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2003 Senate Bill 241 (Designate an "Underground Railroad Memorial Highway" ) (Senate Roll Call 384)

Passed in the Senate (34 to 0) on June 10, 2004, to concur with the House-passed version of the bill, which only contains the US 131 portion of the original bill. The I-94 portion is now in House Bill 5491. [History, Amendments & Comments]

The vote was 34 in favor, 0 opposed, and 4 not voting
(Senate Roll Call 384 at Senate Journal 59)

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Legislators (Republican)
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22 total votes
Legislators (Democrat)
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16 total votes

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The following legislators supported 2003 Senate Bill 241 (Designate an "Underground Railroad Memorial Highway" ):

Allen (R) Barcia (D) Basham (D) Birkholz (R) Bishop (R) Brater (D)
Brown (R) Cassis (R) Cherry (D) Clark-Coleman (D) Clarke (D) Cropsey (R)
Emerson (D) George (R) Gilbert (R) Goschka (R) Hammerstrom (R) Hardiman (R)
Jacobs (D) Jelinek (R) Johnson (R) Kuipers (R) Leland (D) McManus (R)
Olshove (D) Patterson (R) Prusi (D) Sanborn (R) Schauer (D) Scott (D)
Stamas (R) Switalski (D) Thomas (D) Van Woerkom (R)   

The following legislators opposed 2003 Senate Bill 241 (Designate an "Underground Railroad Memorial Highway" ):

The following legislators did not vote on 2003 Senate Bill 241 (Designate an "Underground Railroad Memorial Highway" ):

Bernero (D) Garcia (R) Sikkema (R) Toy (R)

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1) Response to "Skeptical" [by Anonymous Citizen on March 3, 2003]
According to the statute being amended here, it is not supposed to cost the taxpayers anything directly:
MICHIGAN MEMORIAL HIGHWAY ACT (EXCERPT), Act 142 of 2001, MCL 250.1002: "The state transportation department shall only provide for the erection and maintenance of suitable markers at the approach of any of the highways described in this act when sufficient private contributions are received to pay the cost of erecting and maintaining those markers."
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2) Skeptical Of Need [by Anonymous Citizen on March 3, 2003]
Please tell me the need and cost of this? Anyone?
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3) 2003 Senate Bill 241 (Designate an "Underground Railroad Memorial Highway" ) [by admin on January 1, 2001]
Introduced in the Senate on February 27, 2003, to designate as the "Underground Railroad Memorial Highway" Interstate I-94 between exits 98 and 110 in Calhoun County, and highway US-131 from West U Avenue south to West XY Avenue in Schoolcraft Township, Kalamazoo County

The vote was 36 in favor, 0 opposed and 2 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 72 at Senate Journal 18)

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