Senate Bill 175: Establish drunk driver vehicle interlock device regulatory regime
Passed 34 to 3 in the Senate on October 22, 2015, to establish sentencing guidelines for violations of the regulatory regime proposed by Senate Bill 176 for drunk driver vehicle interlock device vendors and installers.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718266
Senate Bill 176: Establish drunk driver vehicle interlock device regulatory regime
Passed 34 to 3 in the Senate on October 22, 2015, to establish regulations, procedures and fees for drunk driver vehicle interlock device installers, and give the Secretary of State the authority to oversee these programs. Current law regulates manufacturers and vendors of these devices but not installation.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718267
Senate Bill 357: Establish drunk driver vehicle interlock device regulatory regime
Passed 34 to 3 in the Senate on October 22, 2015, to revise a state vehicle service and repair regulation law so it conforms with the proposal in Senate Bill 176 to establish regulations, procedures and fees for drunk driver vehicle interlock device installers.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718268
Senate Bill 428: Authorize Red Cross income tax checkoff
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on October 22, 2015, to allow an individual to choose to automatically contribute $5 or more from his or her state income tax refund to provide grants to the mid-Michigan Chapter of the American Red Cross.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718262
Senate Bill 429: Authorize Red Cross income tax checkoff
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on October 22, 2015, to allow an individual to choose to automatically contribute $5 or more from his or her state income tax refund to provide grants to the mid-Michigan Chapter of the American Red Cross.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718263
House Bill 4182: Ban local governmental body “phone-in” voting
Passed 30 to 7 in the Senate on October 22, 2015, to establish that it is a violation of the Open Meetings Act for a member of an elected public body to cast a vote on a decision without being physically present. This would not apply in cases of an emergency or serious illness as defined by the bill, or if a public body is using a video conference system.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718269
House Bill 4464: Clarify prescription drug sales tax exemption
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on October 22, 2015, to exempt over-the-counter drugs from sales tax if they are obtained under a prescription.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718264
House Bill 4465: Clarify prescription drug use tax exemption
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on October 22, 2015, to exempt over-the-counter drugs from use tax if they are obtained under a prescription.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718265
House Bill 4480: Don’t disparage one parent for protecting child from other one
Passed 76 to 28 in the House on October 22, 2015, to establish that in determining the “best interest of child” in child custody and visitation cases a court may not “consider negatively” actions taken by a parent in self defense or to protect a child from “the child’s abusive (other) parent”.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718293
House Bill 4742: Revise interstate child support collection details
Passed 102 to 2 in the House on October 22, 2015, to repeal a Uniform Interstate Family Support Act that facilitates collection of court-ordered child support payments across state lines, and replace it with an updated version.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718294
House Bill 4743: Revise interstate child support collection details
Passed 102 to 2 in the House on October 22, 2015, to revise references in the state child support law to reflect changes to a uniform interstate child support enforcement code proposed by House Bill 4742.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718295
House Bill 4744: Revise interstate child support collection details
Passed 102 to 2 in the House on October 22, 2015, to revise references in the state parenting time law to reflect changes to a uniform interstate child support enforcement code proposed by House Bill 4742.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718296
House Bill 4745: Revise interstate child support collection details
Passed 101 to 3 in the House on October 22, 2015, to revise references in the state friend of the court law to reflect changes to a uniform interstate child support enforcement code proposed by House Bill 4742.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718297
House Bill 4817: Authorize “junior achievement” income tax checkoff
Passed 105 to 1 in the House on October 21, 2015, to allow an individual to choose to automatically contribute $5 or more from his or her state income tax refund to provide grants to local “Junior Achievement” organizations.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718182
House Bill 4818: Authorize “junior achievement” income tax checkoff
Passed 105 to 1 in the House on October 21, 2015, to allow an individual to choose to automatically contribute $5 or more from his or her state income tax refund to provide grants to local “Junior Achievement” organizations.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=718183
Senate Bill 569: Increase cap on local “rainy day” funds
Introduced by Sen. Mike Nofs (R) on October 20, 2015, to increase the amount that local governments are allowed to place in a “rainy day fund,” from 15 percent to 20 percent of most recent general fund annual budget.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170464
Senate Bill 570: Exempt certain sportsmen club property from property tax
Introduced by Sen. Peter MacGregor (R) on October 20, 2015, to exempt property owned by sportsmen or gun clubs from property tax if their facilities are available to the public for charitable nonprofit purposes at least 55 days annually.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170465
Senate Bill 571: Revise political campaign restrictions
Introduced by Sen. Mike Kowall (R) on October 20, 2015, to define “commingled and connected organization” for purposes of laws restricting contributions to political campaigns. This refers to money given to an intermediary organization and distributed to a political campaign organization subject to contribution limits and reporting mandates.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170466
Senate Bill 572: Revise tax exemption for elderly and disabled housing
Introduced by Sen. Margaret O’Brien (R) on October 21, 2015, to authorize particular exceptions to procedures used to obtain a property tax exemption for housing occupied by elderly or disabled families.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170479
Senate Bill 573: Tighten abortion provider restrictions
Introduced by Sen. Judy Emmons (R) on October 21, 2015, to require existing facilities that provide abortions to get a freestanding surgical outpatient facility license.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170480
Senate Bill 574: Mandate specified nurse-patient ratios
Introduced by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D) on October 21, 2015, to mandate that hospitals maintain detailed staff-to-patient ratios specified in the bill.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170481
Senate Bill 575: Restrict state contracts to abortion providers
Introduced by Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R) on October 21, 2015, to prohibit giving state contracts spending either federal or state money to an entity that performs more than 120 abortions per year and that advertises outpatient abortion services.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170482
Senate Bill 576: Revise prison ombudsman law
Introduced by Sen. Marty Knollenberg (R) on October 21, 2015, to reflect privatized prison services to revise restrictions on releasing information obtained by a state “corrections ombudsman” office, which was created to investigate issues related prisoners, parolees, guards and prison employees, and specifically authorize it interviewing prison contractor employees.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170483
Senate Bill 577: Revise building permit detail
Introduced by Sen. Darwin Booher (R) on October 21, 2015, to establish that fire alarm system “shop drawings” prepared for a building permit application do not have to be prepared by a licensed architect or engineer.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170484
Senate Bill 578: Revise home mortgage lender requirements
Introduced by Sen. Darwin Booher (R) on October 22, 2015, to replace a particular declaration required by a law that regulates and restricts home mortgage providers with a reference to a federal regulation this is based on.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170495
House Bill 4999: Revise veterinary medicine prescription regulation detail
Introduced by Rep. Edward McBroom (R) on October 20, 2015, to revise a law restricting purchases of veterinary medicine prescriptions from an out of state vendor, to include “veterinary prescriber” to the out-of-staters for whom this is permitted. The bill also raises some veterinary licensure fees.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170468
House Bill 5000: Limit imposing building code regulations for barn events
Introduced by Rep. Ray Franz (R) on October 20, 2015, to exempt from state building code standards barns and other unheated and un-air conditioned buildings that are on agricultural land and are not used for retail business, but are used for “seasonal private events”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170469
House Bill 5001: Increase massage therapist licensure requirements
Introduced by Rep. Dan Lauwers (R) on October 20, 2015, to increase from 500 to 625 the number of hours in massage therapy courses and “clinical education” that a person must take before the state will allow them to earn a living as a massage therapist.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170470
House Bill 5002: Make it a crime to injure “vulnerable roadway user”
Introduced by Rep. George T. Darany (D) on October 20, 2015, to make it a criminal misdemeanor subject to a year in prison to commit a traffic infraction (moving violation) that causes injury or death to a “vulnerable roadway user.” The bill also defines this term to include human, electric or gasoline powered vehicles, including wheelchairs, bicycles and others, with less than one horsepower or 750 watts, and not capable of going more than 20 mph.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170471
House Bill 5003: Mandate five-foot clearance when passing bicycle
Introduced by Rep. Mike Callton (R) on October 20, 2015, to require drivers who are passing a bicyclist going the same direction on the road to stay at least five feet to the right. Also, to allow passing a bicycle in a no passing zone if there is enough room to make it safe to do so.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170472
House Bill 5004: Make it a crime to injure “vulnerable roadway user”
Introduced by Rep. Mike Callton (R) on October 20, 2015, to establish sentencing guidelines for the crime proposed by House Bill 5002 of omitting a traffic infraction (moving violation) that causes injury or death to a “vulnerable roadway user”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170473
House Bill 5005: Expand electricity choice
Introduced by Rep. Jim Runestad (R) on October 20, 2015, to revise a 10 percent cap the legislature imposed in 2008 on the amount of the electricity market that can be served by generators who are in competition with regulated monopoly utilities. The bill would establish that power sold to hospitals and health care facilities is exempt from the 10 percent competition cap.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170474
House Bill 5006: Redesignate a road
Introduced by Rep. Tom Cochran (D) on October 20, 2015, to designate a portion of I-496 in Lansing as the “Lansing Firefighter Dennis E. Rodeman Memorial Freeway”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170475
House Bill 5007: Invalidate recent school audits
Introduced by Rep. Mike Callton (R) on October 21, 2015, to essentially cancel the requirement for and results of school district financial audits that were initiated before Oct. 1, 2014. The annual audits are a longstanding requirement specified in state law, and among other things affect how much funding districts get from the state.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170488
House Bill 5008: Grant property tax breaks for certain energy conversion devices
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on October 21, 2015, to exempt certain small scale energy devices to exempt certain small scale solar, wind, biomass, hydro or geothermal solar energy conversion devices from property taxes.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170489
House Bill 5009: Tax credit for teacher out-of-pocket expenses
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on October 21, 2015, to authorize an income tax credit of up to $1,000, $2,000 on a joint return, for classroom supplies purchased by public school teachers out of their own.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170490
House Bill 5010: Authorize voluntary police school patrols
Introduced by Rep. Jason Sheppard (R) on October 21, 2015, to allow schools to enter agreements with law enforcement officers to voluntarily patrol school premises “for the sole purpose of preventing or responding to a mass casualty event connected with illegal activity.” House Bill 5011 would authorize a modest tax credit for the volunteers.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170491
House Bill 5011: Authorize voluntary police school patrols
Introduced by Rep. Brandt Iden (R) on October 21, 2015, to authorize a state income tax credit of up to $500 for a law enforcement officer who voluntarily patrols school premises as specified by House Bill 5010.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170492
House Bill 5012: Authorize voluntary police school patrols
Introduced by Rep. Robert Kosowski (D) on October 21, 2015, to require the State Police to make available to schools their list of law enforcement officers in the state for purposes of seeking the voluntary patrols House Bill 5010 would authorize.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170493
House Bill 5013: Mandate specified nurse-patient ratios
Introduced by Rep. Jon Hoadley (D) on October 21, 2015, to mandate that hospitals maintain detailed staff-to-patient ratios specified in the bill.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170494
House Bill 5014: Extend Medicaid health insurance claims tax
Introduced by Rep. Martin Howrylak (R) on October 22, 2015, to repeal the 2017 sunset on a 6 percent tax on the managed care health care providers (hospitals) that provide most Medicaid services, which is 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).
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170500
House Bill 5015: Facilitate cogeneration and “small power” facilities
Introduced by Rep. Gary Glenn (R) on October 22, 2015, to require the Public Service Commission to adopt procedures and standards specified in the bill intended to facilitate regulated utilities acquiring electric power from cogeneration facilities and “small power production facilities” as defined in the bill.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170501
House Bill 5016: Reimburse utilities for costs imposed by road and other projects
Introduced by Rep. Eric Leutheuser (R) on October 22, 2015, to require local governments of the state Department of Transportation to reimburse expenses incurred by a utility in relocating facilities due to road or other projects.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170502