Insider Intelligence

This week, the House and Senate granted approval to a package of legislation making reforms to Detroit Public Schools (DPS).  The package previously passed by the House was vastly different from the Senate-passed proposal.  For several days there was uncertainty as to if the Senate would have enough votes to pass the House’s new proposal.  […]

On Thursday, House Majority Floor Leader Aric Nesbitt (R-Lawton) introduced a package of legislation moving the August primary date to June.  Under his proposal, while the month the elections would be held changes, the primary would continue to be held on the Tuesday following the first Monday in the month.  Representative Nesbitt’s legislation would not […]

Primary Election Overview: 72nd House District Through the primary election on August 2, on every Tuesday and Thursday on the MLC Blog we will be highlighting races for which the primary is the key race due to the voter base.  Candidate’s website and professional information is listed when available. District Overview The 72nd House District […]

Following several hours of session, negotiations, and caucusing, the House was able to muster enough votes to pass a package of legislation making numerous reforms to Detroit Public Schools. The package, which contains three House and three Senate bills, was initially passed by the House last month.  However, yesterday the House requested the return of […]

Yesterday the House passed a two-bill package repealing an annual auto insurance tax credit, which cost the state $80 million per-year.  The credit is available for catastrophic claims where the injured does not have insurance and was made available due to a mistake in legislation passed in 2012.  The elimination of the credit is part […]

This week two pieces of legislation were reported by the House Workforce and Talent Development committee making changes to civil service guidelines.  The first piece is a joint resolution, introduced by Speaker Kevin Cotter (R-Mount Pleasant) that would allow heads of departments to dismiss state classified civil workers for conduct negatively impacting the duties of […]

This week, Speaker of the House Kevin Cotter (R-Mount Pleasant) and Representative Dan Lauwers (R-Brockway) introduced legislation reforming Michigan’s civil service system and giving directors of state departments the ability to discipline or remove government workers.  The package consists of a House Bill and a House Joint Resolution (HJR), which would amend the constitution.  Unlike […]

This week, the House Oversight and Ethics Subcommittee on Unemployment Reform, approved recommended reforms to the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA), with the goal of making the agency more efficient and effective.  The proposed changes aim to correct serious flaws within the agency found in two recent Auditor General reports that were critical of the […]