2022 Senate Bill 1192

Prohibit "non-pecuniary" factors in government employee pension fund investments

Introduced in the Senate

Sept. 28, 2022

Introduced by Sen. Jim Runestad (R-15)

To require the managers of Michigan’s state and local public pension systems to only consider “pecuniary factors” in their evaluation of investments for the pension fund. Presumably this would exclude non-pecuniary considerations including ones based on “Environment, Society, Governance” (ESG) factors that are not directly relevant to an investment’s performance in the marketplace.

Referred to the Committee on Finance

Dec. 6, 2022

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.