' Compensation Agency
Key document	Executive Order No. 2011-4
Website	michigan.gov/lara

The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, originally the Department of Commerce amongst other names, is a principal department in the Michigan executive branch that oversees employment, professional licensing, construction, and commerce.

The Department, as Department of Commerce, was formed in 1965 by Section 225 of the Executive Organization Act of 1965, 1965 PA 380, MCL 16.325. The Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulation was abolished with most responsibilities transferred to this Department. Renamed Department of Consumer and Industry Services by executive order issued in 1996 by Governor John Engler merging most of the Department of Labor within the Department Engler also transfer some responsibilities of the former Commerce Department to the Michigan Jobs Commission.

Governor Engler created the Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation as a Type I agency within the department in 2000. The Corporations, Securities and Land Development Bureau's security functions and all functions of the Insurance Bureau and Financial Institutions Bureau were transferred to the office.

In 2006, Governor Granholm issued an executive order renaming the Department, the "Department of Labor and Economic Growth", transfer a few boards from the Family Independence Agency, and some function of the Fire Marshal Division of the Department of the State Police were transfer to its Bureau of Construction Codes and Fire Safety. With that same Executive order, the Brownfield Redevelopment Single Business Tax Credits and a mergered Metropolitan Extension Telecommunications Rights-of-Way Oversight Authority and Michigan Broadband Development Authority were moved from the Department of Treasury to the Department. From the Department of Management and Budget, Michigan Next Energy Authority, Michigan Strategic Fund were transfer. The Department of Career Development was also merged with the Department under this executive order.

In 2008, Governor Granholm move various energy related programs from the Michigan Department of Agriculture and elsewhere to the Department and renamed the Department to "Michigan Department of Energy, Labor & Economic Growth" (DELEG). The various programs transferred were: the No Worker Left Behind green jobs training initiatives, Michigan's new energy efficiency building code, the Public Service Commission and energy efficiency programs, the Office of Sustainability, the Renewable Fuels Commission and the State Energy Office.

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