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
Senate Bill 277: Revise commercial vehicle regulation detail
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on October 15, 2013, to eliminate a requirement that commercial vehicles weighing more than 5,000 pounds must carry the owner’s name on the cab. Wrecker trucks and road service vehicles would still be subject to the mandate.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673667
Senate Bill 418: Exempt travel agents from insurance agent licensure mandate
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on October 15, 2013, to exempt travel agents from the licensure mandate imposed on insurance agents. Travel agents often sell trip insurance that is incidental to the planned travel.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673665
Senate Bill 427: Revise unemployment insurance payroll tax detail
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on October 15, 2013, to not consider certain oil, gas and mineral extraction contract negotiators (“landmen”) who are independent contractors to be “employees” of an energy or mining company for purposes of assessing unemployment insurance payroll taxes.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673668
House Bill 4121: Exempt property bought from school district from property tax
Passed 62 to 44 in the House on October 15, 2013, to give owners of property purchased from a public school district a five year property tax exemption. Local tax-collecting units (including local governments, taxing authorities, taxing “districts,” etc.) could opt out of providing the exemption.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673703
House Bill 4289: Restrict use of “indirect” unclaimed property law audits
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on October 15, 2013, to establish minimum standards for state audits and “indirect audits” of a person or business related to unclaimed property “escheated” to the state, and require such audits to conform with generally accepted government auditing standards published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673669
House Bill 4622: Revise drain code district procedures
Passed 106 to 0 in the House on October 15, 2013, to revise details of the procedures for changing drainage district boundaries (and imposing the cost of new or repaired drains on particular property owners), including notice requirements and procedures for challenging proposed changes, plus details of the drainage district’s interaction with the state transportation and agriculture departments.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673705
House Bill 4636: Clarify criminal restitution detail
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on October 15, 2013, to clarify wording in a law that requires convicted criminals to pay restitution to the victim, or if the victim dies, to his or her estate.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673666
House Bill 4740: Revise county medical care facility board of trustees detail
Passed 106 to 0 in the House on October 15, 2013, to revise the details governing appointments by county boards to the board of trustees of the Pinecrest Medical Care Facility in the Upper Peninsula, a joint county medical care facility for Menominee, Dickinson, and Delta Counties.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673700
House Bill 4793: Update eminent domain provisions
Passed 106 to 0 in the House on October 15, 2013, to repeal eminent domain property condemnation provisions in the state Drain Code and replace them with the provisions of a 1980 “Uniform Condemnation Procedures Act.” This would codify in statute what is already the current practice.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673706
House Bill 4821: Revise motor carrier safety law detail
Passed 105 to 1 in the House on October 15, 2013, to revise details of how a state “motor carrier safety” law applies to certain categories of buses.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673701
House Bill 4831: Clarify prescription drug sales tax exemption
Passed 106 to 0 in the House on October 15, 2013, to exempt over-the-counter drugs from sales tax if they are obtained under a prescription.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673704
House Bill 4866: Authorize new bicycle rider hand signals
Passed 106 to 0 in the House on October 15, 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”.
See Who Voted “Yes” and Who Voted “No” at http://www.michiganvotes.org/RollCall.aspx?ID=673702
House Bill 5080: Increase penalties for harming “vulnerable roadway user”
Introduced by Rep. Edward McBroom (R) on October 15, 2013, to authorize enhanced penalties for a driver who commits a moving violation that causes injury or death to a “vulnerable roadway user” (who is not violating the rules of the road), meaning a pedestrian, someone using a non-motorized device like a bicycle or skateboard, a wheelchair or electric wheelchair user, or the rider of an electric bicycle with less than one horsepower (but not a gasoline-powered bicycle with less than one horsepower). The additional penalties would be $1,000 and 93 days in jail if the violation causes “serious impairment;” $2,000 and one year if it causes death; and up to 15 years and $7,500 for a death caused by reckless driving.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=161160