New priorities emerge for lame-duck Legislature
The bills already have begun to move through the Legislature with a goal of getting the controversial bills passed before year's end.
And one bill that keeps coming back returned to the docket last week: allowing gray wolves to be hunted. Sen.
Other bills introduced last week:
House bills
HB 6051: Clarify the license and renewal fees for master plumbers who also are plumbing contractors. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6052: Require sustainability and environmental literacy in K-12 graduation requirements. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6053-6054: Require energy audits for education facilities and create a state office to provide technical assistance to schools that want to become more energy efficient. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6055 and 6057-6058: Reauthorize the Clean Michigan initiative, which provides funding for environmental cleanups. Sponsors: Reps.
HB 6056: Set up a grant program for replacement of infrastructure related to lead in drinking water. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6059: Prohibit the use of certain pesticides. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6060: Create a suicide prevention task force for
HB 6061: Provide waiver of the collection of a use tax upon the transfer of a vehicle. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6062: Prohibit insurance companies from discharging a mastectomy patient from the hospital before a physician determines the patient is stable. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6063-6064: Establish and provide for the duties and responsibilities of the childhood lead poisoning prevention and control commission. Sponsors: Reps.
HB 6065: Increase the penalties for violations of the use of travel aids by a blind person act. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6066-6068: Enact stricter voter ID laws and waive fees for indigent people to get birth certificates and state identifications. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6069: Create a grant and loan program for schools to use to implement energy efficiencies. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6070: Require hospitals to report cases of mushroom poisonings to the department of Agriculture and
HB 6071-6072: Change references to husband and wife in wills and probate documents to married couple. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6073: Require both spouses to consent to the sale of the marital residence. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6074-6086: Change how retiree health care benefits are covered for city, township, village and county employees, making many employees pay 20% of their retiree health care costs, changing retiree health care benefits for future municipal employees to health savings accounts and prohibit retiree health care from being a part of labor contract negotiations. Sponsors: Reps.
HB 6087: Allow personal protection orders to be included in child custody and child support agreements. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6088: Modify the appeals and sanctions process for employers in unemployment insurance tax payments. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6089: Provide for penalties for installing a used air bag into a vehicle. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6090: Prohibit the transportation of crude oil by a ship on the
HB 6091-6092: Expand and increase elections offenses to include a person who assists another person in committing perjury. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6094: Require candidates who change political party affiliation to return campaign contributions with interest to a contributor and permit the political party to select a replacement candidate for someone who changes their party affiliation before the filing deadline. Sponsor: Rep.
HB 6095-6096: Require that a candidate for state
HB 6097: Require the losing candidates requesting a recount of a statewide election result to pay for 100% of the cost of the recount, if the margin of victory is more than 5% of the votes cast. Sponsor: Rep.
SB 1162-1163: Provide for a company to be able to file a corporate income tax return under the
SB 1164: Require the
SB 1165-1169: Create the parental choice in education program to create education savings accounts and allow for tax credits and allow for a variety of tax dollars to be allocated to such accounts. Sponsor: Sen.
SB 1170-1171: Allow for the fingerprinting and photographing of children or adults with special health care needs to be submitted to statewide law enforcement databases upon the request of a parent or guardian. Sponsor: Sen.
SB 1172: Modify the collection of use tax collections for certain medical services. Sponsor: Sen.
SB 1173-1174: Modify the ratio of patients to nursing care personnel in nursing homes and provide for certification reciprocity for nurses from other states. Sponsor: Sen.
SB 1175-1176: Revise penalties for manufacturing, delivering or possessing certain synthetic marijuana substances. Sponsors: Sens.
SB 1177-1178: Change the way retirement benefits for public school employees is done in the state. Sponsor: Sen.
SB 1179: Exempt storage tanks that receive refined petroleum products from an environmental protection regulatory fee. Sponsor: Sen.
SB 1180: Expand the crime of receiving and concealing stolen property to include veterans' memorial tombstones and cemetery markers. Sponsor: Sen.
SB 1181: Provide for environmental justice concerns in the environmental protection act. Sponsor: Sen.
SB 1182-1183: Increase the eligibility for child development and care programs and revise appropriation for great start readiness program to allow for participation by 3- and 4-year-olds. Sponsor: Sen.
SB 1184-1186: Revise the billing cycle for child care providers from hourly to weekly. Sponsors: Sens.
SB 1187: Provide for the state
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