Insider Intelligence

This week, the House and Senate began naming members to serve on the conference committees for each of the budgets for the upcoming 2016-2017 Fiscal Year.  Both chambers have passed their own versions of the budgets and will now come together to work through their points of differences to reach an agreement.  Conference committees consist […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This week, the Office of the House Majority Floor Leader, Aric Nesbitt (R-Lawton), announced updated session times for the last few weeks of session prior to the summer recess.  Session will begin at 10 a.m. for the weeks of May 31 – June 2, June 7 – 9, and June 14 – 15.  The last […]

This week, chairman of the House Oversight and Ethics Committee, Representative Ed McBroom (R-Vulcan), announced the creation of the Unemployment Reform Subcommittee.  Serving as chair of the subcommittee will be Representative Joe Graves (R-Linden).  The other members are; Representative Martin Howrylak (R-Troy), Representative Roger Victory (R-Georgetown Twp.), and Representative Rose Mary Robinson (D-Detroit).  The subcommittee […]

This week, the House passed both omnibus budgets appropriating funds for the upcoming 2016-2017 Fiscal Year.  The omnibus budget providing funding to K-12 schools, community colleges, and universities totals $16.17 billion.  The House’s increase to funding for universities is below the level Governor Rick Snyder recommended.  The Governor proposed increasing funding to get all universities […]