Insider Intelligence

The House and Senate are scheduled to hold their typical Tuesday – Thursday session schedule.

As of the writing of this blog post, 712 house bills and 389 senate bills have been introduced in the Michigan legislature. Each of those bills started as an idea that needed to be drafted into a bill in order to be introduced and make its way through the process, with the goal of changing […]

Below are some of the articles that the MLC lobby team has been reading this past week. We hope you find them as interesting and useful as we do. 4 Ways to Manage Your Energy More Effectively – How can you manage burn out and keep your energy at a sustainable level? What Do People […]

After more than a year, fully vaccinated individuals are no longer be required to wear a mask indoors under an updated epidemic order issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. The House and Senate passed their respective versions of the state budget bills for the upcoming 2022 Fiscal Year, moving the state one […]

After more than a year, beginning May 15 at 9 a.m., fully vaccinated individuals will no longer be required to wear a mask indoors under an updated epidemic order issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). However, individual businesses can continue to have discretion on requirements they place on people visiting their […]

This week, the House and Senate passed their respective versions of the state budget bills for the upcoming 2022 Fiscal Year, moving the state one step closer to having a finalized budget. Many of the budgets were passed along partisan lines and are in contrast to what Governor Gretchen Whitmer had recommended. This will necessitate […]

The U.S. Department of Treasury has provided guidance on how the latest round of $350 billion in emergency funding may be used by state, local, territorial, and Tribal governments. Known as the “Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds,” the goal of the relief is to support the response efforts to continue to decrease the […]

A bipartisan bill package making changes to conflict of interest and financial disclosure laws for state legislators was reported by the House Elections and Ethics Committee this week. The legislation creates a joint committee, composed of three members of the Senate and three members of the House of Representatives, with one member of the minority […]