I’m not sure where we stand on the wolf hunt.
We had a wolf hunt but the feds declared that we couldn’t so I don’t know where we stand.
Senate Bill 134: Appropriations: “Omnibus” education budget
Passed 24 to 14 in the Senate on May 5, 2015, the Senate version of the K-12 school aid, community college and university budgets for the fiscal year that begins Oct 1, 2015. A separate Senate budget authorizes the rest of state government spending (Senate Bill 133). This bill would appropriate $13.969 billion for K-12 public schools, compared to $13.870 billion originally appropriated for the prior year. It also appropriates $1.541 billion for state universities, compared to $1.516 billion the prior year. Community colleges would get $394 million, vs. $364 million the prior year.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=713160
House Bill 4239: Allow disabled to hunt from “personal assistive mobility device”
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on May 5, 2015, to allow a disabled individual to hunt small game from an electric “personal assistive mobility device,” subject to conditions and restrictions specified in the bill.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=713208
House Bill 4319: Revise stop at railroad crossings law detail
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on May 5, 2015, to revise the law that requires a vehicle to stop at railroad crossings. Currently, this does not apply if a track is “abandoned,” and the bill would expand this to one that is “inactive,” which means the track has been covered or removed and all signs, signals, and other warning devices have been removed.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=713210
House Bill 4320: Revise stop at railroad crossings law detail
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on May 5, 2015, to authorize posting signs that say “exempt” at inactive railroad crossings where the tracks have been removed or covered up, which would mean school buses are not required to stop. See also House Bill 4319.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=713211
House Bill 4390: Allow financial literacy as high school economics credit
Passed 110 to 0 in the House on May 5, 2015, to allow a financial literacy or “personal economics” course to be substituted for the one-half credit economics course required under state high school graduation standards.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=713209
Apparently the feds were unhappy with the states delisting from endangered so they upped it to a federal endangered species listing. grrr.