Welfare, Medicaid and Social Services

2012 Senate Bill 1040 (Revise school pension system )

Votes Admin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:03:21 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on March 22, 2012

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2012 House Bill 5321 (Increase certain school employee pensions )

Votes Admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:19:37 GMT

Introduced in the House on January 31, 2012

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2013 Senate Bill 70 (Require one year residency for welfare )

Votes Admin — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:32:48 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on January 24, 2013

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2012 House Bill 5261 (Allow more school retiree “double dipping” )

Votes Admin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:05:26 GMT

Introduced in the House on January 19, 2012, to allow a former school employee to work as a substitute teacher or coach in the district he or she "retired" from and still collect a pension in addition to the substitute or coaching pay. This would also apply if the "retiree" was employed by private firm under contract to provide substitute teachers

The vote was 105 in favor, 1 opposed and 4 not voting

(House Roll Call 659 at House Journal 0)

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2012 House Bill 5747 (Increase Medicaid fraud penalties )

Votes Admin — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:45:41 GMT

Introduced in the House on June 14, 2012

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2012 House Bill 5416 (Cap municipal pension board travel expenses and more )

Votes Admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:01:51 GMT

Introduced in the House on February 21, 2012

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2011 House Bill 4484 (Repeal pension income tax exemption )

Votes Admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the House on March 23, 2011, to no longer exempt judge’s pension income from the state income tax, as proposed by Gov. Rick Snyder as part of a plan to reduce the state business tax. Under current law, government employee pensions are completely exempt, and private sector retiree pension is exempt up to $45,120 on a single return and $90,240 on joint returns

The vote was 57 in favor, 52 opposed and 1 not voting

(House Roll Call 95 at House Journal 0)

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2012 Senate Bill 1147 (Allow pension double dipping by certain “retired” school employees )

Votes Admin — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:50:17 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on May 29, 2012

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2010 Senate Bill 1226 (Senate state employee pension reform package )

Votes Admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on March 11, 2010, to require state employees to pay an additional 3 percent of their salary into their pension fund. This will save some $35 million in the next fiscal year and $304.5 million over 10 years. The measure applied to state employees hired before 1997 who have defined benefit pensions; those hired since have 401K-type defined contribution pensions

The vote was 22 in favor, 16 opposed and 0 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 180 at Senate Journal 0)

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2012 House Bill 5881 (Allow pension double-dipping by some “retired” prison workers )

Votes Admin — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:28:11 GMT

Introduced in the House on September 11, 2012

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2011 House Bill 4480 (Repeal pension income tax exemption )

Votes Admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the House on March 23, 2011

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2012 House Bill 5876 (Allow pension double dipping by certain “retired” state employees )

Votes Admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:35:06 GMT

Introduced in the House on September 11, 2012

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2012 House Bill 5854 (Revise judge and statewide officeholder post-retirement health benefits )

Votes Admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:29:38 GMT

Introduced in the House on September 11, 2012

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2010 House Bill 5954 (State employment early retirement )

Votes Admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the House on March 11, 2010

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2010 Senate Bill 1227 (Create school employee early retirement incentives )

Votes Admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on March 11, 2010

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2012 Senate Bill 1007 (Allow “retired” teachers to “double dip” as substitutes )

Votes Admin — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 09:41:52 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on March 6, 2012

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States disability payments not tracked/fraud?

TaterSalad — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:33:22 GMT

Waste, fraud and just plain incompetent? The State of Michigan is spending $$Millions of dollars of disability payments and they don't know who is getting them or not keeping track of the recipients. http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/17465

2012 Senate Bill 1171 (Allow municipalities to revise employee pension systems )

Votes Admin — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:39:02 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on June 6, 2012

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2012 House Bill 5281 (Require citizenship check for welfare applicants )

Votes Admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:49:06 GMT

Introduced in the House on January 24, 2012

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2012 House Bill 5547 (Eliminate retired legislator pension COLAs )

Votes Admin — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:25:08 GMT

Introduced in the House on April 19, 2012

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2011 Senate Bill 363 (Penalize food stamp scammers )

Votes Admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on May 5, 2011

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2011 House Bill 4388 (Screen welfare applicants for illegal aliens )

Votes Admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the House on March 8, 2011

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2012 Senate Bill 905 (Require community service work by welfare recipients )

Votes Admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:48:12 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on January 24, 2012

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2011 House Bill 4702 (Transition state employees to defined contribution retirement health benefit )

Votes Admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the House on May 26, 2011

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2007 Senate Bill 524 (Increase judges' pensions )

Votes Admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on May 23, 2007, to increase by 67 percent the pension benefits of a certain narrow class of retired judges (those who served less than the 12 years that earns a more generous pension and also had two years of military service - essentially this applies to one judge)

The vote was 37 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 16 at Senate Journal 4)

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