Senate Bill 753: Authorize, regulate remote “telehealth†services
Introduced by Sen. Peter MacGregor (R) on February 9, 2016, to establish a regulatory framework for “telehealth†services provided by a medical professional through interactive video, audio or other telecommunications method. The bill requires providers to get informed consent from the patient, comply with “applicable standards of care,†and refer a patient to local providers where indicated, but does not appear to impose a state licensure requirement (other state regulations may have this effect however). It also authorizes telehealth providers to write prescriptions with some exceptions, although this too may be restricted by other laws.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172367
Senate Bill 754: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Phil Pavlov (R) on February 9, 2016, to delete some outdated language and provisions related to special education from the state school code, and update, eliminate or modify certain school reporting requirements.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172368
Senate Bill 755: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Marty Knollenberg (R) on February 9, 2016, to streamline various details in reports that school districts are required to submit to the state.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172369
Senate Bill 756: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Darwin Booher (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal an obsolete 1982 law authorizing emergency state loans or grants for certain school districts, whose provisions have expired and been replaced by other laws authorizing loans and grants.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172370
Senate Bill 757: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Darwin Booher (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal an obsolete 1962 law related to school occupational training and retraining.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172371
Senate Bill 758: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal an obsolete law related to a “state board of control for vocational educationâ€.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172372
Senate Bill 759: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Jim Stamas (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal an obsolete 1931 law (as amended in 1962) concerning teaching civics and political science in “county normal schoolsâ€.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172373
Senate Bill 760: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Jim Stamas (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal an obsolete 1966 law dealing with special education and scholarships.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172374
Senate Bill 761: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Kenneth Horn (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal an obsolete 1974 law dealing with education for gifted and academically talented students.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172375
Senate Bill 762: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Peter MacGregor (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal an obsolete 1964 law authorizing schools to “foster and maintain demonstration educational and work experience programs through a special job upgrading programâ€.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172376
Senate Bill 763: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Wayne Schmidt (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal certain duplicative public school reporting requirements.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172377
Senate Bill 764: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Mike Shirkey (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal an obsolete 1919 law related to federal and state aid to vocational education.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172378
Senate Bill 765: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Dale W. Zorn (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal a law that requires the Department of Education to “promulgate rules concerning personality tests,†and also repeal certain duplicative public school reporting requirements.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172379
Senate Bill 766: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Goeff Hansen (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal or reword certain obsolete references in a law that prescribes the organization of the state Board of Education.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172381
Senate Bill 767: Remove obsolete provisions from state school code
Introduced by Sen. Margaret O’Brien (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal an obsolete law dealing with federal funds for vocational education.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172382
Senate Bill 768: Extend OSHA to interns
Introduced by Sen. David Knezek (D) on February 9, 2016, to extend the state’s Occupational Health and Safety Act (MIOSHA) regulations to student interns.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172383
Senate Bill 769: Mandate patient painkiller prescription background checks
Introduced by Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker (R) on February 9, 2016, to require medical professionals to do an individual patient prescription record background record on a government prescription monitoring database before prescribing drugs deemed to have a high risk of abuse.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172384
Senate Bill 770: Mandate patient painkiller prescription background checks
Introduced by Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker (R) on February 9, 2016, to require a medical professional who violates the patient prescription record background check mandate proposed by Senate Bill 769 more than 10 times during a month to take a continuing education course focused on prescription drug and opioid addition.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172385
Senate Bill 771: Mandate patient painkiller prescription background checks
Introduced by Sen. Margaret O’Brien (R) on February 9, 2016, to authorize up to 15 years in prison for a physician or pharmacist who wrongfully prescribes, dispenses or manufactures controlled substances. Under current law the maximum sentence is two years.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172386
Senate Bill 772: Mandate patient painkiller prescription background checks
Introduced by Sen. Margaret O’Brien (R) on February 9, 2016, to establish sentencing guidelines for the felony penalties proposed by Senate Bill 771 for a physician or pharmacist who wrongly prescribes or dispenses controlled substances.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172387
Senate Bill 773: Repeal ban on out-of-state fishing guides
Introduced by Sen. Dale W. Zorn (R) on February 9, 2016, to repeal a law that prohibits a Michigan nonresident from acting as a commercial fishing guide on inland lakes.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172388
Senate Bill 774: Repeal vending machine location inspection mandate
Introduced by Sen. Joe Hune (R) on February 9, 2016, to remove provisions in the state Food Code inspection requirements that relate to vending machines.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172389
Senate Bill 775: Redesignate a road
Introduced by Sen. Curtis Hertel, Jr. (D) on February 9, 2016, to designate a section of US-127 in Ingham County as the “Trooper Craig Scott Memorial Highwayâ€.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172390
Senate Bill 776: Revise ballot initiative petition detail
Introduced by Sen. David Robertson (R) on February 10, 2016, to clarify a provision that requires signatures on state ballot initiatives to be collected within the 180 days before the measure is submitted.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172396
Senate Bill 777: Appropriations: Supplemental budget
Introduced by Sen. Dave Hildenbrand (R) on February 10, 2016, to provide a template or “place holder” for a potential supplemental multidepartment appropriation for Fiscal Year 2015-2016. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172397
Senate Bill 778: Patient painkiller prescription background check exception
Introduced by Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker (R) on February 10, 2016, to authorize an exception to the procedures that govern physicians or pharmacists prescribing or dispensing controlled substances for cases in which an “opioid antagonists†(such as naloxone) are provided for treatment of heroin overdoses.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172398
Senate Bill 779: Make state tax assessor manual binding on assessors
Introduced by Sen. Mike Shirkey (R) on February 10, 2016, to require the state tax commission to produce an updated and complete tax assessors manual by August 1, 2016, and make the procedures it specifies legally binding on assessors.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172399
Senate Bill 780: Make particular symbol the “emblem†of fallen service members
Introduced by Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker (R) on February 11, 2016, to establish in statute that a symbol created by a particular private organization (“Honor and Remember, Inc.â€) shall be the official “emblem†for armed service members killed in the line of duty.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172406
Senate Bill 781: Make particular symbol the “emblem†of fallen service members
Introduced by Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker (R) on February 11, 2016, to authorize a new specialty license plate available for an extra $5 that displays a symbol created by a particular private organization (“Honor and Remember, Inc.â€).
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172407
House Bill 5309: Exempt college text books from sales tax
Introduced by Rep. Robert Kosowski (D) on February 3, 2016, to exempt from sales tax purchases by a college student of assigned college text books.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172285
House Bill 5310: Require certain notifications about protected individuals
Introduced by Rep. Peter Lucido (R) on February 3, 2016, to require the court-appointed guardian of a protected individual to notify all “interested persons†if the ward is hospitalized for at least three days with an acute condition, and notify “heirs†of funeral arrangements within 24 hours after receiving word that the ward has died. Also, to allow a relative of the ward to petition the court for access to the ward, and grant this if a preponderance of the evidence shows the guardian denied contact with a person the ward desires to see.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172286
House Bill 5311: Require advance disclosure of employer “non-compete†requirement
Introduced by Rep. Peter Lucido (R) on February 3, 2016, to mandate that an employer who requires employees to sign a noncompete agreement must disclose this to job applicants, and provide the terms of the agreement before hiring an individual.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172287
House Bill 5312: Create limited exception to Tesla sales ban
Introduced by Rep. Aaron Miller (R) on February 3, 2016, to allow Tesla to sell cars directly to a Michigan resident who does not live within 10 miles of a new car dealership that sells other brands. Current Michigan law prohibits car makers from selling directly to consumers, and imposes a protectionist regulatory regime in which the state enforces exclusive new car dealer “territoriesâ€.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172288
House Bill 5313: Require water authorities provide “smart meter†opt-out
Introduced by Rep. Henry Yanez (D) on February 4, 2016, to prohibit water and sewer authorities from requiring customers to accept an “advanced†or “smart†meter capable of using two-way communications for “demand-response†programs, or “measuring, recording, or sending customer data by use of common radio waves or other wireless mannerâ€.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172320
House Bill 5314: Revise student athlete concussion procedures
Introduced by Rep. Thomas Hooker (R) on February 4, 2016, to revise a 2013 law that prescribes criteria and procedures for taking a student athlete out of the game due to a suspected concussion. The law also required state officials to develop educational materials related to this danger, and the bill would require these to be updated periodically, and require coaches and other adults in the program to refresh their concussion awareness training at least every three years.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172321
House Bill 5315: Exempt residential painters and decorators from licensure mandate
Introduced by Rep. Tom Barrett (R) on February 9, 2016, to exempt painters and decorators from the licensure mandate imposed residential maintenance and alteration contractors.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172351
House Bill 5316: Close schools used as presidential polling place on election day
Introduced by Rep. George T. Darany (D) on February 9, 2016, to allow schools that are used as polling places for a presidential primary election to close on election day without this counting against the number of days that current law requires them to be in session. See also House Bill 5153, which would automatically close all schools used as polling places on any election day.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172352
House Bill 5317: Repeal law prosecuting minors as adults for very serious crimes
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on February 9, 2016, to repeal the 1988 law that requires juveniles age 14 to 17 who are charged with very serious crimes to be tried as adults.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172353
House Bill 5318: Repeal law prosecuting minors as adults for very serious crimes
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on February 9, 2016, to repeal the 1988 law that requires juveniles age 14 to 17 who are charged with very serious crimes to be tried as adults. This bill repeals references to that law in the county juvenile agency act.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172354
House Bill 5319: Repeal law prosecuting minors as adults for very serious crimes
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on February 9, 2016, to repeal the 1988 law that requires juveniles age 14 to 17 who are charged with very serious crimes to be tried as adults. This bill repeals references to that law in the code of criminal procedure.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172355
House Bill 5320: Repeal law prosecuting minors as adults for very serious crimes
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on February 9, 2016, to repeal the 1988 law that requires juveniles age 14 to 17 who are charged with very serious crimes to be tried as adults. This bill repeals references to that law in the youth rehabilitation services act.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172356
House Bill 5321: Repeal law prosecuting minors as adults for very serious crimes
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on February 9, 2016, to repeal the 1988 law that requires juveniles age 14 to 17 who are charged with very serious crimes to be tried as adults. This bill repeals references to that law in the law that requires counties to provide counsel to indigent individuals charged with a crime.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172357
House Bill 5322: Repeal law prosecuting minors as adults for very serious crimes
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on February 9, 2016, to repeal the 1988 law that requires juveniles age 14 to 17 who are charged with very serious crimes to be tried as adults. This bill repeals references to that law in the crime victim’s rights act.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172358
House Bill 5323: Repeal law prosecuting minors as adults for very serious crimes
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on February 9, 2016, to repeal the 1988 law that requires juveniles age 14 to 17 who are charged with very serious crimes to be tried as adults. This bill repeals references to that law in the state welfare law.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172359
House Bill 5324: Repeal law prosecuting minors as adults for very serious crimes
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on February 9, 2016, to repeal the 1988 law that requires juveniles age 14 to 17 who are charged with very serious crimes to be tried as adults. This bill repeals references to that law in the youth facilities act.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172360
House Bill 5325: Exempt Masons lodges from property tax
Introduced by Rep. Ken Goike (R) on February 9, 2016, to allow local governments to exempt property owned by Masons’ lodges from most property tax levies if the property is used for charitable purposes.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172361
House Bill 5326: Patient painkiller prescription background check exception
Introduced by Rep. Anthony Forlini (R) on February 9, 2016, to authorize an exception to the procedures that govern physicians or pharmacists prescribing or dispensing controlled substances for cases in which an “opioid antagonist†(such as naloxone) is provided to treat heroin overdoses.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=172362
Senate Bill 56: Raise and index judges’ pay
Passed 97 to 6 in the House on February 16, 2016, to increase judges’ salaries around $12,000, and index them going forward to increases in the salaries paid to unionized state “civil service†employees. After they change salaries would range from around $150,000 to $163,000 depending on which level of court.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=725362
Senate Bill 599: Revise, increase register of deeds fees
Passed 31 to 7 in the Senate on February 16, 2016, to authorize a flat $30 fee for recording a document with a register of deeds regardless of how many pages, instead of the current charge of $8 plus $3 for each additional page. The bill also increases related fees, and would index the fees to inflation.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=725338
Senate Bill 600: Revise, increase register of deeds fees
Passed 33 to 5 in the Senate on February 16, 2016, to change the fees charged for recording and indexing a lien for labor and materials provided to gas well drillers to the $30 flat fee proposed by Senate Bill 599.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=725339
Senate Bill 601: Revise, increase register of deeds fees
Passed 33 to 5 in the Senate on February 16, 2016, to change the fees charged for recording and indexing federal tax liens and notices to the $30 flat fee proposed by Senate Bill 599.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=725340
Senate Bill 602: Revise, increase register of deeds fees
Passed 33 to 5 in the Senate on February 16, 2016, to change the fees charged for recording and indexing state tax liens and notices to the $30 flat fee proposed by Senate Bill 599.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=725341
Senate Bill 603: Revise, increase register of deeds fees
Passed 32 to 6 in the Senate on February 16, 2016, to change the fees charged for recording and indexing a lien related to the state unemployment insurance law to the $30 flat fee proposed by Senate Bill 599.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=725342
Senate Bill 604: Revise, increase register of deeds fees
Passed 33 to 5 in the Senate on February 16, 2016, to change the fees charged for recording mortgages, and for recording unemployment benefit overpayment liens, to the $30 flat fee proposed by Senate Bill 599.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=725343
Senate Bill 737: Revise delinquent tax asset seizure detail
Passed 30 to 8 in the Senate on February 17, 2016, to revise the law that empowers the state Department of Treasury to seize and sell assets of a person who is delinquent in tax payments, so as to allow the proceeds of these sales to also be used to pay recorder of deeds fees related to the transactions.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=725344
House Bill 4418: Authorize load limit exceptions for maple sap haulers
Passed 76 to 29 in the House on February 16, 2016, to allow an exception to seasonal road weight limit restrictions for trucks hauling tree sap used to make maple sugar.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=725360
House Bill 4634: Revise vehicle registration “late feeâ€
Passed 88 to 17 in the House on February 16, 2016, to not impose an extra fee on vehicle registration renewals after the previous registration had expired if within 120 days the owner brings evidence to a Secretary of State branch office that the vehicle had been in storage.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=725361
House Bill 5187: Revise references to deaf people in state laws
Introduced by Rep. George T. Darany (D) on December 17, 2015, to modernize terminology that refers to people who are deaf or hard of hearing in a law that provides for the publication and distribution of laws and the documents of public institutions.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170835
House Bill 5192: Revise accountant “scope of practice†restrictions
Introduced by Rep. Chris Afendoulis (R) on December 17, 2015, to revise details of “scope of practice†restrictions in the law that imposes an occupational licensure mandate on individuals who wish to earn a living in the accounting field.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170840
House Bill 5205: Designate road after fallen police officer
Introduced by Rep. Edward McBroom (R) on December 17, 2015, to designate a section of US 2 in Dickinson County as the “Officer Kenneth J. Moraska Memorial Highwayâ€.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=170853