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House Bill 4844: Repeal ban on public schools starting before Labor Day
Introduced by Rep. Andy Schor (D) on June 18, 2013, to repeal a ban on public schools starting their school year “before Labor Day,” and instead just prohibit them from having class on the Friday before Labor Day.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=159965

House Bill 4845: Authorize early high school graduation scholarships
Introduced by Rep. Frank Foster (R) on June 18, 2013, to reduce the amount of per-pupil state school aid paid to a school district when a high school student graduates in three and a half years instead of four years. Districts would have to report early graduations to the state, and if they did not the state could “dock” them for a full year’s aid payment for that student, rather than the half-year amount the bill proposes. The money saved from these reductions would go into the scholarship fund proposed by House Bill 4846.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=159966

House Bill 4846: Authorize early high school graduation scholarships
Introduced by Rep. Frank Foster (R) on June 18, 2013, to authorize $2,500 state scholarships for students who graduate from a public high school in less than four years, using the money saved because they graduated early (as proposed by House Bill 4845).
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=159967

House Bill 4847
Introduced by Rep. Robert Genetski (R) on June 19, 2013, exclude incarcerated student performance data from school accreditation reports to allow public school districts to exclude from the reports used to “accredit” particular school buildings the graduation rates and other student performance data for students who are incarcerated for at least two days.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=159976

House Bill 4848: Keep more government pre-contract bid information secret
Introduced by Rep. Joseph Haveman (R) on June 19, 2013, to revise details of a Freedom of Information Act exception that allows government bodies to not disclose contractor bids before contracts are awarded. The bill would expand the exception to include the public body’s “evaluation materials”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=159977

House Bill 4849
Introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R) on June 19, 2013, Ban sanctions on schools with student group “achievement gaps” to prohibit the state Department of Education from “imposing any measures” on a public school that has an “achievement gap” between “any cohort of its highest achieving pupils and any cohort of its lowest-achieving pupils”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=159978

House Bill 4850: Impose licensure on puppy breeders
Introduced by Rep. Sarah Roberts (D) on June 19, 2013, to impose licensure, regulation and $500 annual fees on “large scale commercial breeding kennels,” defined as ones where at least 15 female dogs are housed for purposes of breeding. This bill imposes the licensure mandate and House Bill 4851 imposes the regulations.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=159979

House Bill 4851: Impose licensure on puppy breeders
Introduced by Rep. Vicki Barnett (D) on June 19, 2013, to impose licensure, regulation and $500 annual fees on “large scale commercial breeding kennels,” defined as ones where more at least 15 female dogs are housed for purposes of breeding. This bill establishes the regulations and House Bill 4850 imposes the licensure mandate.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=159980

House Bill 4852: Authorize local “trap-neuter-release” programs for feral cats
Introduced by Rep. Adam Zemke (D) on June 19, 2013, to allow local governments to establish programs to trap, neuter or spay, and then release feral cats.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=159981

House Bill 4853: Allow multiple county 9-1-1 call centers
Introduced by Rep. John Walsh (R) on June 20, 2013, to allow counties to establish more than one 9-1-1 “primary public safety answering point” (PSAP), which are the communication facilities that receive and respond to 9-1-1 calls.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=159998

House Bill 4854: Mandate employers give advance “mass layoff” notice
Introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D) on June 20, 2013, to mandate that employers give workers, unions, state officials and local politicians a 90 day advance notice of “mass layoffs” or plant closings, and a 120 day notice if more than 250 employees are affected.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=159999

House Bill 4855: Expand lottery winner government debt garnishment
Introduced by Rep. Kenneth Kurtz (R) on June 20, 2013, to revise a law that requires the state lottery bureau to deduct any unemployment overpayments, child support arrearages or debts to the state from the payments to a person who wins $1,000 or more. The bill would also require payment of any debt or liability to the state welfare department.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160000

House Bill 4856: Authorize charges for rescue of “grossly negligent” emergency victim
Introduced by Rep. Brandon Dillon (D) on June 20, 2013, to charge a person for the cost of providing rescue and emergency services during a state of emergency, if the rescue was due to the individual acting in manner deemed “grossly negligent” as defined in the bill.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160001

House Bill 4857: Authorize charges for rescue of “grossly negligent” emergency victim
Introduced by Rep. Rob VerHeulen (R) on June 20, 2013, to specify the costs that can be charged to a “grossly negligent” person who needs to be rescued during a local state of emergency as proposed by House Bill 4856.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160002

House Bill 4858: Require financial institutions help enforce welfare benefit restrictions
Introduced by Rep. Margaret O’Brien (R) on June 20, 2013, to require a bank that operates automatic teller machines in a casino, liquor store, or “adult entertainment establishment” to ensure it does not allow a person to use a welfare benefits “bridge card” to withdraw cash from those ATMs.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160003

House Bill 4859: Require financial institutions help enforce welfare benefit restrictions
Introduced by Rep. Margaret O’Brien (R) on June 20, 2013, to require a savings bank that operates automatic teller machines in a casino, liquor store, or “adult entertainment establishment” to ensure it does not allow a person to use a welfare benefits “bridge card” to withdraw cash from those ATMs.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160004

House Bill 4860: Require financial institutions help enforce welfare benefit restrictions
Introduced by Rep. Margaret O’Brien (R) on June 20, 2013, to require a credit union that operates automatic teller machines in a casino, liquor store, or “adult entertainment establishment” to ensure it does not allow a person to use a welfare benefits “bridge card” to withdraw cash from those ATMs.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160005

House Bill 4861: Authorize “sporting swine” livestock, breeding and shooting operations
Introduced by Rep. Edward McBroom (R) on June 20, 2013, to allow, establish regulations, and authorize favored “agricultural” property tax status for commercial “sporting swine” livestock and shooting ranches.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160006

House Bill 4862: Authorize “sporting swine” livestock, breeding and shooting operations
Introduced by Rep. Edward McBroom (R) on June 20, 2013, to exempt privately-owned swine in commercial “sporting swine” shooting ranches from regular hunting seasons and regulations, and prohibit listing sporting swine as a prohibited or restricted (”invasive”) species.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160007

House Bill 4863: Authorize “sporting swine” livestock, breeding and shooting operations
Introduced by Rep. Edward McBroom (R) on June 20, 2013, to establish sentencing guidelines for violations of the regulations proposed by House Bill 4861 for commercial “sporting swine” livestock and shooting ranches.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160008

House Bill 4864: Authorize “sporting swine” livestock, breeding and shooting operations
Introduced by Rep. Edward McBroom (R) on June 20, 2013, to extend to privately owned “cervidae producers” (deer hunting ranches) the authority proposed by House Bill 4861 to create commercial “sporting swine” livestock and shooting ranches.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160009

House Bill 4865: Authorize mobile dental facilities
Introduced by Rep. Peter MacGregor (R) on June 20, 2013, to allow dental services to be provided in a mobile dental facility if the state grants a permit, subject to regulations and restrictions specified in the bill.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160010

House Bill 4866: Authorize new bicycle rider hand signals
Introduced by Rep. Anthony Forlini (R) on June 20, 2013, to establish new signals for bicycle riders. Left turns would be indicated by extending the left arm straight out; right turns by either extending the right arm, or the left arm with forearm raised (which is the current standard), and slowing or stopping by “extending the left hand and arm downward”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160011

House Bill 4867: Revise financial exploitation of vulnerable adult sentencing
Introduced by Rep. Tom Leonard (R) on June 20, 2013, to establish that “predatory conduct” committed before a “financial exploitation of a vulnerable person” offense may be considered in the sentencing guidelines for this crime, even if the conduct was directed at a law enforcement official posing as a potential victim.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160012

House Bill 4868: Let Flint impose higher city income tax
Introduced by Rep. Woodrow Stanley (D) on June 20, 2013, to allow Flint to raise its city income tax to 1.5 percent on residents and businesses, and 0.75 percent on nonresidents who work there. Under current law, cities are not allowed to impose individual income taxes higher than 1 percent for residents and 0.5 percent for non-residents (except for Detroit, which can and does impose a 2.4 percent/1.2 percent income tax rate).
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160013

House Bill 4869: Revise radiologic personnel and machine regulation
Introduced by Rep. Ben Glardon (R) on June 20, 2013, to revise the law authorizing licensure and regulations for radiologic personnel and machines so that it conforms with federal law.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160014

House Bill 4870: Let ISDs take over fiscally failed school districts
Introduced by Rep. Stacy Erwin Oakes (D) on June 20, 2013, to give intermediate school districts the power take over fiscally failed school districts. The bill was introduced as an alternative to House 4813, now Public Act 96 of 2013, which gave the state this authority, and was itself introduced in response to the financial collapse of the Buena Vista and Inkster school districts shortly before the end of the 2012-2013 school year.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160015

House Bill 4871: Let ISDs take over fiscally failed school districts
Introduced by Rep. Stacy Erwin Oakes (D) on June 20, 2013, to give intermediate school districts the power take over fiscally failed school districts. The bill was introduced as an alternative to House 4813, now Public Act 96 of 2013, which gave the state this authority, and was itself introduced in response to the financial collapse of the Buena Vista and Inkster school districts shortly before the end of the 2012-2013 school year.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160016

House Bill 4872: Revise firearms possession ban details
Introduced by Rep. Vicki Barnett (D) on June 20, 2013, to mandate that if an individual who possesses firearms is ordered by a court to no longer possess them as part of a personal protection order or condition of probation, then the person must either arrange for a law enforcement agency to store the firearms (for which it can charge a fee), sell or transfer them to a licensed dealer, or sell or transfer them to a private party who is not subject to a gun possession ban.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160017

House Bill 4873: Authorize municipal employee residency mandates
Introduced by Rep. Sam Singh (D) on June 20, 2013, to revise a state law that prohibits municipalities from imposing residency mandates on employees, so that they can impose such a mandates during a new employee’s first seven years on the job.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160018

House Bill 4874: Revise septage service and site fees and regulations
Introduced by Rep. Ken Goike (R) on June 20, 2013, to revise details of a 2004 law establishing fees and regulations on septage waste services and sites.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160019

House Bill 4875: Ban low health insurance “actuarial” benefits
Introduced by Rep. Mike Callton (R) on June 20, 2013, to prohibit health insurance policies or HMO contracts from including benefits that require the beneficiary to pay more than 50 percent of the price of a medical service, or benefits with a deductible that the insurer “reasonably knows will not be met by at least 80 percent of the insureds or enrollees”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160020

House Bill 4876: Ban low health insurance “actuarial” benefits
Introduced by Rep. Bradford Jacobsen (R) on June 20, 2013, to prohibit Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance policies from including benefits that require the beneficiary to pay more than 50 percent of the price of a medical service, or benefits with a deductible that the insurer “reasonably knows will not be met by at least 80 percent of the insureds or enrollees”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160021

House Bill 4877: Ban low health insurance “actuarial” benefits
Introduced by Rep. Frank Foster (R) on June 20, 2013, to prohibit “third party administrator” type health insurance plans from including benefits that require the beneficiary to pay more than 50 percent of the price of a medical service, or benefits with a deductible that the insurer “reasonably knows will not be met by at least 80 percent of the insureds or enrollees”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160022

House Bill 4878: Establish “super voting precinct” pilot project
Introduced by Rep. Bradford Jacobsen (R) on June 20, 2013, to require the Secretary of State to establish a “super voter precinct” pilot project, which means voters can vote at any area polling place in their area, not just the one to which they are assigned. This would require a reliable “electronic poll book” and the ability for polling places to update it in real time as people vote, for which the bill prescribes standards and procedures. The bill would also authorize local governments to consolidate election administration functions.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160023

House Bill 4879: Require state officials take school assessment tests
Introduced by Rep. Tom McMillin (R) on June 20, 2013, to require legislators, the governor, state board of education members and the state superintendent of public instruction to take the state student assessment tests given to third, eighth, and eleventh graders, and post their scores online.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160024

House Bill 4880: Revise community and county mental health service governance details
Introduced by Rep. Phil Cavanagh (D) on June 20, 2013, to revise details of how board members are selected by community and county mental health services program, and details of which public entity is responsible for retirement benefits granted to employees of these government programs.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160025

House Bill 4881: Make marriage name change provisions gender neutral
Introduced by Rep. Phil Cavanagh (D) on June 20, 2013, to explicitly state in statute that the parties in a marriage are not required to use the same last name, and in general make this law “gender neutral.” A man could adopt the woman’s last name, a woman could adopt the man’s, either party could adopt a hyphenated name, or everyone could just keep their original last name.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160026

House Bill 4882: Revised delinquent property tax payment
Introduced by Rep. Phil Cavanagh (D) on June 20, 2013, to allow the government of a “financially distressed community” to create a delinquent property tax installment plan for a “financially distressed person,” and waive the interest charges if the person actually pays-off the delinquent amounts.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160027

House Bill 4883: Revise order of election contests on ballot
Introduced by Rep. Phil Cavanagh (D) on June 20, 2013, to change the order in which election contests are listed on the ballot, essentially placing the lowest office at the top of the ballot and the highest offices further down, with candidates for president coming last, and ballot proposals listed before candidate races.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160028

House Bill 4884: Expand state Treasurer tax dispute deal making authority
Introduced by Rep. Phil Cavanagh (D) on June 20, 2013, to empower the state treasurer to settle a disputed criminal or civil tax matter involving tax or penalty amounts up to $50,000, and to settle disputes over larger amounts if the proposed settlement is submitted to the Attorney General for review.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160029

House Bill 4885: Cut tax on gas and oil “fracking”
Introduced by Rep. Aric Nesbitt (R) on June 20, 2013, to reduce the 5 percent “severance tax” or royalty paid to the state on oil and gas extracted from state land to 3.3 percent for oil and 3 percent for gas if these are produced using “enhanced recovery” technology, presumably including hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”).
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160030

House Bill 4886: Require lottery to solicit “management services” bids
Introduced by Rep. Earl Poleski (R) on June 20, 2013, to require the state lottery to solicit bids for “lottery management services”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160031

House Bill 4887: Require all property tax millage votes be on November general election ballot
Introduced by Rep. Dan Lauwers (R) on June 20, 2013, to require all property tax millage elections to be held on the November general election date, rather than the February, May or August election dates when voter turnout is far lower.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160032

House Bill 4888: Ban using credit scores in insurance pricing
Introduced by Rep. Theresa Abed (D) on June 20, 2013, to prohibit the use of an individual’s credit score by an insurance company to determine his or her insurance premium price.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160033

House Bill 4889: Increase drug trafficking penalties
Introduced by Rep. Edward McBroom (R) on June 20, 2013, to revise the state sentencing guidelines so they allow increased penalties for illegal drug convictions involving travel from another state with the intent to deliver.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160034