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Introduced in the Senate on April 26, 2007, to authorize penalties for operating as a residential builder or maintenance and alteration contractor without a license of up to one year in prison and a $25,000 fine for a first offense, two years for a second offense, and four years for a third offense, plus forfeiture of assets. The bill also authorizes the Attorney General and the state Department of Labor and Economic Growth to bring action against an unlicensed builder, and makes other changes to this licensure law

The vote was 38 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 144 at Senate Journal 49)

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If the government says they can be a builder they must be good. "Let the buyer beware" no longer applies.

This fecal dollop was most likely bought and paid for by the established builders, and their associated lobbies and unions, who want to keep out the upstarts. Our willing socialist government, ever ready to crush some more liberty and confiscate more private wealth, is going gaily along with this scheme. It's another example of the old practice known as rent-seeking. A particularly odious example was the recent licensure of interior decorators, because god forbid some uncertified twit might specify the wrong color of upholstery to match the baseboard. Bought and paid for in Michigan and in many other states by the American Society of Interior Designers.

Of course it was bought and paid for by the industry, silly! Every licensing law on the books came into existance that way. You don't really think real people came to legislators complaining about the horrors of interior designer "market failure," to cit one example, do you?

turn all the murderers loose so we have room to lock up all the roofers and tile layers that don't pay your extortion fee, oop's I meant license fee. You Folks Are Delusional.

Let's make it illegal to process oxygen without proper degree of training and licensing. I believe that is about the only activity left that hasn't been regulated.

They are so great at coming up with ways to make bad ideas sound good. Note that this bill was refered Referred to the Senate Economic Development and Regulatory Reform Committe. It is neither good for economic development nor any form of regulatory reform. More garbage from the thieves.