Insider Intelligence

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. Ten Futuristic Cities Set to Be Built Around the World – In the coming decade, ten cities are set to be built as urban centers focused […]

Increases to Michigan’s minimum wage and paid sick time requirements won’t go into effect until February 19, 2023. Jason Strayhorn has resigned from serving on the State Board of Education, effective immediately. The Michigan Committee on Juvenile Justice has been altered in order to align with the requirements of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention […]

Increases to Michigan’s minimum wage and paid sick time requirements won’t go into effect until February 19, 2023. In 2018, after collecting enough signatures, citizens’ initiatives increasing the minimum wage and expanding the state’s earned sick time laws were headed to the ballot. However, the legislature chose to approve the measures, which likely would have […]

Jason Strayhorn has resigned from serving on the State Board of Education, effective immediately. Governor Gretchen Whitmerwill make an appointment and that person will serve the remainder of the eight-year term. Following the resignation, the board is comprised of five Democratic members and two Republican members. Her appointment will not be subject to the advice […]

The Michigan Committee on Juvenile Justice has been altered in order to align with the requirements of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. Under the executive order, signed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, the committee is tasked with the development and review of the state’s juvenile justice plan. The new order abolished the original committee, […]

Michigan is collaborating with Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin to build a network of electric vehicle chargers spanning over 1,100 miles of drivable shoreline around Lake Michigan. The multistate partnership, announced this week by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, to build and maintain the chargers and market the new eco-tourism attraction was solidified by a Memorandum of Understanding […]

More than 100,000 residents have been accepted into the Michigan Reconnect program, which provides tuition-free degrees or skills certificates to eligible residents. The program is the largest effort in state history to ensure all residents who are 25 or older and do not have a college degree have an opportunity to earn an associate degree […]

The House and Senate are continuing their summer recess, neither session nor committees are scheduled to meet.