Senate Bill 585: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Mike Nofs (R) on October 3, 2013, to raise the minimum age for prostitution-related crimes to from 16 to 18, and prohibit local units of government from enacting ordinances that establish lower minimum ages. Individuals under this age caught violating the law could be taken into custody and placed under probate (family) court supervision.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161002
Senate Bill 586: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Tory Rocca (R) on October 3, 2013, to authorize diverting individuals under age 18 arrested for violating prostitution laws into probate (family) court supervision rather than criminal court prosecution. The court would be required to hold a hearing to determine if the juvenile was a victim of a human trafficking offense.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161003
Senate Bill 587: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Vincent Gregory (D) on October 3, 2013, to require a state agency supervising a child found to be the victim of human trafficking to provide psychological counseling services.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161004
Senate Bill 588: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Mark Jansen (R) on October 3, 2013, to establish as an “affirmative defense” for a person being prosecuted for a prostitution-related offense that the individual did it only because of his or her status as a victim of a human trafficking crime.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161005
Senate Bill 589: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Bruce Caswell (R) on October 3, 2013, to add human trafficking or commercial sexual exploitation of children to the (statutory) grounds for terminating a parent’s parental rights.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161006
Senate Bill 590: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. John Proos, IV (R) on October 3, 2013, to allow human trafficking victims to sue violators for damages.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161007
Senate Bill 591: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. John Proos, IV (R) on October 3, 2013, to establish that an individual could have prostitution or other criminal convictions cleared from his or her record if the offense was due to being a victim of a human trafficking crime.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161008
Senate Bill 592: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. John Proos, IV (R) on October 3, 2013, to revise the general state welfare law to authorize medical and psychological assistance benefits for having been a victim of a human trafficking crime.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161009
Senate Bill 593: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D) on October 3, 2013, to require child placement agencies to give special consideration to information that a child may be the victim of human trafficking crimes, and on that basis find that the usual reunification, adoption, or other foster care services may not be suitable.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161010
Senate Bill 594: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Judy Emmons (R) on October 3, 2013, to allow local governments to adopt ordinances requiring individuals working at an adult entertainment business (strip club) to get a permit.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161011
Senate Bill 595: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Michael Green (R) on October 3, 2013, to impose a $3 per customer fee for entering an adult entertainment business (strip club), with the money going into a state fund.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161012
Senate Bill 596: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. David Robertson (R) on October 3, 2013, to create a state “human trafficking board” to collect and disseminate information on this crime, seek federal and other aid for addressing it and helping victims, and more.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161013
Senate Bill 597: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D) on October 3, 2013, to require that medical professionals receive training to identify the signs of human trafficking in patients.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161014
Senate Bill 598: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Bruce Caswell (R) on October 3, 2013, to include “enticing a female away under 18 years of age” to commit prostitution-related crimes in the “predicate” crimes that come under the state racketeering law (RICO), which among other things would allow the seizure and sale of a violator’s assets, with the proceeds going to law enforcement agencies. Unrelated to human trafficking, the bill would also add felony liquor control code violations related to the sale, delivery, or importation of spirits to the predicate RICO offenses.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161015
Senate Bill 599: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Goeff Hansen (R) on October 3, 2013, to prohibit using the internet or a computer system to solicit a prostitute who is less than 21 years of age.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161016
Senate Bill 600: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Rick Jones (R) on October 3, 2013, to authorize specific regulations and procedures for the use of wiretapping and electronic monitoring to investigate human trafficking crimes.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161017
Senate Bill 601: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Rick Jones (R) on October 3, 2013, to authorize the use of covert listening “bugs” to investigate human trafficking crimes.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161018
Senate Bill 602: Human trafficking crime package
Introduced by Sen. Joe Hune (R) on October 3, 2013, to require individuals convicted of soliciting a prostitute to register on the state sex offender registry.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161019
House Bill 5053: Clarify cash register “zapper” crime jurisdiction
Introduced by Rep. Ellen Lipton (D) on October 3, 2013, to clarify jurisdiction details of a 2012 law banning the possession, manufacture or sale of an automated sales suppression device for falsifying the records of electronic cash registers (also called a “zapper” or “phantom-ware”).
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160983
House Bill 5054: Expand ban on electronic cash register dirty tricks devices
Introduced by Rep. John Kivela (D) on October 3, 2013, to establish sentencing guidelines for the expanded scope proposed by House Bill 5050 for a 2012 law banning the possession, manufacture or sale of an automated sales suppression device for falsifying the records of electronic cash registers (also called a “zapper” or “phantom-ware”).
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160984
House Bill 5055: Make target pay arrest warrant costs
Introduced by Rep. Joel Johnson (R) on October 3, 2013, to empower courts to order a person convicted of a crime to reimburse the expenses incurred in executing a bench warrant for the person’s arrest.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160985
House Bill 5056: Revise state preschool grant detail
Introduced by Rep. Joel Johnson (R) on October 3, 2013, to allow state grants for preschool programs intended for children from low income households to also pay for higher income children if this does not displace any low income children in a particular school’s program.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160986
House Bill 5057: Abolish adverse possession
Introduced by Rep. Joel Johnson (R) on October 3, 2013, to abolish the doctrine of adverse possession, by which a person who is in open possession of property for a certain period of time may claim title to it.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=160987
House Bill 5058: Revise county tax foreclosure detail
Introduced by Rep. Mike Callton (R) on October 8, 2013, to allow a particular county that chose to have the state foreclose tax delinquent property in the county to rescind that decision for one year.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161027
Senate Bill 603: Mandate criminal background check to adopt a pet
Introduced by Sen. Steve Bieda (D) on October 8, 2013, to authorize animal shelters to access the government “internet criminal history access tool” (ICHAT) for purposes of performing the background check that Senate Bill 604 would mandate that they do on an individual person who wants to adopt an animal, and exempt them from the usual fees for these checks.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161023
Senate Bill 604: Mandate criminal background check to adopt a pet
Introduced by Sen. Steve Bieda (D) on October 8, 2013, to mandate that animal shelters must check a government criminal records database before letting person adopt an animal, and prohibit adoptions the records show a person committed an animal cruelty offense in the past five years.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161024
Senate Bill 605: Mandate criminal background check to adopt a pet
Introduced by Sen. Rick Jones (R) on October 8, 2013, to require prosecuting attorneys to report to the State Police all animal abuse charges (not just convictions), and require the State Police to enter these into the state’s criminal records database. Senate Bill 603 would mandate that animal shelters must check individuals who want to adopt a pet against this online database.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161025
Senate Bill 606: Repeal ocularist registration
Introduced by Sen. Roger Kahn (R) on October 9, 2013, to repeal a law that imposes a registration mandate on ocularists and ocularist apprentices, who design, fabricate, and fit “ocular prosthetic appliances,” or artificial eyes.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161043
Senate Bill 607: Repeal ocularist registration
Introduced by Sen. Roger Kahn (R) on October 9, 2013, to repeal a law that imposes a registration mandate on ocularists and ocularist apprentices, who design, fabricate, and fit “ocular prosthetic appliances,” or artificial eyes. Senate bill 606 repeals the registration and this bill repeals the associated fee.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161044
Senate Bill 608: Appropriations: Supplemental budget
Introduced by Sen. Roger Kahn (R) on October 9, 2013, to provide a template or “place holder” for a potential supplemental appropriation for Fiscal Year 2013-2014. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161045
Senate Bill 609: Appropriations: Supplemental school aid budget
Introduced by Sen. Roger Kahn (R) on October 9, 2013, to provide a template or “place holder” for a potential supplemental school aid appropriation for Fiscal Year 2013-2014. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161046
Senate Bill 610: Revise state ban on short-barreled rifles and shotguns
Introduced by Sen. Michael Green (R) on October 9, 2013, to revise a state ban on short-barreled rifles or shotguns to state that it bans guns that are banned under federal law.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161047
Senate Bill 611: Increase penalty on delinquent hotel convention tax
Introduced by Sen. Mike Kowall (R) on October 9, 2013, to require a hotel or motel owner who is late paying a room tax of up to 5 percent imposed to pay for regional marketing schemes to also pay the attorney and court costs incurred collecting the tax, in addition to the 1.5 percent “delinquency charge” and 1.5 percent per month interest charge already authorized under current law.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161048
Senate Bill 612: Trim mandated barber license instruction hours
Introduced by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D) on October 10, 2013, to reduce from 2,000 to 1,800 the hours of instruction at a “licensed barber college” that an individual must accumulate before he or she is allowed by the state to earn a living at this trade.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161051
Senate Bill 613: Permit keeping road kill
Introduced by Sen. Darwin Booher (R) on October 10, 2013, to allow a driver who kills or injures a game animal other than bird on the road to keep it. The Department of Natural Resources would be required to issue a “salvage tag” if requested. The driver would have to keep a record of the circumstances until the game is consumed or discarded.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161052
Senate Bill 614: Allow transit buses to be used as school buses
Introduced by Sen. Tom Casperson (R) on October 10, 2013, to allow transit agency buses to be used as school buses, subject to conditions specified in the bill.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161053
Senate Bill 615: Revise local “angle parking” restrictions
Introduced by Sen. Tom Casperson (R) on October 10, 2013, to allow local governments to permit angle parking on a state “trunkline highway” if the state Department of Transportation allows it.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161054
House Bill 5059: Institute Headlee Amendment unfunded mandate restrictions
Introduced by Rep. John Walsh (R) on October 8, 2013, to create a permanent legislative council “local government mandate panel” to implement the provisions of House Bill 5060.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161028
House Bill 5060: Institute Headlee Amendment unfunded mandate restrictions
Introduced by Rep. Eileen Kowall (R) on October 8, 2013, to prohibit any bill that potentially imposes a mandate on local governments from becoming law unless a “local government mandate panel” comprised of the House and Senate Fiscal Agencies and members representing local government and public school interests, create a “fiscal note” that quantifies how much the mandate will cost. If funding is not made available or the specified “fiscal note” process is not followed then locals would not be required to implement the mandate.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161029
House Bill 5061: Mandate criminal background check to adopt a pet
Introduced by Rep. Harvey Santana (D) on October 8, 2013, to mandate that animal shelters must check a government criminal records database before letting person adopt an animal, and prohibit adoptions the records show a person committed an animal cruelty offense in the past five years.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161030
House Bill 5062: Mandate criminal background check to adopt a pet
Introduced by Rep. Harvey Santana (D) on October 8, 2013, to authorize animal shelters to access the government “internet criminal history access tool” (ICHAT) for purposes of performing the background check House Bill 5061 would mandate that they do on an individual who wants to adopt an animal.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161031
House Bill 5063: Mandate criminal background check to adopt a pet
Introduced by Rep. Harvey Santana (D) on October 8, 2013, to require prosecuting attorneys to report to the State Police all animal abuse charges (not just convictions), and require the State Police to enter these into the state’s criminal records database. Senate Bill 603 would mandate that animal shelters must check individuals who want to adopt a pet against this online database.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161032
House Bill 5064: Name I-75 after Tuskegee airmen
Introduced by Rep. David E. Rutledge (D) on October 8, 2013, to designate Interstate I-75 in Michigan as “Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Trail”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161033
House Bill 5065: Revise ambulance licensure detail
Introduced by Rep. Scott Dianda (D) on October 8, 2013, to allow a licensed ambulance service that serves a low density rural area to only provide advanced life support services on a part time basis (meaning less than 24 hours a day seven days a week).
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161034
House Bill 5066: Appropriations: Supplemental budget
Introduced by Rep. Joseph Haveman (R) on October 9, 2013, to provide a template or “place holder” for a potential supplemental appropriation for Fiscal Year 2013-2014. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161035
House Bill 5067: Appropriations: Supplemental budget
Introduced by Rep. Joseph Haveman (R) on October 8, 2013, to provide a template or “place holder” for a potential supplemental appropriation for Fiscal Year 2013-2014. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161038
House Bill 5068: Appropriations: Supplemental budget
Introduced by Rep. Joseph Haveman (R) on October 8, 2013, to provide a template or “place holder” for a potential supplemental appropriation for Fiscal Year 2013-2014. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161039
House Bill 5069: Authorize penalties on rental property “squatters”
Introduced by Rep. Kurt Heise (R) on October 8, 2013, to establish that the usual restrictions and penalties on a landlord interfering with a tenant’s legitimate possession of a rented residence do not apply in the case of “squatters,” defined by the bill as a person who took possession by “forcible entry, holds possession by force after a peaceable entry, or came into possession by trespass.” House Bill 5070 authorizes criminal penalties for some squatting violations.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161040
House Bill 5070: Authorize penalties on rental property “squatters”
Introduced by Rep. Kurt Heise (R) on October 8, 2013, to authorize up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine for a “squatter” who illegally occupies a residence with a market value of at least $100,000. “Squatter” is defined by the bill as someone who “at any time during that period of occupancy, occupied the property with the owner’s consent for an agreed-upon consideration” but not a “guest or a family member of the owner or a tenant”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161041
House Bill 5071: Authorize penalties on rental property “squatters”
Introduced by Rep. Kurt Heise (R) on October 8, 2013, to establish sentencing guidelines for the crime proposed by House Bill 5070 of “squatting,” defined as illegally occupying a residence with a market value of at least $100,000.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161042
House Bill 5072: Change scenic road PR label
Introduced by Rep. Peter Pettalia (R) on October 10, 2013, to change the label applied to roads deemed by a 1993 law to be “heritage routes” because of their scenic, recreational, or historic associations, instead calling them “Pure Michigan Byways”.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161057
House Bill 5073: Revise local “angle parking” restrictions
Introduced by Rep. Peter Pettalia (R) on October 10, 2013, to allow local governments to permit angle parking on a state “trunkline highway” if the state Department of Transportation allows it.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161058
House Bill 5074: Revise delinquent property tax interest detail
Introduced by Rep. Cindy Denby (R) on October 10, 2013, to give counties discretion over whether to impose an interest rate that is lower than the 1 percent per month currently imposed on amounts due to county delinquent tax revolving funds.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161059
House Bill 5075: Authorize “junior achievement” income tax checkoff
Introduced by Rep. Phil Potvin (R) on October 10, 2013, to allow an individual to choose to automatically contribute $5 or more from his or her state income tax refund to provide grants to local “Junior Achievement” organizations.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161060
House Bill 5076: Authorize “junior achievement” income tax checkoff
Introduced by Rep. Phil Potvin (R) on October 10, 2013, to allow an individual to choose to automatically contribute $5 or more from his or her state income tax refund to provide grants to local “Junior Achievement” organizations.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161061
House Bill 5077: Establish statutory right to breastfeed in public
Introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D) on October 10, 2013, to establish in law that a woman has a right to breastfeed a baby in a “place of public accommodation” or public facility. A woman would be entitled to “the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations” in this places, and if denied them could sue for actual damages or up to $200 in “presumed” damages.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161062