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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Civil Law</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/18.aspx</link><description>Torts, Family Law</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 (Debug Build: 30417.1769)</generator><item><title>Re: 2009 House Bill 4722 (Place state spending information on-line )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/274247.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:33:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:274247</guid><dc:creator>inform4</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/274247.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=18&amp;PostID=274247</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Good show!!!&amp;nbsp; I&amp;#39;m very happy to see that there were 109 in favor.&amp;nbsp; The taxpayers have a right to government transparency.&amp;nbsp; Good job! Great votes!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>2009 House Bill 4722 (Place state spending information on-line )</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/274246.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:274246</guid><dc:creator>admin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/274246.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=18&amp;PostID=274246</wfw:commentRss><description>Introduced in the House on March 26, 2009, to require the state to post a website by Oct, 1, 2009 that contains “year-to-date expenditures by department and category; the number of state employees by department and job classification; a listing of state contracts; the executive budget; the annual comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR); the constitutional revenue limit report; the constitutional local spending requirements report; an annual work projects reports; detailed financial schedules, and monthly financial reports; the annual workforce report; state job specifications and wage rates.” Most if not all of this information is already published in various places. The bill would not require an online state “check register”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The vote was 109 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 not voting&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;(House Roll Call 133 at House Journal 0)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.michiganvotes.org/2009-HB-4722'&gt;Click here to view bill details.&lt;/a&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>