Senate Bill 76: Ban sex offender loitering near day care center
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on September 25, 2013, to prohibit a person on the state sex offender registry from loitering within 1,000 feet of day care center.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672680
Senate Bill 77: Ban sex offender loitering near day care center
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on September 25, 2013, to establish sentencing guidelines for the ban proposed by Senate Bill 76 on a person on the state sex offender registry loitering within 1,000 feet of day care center.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672682
Senate Bill 227: Facilitate continued Detroit “neighborhood enterprise zone” tax breaks
Passed 34 to 3 in the Senate on September 25, 2013, to amend a law which currently authorizes certain “neighborhood enterprise zone” property tax breaks to a particular developer’s project in a city with a population greater than 750,000 (Detroit), by lowering this population threshold to 600,000.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672679
House Bill 4585: Authorize paperless architect, engineer and surveyor filings
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on September 25, 2013, to authorize the use by architects, professional engineers, and surveyors of electronic versions of the official “seals” that attest their licensed status on documents that they file electronically with public authorities.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672721
House Bill 4613: Establish dead tenant procedures for landlords
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on September 25, 2013, to establish specific property entry procedures and notice requirements to be followed by a landlord who believes a tenant has died. Also, to shorten the statute of limitations on a tenant suing a landlord for unlawfully interfering with the premises.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672683
House Bill 4930: Repeal club emblem vehicle display ban
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on September 25, 2013, to repeal a law that bans displaying the emblem or insignia of any organization, association, fraternity, lodge or club on a vehicle unless the vehicle owner belongs to the organization.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672723
House Bill 4937: Revise utility regulation detail
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on September 25, 2013, to repeal a requirement that gas and electric utilities must periodically disburse money from an “uncollectibles allowance recovery fund” they are required to maintain to a state fund that is supposed to make air pollution reduction grants. According to the House Fiscal Agency the “uncollectibles” funds never accumulated much money, and so the state fund has not made any grants.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672722
House Concurrent Resolution 11: Authorize adoption of “Common Core” school standards
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on September 26, 2013, to strip out a provision added in committee that would require the Governor, legislators and school district officials to take tests based on the standards.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160886
House Concurrent Resolution 11: Authorize adoption of “Common Core” school standards
Passed 85 to 21 in the House on September 26, 2013, to authorize the State Board of Education and the Michigan Department of Education to spend money to implement “Common Core” curriculum promoted by an entity associated with the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, subject to various restrictions and conditions specified in the resolution. The authorization does not apply to an associated student testing regime.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672823
Senate Bill 126: Appropriations: Supplemental budget
Passed 104 to 2 in the House on September 26, 2013, to appropriate $747,300 for a dock renovation project at Port Austin State Harbor in Huron County, and revise details of other previously-appropriated money and projects.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672817
Senate Bill 311: Increase tobacco sale to & possession by minors penalties
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on September 26, 2013, to increase the penalties for selling tobacco to minors, from $50 to $100 for a first offense and $500 for subsequent offenses. The increased penalties would also apply to a minor who tries to buy or who possesses tobacco.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672780
Senate Bill 397: Expand a corporate/developer subsidy regime
Passed 33 to 4 in the Senate on September 26, 2013, to authorize creation of a sixth “Next Michigan Development Corporation,” which is a government agency that gives tax breaks and subsidies to particular corporations or developers selected by political appointees on the entity’s board for projects meeting extremely broad “multi-modal commerce” criteria (basically, any form of goods-related commerce). The new entity would be in the Upper Peninsula.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672781
Senate Bill 398: Expand a corporate/developer subsidy regime
Passed 33 to 4 in the Senate on September 26, 2013, to authorize creation of a sixth “Next Michigan Development Corporation,” which is a government agency that gives tax breaks and subsidies to particular corporations or developers selected by political appointees on the entity’s board for projects meeting extremely broad “multi-modal commerce” criteria (basically, any form of goods-related commerce).
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672782
House Bill 4229: Appropriations: Supplemental school aid budget
The amendment passed by voice vote in the Senate on September 26, 2013, to revise details of student test tracking related to high school students in “middle college” programs, which allow them to take some college courses in high school. The amendment would allow the public high school to “count” these students’ test scores in their overall student progress assessments for purposes of meeting various state and federal requirements.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=154243
House Bill 4229: Appropriations: Supplemental school aid budget
The amendment failed 16 to 21 in the Senate on September 26, 2013, to increase public school spending by $100 per-student.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672783
House Bill 4229: Appropriations: Supplemental school aid budget
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on September 26, 2013, to adopt a number of technical revisions to instructions to state departments (”boilerplate language”) contained in the previously-enacted 2013-2014 state budget.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672784
House Bill 4344: Revise special Detroit powers population threshold
Passed 36 to 1 in the Senate on September 26, 2013, to revise the population threshold in a law that gives Detroit the power to define a fire arson investigator as a police officer. The Michigan constitution prohibits passing “local acts” with less than a two-thirds majority vote in the House and Senate, so the legislature has circumvented this by granting certain privileges or exemptions to “a city with a population greater than 1 million,” later revised to 900,000, and then 750,000. This bill changes that to 600,000. Also, to establish that the Detroit Chief of Police is automatically deemed to be a state certified peace officer, and extend certification to an person employed as a police officer in another state within the past year if that state has certification standards substantially the same as Michigan’s.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672785
House Bill 4949: Unemployment insurance reform package
Passed 102 to 4 in the House on September 26, 2013, to increase the potential sanctions for taking unemployment benefits to which a person is not entitled.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672811
House Bill 4950: Unemployment insurance reform package
Passed 103 to 3 in the House on September 26, 2013, to potentially increase the unemployment insurance assessments (payroll tax) on an employer who fails to provide a timely notice to the state unemployment agency that a person has been fired rather than laid off, and so is not eligible for benefits.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672812
House Bill 4951: Unemployment insurance reform package
Passed 103 to 3 in the House on September 26, 2013, to revise the allocation of money recovered from unemployment benefit fraud investigations to various government funds.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672813
House Bill 4952: Halt unemployment benefits for failed drug test
Passed 82 to 24 in the House on September 26, 2013, to make a person ineligible to collect unemployment benefits if a prospective employer requires a drug test as a condition of a job offer and the individual either refuses to take the test or fails it.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672814
House Bill 4954: Unemployment insurance reform package
Passed 103 to 3 in the House on September 26, 2013, to revise the allocation of money recovered from unemployment benefit fraud investigations to various government funds.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=672816