Senate Bill 437: Revise “interlocal agreement” procedural detail
Passed 108 to 2 in the House on March 5, 2014, to require “interlocal agreements” (which formalize a joint exercise of power, privilege or authority between two or more government entities) to create a “separate legal entity” to collect and spend money to carry out the purpose of the agreement, rather than just a separate administrative body.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686552
Senate Bill 805: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in the mental health code with the term “developmentally disabled.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686446
Senate Bill 806: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in the adult foster care services statute with the term “developmentally disabled.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686591
Senate Bill 807: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in a statute regulating certain kinds of insurance with the term “developmentally disabled.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686449
Senate Bill 808: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in the statute regulating Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance with the term “developmentally disabled.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686451
Senate Bill 809: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in the law setting standards for defendant competence in criminal trials with the term “intellectually disabled.” This is part of a multi-bill package making a similar change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686452
Senate Bill 810: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in a statute authorizing an exemption from the requirement to have a fishing license to go fishing with the term “developmentally disabled.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686453
Senate Bill 811: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in the statute specifying the duties of the state Office of Services to the Aging with the term “developmentally disabled.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686455
House Bill 4295: Adjust school budget projections, appropiate extra money
The amendment passed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014, to spend $1.8 million for a contract to provide schools a “sustainable, interactive health and nutrition education platform and personal responsibility health behavior record” that would collect “personal use health behavior data that are cumulative and accessible in real time only to the user and those authorized by the user through a secure online dashboard.” It would also include “age- and developmentally appropriate self-monitoring through the recording of health habits, including, but not limited to, dietary intake and physical activity…that provides a personal responsibility health record,” and more. Parents would have to “opt in” for their children to be included.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=155260
House Bill 4295: Adjust school budget projections, appropiate extra money
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 5, 2014, to spend an extra $30 million various programs targeted at “at risk” students.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=155260
House Bill 4295: Adjust school budget projections, appropiate extra money
Passed 107 to 3 in the House on March 5, 2014, to make adjustments to the school aid budget for the current fiscal year to reflect lower than expected student counts, and appropriate extra money for various purposes, including a $51.7 federal “early learning challenge grant” the state applied for. This will pay for government programs that are “culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate...for high-needs children from birth to kindergarten entry” and that “promote children’s physical, social, and emotional health” among other things; training for employees who perform these activities; monitoring systems and more. The bill also authorizes a student nutrition and behavior tracking software program for schools. It appropriates $5 million for transition costs related to dissolving the fiscally failed Buena Vista and Inkster school districts; $2 million for a year-round school pilot program; $3.9 million for contracts to provide students “information technology education opportunities; and more.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686575
House Bill 5136: Create standardized medical welfare mental health release form
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 5, 2014, to require the state Department of Community Health to develop a standard release form for exchanging confidential mental health and substance abuse information between any public and private agency, department, corporation, or individual involved with treatment of a person with mental health or substance abuse problems.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686571
House Bill 5345: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 5, 2014, to remove the term “mentally retarded” in the law setting standards for defendant-competence in certain criminal trials, and replace it with the term “intellectually disabled.” This is part of a multi-bill package making a similar change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686565
House Bill 5346: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in the statute regulating child care organizations with the term “developmental disability.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686566
House Bill 5347: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in a section of the Public Health Code with the term “developmental disability.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686567
House Bill 5348: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in the state Insurance Code with the term “developmental disability.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686568
House Bill 5349: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in a section of the Revised Judicature Act with the term “developmental disability.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686569
House Bill 5350: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in a statute regulating surrogate parenting with the term “developmental disability.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686570
House Bill 5351: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in a law related to intermediate school district jurisdiction with the term “developmental disability.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686573
House Bill 5352: Remove “mentally retarded” references from statute
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 5, 2014, to replace the term “mentally retarded” in the school employee pension law with the term “developmental disability.” This is part of a multi-bill package making the same change to various statutes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686572
Senate Bill 472: Revise state survey and remonumentation commission details
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on March 6, 2014, to revise details of the law that authorizes a state survey and remonumentation commission, including its duties, composition and some definitions related to corner and landmark markers.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686685
Senate Bill 667: Prohibit minors from using “e-cigarettes”
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on March 6, 2014, to prohibit minors form using electronic cigarettes, making it a misdemeanor crime punishable by a $50 fine, community service in a hospice or long term care facility, and being ordered into a health promotion and risk reduction program.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686686
Senate Bill 668: Ban selling “e-cigarettes” to minors
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on March 6, 2014, to ban selling or giving minors electronic vapor cigarettes, or any device that delivers nicotine.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686687
Senate Bill 711: Extend Cobo sales tax exemption
Passed 100 to 10 in the House on March 6, 2014, to extend for another two years the 2014 sunset on a law that exempts from sales tax the purchase of tools and equipment by a contractor if these are used to fix or renovate Cobo Hall in Detroit.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686729
Senate Bill 735: Extend Cobo use tax exemption
Passed 100 to 10 in the House on March 6, 2014, to extend for another two years the 2014 sunset on a law that exempts from use tax the purchase of tools and equipment by a contractor if these are used to fix or renovate Cobo Hall in Detroit.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686730
House Bill 5277: Revise foreclosure restrictions
Passed 107 to 3 in the House on March 6, 2014, to revise details of a 2013 law that made changes to the right of a mortgage foreclosure auction property buyer to monitor the property during the post-auction redemption period (during which a delinquent borrower can pay the loan in full to redeem the property). The bill would impose more restrictions on inspections by the buyer, require more notice before interior inspections, and offer more opportunities for the borrower to repair or correct damage before the buyer can claim immediate ownership rights.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=686741