House Bill 5233: Expand scope of criminal property seizure law
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 27, 2014, to remove the provision allowing the government to wait up to 56 days before giving notice that property is being taken (under current law this is seven days).
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=162895
House Bill 5233: Expand scope of criminal property seizure law
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on March 27, 2014, to tie-bar the bill to House Bills 5234 and 5250, meaning this bill cannot become law unless those do also. HB 5234 would revise details of the state human trafficking law, and HB 5250 would require law enforcement agencies to file regular reports on criminal asset forfeitures including details on the crimes, whether any person was charged or convicted, the nature and disposition of the property and more.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=162895
House Bill 5233: Expand scope of criminal property seizure law
Passed 93 to 13 in the House on September 16, 2014, to expand the crimes covered by a state criminal forfeiture law to include home invasion, rape and other serious sex crimes. The bill would also make the property of an owner deemed “willfully blind” to illegal activity taking place on the premises subject to forfeiture, allow the seizure of real or personal property that had been transferred to a new owner after the crime in some cases, and let the government wait up to 28 days before giving notice that property is being seized (under current law this is seven days). The state criminal forfeiture law allows the government to seize property used in a crime or acquired with the proceeds of a crime, with the net proceeds from its sale turned over to the agencies that are “substantially involved in effecting the forfeiture”.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=688444
House Bill 5341: Revise welfare application confidentiality details
Passed 96 to 10 in the House on September 16, 2014, to revise existing restrictions on releasing information related to an individuals’ applications for welfare and related programs, which are considered records open to the public. The bill would exclude public access to documents in an individual’s record’s that come from another agency or organization, unless required by other state or federal laws, or in response to a court order.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695603
Senate Bill 473: Exempt some government housing program firms from income tax withholding
Passed 107 to 1 in the House on September 18, 2014, to not impose income tax withholding mandates on companies involved in certain government housing programs if this would violate the terms of those programs.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695764
Senate Bill 616: Appropriations: Supplemental budget
Passed 78 to 31 in the House on September 18, 2014, to revise Medicaid accounting to reflect the transition from a 1 percent “health insurance claims tax” to the imposition of the 6 percent “use tax” on Medicaid managed care health care providers (hospitals). These various levies are designed to “game” the federal Medicaid program in ways that result in higher federal payments to Michigan’s medical welfare establishment (including those same hospitals). See Senate Bill 893 and Senate Bill 913.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695755
Senate Bill 915: Make vehicle title lien updates electronic
Passed 108 to 0 in the House on September 18, 2014, to make it a felony to fraudulently indicate on a certificate of title for a vehicle that there is no security interest on record for the vehicle (meaning the vehicle is owned free and clear). Also, to make it felony to forge or counterfeit a letter from the lender saying the loan has been paid off. See also Senate Bills 916 to 918, which propose making vehicle title lien information electronic.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695766
Senate Bill 916: Make vehicle title lien updates electronic
Passed 108 to 0 in the House on September 18, 2014, to revise process for updating vehicle loan “security interests” on vehicle titles, so as to accommodate the process proposed by Senate Bill 918 for replacing the current paper-based system with an all-electronic one. Among other things the bill would eliminate a requirement that the Secretary of State must issue a title to the owner of a vehicle, if the title were subject to a security interest (loan).
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695768
Senate Bill 917: Make vehicle title lien updates electronic
Passed 108 to 0 in the House on September 18, 2014, to revise the process for updating vehicle loan “security interests” on vehicle titles, so as to accommodate the process proposed by Senate Bill 918 for replacing the current paper-based system with an all-electronic one.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695769
House Bill 4915: Extend sunset on crime victim’s rights fund earmark
Passed 105 to 3 in the House on September 18, 2014, to extend until October 2018 the sunset on a provision of the state crime victim’s rights fund earmarking money not used by the fund in any given year to pay instead for other law enforcement activities, such as maintaining the state sex offender registry, “Amber alert” programs, sex crime victim treatment services, lie detector tests and expert witness fees.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695767
House Bill 5391: Revise wage garnishment rules
Passed 102 to 7 in the House on September 18, 2014, to revise the law that authorizes a court-ordered garnishment of an individual’s wages to satisfy an obligation. The bill would cap the amount of a garnishment at 15 percent of the “gross wages” earned by the employee, but not if this would reduce the pay to less than the “minimum wage” mandated by the state or federal government.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695757
House Bill 5466: Revise paternity law and unwed father child support details
Passed 98 to 10 in the House on September 18, 2014, to establish procedures for consolidating within one government agency a county prosecutor’s authority to seek child support from the father of a child born out of wedlock to a mother on welfare. The authority would then fall under either the friend of the court office, or an attorney employed or under contract with either the county or the state Department of Human Services.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695752
House Bill 5467: Revise paternity law and unwed father child support details
Passed 96 to 12 in the House on September 18, 2014, to establish procedures for consolidating within one government agency a county prosecutor’s authority to seek child support from the father of a child born out of wedlock. The authority would then fall under either the friend of the court office, or an attorney employed or under contract with either the county or the state Department of Human Services.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695754
House Bill 5468: Revise paternity law and unwed father child support details
Passed 96 to 12 in the House on September 18, 2014, to establish procedures for consolidating within one government agency a county prosecutor’s authority to seek child support from the father of a child born out of wedlock to a mother on welfare. The authority would then fall under either the friend of the court office, or an attorney employed or under contract with either the county or the state Department of Human Services.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695756
House Bill 5469: Revise paternity law and unwed father child support details
Passed 96 to 12 in the House on September 18, 2014, to establish procedures for consolidating within one government agency a county prosecutor’s authority in cases involving a jurisdiction in another state to seek child support from the father of a child born out of wedlock. The authority would then fall under either the friend of the court office, or an attorney employed or under contract with either the county or the state Department of Human Services.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695758
House Bill 5470: Revise paternity law and unwed father child support details
Passed 96 to 12 in the House on September 18, 2014, to establish procedures for consolidating within one government agency a county prosecutor’s authority in cases involving a jurisdiction in another state to seek child support from the father of a child born out of wedlock. The authority would then fall under either the friend of the court office, or an attorney employed or under contract with either the county or the state Department of Human Services.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695759
House Bill 5471: Revise paternity law and unwed father child support details
Passed 95 to 13 in the House on September 18, 2014, to establish procedures for consolidating within one government agency a county prosecutor’s authority to seek child support from the father of a child born out of wedlock. The authority would then fall under either the friend of the court office, or an attorney employed or under contract with either the county or the state Department of Human Services.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695760
House Bill 5583: Revise paternity determination process
Passed 106 to 2 in the House on September 18, 2014, to establish a paternity revocation process for a determination for a man deemed be a child’s genetic father solely on the basis of genetic testing, if the genetic tests were inaccurate, or the man’s genetic material was not available to the child’s mother, or if a man who has DNA identical to the genetic father is the child’s father.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695763
House Bill 5606: Expand “protectionist” auto dealer provision
Passed 106 to 3 in the House on September 18, 2014, to prohibit vehicle makers from preventing a dealer from tacking on extra fees that are permitted by a law that empowers the state to enforce exclusive new car dealer “territories” and regulate the terms of commercial relationships between dealers and manufacturers.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695773
House Bill 5649: Recognize terminal patients’ “right to try” unapproved treatments
Passed 109 to 0 in the House on September 18, 2014, to prohibit state officials and licensing boards from sanctioning health care providers who participate providing non-FDA approved experimental drugs and treatments to terminal patients in accordance with the conditions specified in the “right to try” law proposed by House Bill 5651 and Senate Bill 991.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695762
House Bill 5742: Authorize appropriation for university autism programs
Passed 88 to 21 in the House on September 18, 2014, to authorize the transfer to university autism programs of $5.5 million from a state fund created by a 2012 law intended cover subsidies to health insurance companies to compensate for the cost of a new autism treatment coverage mandate imposed by another law passed that year. This was called for in the state budget enacted for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2014.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695777
House Bill 5785: Expand permissible criminal court cost levies
Passed 95 to 14 in the House on September 18, 2014, to expand the costs that can be imposed on a individual convicted in a criminal case. The bill would authorize imposing assessments covering a share of court employee salaries and benefits, of “goods and services” used in operating the court, and of court building “operation and maintenance” costs. In addition, the bill would establish that a court has no duty to provide a “calculation of the costs involved in a particular case.” The bill reverses a state Supreme Court case that limited charges to those specifically allowed in a particular statute; its provisions would expire in 27 months, presumably to allow the legislature to rationalize these impositions for courts across the state.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695765
House Bill 5793: Correct error in graduation standards law revision
Passed 109 to 0 in the House on September 18, 2014, to clarify that the foreign language requirement in the state’s graduation requirements only applies to student who entered 3rd grade in 2006 or later or later (a cohort who generally would graduate in 2016). Reportedly this is to correct an error in a law enacted earlier in 2014 that lowered some of the graduation standards.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=695772