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Senate Bill 382: Provide insurance to dependents of disabled public safety officer
Introduced by Sen. Morris Hood, III (D) on June 9, 2015, to require the state to provide the spouse and dependents of a firefighter, law enforcement officer or emergency first responder who becomes permanently disabled in the line of duty with the same health insurance that retired State Police officers get.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169780

Senate Bill 383: Impose licensure on midwives
Introduced by Sen. Michael Green (R) on June 9, 2015, to impose a state licensure mandate on midwives (as distinct from “nurse midwives”), including regulations and license fees.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169781

Senate Bill 384: Authorize establishment of welfare agency police force
Introduced by Sen. Peter MacGregor (R) on June 9, 2015, to give the Department of Human Services (the state welfare agency) the authority to appoint agents with the same powers as peace (police) officers and limited arrest powers.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169782

Senate Bill 385: Authorize establishment of welfare agency police force
Introduced by Sen. Rick Jones (R) on June 9, 2015, to exempt the state welfare agency police proposed by Senate Bill 384 from the “gun-free zone” restrictions in the state’s concealed pistol license law.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169783

Senate Bill 386: Let courts take traffic offenses “under advisement”
Introduced by Sen. Tom Casperson (R) on June 9, 2015, to allow courts to take traffic offenses “under advisement,” meaning they would not have to report a conviction to the Secretary of State (with the drivers license sanctions that may ensue) if a driver has no more offenses for a specified period. This would not apply to commercial drivers.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169784

Senate Bill 387: Restrict injection well placement
Introduced by Sen. Dale W. Zorn (R) on June 9, 2015, to prohibit locating an “injection” well for disposing of hazardous material, or for storing other material (potentially including carbon dioxide), in a region determined to have “Karst geology”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169785

Senate Bill 388: Institute Headlee Amendment unfunded mandate restrictions
Introduced by Sen. Tom Casperson (R) on June 9, 2015, to prohibit a state agency from imposing any new increase in local government services or activities unless the legislature has appropriated money to pay for it. The bill would also create a “fiscal note” process to quantify how much the mandate will cost. This and Senate Bills 389 and 390 are intended to bring the state into compliance with the Headlee amendment provision prohibiting the state from imposing unfunded mandates on local governments.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169786

Senate Bill 389: Institute Headlee Amendment unfunded mandate restrictions
Introduced by Sen. Mike Kowall (R) on June 9, 2015, to prohibit a state agency from mandating any new increase in local government services or activities unless the legislature has appropriated money to pay for it. Along with Senate Bill 388, this bill would establish an administrative process to restrict such impositions.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169787

Senate Bill 390: Institute Headlee Amendment unfunded mandate restrictions
Introduced by Sen. David Robertson (R) on June 9, 2015, to explicitly give local governments standing to sue the state under the Headlee Amendment’s unfunded mandate ban in the state constitution.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169788

Senate Bill 391: Increase minimum wage mandate on employers
Introduced by Sen. Bert Johnson (D) on June 10, 2015, to make it unlawful to employ a worker for less than $9.30 an hour beginning in Sept. 1, 2015, and increase this in steps to $15.00 in 2018. The current state minimum wage mandate hourly employees not covered by a federal wage mandate is $8.15 an hour, increasing to $9.25 an hour in 2018, and then index it to inflation.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169790

Senate Bill 392: Revise commercial van and bus regulations
Introduced by Sen. Rick Jones (R) on June 11, 2015, to authorize a single comprehensive regulatory regime on commercial bus and van (limousine) services whose vehicles seat 15 or more passengers.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169820

Senate Bill 393: Increase vehicle dealer license plate fees
Introduced by Sen. Morris Hood, III (D) on June 11, 2015, to increase the fees for vehicle “dealer” plates and similar “special” plates.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169821

Senate Bill 394: Revise rental housing inspection regulations
Introduced by Sen. David Robertson (R) on June 11, 2015, to revise local government rental housing registration and inspection details. Among other things the bill would allow but not require local enforcement agencies in communities of a certain size to mandate that landlords must register themselves and their rental units.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169822

Senate Bill 395: Authorize home accessibility improvements tax credit
Introduced by Sen. Vincent Gregory (D) on June 11, 2015, to authorize an income tax credit of up to $5,000 for a person who purchases or retrofits a residence with modifications that make it accessible for a disabled individual. This would not apply to an owner’s rental property.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169823

Senate Bill 396: Increase vehicle weitht and size violation penalties
Introduced by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D) on June 11, 2015, to increase fines for overweight and oversized vehicles.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169824

Senate Bill 397: Ban employers asking about employee contraceptive use
Introduced by Sen. Jim Ananich (D) on June 11, 2015, to prohibit employers from asking employees or job applicants about their use or nonuse of contraceptive.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169825

Senate Bill 398: Create government sickle cell awareness campaign
Introduced by Sen. Jim Ananich (D) on June 11, 2015, to require the Department of Community Health to create a sickle cell disease public awareness campaign and to “coordinate services available” from state, federal, and voluntary sickle cell disease programs.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169826

House Bill 4688: Authorize penalties for not reporting child’s death
Introduced by Rep. John Bizon (R) on June 9, 2015, to make it a felony punishable by up to four years in prison to fail to immediately report the death of a child for which a person is responsible, or fail to report that a child is missing within 48 hours.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169791

House Bill 4689: Authorize penalties for not reporting child’s death
Introduced by Rep. John Bizon (R) on June 9, 2015, to establish sentencing guidelines for the crime proposed by House Bill 4688 of failing report a missing child or death of a child in a timely manner.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169792

House Bill 4690: Mandate reduced class size in failing schools
Introduced by Rep. Erika Geiss (D) on June 9, 2015, to require failing schools to reduce class sizes to a maximum of 17 in grades K to 3, and 25 in grades 9 to 12.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169793

House Bill 4691: Ban selling human breast milk online
Introduced by Rep. Erika Geiss (D) on June 9, 2015, to ban the sale of human breast milk over the internet. See also House Bill 4206.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169794

House Bill 4692: Mandate public school African-American history teaching
Introduced by Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnogo (D) on June 9, 2015, to require public schools to provide instruction at all grade levels in African-American history.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169795

House Bill 4693: Ban local “promise zone” grants to students at certain state universities
Introduced by Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnogo (D) on June 9, 2015, to prohibit local government scholarships financed by a “promise zone” tax increment financing scheme for students who attend a state college or university that does not automatically accept any student with a grade point average in the top 15 percent of his or her high school class. This is a method by which some states have gotten around bans on using race as a factor in college admissions.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169796

House Bill 4694: Restrict injection well placement
Introduced in the House on June 9, 2015, to prohibit locating an “injection” well for disposing of hazardous material, or for storing other material (potentially including carbon dioxide), in a region determined to have “Karst geology”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169797

House Bill 4695: Authorize load limit exceptions for potable water haulers
Introduced by Rep. Jason Sheppard (R) on June 9, 2015, to allow an exception to seasonal road weight limit restrictions for trucks hauling drinking water.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169798

House Bill 4696: Ban city unions bargaining for Detroit police “automatic entitlement” to better terms
Introduced by Rep. Fred Durhal, III (D) on June 9, 2015, to prohibit Detroit and its government employee unions from bargaining over an “automatic entitlement to more favorable terms and conditions of employment” like one the bill implies was granted to the city’s police union.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169799

House Bill 4697: Ban no-exception school expulsion policies
Introduced by Rep. Jeff Irwin (D) on June 9, 2015, to prohibit school districts from adopting a policy that requires a student to be expelled for certain violations and does not give school officials discretion in enforcing it, except as required by state law.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169800

House Bill 4698: Authorize drivers license, state ID gender change
Introduced by Rep. Brain Banks (D) on June 9, 2015, to require the Secretary of State to change the gender indicated on the drivers license of a person who requests this if the individual has obtained a “sex change” operation, or produces a court order authorizing the change in designation, or other official identification to that effect.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169801

House Bill 4699: Authorize drivers license, state ID gender change
Introduced by Rep. Brain Banks (D) on June 9, 2015, to require the Secretary of State to change the gender indicated on the state identification card of a person who requests this if the individual has obtained a “sex change” operation, or produces a court order authorizing the change in designation, or other official identification to that effect.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169802

House Bill 4700: Mandate companies with state contracts disclose employee compensation details
Introduced by Rep. Martin Howrylak (R) on June 9, 2015, to revise a 2012 law requiring the state to post an online a searchable database containing the details of all agency purchases, contracts and grants, by adding a provision adding the number jobs maintained or created and their wage rates to the required disclosures.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169803

House Bill 4701: Mandate contractors disclose company finance details
Introduced by Rep. Scott Dianda (D) on June 9, 2015, to require a state agency that contracts with a vendor for services exceeding $500,000 to require the vendor to turn over its financial, operational, and accounting records related to the contract, and then post these on the agency’s website.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169804

House Bill 4702: Mandate pre-privatization “impact studies”
Introduced by Rep. Edward McBroom (R) on June 9, 2015, to require a state agency seeking to privatize any state services to conduct a pre-privatization “impact study” and submit it to the legislature. This would have to include the overall effects on state and local employment, incomes, government welfare expenses, other businesses, tax revenues, agriculture and manufacturing.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169805

House Bill 4703: Prescribe privatization contract criteria
Introduced by Rep. John Kivela (D) on June 9, 2015, to require state contracts for services, including privatization contracts, to provide specific performance criteria and cost parameters, and provisions that let the state cancel the contract if these aren’t met.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169806

House Bill 4704: Restrict privatization of state services
Introduced by Rep. Pam Faris (D) on June 9, 2015, to prohibit the privatization of government services unless an agency conducts a pre-privatization cost-benefit analysis and submits it to the legislature, and unless current government employees are given an opportunity to bid on the privatized service.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169807

House Bill 4705: Restrict privatization of state services
Introduced by Rep. Peter Lucido (R) on June 9, 2015, to require vendors who want to bid on state service contracts to submit a sworn statement that the vendor is in compliance with all local, state, and federal laws and regulations, and allow an agency to cancel the contract if a vendor is in violation of this requirement.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169808

House Bill 4706: Let state enforce city income taxes
Introduced by Rep. Wendell Byrd (D) on June 10, 2015, to authorize cities and the state Department of Treasury to enter agreements under which the Department could use its full state income tax enforcement powers to enforce the city’s income tax.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169809

House Bill 4707: Remove criminal penalties from dog law
Introduced by Rep. Peter Lucido (R) on June 11, 2015, to repeal the criminal penalties in the law that requires dogs to be licensed and authorizes other regulations on dog owners, and increase the civil penalties (fines) this law authorizes.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169827

House Bill 4708: Remove criminal penalties from dog law
Introduced by Rep. Peter Lucido (R) on June 11, 2015, to repeal the criminal penalties in the law that prohibits dog owners from allowing their animals to “run at large,” and increase the civil penalty (fine) this law authorizes to $500.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169828

House Bill 4709: Reword ban on displaying a “human monstrosity”
Introduced by Rep. John Bizon (R) on June 11, 2015, to eliminate the reference to a “human monstrosity” in a law that makes it a misdemeanor for a doctor to exhibit a disfigured individual for other than scientific purposes.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169829

House Bill 4710: Remove criminal penalties from camping law
Introduced by Rep. Andrea LaFontaine (R) on June 11, 2015, to repeal the criminal penalties in the law that requires a person camping on state land to post a registration card registration card with his or her name, address, arrival date and departure date. Violations would instead be a civil offense punishable by a $500 fine.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169830

House Bill 4711: Repeal obsolete penalties and prohibitions
Introduced by Rep. Michael Webber (R) on June 11, 2015, to repeal a law empowering courts to specify that a prison sentence should include solitary confinement or hard labor, and another law authoring criminal penalties for rebuilding a selling an electric storage battery without disclosing this on the packaging in letters of a specified size.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169831

House Bill 4712: Expand scope of practice for chiropractors
Introduced by Rep. Kathy Crawford (R) on June 11, 2015, revise the scope of practice restrictions for licensed physical therapists to also authorize chiropractors to perform the save functions.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169832

House Bill 4713: Require “culpable mental state” for criminal conviction
Introduced by Rep. Edward McBroom (R) on June 11, 2015, to establish that if a law does not indicate whether a “culpable mental state” (“men’s rea”) is required to establish guilt, the presumption will be that this is required, meaning that prosecutors must show that the defendant violated the law “purposely, knowingly or recklessly.” This would not be the case if a law imposes a “strict liability” standard. Under current law, many complex “administrative” offenses authorize criminal penalties for actions that a regular person would not know are illegal.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169833

House Bill 4714: Require more corporate subsidy cost disclosures
Introduced by Rep. Jim Runestad (R) on June 11, 2015, to require the Department of Treasury to notify the legislature of the number of claimants for tax credits granted under the Michigan Economic Growth Authority law (which was repealed in 2011), listed by size of the final liability to the state and the amount of foregone taxes attributable to particular firms. It was recently revealed that tax breaks and subsidies granted under this program represent a nearly $10 billion unfunded liability that will not be extinguished almost nearly 20 years. Under current law, information on which companies were granted these special deals and the terms of their agreements is kept secret.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169834

House Bill 4715: Ban employers asking about employee contraceptive use
Introduced by Rep. Marcia Hovey-Wright (D) on June 11, 2015, to prohibit employers from asking employees or job applicants about their use or nonuse of contraceptive.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169835