Senate Bill 485: Establish state “unclaimed body program”
Passed 28 to 8 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to create a state “Anatomy Board” comprised of designated medical school representatives, , within the Department of Community Health (DCH), which would allocate unclaimed bodies to teaching institutions, hospitals, and other people that required them for educational use. This entity would also develop criteria, standards, and procedures for which unclaimed bodies are suitable for scientific use. The bill would also require the authority person in charge of a decedent’s body to attempt to identify and notify the family member or other person who would have final say over to make decisions about the body.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696225
Senate Bill 587: Human trafficking crime package
Passed 108 to 1 in the House on October 2, 2014, to require a state agency supervising a child found to be the victim of human trafficking to provide psychological counseling services.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696296
Senate Bill 590: Human trafficking crime package
Passed 109 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to allow human trafficking victims to sue violators for damages.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696300
Senate Bill 592: Human trafficking crime package
Passed 109 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to revise the general state welfare law to authorize medical and psychological assistance benefits for having been a victim of a human trafficking crime.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696301
Senate Bill 593: Human trafficking crime package
Passed 109 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to require child placement agencies to give special consideration to information that a child may be the victim of human trafficking crimes, and on that basis find that the usual reunification, adoption, or other foster care services may not be suitable. Instead, the child would have to be placed in a setting that provided mental health, counseling, or other specialized services appropriate for a human trafficking victim.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696302
Senate Bill 597: Human trafficking crime package
Passed 101 to 8 in the House on October 2, 2014, to require that medical professionals receive training to identify the signs of human trafficking in patients.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696303
Senate Bill 705: Revise court records detail
Passed 109 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to revise a law that requires audio recordings of court hearings involving a minor to be a “permanent record.” The bill would specify that how long these recordings need be retained would be set in rules determined by the state Supreme Court.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696305
Senate Bill 852: Grant industrial plant rehab tax break for particular developer
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to allow an exception to the usual requirements for an Industrial Plant Rehabilitation tax break, making a particular facility eligible, when under current statute it would not be.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696218
Senate Bill 882: Repeal local road agency fringe benefit reporting mandate
Passed 107 to 2 in the House on October 2, 2014, to require county road commissions, instead of local road agencies, to certify to the Department of Transportation that they have adopted specified pension reforms and employee health insurance limits, starting Oct. 1 2015 (or that two thirds of the commission members have cast a record roll call vote to exempt these employees from the 2011 law that established government employee insurance caps, which that law allows.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696311
Senate Bill 940: Revise vehicle width limit detail
Passed 35 to 1 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to revise the maximum width of vehicles allowed on Michigan roads to 108-inches for vehicles hauling steel pipe (a width that is already allowed for vehicles hauling concrete pipe, agricultural products, unprocessed logs, pulpwood, or wood bolts).
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696220
Senate Bill 962: Revise industrial tax break detail
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to revise a provision of the law that authorizes local property tax breaks for industrial facility tax breaks, which grants these even if the local clerk fails to meet certain procedural deadlines. The bill would amend the provision so it also applies to an amended application for a tax break, or a request to transfer or revoke a tax break.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696219
Senate Bill 980: Revise legal notice service where address is confidential
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to establish an alternative way of serving notice of a legal process after a court order has been entered that prohibits the disclosure of the address of a party to the action. Instead, the papers would be delivered to the court system and forwarded from there. See also House Bill 5654.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696222
Senate Bill 981: Ban divorce lawyer “ambulance chasing”
Passed 35 to 1 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to prohibit a lawyer from soliciting business from a party to a divorce action within 14 days after proof of service in the action was filed with the court, punishable by fines of $1,000 and $5,000 for subsequent violations.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696213
Senate Bill 987: Suspend victim restitution if victim is juvenile offender’s parents
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to revise a law requiring parents of a juvenile delinquent from paying restitution to the victim of the juvenile’s crime if the parents were themselves the victim.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696214
Senate Bill 988: Suspend parent liability if parents were juvenile offender’s victim
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to revise a law making the parents of a juvenile delinquent liable for costs related to the juvenile’s incarceration and legal costs if the parents were the victim of the juvenile’s crime.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696215
Senate Bill 989: Suspend parent liability if parents were juvenile offender’s victim
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to revise a law making the parents of a juvenile delinquent liable for costs related to the juvenile’s care if the parents were the victim of the juvenile’s crime.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696216
Senate Bill 991: Let terminal patients try non-FDA approved treatments
Passed 109 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to establish that a person diagnosed with a terminal illness has a “right to try” experimental drugs or therapies, notwithstanding laws that prohibit treatments not approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration, subject to various conditions specified in the bill. The bill would prohibit state employees or officials from interfering, and ban licensing boards from sanctioning health care providers who participate, subject to specified conditions. Insurers would not have to cover these treatments, and drug makers who comply with the specified conditions would be immune from liability if the patient is harmed. The bill was introduced in response to criticism of FDA mandates that drug makers prove new drugs are “safe and effective” are improperly applied in these cases, leading to many preventable deaths. House Bill 5651 proposes the same thing..
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696304
Senate Bill 1016: Shift road tax money from certain subsidies to road projects
Passed 107 to 2 in the House on October 2, 2014, to not earmark $12 million in annual road tax money to the state “Transportation Economic Development Fund” in fiscal year 2013-2014, and instead use it for regular road building and repair projects. TEDF money is essentially a form of corporate subsidy in which the state pays for transportation infrastructure projects related to a particular investor’s or developer’s new plant or project.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696312
Senate Bill 1049: Grant legal immunity to trained police administration of overdose treatment
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to allow a peace officer with training in the proper administration of an opioid antagonist a person suffering a heroin overdose to do so, and grant civil and criminal immunity for doing so.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696226
House Bill 4545: Ban wrecker and tow truck “ambulance chasing”
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to prohibit tow truck and wrecking service operators from traveling to an accident site to solicit business unless their service has been requested by police. Also, to prohibit local governments from charging wrecker and tow truck operations a fee for responding to a request from police or a motorist at an accident site.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696223
House Bill 4638: Revise deed recording detail
Passed 34 to 2 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to establish a legal presumption that a property conveyance (deed or easement) recorded with the county register of deeds is valid if the conveyance meets the statutory requirements proposed by House Bill 4640, and other legal requirements. Also, to the extent that the mortgage instrument validly created a lien (claim against the property, as in a mortgage), the lien would be “perfected” (made legally binding) on the date the affidavit was recorded.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696210
House Bill 4639: Revise deed recording detail
Passed 33 to 3 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to revise the law requiring registers of deeds to maintain an index of recorded deeds and related instruments, so that it conforms with the provisions proposed by House Bill 4640.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696211
House Bill 4640: Revise deed recording detail
Passed 32 to 3 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to establish standards for the affidavit that is required when recording an unrecorded property conveyance (deed or easement) with the county register of deeds.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696212
House Bill 4915: Extend sunset on crime victim’s rights fund earmark
Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on October 1, 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=696227
House Bill 5385: Expand drunk driving provisions to include illegal drugs
Passed 35 to 0 in the Senate on October 1, 2014, to expand the law that requires a person stopped for drunk driving to take a breathalyzer or field sobriety test so that it also applies to suspected driving while drugged. The bill would not explicitly authorize the use of a roadside saliva test, which has been challenged as inaccurate.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696221
House Bill 5649: Recognize terminal patients’ “right to try” unapproved treatments
Passed 35 to 1 in the Senate on October 1, 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 Senate Bill 991.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696217
House Bill 5743: Revise adoption petition details
Passed 109 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to revise details of a law that specifies where a person who wants to adopt a child (or an adult) must file a court petition. Specifically, the petition could be filed with the court of the county where the person resides, where the adoptee is found, or where the birth parent’s parental rights were terminated. Among other things this would streamline the procedures when the person who wants to adopt lives in another state.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696306
House Bill 5744: Revise child protective or delinquency action fees
Passed 109 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to eliminate the requirement to pay court fees to file certain child protective or delinquency actions in court. See House Bill 5745.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696307
House Bill 5745: Revise extended foster care assistance detail
Passed 109 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to specify that if a court has appointed a guardian for a youth 16 years of age or older under sections of law dealing with foster care placements, then the court would retain jurisdiction until the Department of Human Services determines the youth’s eligibility to receive extended guardianship assistance under a 2011 law that increased the eligible age from 18 to 21 for young adult foster care, guardianship assistance, and adoption assistance programs.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696309
House Bill 5746: Revise extended foster care assistance detail
Passed 109 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to specify that if a court has appointed a guardian for a youth 16 years of age or older under sections of law dealing with foster care placements, then the court would retain jurisdiction until the Department of Human Services determines the youth’s eligibility to receive extended guardianship assistance under a 2011 law that increased the eligible age from 18 to 21 for young adult foster care, guardianship assistance, and adoption assistance programs.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696308
Senate Bill 205: Increase solicitation of sex from minor penalties
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to increase the penalties for the crime of soliciting sex from a minor who is at less than 18 years of age.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696484
Senate Bill 206: Increase solicitation of sex from minor penalties
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to revise the sentencing guidelines for the penalty increase proposed by House Bill 4209 for the crime of soliciting a minor to commit prostitution.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696485
Senate Bill 585: Human trafficking crime package
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to raise the minimum age for prostitution-related crimes to from 16 to 18, and prohibit local units of government from enacting ordinances that establish lower minimum ages. Individuals under this age caught violating the law would be presumed to be victims of some kind of coercion and could be taken into protective custody and placed under probate (family) court supervision.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696487
Senate Bill 602: Human trafficking crime package
Passed 106 to 1 in the House on October 2, 2014, to require individuals convicted of soliciting a prostitute who is less than age 18 to register on the state sex offender registry.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696486
Senate Bill 861: Authorize higher “children’s trust fund” spending
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to authorize a higher rate of annual spending from a state “children’s trust fund” that distributes money intended to various local “councils” intended to prevent child abuse and neglect.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696491
Senate Bill 863: Expand drunk driving provisions to include illegal drugs
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to authorize a judge or district court magistrate under specified circumstances to release a defendant whose “preliminary roadside analysis” test reveals the presence of a controlled substance. This is part of a package extending the same procedures to both drunk and drugged driving cases.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696508
Senate Bill 890: Revise state adoption subsidies
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to revise details of a law that authorizes subsidies for parents who adopt a child, so as to accommodate an agreement that the state would provide higher subsidies if it turns out a particular child needs “extraordinary” care that incurs extraordinary expenses.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696488
Senate Bill 998: Establish rape kit evidence regulations and procedures
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to create a state commission to establish regulations, procedures and timetables with deadlines that law enforcement agencies and health care providers must follow when collecting and using sexual assault kit evidence.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696489
Senate Bill 1004: Require law enforcement agencies update sexual assault victims
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to require the law enforcement agency with the primary responsibility for investigating that sexual assault case to inform the victim (or a person the victim designates) of the status of all evidence collected, upon written request. This would include information on an assailant’s DNA profile and more. The bill would also require a state “Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention and Treatment Board” created by an executive order to develop an informational handout for victims explaining the meaning of possible forensic testing results.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696490
Senate Bill 1021: Mandate certain hospital disclosures to sexual assault victims
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to mandate that hospitals must tell an individual alleged to have been the victim of criminal sexual conduct in the past five days about the provisions of a 2008 law that specifies the procedures the hospital must undertake to qualify for compensation by the state crime victims services commission for sexual assault medical forensic examination costs.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696505
Senate Bill 1036: Require timely disease testing of rapists
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to require a defendant indicted for rape or other serious sex crimes to be tested for venereal disease, hepatitis and AIDS within 48 hours if the victim requests this. Under current law testing is required but no timetable is specified.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696506
House Bill 4624: Allow multi-department firefighter employment
Passed 21 to 17 in the Senate on October 2, 2014, to prohibit a fire department from prohibiting its firefighters from also working as a volunteer, part-time or paid on-call firefighter with another department, if this does not conflict with the original employment. Also, to make this issue a prohibited subject of collective bargaining between a fire department and an employee union.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696389
House Bill 5025: “Human trafficking” criminal law package
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on October 2, 2014, to allow and facilitate the expungement of a prostitution offense from a person’s criminal record if the person was the victim of a “human trafficking” violation.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696412
House Bill 5097: Exempt public safety employees from ban on certain automatic pay hikes
Passed 25 to 12 in the Senate on October 2, 2014, to exempt law enforcement and fire department employees from a 2011 law that banned automatic seniority-based automatic pay hikes for individual government employees (“step increases”) during the time when a government employee union contract has expired and no replacement has been negotiated. Specifically, the bill would exempt public safety workers covered by a 1969 compulsory arbitration law.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696377
House Bill 5182: Give tax break to nonprofit housing organizations
Passed 87 to 20 in the House on October 2, 2014, to exempt dwellings owned by a charitable nonprofit housing organization from property tax for five years, or until the property is transferred to a low income person. Under current law, local governments may grant this tax break but are not required to.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696536
House Bill 5236: Human trafficking crime package
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on October 2, 2014, to revise the law authorizing seizure and forfeiture of property related to the commission of a crime or the proceeds from a criminal act so that it explicitly applies to human trafficking crimes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696418
House Bill 5273: Authorize, regulate Michigan stock exchange
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on October 2, 2014, to authorize and establish a comprehensive regulatory regime for local stock exchanges for transactions in Michigan securities (stocks). See also House Bill 4897, which is not related to this bill, but would require a state agency to “facilitate” creating a Detroit futures exchange.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696375
House Bill 5385: Expand drunk driving provisions to include illegal drugs
Passed 104 to 3 in the House on October 2, 2014, to concur with the House-passed version of the bill.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696511
House Bill 5422: Allow 120 days to renew vehicle registration without late fee
Passed 92 to 15 in the House on October 2, 2014, to not impose a $10 “late fee” on vehicle registrations submitted after the previous year’s registration has expired, if the owner presents proof of storage insurance for the time between the expiration and the new renewal, and requests in person at a Secretary of State branch office that the late fee be waived.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696492
House Bill 5563: Revise abandoned vehicle regulations
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to expand the scope of a state prohibition and comprehensive regulatory regime that prescribes penalties, procedures and rules for abandoned vehicles, so that it includes boats and vessels, and add new regulations to accommodate the addition of vessels.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696494
House Bill 5578: Revise liquor control regulation detail
Passed 102 to 5 in the House on October 2, 2014, to eliminate a $7.50 cap on the per case distribution fee that can be charged for liquor distributed to retailers by an “authorized distribution agent,” which is the term applied to the private companies authorized to warehouse and distribute hard liquor in Michigan.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696498
House Bill 5606: Expand “protectionist” auto dealer provision
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on October 2, 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=696382
House Bill 5636: Permit golf cart road road use without insurance
Passed 104 to 3 in the House on October 2, 2014, to establish that a golf cart driven on roads (as House Bill 5645 would permit) is not considered a “motor vehicle” subject to registration taxes and the mandated no-fault vehicle insurance. The bill would also establish that motorized wheelchairs, “scooters” and other personal mobility devices are not considered “motor vehicles”.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696495
House Bill 5714: Revise regulations on household movers
Passed 105 to 2 in the House on October 2, 2014, to revise details of the extensive regulatory regime and price controls imposed on household moving companies.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696493
House Bill 5785: Expand permissible criminal court cost levies
Passed 95 to 12 in the House on October 2, 2014, to concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696517
House Bill 5785: Expand permissible criminal court cost levies
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on October 2, 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 36 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=696378
House Bill 5792: Mandate insurance ownership divestment disclosures
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to mandate that a person with a controlling ownership interest in a Michigan insurance company who plans to divest that interest must submit a statement of intent to the state insurance bureau at least 30 days before the divestment, along with a statement describing the “enterprise risk” of the transaction, defined in the bill as the chances it will have a “material adverse effect upon the financial condition or liquidity” of the insurer.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696496
House Bill 5798: Revise alcohol control regulatory regime details
Passed 37 to 1 in the Senate on October 2, 2014, to revise restrictions on “brewpubs;” and allow alcohol manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors to provide retailers with keg couplers that are lent to an on-premises retailer, sporting event or entertainment tickets, and brand logoed items that are contained within the packaging of a liquor product for sale to consumers.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696384
House Bill 5823: Require insurance company risk assessments
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to require larger insurance companies to regularly perform an “own risk and solvency assessment” (ORSA), defined as a “confidential internal assessment…of the material and relevant risks associated with the insurer’s current business plan, and the sufficiency of capital resources to support those risks.” This would have to be submitted to the state annually.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696497
House Bill 5839: Establish standard for permanent revocation of health provider licenses
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to allow for the permanent revocation of a health profession license or registration if the person engaged in a pattern of intentional fraudulent acts for personal gain that harmed patients. The bill would also increase the types of violations that could result in license revocation, and make certain assaultive crimes, including 1st- and 2nd degree murder, grounds for permanent revocation. This is part of a legislative package comprised of House Bills 5839 to 5842. This bill provides a definition of “permanent revocation”.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696499
House Bill 5840: Establish standard for permanent revocation of health provider licenses
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to allow for the permanent revocation of a health profession license or registration if the person engaged in a pattern of intentional fraudulent acts for personal gain that harmed patients. The bill would also increase the types of violations that could result in license revocation, and make certain assaultive crimes, including 1st- and 2nd degree murder, grounds for permanent revocation. This is part of a legislative package comprised of House Bills 5839 to 5842. This bill would mandate permanent revocation for serious assault crimes if the person was acting within the health profession.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696500
House Bill 5841: Establish standard for permanent revocation of health provider licenses
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to allow for the permanent revocation of a health profession license or registration if the person engaged in a pattern of intentional fraudulent acts for personal gain that harmed patients. Permanent revocation would require the person to both engage in a pattern of intentional fraud for personal gain and cause harm to patients’ health, unless the person committed criminal sexual conduct involving a patient. This is part of a legislative package comprised of House Bills 5839 to 5842.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696503
House Bill 5842: Establish standard for permanent revocation of health provider licenses
Passed 107 to 0 in the House on October 2, 2014, to revise language in the law authorizing permanent revocation of a health profession license for certain violations to conform with the proposal in House Bills 5839 to 5842 to expand and further define the grounds for this sanction.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696504