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House Bill 4714 , Accept federal health care law Medicaid expansion: Passed 76 to 31 in the House To expand Medicaid eligibility to families and childless adults up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, which implements a key component of the federal...
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Senate Bill 173 , Ban local mandates that private employers must grant employee leave: Passed 25 to 13 in the Senate To preempt local governments from adopting ordinances or policies that require private sector employers to provide paid or unpaid employee...
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House Bill 4228 , Final 2013-14 state education budget: Passed 25 to 12 in the Senate The final House-Senate compromise version of the K-12 school aid, community college and university budgets for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2013. This authorizes...
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Senate Bill 198 , Amendment to accept federal health care law Medicaid expansion: Failed 13 to 25 in the Senate To accept $1.53 billion in federal money to expand Medicaid eligibility under the terms of the federal health care law ("Obamacare"...
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House Bill 4118 , Require drug testing of welfare applicants: Passed 77 to 33 in the House To require drug testing of state welfare benefit recipients or applicants if an "empirical screening tool" indicates a reasonable suspicion, and prohibit...
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Senate Bill 182 , Senate K-12 school aid budget: Passed 21 to 15 in the Senate The Senate version of the K-12 school aid budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct 1, 2013. It would appropriate $13.225 billion for K-12 public schools, compared to $12...
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Senate Bill 35 , Authorize criminal penalties for nonpayment of “administrative hearing bureau” fines: Passed 35 to 1 in the Senate To authorize additional penalties for failing to pay fines imposed by “administrative hearing bureaus”...
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Y = Yes, N = No, X = Not Voting Senate Bill 257 , Expand “Business Improvement Zone” tax-and-spend entities: Passed 35 to 2 in the Senate To expand the items that a “Business Improvement Zone” can spend money on, reduce the number...
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Y = Yes, N = No, X = Not Voting House Bill 4369 , Codify “education achievement authority” for failed schools: Passed 57 to 53 in the House To codify in statute the powers and structure of a state “education achievement authority”...
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Y = Yes, N = No, X = Not Voting Senate Bill 96 , Do NOT vote on right-to-work repeal "discharge motion": Passed 26 to 11 in the Senate on March 14 To NOT hold a vote on a motion to discharge from committee a bill repealing the Michigan right...
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Y = Yes, N = No, X = Not Voting Senate Bill 94 , Prohibit Michigan National Guard executing federal “indefinite detention”: Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate To prohibit members of the Michigan National Guard or other state and local government...
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Y = Yes, N = No, X = Not Voting Senate Bill 97 , Repeal child car seat penalty waiver provision: Passed 35 to 1 in the Senate To repeal a provision of the law mandating car seats for children under age four that waives penalties for a violation if the...
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Y = Yes, N = No, X = Not Voting Senate Bill 51 , Expand forest property tax breaks: Passed 35 to 0 in the Senate To expand the eligibility for certain forest property tax breaks, increase their value, double the number of acres eligible for the tax breaks...
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Y = Yes, N = No, X = Not Voting Senate Bill 61 , Convert Blue Cross to non-profit "regular" insurance company: Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate To convert Blue Cross Blue Shield into a “mutual insurance company” and make it subject to...
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The state House and Senate finalized their organizational details for the new session this week. There was just one final-passage floor vote on a substantive measure, a gun bill, see roll call information below. This report therefore includes several...
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