Insider Intelligence

This week, a bipartisan package was introduced to help victims of domestic violence end a joint cell phone plan with their abuser.  AT&T (an MLC client) brought the issue to the attention of a local state representative, who then sponsored one of the bills in the package.  Under the legislation as introduced, when an individual […]

This week was the filing deadline for candidates running for the vacant 4th Michigan Senate District seat, which was left vacant in April when former Senator Virgil Smith resigned from the seat.  Shortly thereafter his resignation, Governor Rick Snyder called for a special primary election to be held on August 2 and a special general […]

This week, Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens ruled that a lawsuit filed against the State of Michigan can proceed.  The lawsuit was filed by a group of residents who received unemployment benefits, only to have the state claim they fraudulently obtained said benefits and then imposed fines on the plaintiffs. The lawsuit comes on […]

This week the House passed a bipartisan package that would create a state-wide system alerting residents of a public threat, such as an active shooter or an act of terrorism.  The system would be designed and managed by the Michigan State Police and would be similar to the Amber Alert system.  The legislation also provides […]

On Wednesday, Governor Rick Snyder welcomed a delegation of senior Chinese government officials, as both sides signed six memorandums of understanding designed to boost two-way direct investment, one of which was a sister state agreement between Michigan and Guangdong Province.  In addition, they established the Michigan-Shenzhen Trade, Investment, and Innovation Cooperation Center. In March, the […]

This week, the Joint Flint Water Public Health Emergency Select Committee held its final hearing.  After six hearings and hours of testimony, Chairman of the Committee, Senator Tony Stamas (R-Midland), announced the committee would not hear any additional testimony.  However, the committee would remain through the end of session, but at this time he didn’t […]

The annual Fifth Third (an MLC client) River Bank Run is being held in Grand Rapids on Saturday, May 14.  For more information, please visit https://www.53riverbankrun.com/. The House and Senate are scheduled to hold session Tuesday – Thursday. The bi-annual Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference will be held on Tuesday, May 17.  The agreed upon numbers […]

Following a nearly fourteen hour session, the House passed a package of bills reforming Detroit Public Schools (DPS) and appropriating funds to keep the schools afloat.  The bill package was passed without the support of any of the members of the Democratic caucus.  The bills would appropriate $33 million in emergency funding and $500 million […]