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In a change to current law, one legislator is seeking to reform the voting process during lame-duck. Introduced by Representative Lori Stone (D-Warren), House Joint Resolution L, would increase the threshold for passing legislation from the current simple majority to a two-thirds majority for any piece of legislation introduced during lame duck. Every two years, […]

The Senate is scheduled to hold session Tuesday – Thursday. While the House is tentatively scheduled to hold session on Wednesday, June 26.

It’s summer, or at least that’s what the calendar says.  Summer is when many of us head to the ball park to catch a baseball game.  Baseball has a tradition, unlike no other major sport in America, called the “seventh-inning stretch”.  Of the other three major sports; football and basketball have halftimes, while hockey has […]

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. The World’s Largest Ocean Cleanup Has Officially Begun – A massive project has started to clean up the 1.8 trillion pieces of trash in our oceans. […]

If you’re a fan of “Fun With Flags” on the Big Bang Theory, then MLC lobbyist Cami Pendell’s latest blog post is for you. Governor Gretchen Whitmer created a census committee to ensure Michigan is ready for the 2020 Census. The House passed several budgets for the upcoming fiscal year, moving the process forward. Representative […]

With the national census taking place next year, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order to ensure Michigan is ready. Census’ are important because the federal government uses that data for funding and for allocating congressional representation. The census data will also be used to redraw state House and Senate districts. Executive Order 2019-15 creates […]

Moving forward in the process, this week the House passed several budgets for the upcoming 2019-2020 Fiscal Year. Aspects of the budgets include: 1% increase to community colleges 7% increase to universities 4% increase to K-12 funding Per-pupil funding increase of $90-$180 An additional $81.3 million in constitutional revenue sharing, meant to off-set the reduced […]

Representative Lynn Afendoulis (R-Grand Rapids Twp.) introduced legislation she believes will add more accountability to the state’s campaign finance laws. The plan would create a minimum penalty for fines imposed for violations of campaign finance laws. According to the bill sponsor, the current system has been insignificant and ineffective. The bill requires the Secretary of […]