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
Senate Bill 584: Eliminate statute of limitations on child sex trafficking
Passed 108 to 1 in the House on October 2, 2014, to eliminate the statute of limitations for prosecution of human trafficking crimes that cost the life of another, and establish a 25 year limitation on prosecuting other human trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation of minors offenses.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=696299
Senate Bill 592: Human trafficking crime package
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate 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=696433
Senate Bill 1094: Prioritize veterans for mental health services
Introduced by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D) on October 1, 2014, to include services for veterans in the priorities for community mental health programs. Current law gives priority to “individuals with the most severe forms of serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and developmental disability”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165434
Senate Bill 1095: Require insurers offer abortion coverage option with federal health care law
Introduced by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D) on October 1, 2014, to require (rather than just allow) health insurance companies to offer an optional abortion coverage “rider” for policies sold in Michigan through the federal health care law’s “exchange.” Under “Initiated legislation” enacted in 2013, insurers are prohibited from including abortion coverage in policies sold through the exchange, but may sell a policy “rider” for this, for which individuals must pay themselves with no federal subsidy.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165435
Senate Bill 1096: Facilitate insurance coverage for telemedicine
Introduced by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D) on October 1, 2014, to revise details of the state law authorizing a comprehensive health insurance regulatory regime, to accommodate health insurance coverage for “asynchronous store and forward action,” defined as “transmission of a patient’s medical information from an originating site to a health care professional at a distant site for review of the information by the professional at the distant site” at a different time. In other words, telemedicine.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165436
Senate Bill 1097: Expand technology business subsidies
Introduced by Sen. Mark Jansen (R) on October 1, 2014, to authorize the creation of three additional “certified technology parks” (previously dubbed “smart zones”), in which “tax increment financing” is used to provide infrastructure or other subsidies to technology-based businesses. These authorities “capture” the extra local property tax revenue that (hopefully) results from property value increases generated by certain improvement projects (or selective business subsidies) undertaken or granted by the authority.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165437
Senate Bill 1098: Prioritize foster care children for mental health services
Introduced by Sen. Bruce Caswell (R) on October 1, 2014, to include services for long term foster care children in the priorities for community mental health programs. Current law gives priority to “individuals with the most severe forms of serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, and developmental disability”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165438
Senate Bill 1099: Redesignate a highway
Introduced by Sen. Mark Jansen (R) on September 30, 2014, to designate a portion of Highway M-6 in Kent county as the “David Warsen Memorial Highway”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165406
Senate Bill 1100: Authorize sales tax collection fraud detector mandate
Introduced by Sen. John Pappageorge (R) on October 1, 2014, on merchants to give the state Department of Treasury the authority to mandate that, for purposes of collecting sales tax, merchants must install software or detectors to expose the use an “automated sales suppression device” for falsifying the records of electronic cash registers (also called “zappers” or “phantom-ware”).
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165433
Senate Bill 1101: Mandate health care providers offer Hepatitis C test
Introduced by Sen. Jim Marleau (R) on October 2, 2014, to mandate that primary care health facilities and professionals must offer individuals receiving health care who were born between 1945 and 1965 a Hepatitis C test, with certain specified exceptions.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165425
Senate Bill 1102: Revise guardian/conservator qualifications
Introduced by Sen. Rick Jones (R) on October 2, 2014, to revise the law that empowers courts to appoint a guardian and/or conservator to protect the interests and/or assets of a vulnerable individual, by prohibiting appointment of a guardian serving in another state who has abused, exploited, or neglected a legally incapacitated individual. A 2011 law authorized appointment of individuals located in other states.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165426
Senate Bill 1103: Revise film producer subsidy formula
Introduced by Sen. Randy Richardville (R) on October 1, 2014, to increase the percentage of film production personnel expenses used to calculate how much state subsidy money a particular producer may be granted. Under current law, up to $50 million in state tax revenues may be redistributed to film producers in the current fiscal year, with the amount going to particular projects based on a formula that includes these costs.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165427
Senate Bill 1104: Add new charter school restrictions
Introduced by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D) on October 2, 2014, to freeze the number of charter schools at the current level. The bill would also prohibit authorization of a new charter school unless the state Board of Education grants a “certificate of need” based on the number of nearby conventional public schools, whether these are on a list of the 5 percent worst public schools, the impact on nearby schools of a new competitor, the number of students on nearby charter school waiting lists, and more. Also, to require the state Superintendent of Public Instruction to consider certain performance, oversight and transparency criteria for charter school authorizers; require charter school boards to use competitive bidding to select an educational management company that will run a school; and more.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165428
Senate Bill 1105: Add Romulus deep injection well restrictions
Introduced by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D) on October 2, 2014, to prohibit the Detroit pension system from making any further investments in the hazardous waste deep disposal well facility in Romulus, and impose conditions that probably would require divestment of its ownership interest.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165429
Senate Bill 1106: Add Romulus deep injection well restrictions
Introduced by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D) on October 2, 2014, to impose additional requirements and restrictions on a controversial hazardous waste deep disposal well facility in Romulus.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165430
Senate Bill 1107: Revise ban on teachers union bargaining over privatization
Introduced by Sen. John Pappageorge (R) on October 2, 2014, to revise details of a law that prohibits teachers unions from bargaining over whether a school district can seek competitive bids for noninstructional support services, as long as the district allows unionized school employees to be given a chance to bid on any outsourced service.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165431
Senate Bill 1108: Expand Viet Nam veteran grant eligibility to post-Viet Nam era vets
Introduced by Sen. Vincent Gregory (D) on October 2, 2014, to extend a state grant that was given to Viet Nam era veterans under a 1974 law, so that the award would also be given to individuals who were in the military between September 1, 1973 and May 7, 1975. The last U.S. combat troops were withdrawn from Viet Nam in August, 1972.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165432
House Bill 5233: Expand scope of criminal property seizure law
Passed 37 to 1 in the Senate on October 2, 2014, to expand the reach of the state’s criminal forfeiture law by making the property of an owner deemed “willfully blind” to illegal activity taking place on the premises subject to forfeiture. The bill would also allow the seizure of real or personal property that had been transferred to a new owner after the crime in some cases, let the government wait up to 28 days before giving notice that property is being seized (under current law this is seven days), and authorize forfeiture for home invasion, rape and other serious sex crimes. 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=696416
House Bill 5858: Require insurers offer abortion coverage option with federal health care law
Introduced by Rep. Pam Faris (D) on September 30, 2014, to require (rather than just allow) health insurance companies to offer an optional abortion coverage “rider” for policies sold in Michigan through the federal health care law’s “exchange.” Under “Initiated legislation” enacted in 2013, insurers are prohibited from including abortion coverage in policies sold through the exchange, but may sell a policy “rider” for this, for which individuals must pay themselves with no federal subsidy.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165392
House Bill 5859: Authorize more sand dune land use restrictions
Introduced by Rep. Collene Lamonte (D) on September 30, 2014, to place the burden of proof on property owners that improvements and construction on land deemed to be a “critical sand dune” complies with the extensive regulatory permit requirements and restrictions that state law currently imposes on such projects. Under current law, the burden is on the state or a local government to provide information in a permit denial showing that a project will not comply with these regulations. The bill would also allow local governments to impose their own restrictions and requirements that exceed state law.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165393
House Bill 5860: Revise property appraiser standards detail
Introduced by Rep. Margaret O’Brien (R) on September 30, 2014, to establish that any changes made to property appraiser standards and qualifications by a national appraisal foundation referenced in the state licensure law will be adopted automatically as this state’s standard unless the director of the relevant state agency decides otherwise.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165394
House Bill 5861: Appropriate $2 million for year-round school pilot program
Introduced by Rep. Andy Schor (D) on September 30, 2014, to appropriate $2 million to create a year-round school pilot program.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165395
House Bill 5862: Revise fire insurance settlement escrow amount
Introduced by Rep. Amanda Price (R) on September 30, 2014, to increase the maximum amount that municipalities can withhold from a property owner’s fire insurance settlement until there is evidence that the property is or will be repaired, replaced, or removed. Under current law, cities, villages and townships in larger counties can withhold up to $8,295, which is indexed to inflation. The bill would increase this to $12,000.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165396
House Bill 5863: Regulate police use of license plate scanners
Introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R) on September 30, 2014, to regulate police use of license plate scanners, which automatically read all license plate numbers and cross-reference them against law enforcement data banks. The bill would establish training and accountability requirements, restrict access to the captured information, restrict use of the captured information to specified law enforcement purposes, require plate numbers to be purged from the system every two hours, and more.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165397
House Bill 5864: Change state road funding allocation formula
Introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R) on September 30, 2014, to allocate state road tax money to local governments primarily on the basis of population rather than miles of road in the jurisdiction.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165398
House Bill 5865: Expand delinquent utility customer shutoff restrictions
Introduced by Rep. Greg MacMaster (R) on September 30, 2014, to broaden a restriction on utilities cutting off service to households with delinquent accounts during the heating season so that it applies to all customers, not just ones on welfare.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165399
House Bill 5866: Increase school spending to create gifted student programs
Introduced by Rep. Sam Singh (D) on September 30, 2014, to appropriate an extra $2.5 million for Intermediate School Districts to identify all the “gifted and talented” students in their constituent regular school districts, using methodologies specified in the bill; and appropriate another $5 million for pilot academic programs that meet the guidelines established by a National Association for Gifted Children.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165400
House Bill 5867: Exclude motorized wheelchairs from definition of “vehicle”
Introduced by Rep. Martin Howrylak (R) on September 30, 2014, to exclude motorized wheelchairs and other power-driven mobility devices used by disabled individuals from the definition of “vehicle” in laws that impose road taxes, regulations and insurance mandates on vehicle owners; and include disabled individuals using wheelchairs or other mobility devices in the definition of “pedestrians” in traffic safety laws.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165401
House Bill 5868: Establish library tax district consolidation measures
Introduced by Rep. Amanda Price (R) on September 30, 2014, to establish that if two municipalities are consolidated or annexed into one, and both have a district library that levies its own property tax millage and has its own board, the millage and governance structure of each district library would continue. Consolidation of the library districts (if any) would be at those districts’ discretion, and if they are merged, voters in the jurisdiction being transferred would have to approve the property tax imposed by the receiving library district.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165402
House Bill 5869: Revise rental lease detail
Introduced by Rep. Anthony Forlini (R) on September 30, 2014, to eliminate a prohibition on a rental lease having a provision allowing a party to waive the right to a jury trial in a lease dispute.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165412
House Bill 5870: Require consent or warrant for biometric device use
Introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R) on September 30, 2014, to prohibit using a handheld biometric device (facial or iris recognition technology) to identify any individual without the individual’s consent or a search warrant.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165413
House Bill 5871: Require warrant for illegal drug oral swab test
Introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R) on September 30, 2014, to prohibit law enforcement agents from using an “oral swab test” or saliva test to detect the presence of illegal drugs, without written consent or a search warrant.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165414
House Bill 5872: Repeal mandate on utilities to use “renewable” energy sources
Introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R) on September 30, 2014, to repeal the mandate imposed by a 2008 law that 10 percent of the electricity sold by utilities must come from “renewable” sources.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165415
House Bill 5873: Prohibit help wanted ads that restrict eligibility to employed applicants
Introduced by Rep. Collene Lamonte (D) on September 30, 2014, to authorize fines of $5,000 to $10,000 on employers for posting a help wanted ad suggesting that only currently employed individuals qualify.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165416
House Bill 5874: Authorize tax break for hiring an unemployed person
Introduced by Rep. Theresa Abed (D) on September 30, 2014, to authorize a $3,000 tax credit for employers with under 100 employees who hire a new full time worker who had been unemployed for 60 days or more, subject to various requirements and restrictions specified under the bill.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165417
House Bill 5875: Revise judicial candidate withdrawal deadline
Introduced by Rep. Bill LaVoy (D) on September 30, 2014, to establish that a candidate for judge who wants to withdraw must file notice at least 60 days before the election.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165418
House Bill 5876: Regulate prudent purchaser drug panels
Introduced by Rep. John Walsh (R) on September 30, 2014, to mandate that “prudent purchaser agreements” created by health insurance companies, HMOs, etc. to control drug costs, must allow customers to use any pharmacy willing to accept the same terms and conditions as pharmacies with whom the insurer has negotiated reimbursement arrangements. Violations of the extensive regulatory regime associated with this mandate would be punishable by up to four years in prison.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165419
House Bill 5877: Regulate prudent purchaser drug panels
Introduced by Rep. John Walsh (R) on September 30, 2014, to establish sentencing guidelines for violations of the pharmacy insurance benefit violations proposed by House Bill 5876.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165420
House Bill 5878: Revise film producer subsidy formula
Introduced by Rep. John Walsh (R) on September 30, 2014, to increase the percentage of film production personnel expenses used to calculate how much state subsidy money a particular producer may be granted. Under current law, up to $50 million in state tax revenues may be redistributed to film producers in the current fiscal year, with the amount going to particular projects based on a formula that includes these costs.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165421
House Bill 5879: Ban child care for more than 11 consecutive hours
Introduced by Rep. Robert Kosowski (D) on October 2, 2014, to prohibit a parent or guardian from leaving a child in the care of a child care center, group child care home, or family child care home for longer than 11 consecutive hours, unless the parent works longer than that.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165439
House Bill 5880: Expand use of county veterans service tax
Introduced by Rep. Adam Zemke (D) on October 2, 2014, to allow counties that levy a veterans services property tax to use revenue from the tax to cover administration costs.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165440
House Bill 5881: Revise definition of “veteran”
Introduced by Rep. Adam Zemke (D) on October 2, 2014, to clarify the definition of “veteran” for purposes of state laws that relate to veterans.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165441
House Bill 5882: Mandate health care providers report death of pregnant woman
Introduced by Rep. George T. Darany (D) on October 2, 2014, to require physicians and health care facility managers who are present at or aware of the death of a woman who was pregnant at the time of her death or within one year before her death to report this to the state.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165442
House Bill 5883: Ban adding lanes to some Wayne County freeways
Introduced by Rep. Jim Townsend (D) on October 2, 2014, to prohibit adding lanes to certain Wayne County freeways.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165443
House Bill 5884: Revise salvage vehicle inspection certification detail
Introduced by Rep. Jim Townsend (D) on October 2, 2014, to establish a process for appealing the suspension, revocation, or denial of a salvage vehicle inspection certification.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165444
House Bill 5885: Mandate landlords tell tenant about insurance
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on October 2, 2014, to require landlords to give written notice that a tenant’s property is not covered by the landlord’s insurance.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165445
House Bill 5886: Add windmills to farm operations lawsuit preemption law
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on October 2, 2014, to include operation of “wind energy conversion systems” (windmills or turbines) in a “right to farm” law that preempts “nuisance” lawsuits on the basis of farm operations that conform with generally accepted agricultural and management practices as defined by a state commission, or nuisance suits against a farm that existed before changes in land use or occupancy within a mile of the farm, with some exceptions.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165446
House Bill 5887: Establish “regulatory agency demilitarization act”
Introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R) on October 2, 2014, to prohibit a federal regulatory agency employee from carrying a firearm in Michigan in the course of his or her job, with violations subject to five years in prison and a $2,500 fine. The bill authorizes the State Police to provide assistance to a federal regulatory agency in an emergency if requested. Federal law enforcement agencies would be exempt from the restriction, and their personnel could still carry firearms in the state.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165447
House Bill 5888: Establish a “regulatory agency demilitarization act”
Introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R) on October 2, 2014, to establish sentencing guidelines for violations of the “regulatory agency demilitarization act” proposed by House Bill 5887.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=165448