Senate Bill 53: Revise “gun free zone” CPL exception
Passed 73 to 37 in the House on March 25, 2015, to revise the “gun free zone” provision of the concealed pistol permit law to exempt retired federal law enforcement officers who carried a firearm during their employment. This provision prohibits regular citizens who have received a permit after meeting the background check and training requirements from carrying a pistol in schools, day care facilities, sports stadiums or arenas, bars, bar/restaurants, places of worship, college dorms and classrooms, hospitals, casinos, large entertainment facilities and courts.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=709778
Senate Bill 54: Ban using a drone to interfere with hunters
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 25, 2015, to prohibit using an aerial drone to interfere with or harass a person who is hunting. This would expand an existing law that bans interfering with or harassing hunters.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=709776
Senate Bill 55: Ban hunting with a drone
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 25, 2015, to prohibit using an aerial drone to take game.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=709777
Senate Bill 85: Extend preemption of local gun control to air guns
Passed 29 to 8 in the Senate on March 25, 2015, to revise the state law preempting restrictive local gun control ordinances so it applies to “pneumatic” guns, defined as ones that shoot “a BB or pellet by spring, gas, or air.” Locals could adopt restrictions on possession of these by minors, prohibit “brandishing” them to induce fear, or shooting in a heavily populated area.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=709939
Senate Bill 173: Revise procedures for dissolving fiscally failed school district
The amendment failed 10 to 27 in the Senate on March 25, 2015, to appropriate $1 million to pay for a school spending study that was included as part of the deal to place a $2 billion tax increase measure on the May 5, 2015 ballot.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=709935
Senate Bill 173: Revise procedures for dissolving fiscally failed school district
Passed 29 to 8 in the Senate on March 25, 2015, to appropriate $725,000 to pay off the remaining operating debt of Buena Vista school district in Saginaw County, which was dissolved in 2012 after becoming so fiscally unviable it could no longer educate students. Also, to revise school aid payments to the three school districts that absorbed Buena Vista’s students and facilities.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=709937
House Bill 4015: Repeal ticket scalping ban
Passed 70 to 40 in the House on March 25, 2015, to repeal a state law that bans ticket “scalping” at sports and entertainment events, or selling tickets at a higher price through some service or agency.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=709780
House Bill 4051: Require certain low income housing tax disclosures
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on March 25, 2015, to allow the Department of Treasury to disclose the address and millage rate of each housing unit that is part of part of a tax-exempt housing project, and whether the units are instead subject to a “service charge” in lieu of regular property taxes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=709934
House Bill 4054: Expand mobile home court regulation
Passed 106 to 3 in the House on March 24, 2015, to impose new licensure conditions mobile home parks; require the state “Manufactured Housing Commission” to notify local governments of any complaints from residents; impose a performance bond mandate on owners of a mobile home park owners deemed “in distress” for health and safety reasons; authorize placing a court-ordered lien on a park if conditions threaten residents’ health and safety; increase health and safety fines from $10,000 to $50,000; and more.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=709639
House Bill 4295: Revise firearms definition
Passed 90 to 20 in the House on March 25, 2015, to revise criminal sentencing guidelines so they conform with the proposal in House Bill 4155 to redefine “firearm” in the state penal code so it longer applies to BB, pellet, paint ball or “air-soft” guns.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=709782
Senate Bill 9: Restrict child custody changes for active military member
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on March 26, 2015, to revise a 2005 law prohibiting a court from changing an established child custody or parenting time order of a parent has been called to active duty in the military (unless it is the best interest of the child), so as to also allow the military parent to get a stay until he or she has returned from duty at any stage before final judgment in the proceedings.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710124
Senate Bill 18: Clarify ownership for some Calhoun County landholders
Passed 108 to 2 in the House on March 26, 2015, to require the state to take actions that remove questions about the title to land held “under color of title” by a number of citizens of Clarence Township in Calhoun County, and convey clean titles to these owners.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710001
Senate Bill 19: Clarify ownership for some Calhoun County landholders
Passed 109 to 1 in the House on March 26, 2015, to establish that the property conveyances that would result from the proposal in Senate Bill 18 would not be subject to the Proposal A taxable value “bump up,” wherein the new basis for property tax assessments becomes the property’s state equalized value (market value) rather than its capped “taxable value”.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710002
Senate Bill 56: Raise and index judges’ compensation
Passed 33 to 3 in the Senate on March 26, 2015, to increase judges’ salaries around $12,000, and index them going forward to increases in the salaries paid to unionized state “civil service” employees. After they change salaries would range from around $150,000 to $163,000 depending on which level of court.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710127
Senate Bill 195: Revise pharmacy licensure detail
Passed 33 to 4 in the Senate on March 26, 2015, to repeal a licensure mandate requirement that an applicant for a new pharmacy, drug manufacturer or wholesale distributor license who is not a licensed health care professional licensed must submit fingerprints.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710128
House Bill 4017: Provide liability waiver for food donations
Passed 106 to 4 in the House on March 26, 2015, to establish that a food retailer, food service provider, processor, farm, etc., who donates food to a nonprofit charity, and the charity itself, are immune from civil damages or criminal liability resulting from the nature, age, condition, or packaging of the food unless they knew or had reasonable grounds to know the food was adulterated or not fit for human consumption..
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710004
House Bill 4041: Ban welfare for persistent truancy
Passed 74 to 36 in the House on March 26, 2015, to withhold welfare benefits from a household with children who are persistently truant from school. A truant child age 16 and above could be removed from the household.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710003
House Bill 4060: Require certain state university admissions practices
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 26, 2015, to require state universities to inform applicants that they may receive credit for college-level training and education received in the military, and require them to accept a “joint services transcript” prepared under “American Council on Education Registry of Credit” recommendations.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710006
House Bill 4119: Revise wage garnishment procedures
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on March 26, 2015, to revise the law that authorizes a court-ordered garnishment of an individual’s wages, by establishing notice requirements and procedures for when an employer who is supposed to withhold wages fails to do so. The bill also increases the fee a creditor must pay to the employer.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710125
House Bill 4119: Revise wage garnishment procedures
Passed 109 to 1 in the House on February 19, 2015, to revise the law that authorizes a court-ordered garnishment of an individual’s wages, by establishing notice requirements and procedures for when an employer who is supposed to withhold wages fails to do so. The bill also increases the fee a creditor must pay to the employer.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=705958
House Bill 4120: Revise wage garnishment procedures
Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate on March 26, 2015, to revise the law that authorizes a court-ordered garnishment of an individual’s wages, by establishing notice requirements and procedures for when an employer who is supposed to withhold wages fails to do so.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710126
House Bill 4134: Establish that military experience meets boiler installer licensure requirements
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on March 26, 2015, to establish that having recent and relevant military training and experience meets the criteria for obtaining the state license mandated to earn a living as a boiler installer, boiler repairer or boiler special inspector.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710005
House Bill 4193: Allow electronic “proof of insurance”
Passed 108 to 2 in the House on March 26, 2015, to revise the state’s no-fault insurance law to allow “proof of insurance” documents motorists are required to have when driving to be an electronic communication from the insurance company visible on a mobile device. If asked a driver could be required to forward the information to a designated site.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710007
House Bill 4224: Repeal an out of state insurance company fee
Passed 105 to 5 in the House on March 26, 2015, to repeal a $25 fee that out of state insurance companies doing business in Michigan must submit with an annual report they are required to file with the state.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=710008