To authorize the creation of county, city, township, village, or school district “right to work zones,” where, within the boundaries of the community, employers would be prohibited from compelling an employee or prospective employee to join or financially support a union as a condition of employment. Note: The bill was later amended to establish a RTW law for the entire state.   Official Text and Analysis.

To push back the effective date of the proposed law to 2014.

To require the RTW law to be approved by voters before going into effect.

To tie-bar the bill to Senate Bill 519, meaning this bill cannot become law unless that one does also. SB 519 would repeal the provision of Gov. Rick Snyder's tax reform and business tax cut that partially eliminated some of the state income tax exemptions for pension income.

To add to the bill a provision that would repeal the 2011 law that banned governments in this state from from providing medical benefits or other fringe benefits to an employee’s “domestic partner,” defined as someone who is not married to the employee and not a dependent or survivor.

To strip out a provision that adds a $1 million appropriation, which under a state Supreme Court ruling several years ago has the effect of making the bill "referendum-proof." See House Joint Resolution W for an explanation.

To add to the bill a provision that would repeal a 2011 law eliminating an "item pricing" mandate on retail.

To add to the bill a provision that would repeal a 2011 law that prohibits a state agency from imposing "ergonomics" regulations on employers.

To require the Governor's office to monitor, track and report any changes to average state wages and employment attributable to the bill's passage, to the extent a causal relationship can be established.

To add to the bill a provision that would repeal the state income tax. This is one of several Democratic amendments that appear to be "protest" amendments rather than sincere proposals (in addition to some that were sincere).

To tie-bar the bill to Senate Bill 340, meaning this bill cannot become law unless that one does also. SB 340 would prohibit and make it a civil rights law violation to employ a person at a wage or salary that is less than an amount established under an interpretation of “comparable worth” devised by a government commission composed of various special interests and advocacy groups proposed by Senate Bill 341.

To prohibit the bill from going into effect unless the state unemployment rate falls by amounts specied in the amendment.

To add to the bill a provision that would repeal the state business tax. This is one of several Democratic amendments that appear to be "protest" amendments rather than sincere proposals (in addition to some that were sincere).

To establish that the proposed RTW law would not apply to "any employee currently entered into a collective bargaining agreement" with a union.

To prohibit the bill from going into effect until "after a panel appointed by the governor reviews the merits and economic impacts that will result from implementation".

To require collective bargaining agreements to be administered in accordance with the Supreme Court's "Beck" decision, which was intended to limit mandatory union payments by employees in a unionized workplace to just the amount spent by the union on bargaining activities (but which according to many was never properly implemented because of inadequate reporting by unions of their expenses).

To tie-bar the bill to Senate Bill 88, meaning this bill cannot become law unless that one does also. SB 88 would require that if an initiative or referendum ballot issue petition campaign uses paid petition circulators, the name of the organization providing the compensation for the circulators must be disclosed on the face of the petitions.

To prohibit the bill from going into effect if Michigan per capita income is higher than the PI of every other RTW state.

To name the proposed law after Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville.

To tie-bar the bill to Senate Bill 286, meaning this bill cannot become law unless that one does also. SB 286 would create a state database of contractors sanctioned for violations of the “prevailing wage” law, which prohibits awarding government contracts to contractors who submit the lowest bid unless the contractor pays union pay scales.

To prohibit employers from enforcing a union contract provision that compells employees to join or financially support a union as a condition of employment. The bill also includes a $1 million appropriation to make it "referendum-proof." All Democrats voted "no" and all Republicans voted "yes" on this Michigan right-to-work law except for Sens. Casperson, Green, Nofs and Rocca.

To strip out a provision that adds a $1 million appropriation, which under a state Supreme Court ruling several years ago has the effect of making the bill "referendum-proof." See House Joint Resolution W for an explanation.

To require the proposed RTW law to be approved by voters before going into effect.

To require collective bargaining agreements to be administered in accordance with the Supreme Court's "Beck" decision, which was intended to limit mandatory union payments by employees in a unionized workplace to just the amount spent by the union on bargaining activities (but which according to many was never properly implemented because of inadequate reporting by unions of their expenses).

To revise the appropriation added to make the bill "referendum-proof" so that rather than add new money the $1 million would be taken out of money already appropriated to run the Governor's office.

To prohibit employers from enforcing a union contract provision that compells employees to join or financially support a union as a condition of employment. The bill also includes a $1 million appropriation to make it "referendum-proof." All Democrats voted "no" and all Republicans voted "yes" for this Michigan right-to-work law except for Reps. Forlini, Goike, Horn, McBroom, Somerville and Zorn .