STATE OF MICHIGAN
Journal of the Senate
102nd Legislature
REGULAR SESSION OF 2023
Senate Chamber, Lansing, Thursday, November 9, 2023.
10:00 a.m.
The Senate was called to order by the President, Lieutenant Governor Garlin D. Gilchrist II.
The roll was called by the Secretary of the Senate, who announced that a quorum was present.
Albert—present Hauck—present Moss—present
Anthony—present Hertel—present Nesbitt—present
Bayer—present Hoitenga—present Outman—present
Bellino—present Huizenga—present Polehanki—present
Brinks—present Irwin—present Runestad—present
Bumstead—present Johnson—present Santana—present
Camilleri—present Klinefelt—present Shink—present
Cavanagh—present Lauwers—present Singh—present
Chang—present Lindsey—present Theis—present
Cherry—present McBroom—present Victory—present
Daley—present McCann—present Webber—present
Damoose—present McDonald Rivet—present Wojno—present
Geiss—present McMorrow—present
Senator Jim Runestad of the 23rd District offered the following invocation:
Heavenly Father, as we gather in Your name, we humbly seek Your divine guidance during our final day of session, for the remainder of this year and for the start of next year. Be the beacon that illuminates our path, the compass that directs our hearts, and the wisdom that guides our thoughts. May Your presence be felt in every word spoken and in every action we take. We trust in Your infinite wisdom and pray for Your guidance to lead us on the righteous path. Amen.
The President, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist, led the members of the Senate in recital of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Motions and Communications
Senator Cavanagh entered the Senate Chamber.
Senator Lauwers moved that Senators Johnson and Webber be temporarily excused from today’s session.
The motion prevailed.
Senator Nesbitt entered the Senate Chamber.
House Bill No. 4197
House Bill No. 4129
House Bill No. 4695
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
By unanimous consent the Senate proceeded to the order of
Statements
Senator Johnson entered the Senate Chamber.
The motion prevailed.
Senator Lindsey’s statement is as follows:
I rise today to address an issue of great importance to our state—our ongoing and increasing population loss. Earlier this year, when the Governor formed the Growing Michigan Together Council, I was honored to be the Senate Republican nominee. From the beginning, I stressed the importance of approaching this issue with a commitment to bipartisan, comprehensive, and data-driven solutions. However, I must admit that the Governor’s initial reaction to my nomination raised concerns that the council’s mission might be more about promoting predetermined partisan goals rather than genuinely solving the problem at hand.
Despite my qualifications—I’m a Yale graduate, a former Green Beret, and a former business executive with international experience—my nomination was rejected simply because I dared to criticize some of the Governor’s policies. Now, seeing recent reports about the council’s recommendations, I know I was right to be skeptical. This recent reporting suggests the council may recommend tax increases. It also suggests that minority views are being suppressed. The council is purportedly going to recommend increasing the state’s sales tax and property taxes to raise additional funding.
Michigan currently lags far behind where
it should be in almost every important metric, despite record funding for
education and Michigan’s gas tax and property taxes being some of the highest
in the nation. We are losing residents to states with lower taxes and less
burdensome regulations. To reverse our state’s decline, we need a
limited-government, pro-growth economic perspective. This perspective should
focus on tax reform, sensible regulations, public safety, individual rights,
worker freedom, and high educational standards for our students. Competition among
ideas leads to better solutions than pure ideological blindness.
Michigan is facing a population decline and recent legislative efforts have only exacerbated that fact, but there are solutions and we can change course if we take appropriate, decisive action and pursue real-world solutions. I want to remain hopeful that we can create a foundation of growth and economic prosperity that allows our children and future generations to fulfill their dreams right here in Michigan without having to leave their home state as so many have had to do, but we need to change course.
I encourage this body to reject any policy proposal from the Growing Michigan Together Council that suggests that we can somehow tax our way into prosperity. It has never worked and it will not work here in Michigan.
Senator Webber entered the Senate Chamber.
Senator Runestad’s statement is as follows:
As we part company, in all likelihood until the first of next year, I would like to leave you with a sweet, inspirational bedtime story you can tell your kids and grandkids over the holidays. With the coming cold months, this lovely story will warm the cockles of your hearts. It’s a story about a Michigan legislator and a big-time owner of a law firm in Lansing.
The story begins with the lawyer asking, Mr. legislator, are you aware the financial transparency package that was passed in Lansing recently requires no disclosure about trips offered by a non-lobbyist? The legislator said, Yes, I’m very aware of that. The lawyer said, Well, if I could, I just want to let you know that our firm has a number of beautiful condominiums on the Turks and Caicos islands. Unfortunately, we have a number of them every year that go vacant even in the good season. It’s just a bad look for us to have these vacant and I was just wondering if perhaps with your stressful job, maybe you and your wife and your kids would like to all stay free for a week or maybe two or three at one of our beautiful condominiums on the Turks and Caicos island. The legislator said, Oh, hold on one minute here. You’re offering me a week or several week stay at one of your condominiums at Turks and Caicos island? The attorney said, Yes, sir, Mr. legislator. The legislator stated, Well, to take this free condominium would violate every single principle, undermine every ethical standard, and betray every honor bestowed on me by the voters to accept this free stay at a condominium at Turks and Caicos.
The attorney paused for a moment and then responded, Sir, I fully understand. I completely get it, but if you don’t mind my asking in the alternative, suppose instead of a free stay at one of our condominiums, I was to sell you outright one of our condominiums, not free mind you, but sell you one for $1,000? The legislator paused, thought for a moment, and then said, You let me get this straight. You’re offering to sell me one of your Turks and Caicos condominiums for $1,000? Not use free, but sell for $1,000? Do I have that correct? The attorney said, Yes, that’s correct. The Michigan legislator responded, Let me be crystal clear. In this situation you have just outlined, under those conditions you are offering, I’ll take two, two of them.
Now I’d like to thank the No BS News Hour for some of the travel details related in my beautiful holiday bedtime story. Please feel free as you gather with your loved ones over the holidays to share this inspirational story with your kids and your grandkids. I bid you all adieu, until we meet again, and wish each and every one of you a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.
Senator Albert’s statement is as follows:
In what would be a largely unprecedented political maneuver, Democrats appear ready to shut down the people’s chamber for the remainder of 2023. This means I am giving this end-of-year legislative speech in early November. I suppose it is fitting that the supporters of big government and central control would decide to close the people’s chamber, allowing the executive branch to go unchecked for a period of time. This is what happens when government is focused more on its own agenda than on the needs of the people, and it follows the pattern of what has been forced upon all the people of Michigan this year by their government.
Not long ago in this chamber, I quoted Hayek from his book The Road to Serfdom. The argument I was making at the time was that the policy being advanced by the Democratic Party was fundamentally socialist. I essentially was making the point that socialists are centralized planners that use coercion as the means to their end. This is entirely opposite to a free market economy where individuals determine what is produced and at what price and through a decentralized matter in an open and competitive market. The two systems are opposite of each other and cannot be reconciled. A planned economy requires coercion and a free market economy requires liberty. It’s a very simple concept.
When I quoted Hayek to point out that
Democrats were pursuing a coercive and socialist policy, I noticed my
colleagues on the other side of the aisle seemed rather irritated. I was left
with the impression that my Democratic colleagues did not feel as if they had
relied on a heavily socialist way of governance. Well, why don’t we review the
Democratic policies advanced this year and see if they fit the socialist model
of centralized planning achieved through coercive means. We can let the people
of Michigan decide where the chips may fall.
Democrats fought against lowering the income tax rate, opting to implement an unfair and uneven tax structure picking winners and losers and increasing government spending instead. They added the equivalent of over 700 full-time equivalent employees, created new state bureaucracies, and codified Obamacare. They told communities it doesn’t matter if they want wind and solar projects in their back yards; if the state wants a project there, that’s where it is going to go, and it will eventually eat up more than 300,000 acres of farmland in the process. They have mandated utilities to be 100 percent renewable energy by 2040 and given away billions of taxpayer dollars to massively overpay corporations for electric vehicle projects. For projects that were so poorly planned that they may not actually come to fruition. On top of that, they created a new state office because they know this forced transition will kick workers out of their current jobs and they will have to find new ones.
Democrats repealed right-to-work and coerced employees to associate with a union even if they don’t desire to do so. They have restored prevailing wage mandates on government projects which increases taxpayer expense. They are establishing a price control board for prescription drugs and forcing landlords to accept sources of income they may not deem reliable. They took away Second Amendment rights, forced employers to adhere to a woke gender ideology, and if that doesn’t top it all, require deer hunters to report their harvesting to the state government. And these are just the notable policies. It seems as if every day there is a new Democratic proposal or bill introduced to use the government to save the people from themselves.
It’s hard to deny that this list of policies does not aim to replace the invisible hand of Adam Smith with the iron fist of Karl Marx. I say if the shoe fits, wear it. The Democratic policies advanced this year in this Legislature are big government socialism. This is a year that has marched Michigan down the road to serfdom and I say we adjust course back to the ideal of freedom America was founded on.
Senator Theis’ statement is as follows:
The stinking onion that is the Gotion battery plant deal had another layer peeled back this week and the stench is worse than ever. It was already bad enough that Gotion has direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party, but it just got worse. It has come to light that Gotion’s parent company welcomed a delegation from none other than the Islamic Republic of Iran to its China headquarters to explore broadening bilateral trade and cooperation. The Gotion battery plant already has a documented list of environmental and public health concerns that haven’t even begun to be addressed. Gotion’s self-published connections to the CCP and the fact that the FBI sees the CCP as its top counterintelligence priority is a national security threat.
Now, Gotion is seeking to partner with Iran, one of the top terrorist-producing and supporting nations in the world, including Hamas and Hezbollah. And another recent report indicates the Gotion parent company has connections to a paramilitary organization with ties to the CCP as well. Does Michigan really want to be in business with a company that is cozy with two of the U.S.’ primary adversaries?
For one, the people who actually live and work near the proposed Gotion plant where it’s to be built certainly do not. Just this week, five Green Township board members were recalled by voters and one Big Rapids Township individual got recalled as well for their support of this plan—it made national news, by the way, little township, the people pushing back and showing what it means to listen to the voters. A local resident who helped organize this recall said it simply, “This recall shows how the community did not want this. …We may be small, but we are powerful.”
I don’t think anyone who takes an objective look at the Gotion plan can support such a deal. I strongly urge the Whitmer administration to rescind the deal, let our citizens know that we heard them, and call for the Legislature to take the money back.
Senator McBroom’s statement is as follows:
Mr. President, I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you and to the Senate about a very special day that’s coming forward, and that’s our day of national Thanksgiving set apart to us in this month of November. As a farmer, I think I always have a very special soft spot recognizing it as a recognition of the harvest that we are able to bring in, and the heritage we’ve had in this country of setting aside a day to recognize a bountiful harvest is something that traces back to our very earliest years. A time of hospitality, a time to come together and celebrate with our family, friends, loved ones, and those who’ve helped us over the past year to thank them, but most of all to thank God.
It’s notable to note that our nation has a long history of officially celebrating a day of Thanksgiving. George Washington proclaimed the first one, and Abraham Lincoln notably set us on the tradition of having one in November. I’ve prepared a few excerpts from Lincoln’s words in his original proclamation for a day of Thanksgiving, he wrote
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans. mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged
And so I hope that you, Mr. President, and my fellow colleagues will take time to be with family and to reach out to those who are in need, those who are mourning, in sadness, sickness, widows, orphans, and others, that you can help at this Thanksgiving. But I also want to call to our attention other words from Lincoln in another speech where he said
Whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord;
And, insomuch as we know that by His divine law nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Mr. President, as we come to the holiday of Thanksgiving, let us not fall victims of the trap of being thankful to nothing. Let’s not just be thankful but remember who we are thankful to. I’m thankful for each of you, for the time I’ve spent with you over these last several months, and contrary to some I’m thankful I won’t be spending time with you over the next couple months. But I am thankful for each of you and I wish you the best of Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and the New Year.
Senator Nesbitt’s statement is as follows:
We can disagree on many things. In this session alone, we’ve had heated exchanges—many exchanges on energy, taxes, budgets, and whether someone should be forced to join a union or not. And our debates have been heated. Some have been very angry, sad, happy, passionate, hyperbolic, and even flat-out factually inaccurate. And that’s OK. That’s part of what our experimental democratic republic is all about—the free flow of ideas.
Unfortunately, Mr. President, there are those rare occasions when an elected official, through words or actions, can cross a line of what should be accepted in a respected government body—crimes committed, blatant unethical conduct, threats of violence, extreme vulgarities, the defense of the indefensible. Certain things render one just not fit to serve. That is what we have seen from one member of Michigan’s Congressional delegation, Congresswoman Tlaib.
Fourteen hundred innocent Israelis massacred by the terrorist organization, Hamas. Two hundred forty abducted and held hostage. Not combatants or uniformed military personnel, not even politicians targeted for assassination. Fathers, mothers, granddaughters, sons, daughters, babies—tortured, raped, burned alive, paraded around as trophies, some in front of their loved ones in an admitted attempt to kill as many as possible.
After hearing about these bloodthirsty attacks by Hamas, Congresswoman Tlaib initially issued a statement placing part of the blame on Israel, repeatedly calling Israel an apartheid government and even placed some of the blame on our country’s aid to them. If that insulting, yet very clear exhibition of her sentiment wasn’t enough, she later refused to actually condemn the actions of Hamas, specifically when confronted by a reporter. When asked if the slaughtering of the innocent Israelis should be condemned, instead of responding how any person would with, Yes, those actions are barbaric and I condemn them, she ran away with a frenzied silence. Even after her repulsive initial statement and her subsequent silence when asked to condemn Hamas, she then went on to release a video on social media that scrawled the genocidal phrase “from the river to the sea” across the screen. Ask a Jewish individual what that means. Ask a member of the terrorist group, Hamas, what that means. Ask anyone who has knowledge or a strong opinion on the conflict and history in the region what that means. It is a call to eradicate the nation of Israel and its inhabitants from the region. It’s that simple—that’s what it is.
And finally, earlier this week, in a bipartisan vote, her own Congressional colleagues censured her for her reprehensible comments. The idea that someone would espouse such heinous, grotesque comments in the U.S. House of Representatives, hinting toward the wiping out of an entire historically-persecuted people is unbecoming of an official serving in government. She’s entitled to her opinions and may espouse them freely, regardless of how grotesque they may be, but she’s not fit to serve, she’s not fit to represent the people of Michigan in Congress and she should resign.
I urge all of my colleagues who have not yet had a chance to co-sponsor Senate Resolution No. 82 to join me, and I look forward to this chamber actually adopting it.
Senator Polehanki’s statement is as follows:
Mr. President, this morning the Senator from the 23rd District delivered an invocation on the importance of not intensifying divisiveness. Unfortunately, the Senator across the aisle from the 23rd District has just risen to the microphone to defend someone who has recently said something indefensible so I’m compelled to push back. Michigan voters elected women to run our state—Whitmer, Nessel, Benson—and the Democratic caucus of the Michigan Senate for the first time in history is led by a woman and has more women than men. I understand this fact may rankle insecure men like the former Detroit News employee who, lacking control of his emotions, called the Attorney General the c-word and got himself fired.
What this man and friends need to understand moving forward is that women aren’t putting up with this crap anymore and we literally don’t have time to coddle members of the he-man woman-haters club or whatever it is in someone who would make them say such a thing out loud. Or make someone like the Senator from the 23rd District to be so obsessed with women on vacation. We’ve got things to do, like run the state of Michigan.
Senator Damoose’s statement is as follows:
Mr. President, I woke up today thinking about my colleagues and what a blessing it has been to work beside you, Mr. President, and with each and every one of the members and staff in this room. As we anticipate that today may be the last session day of the year, I wanted to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for our conversations, our new friendships and relationships, for challenging me in so many ways that at times have forced me to reconsider long-held beliefs and ideas, and at other times have pushed me to dig even deeper into those ideas to figure out how to turn them into action.
I am thankful to you, Mr. President, for how you have led this chamber with grace and civility. I am thankful to my colleague from the 8th District for her well-reasoned arguments expertly presented so often and even on topics I so wildly disagree with. She’s an inspiration for her preparation and commitment and has helped raise the bar for all of us. I am thankful to my colleague from the 31st District for his thoughtfulness and his example of graceful interaction that he has modeled for me and everyone in this room. I am thankful to my colleague from the 3rd District who I just genuinely enjoy talking to and has shown herself to be so receptive to incorporating other perspectives into policies she’s been developing for years. And I’m thankful for my colleague from the 32nd District, who when I first met I asked, Who is this guy? And I have now built a genuine respect for and a friendship with him.
I wish I could name every single member here. From my colleague who borders my own district in the 38th District who pours himself so deeply into every issue that arises and whose steadfast commitment to our shared Upper Peninsula is unwavering, to my colleague in the 21st District who has been a joy to work with on budgeting and so many other things, never treating me like I was a member of the other team but with the respect one would extend to a friend or to a business partner. Same with my colleagues from the 6th District and the 15th District on the Democratic side of the aisle, and my friends from the 30th and 9th districts on this side of the aisle.
Again, I wish I could say something about
each and every one of you, but instead I will just say thank you. I pray for
all of you. I know that the Lord has put each of us here together at this
moment in time to accomplish some purpose greater than each of us. And I hope
that in the next two months we will each experience a time when we get to
reconnect with our family and friends, that we are able to fulfill some of
those broken promises that our work has often forced upon us for our children
and our spouses and our friends. I pray that God will whisper into each of our
ears where we need to rethink things and refresh us to do what He intends us to
do when we come back next year.
Most of all, as the new guy in the room—a first-term Senator—I want to thank everybody here for helping restore my faith in this great system we have been blessed with in the United States of America and within the great state of Michigan.
Senator McMorrow’s statement is as follows:
This has been a really heartbreaking and challenging month and to have the Minority Leader stand up in this moment to stoke more hatred and division directed at a member of Congress is devastating. First, some context. My husband is Jewish, my daughter has an Israeli name, and over the past month I have received messages from complete strangers, one who told me they know where I live, and that my daughter should be dead. I also represent many of the constituents that Congresswoman Tlaib represents.
There was a resolution introduced in Congress by Congressman Ryan Zinke, who was previously the Secretary of the Interior under Donald Trump, to expel Palestinians from the United States completely. That is horrific. We have seen rising antisemitism, we have seen rising Islamophobia, we have seen attacks on children, we saw a child murdered in Chicago, we saw a woman drive her car into a building thinking it was a Jewish center, and the focus from the other side of the aisle is to expel a member of Congress, not addressing any of the real safety issues, not addressing any of the valid fears and anger and hatred and concerns of the people we represent to focus on one member of Congress, and I have never heard members on the other side of the aisle care this deeply about the constituents that member of Congress represents—some of the most diverse people in the state of Michigan who all have very real problems and fears and concerns. We represent one of the most diverse areas of the state if not the country, where people who are directly impacted by the events in the Middle East are living side-by-side.
One of my greatest fears is that the events happening in the Middle East right now divide us at home, that we see hate and division and anger boil over because I’ve always been proud that we are an area that can lead by example for the rest of the country if not the world, to show people with very different backgrounds and religions and experiences can and do live side-by-side. What a shameful weaponization of a horrific war, to try and score political points to divide Democrats against Democrats. For shame. You don’t care about the Congresswoman’s constituents in Detroit, you don’t care about the Congresswoman’s constituents in Oakland County, you don’t care. I hope we do better next year.
Senator Klinefelt’s statement is as follows:
I’ve listened very carefully all week—the speeches from the other side of the aisle. I’ve listened to each and every word, and I listened again this morning. There’s been a lot of discussion about what we’re doing to the residents and why we’re losing residents in this state. The problem is this body, for 40 years, was not run by Democrats. So this is the first time in 40 years that Democrats have held the House, the Senate, and the Governorship. Under Republican leadership though, when the House, the Senate, and the Governorship—I watched public schools gutted, particularly in aging school districts. I watched school districts have to cancel AP classes, sports and extracurricular activities.
We all know that during downtimes, tough recessions, Proposal A and Headlee together are devastating for local communities. As somebody who’s served on a local board, I watched under the same Republican leadership, further gutting of local control, local support, and I watched communities cut police and fire. I had to close a pool, I had to close a community center, I had to close a senior center, and I’m in one community. So when I think about why we’re graduating individuals that are moving to other states, I think it’s because we gut the communities—we gut their quality of life here.
I believe in my heart that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle thought that the things that they were doing were the things that would make this state prosper. We saw huge tax cuts for a relatively small group of people. What I’m asking my colleagues is give us a chance. We haven’t had an opportunity in 40 years to see if our policies will keep those students graduating here, staying here, raising their children here, and visiting their grandchildren here. Because I believe our policies may just do that.
Senator Chang’s statement is as follows:
Rashida Tlaib was duly elected by the people of the 12th Congressional District. She has called the actions of Hamas a war crime, multiple times. How many times is sufficient for a Muslim woman to call Hamas’ actions a war crime enough for you?
She has uplifted the memory of both the
more than 1,400 Israeli civilians and the more than 10,000 Palestinians
who have been killed over the past month. She has stood up against antisemitism
and against Islamophobia. And she has continued, over many years, including
over the past month, to forge close bonds with both Jewish and Muslim community
leaders who simply are calling for peace and dignity. She has delivered
countless wins, both policy wins and appropriation wins, for her district. She
delivers exceptional constituent services through three neighborhood service
centers in her district every single day.
Rashida Tlaib—yes, she is the only Palestinian American in Congress right now. Her mother was in the West Bank, I believe, at the time that this conflict started and could not leave. This is deeply personal. This issue is deeply personal for Rashida Tlaib as it is for many of us. She has courageously raised her voice, even in the face of Islamophobia, in the face of hate, in the face of continuing death threats, to uplift the dignity and humanity of Palestinians who simply want to live. She has called for peace. She has condemned Hamas. How many more times does she need to condemn Hamas?
Agree or disagree with Rashida Tlaib—fine, but to call for her to resign is shameful, it is ludicrous, and it is a waste of our time and energy when we here in the majority have real problems that we are solving here in Michigan.
Senator Camilleri’s statement is as follows:
I rise today to add my voice to this conversation because I echo all of the comments from my colleague from the 3rd District who has been a passionate defender of the voiceless. When we have a minority leader who is attempting to take out the voice of a community across the state of Michigan, it is reprehensible. I strongly condemn him and his actions and words. Just know that when we are talking about lifting up the voices of people who are left out of this conflict, we are talking about the 10,000 Gazans who have been brutally murdered by bombs from the Israeli government, who have never been part of this conversation from the other side. We are talking about hundreds of thousands of Arab Americans and Muslims in Michigan alone who hear you when you get up to the podium and try to silence the only Arab American member of Congress who represents our great state. They are listening. They hear your hatred and your Islamophobia at the microphone here in the Michigan Senate. That is unbelievably disturbing, it is shameful, and we have a duty and honor—like my colleague from Royal Oak said—to try to do our best to bring our communities together, to try to find solutions that we can represent for the people of Michigan.
Adding to the divisiveness does nothing to advance the cause of the people of Michigan. It does nothing to advance the cause of peace. It has been a struggle for me and for so many to see the horrors take place overseas. But to bring all of those challenges and divisive conversations back here to this chamber does not advance our ability to get things done for our residents and to provide healing spaces for all people who are impacted by this.
It has been a personal struggle for me, coming from a family who had experienced bombings in Malta from the Nazis, where my grandparents had to hide in bomb shelters as teenagers, who survived World War II during a regime that was seeking to exterminate the Maltese people because of their resilience. I know what that is like. I know what it’s like for my Palestinian fiancée whose family had to leave Palestine and find their way to other lands because they were no longer welcome in their home.
This is not easy for people who have had to deal with generational trauma from other people who have laid claim to their land. Just know that for so many people across Michigan, we know that this is painful. It is a difficult and terrible experience that we have to go through, and reliving the trauma here in the Michigan Senate is really an unbelievable position for someone like me and someone like a lot of my colleagues have to go through.
I just urge everyone in this space to please have some humanity, please have some dignity, please lift up the voices of those who really feel left behind by those on the other side of the aisle. Help us forge a path towards peace and unity, and honestly, just a place where we can all represent our voices and a place where people elected us, just like the Congresswoman from Detroit.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
Resolutions
Senate Resolution No. 83
Senate Resolution No. 84
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
Senate Resolution No. 83.
A resolution to urge the United States
federal government to amend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP) to simplify the college student exemptions to make aid more accessible
for prospective and enrolled students who come from low-income families.
Whereas, Postsecondary credentials are and will continue to be essential for job seekers in the U.S. economy. The U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics reports that almost forty percent of jobs in the U.S. require education greater than a high school diploma, and this number is increasing; and
Whereas, Studies have estimated that between twenty and thirty-two percent of college students experience food insecurity while enrolled. Food-insecure students are more likely to drop out of college without completing a degree or certificate. In a 2020 study, a quarter of all students admitted that they had considered dropping out due to difficulty affording food, and one third said they knew someone who dropped out because of food insecurity; and
Whereas, SNAP is a federal program that provides resources for individuals and families who would otherwise be unable to afford enough food. Students are only eligible for SNAP if they are enrolled at least half-time in an institution of higher education and qualify for an exemption. Most students are not eligible for SNAP’s current exemptions. This prevents students from participating in the program and receiving much needed food assistance; and
Whereas, Changing the eligibility requirements and ensuring SNAP’s availability to food-insecure students would remove a critical barrier to postsecondary education, both for currently enrolled students and future students. Michigan’s current educational attainment rate is just above fifty percent. Modernizing SNAP to remove food insecurity barriers to secondary education supports Michigan’s goal to increase the number of Michigan residents with a postsecondary credential to sixty percent by 2030; and
Whereas, The provision of food assistance could improve higher education outcomes that lead to family-sustaining wages and a strong economy. Given the demand from employers and state efforts to create a skilled workforce, keeping the current SNAP eligibility restrictions will continue to hamper college graduation rates and economic growth; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate, That we urge the United States federal government to amend the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to simplify the college student exemptions to make aid more accessible for prospective and enrolled students who come from low-income families; and be it further
Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the President of the United States; Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Senator Gary Peters; and the members of the Michigan congressional delegation.
The question being on the adoption of the resolution,
Senator Santana was named co-sponsor of the resolution.
The motion prevailed.
Senator Anthony’s statement is as follows:
I rise today to offer Senate Resolution No. 83. This resolution urges the federal government to amend the SNAP program. For those of you who are not familiar with SNAP, it is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. This resolution would simplify the college student exemption to make aid more accessible for prospective and enrolled students who come from low-income families.
The SNAP program has a long-standing impact on students across the country, as well as in the state of Michigan. The program has continuously made it easier for families to afford nutritious food, without having to sacrifice basic necessities like car repairs, prescriptions, and other household essentials. While this has undoubtably helped thousands of Michiganders, it is becoming increasingly clear that we’re inadvertently overlooking student populations—students who attend places like Lansing Community College right here in the city of Lansing. I’ve heard some of those personal stories, even as early as a few weeks ago when I was doing a guest lecture.
During COVID-19, there was a public health emergency and a law was passed that made students temporarily eligible for SNAP—meaning that some students at this point, now that many of those protections have lapsed, are no longer able to access food. We know that it’s already extremely difficult for college students to simply qualify for SNAP benefits due to ineligibility requirements. In some cases, the process even prevents prospective students from attending college so that they don’t lose their benefits. Other times, this has been shown to prevent certain prospective students to attend college altogether, solely because they’re worried about losing access to these benefits. Far too often we see examples of students withdrawing their enrollment or failing to complete their coursework due to having unmet fundamental needs.
For those who are putting in the time and
working hard to better themselves, their families, their community, and their
economic outlook on our state, we must do better. So this resolution is in
partnership with folks like the Michigan College Access Network, the Michigan
Community College Association, and other organizations across the state, urging
that the federal government make this changeover by bringing food security to
college students across the state of Michigan.
Senators Huizenga and Brinks offered the following resolution:
Senate Resolution No. 84.
A resolution to request support and funding from the National Archives and Records Administration for the restoration of the reflecting pool and fountain at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Whereas, The Presidential Museum is one of West Michigan’s most important civic spaces and one of our greatest community assets. It both connects residents and visitors to the lives of President and Mrs. Ford and serves as a gateway to the American presidency, inspiring a commitment to our shared democratic values and the type of active citizenship necessary for the health of our state and nation; and
Whereas, The reflecting pool and fountain are part of this inspiring history. They are not only reminiscent of the reflecting pool on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and, at nearly 100 yards long, commemorative of Ford’s football career as a player and a coach, but also an integral connection between the Museum and downtown Grand Rapids. As an extension of the design of the Museum itself, its mirroring of Ford’s hometown allows for people to see themselves in both Ford and the presidency, thus continuing his representation of those in our community; and
Whereas, When the reflecting pool and fountain stopped operating in 2019, a special aspect of the Museum was lost, leaving an empty cement pool that visually detracts from the campus and downtown Grand Rapids. Many in our community think that now is the time to restore these important features as the 50th anniversary of President Ford’s call to service as our nation’s 38th president approaches; and
Whereas, The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation is ready to engage with our community for support, but their work cannot begin until your commitment to the restoration is obtained. On behalf of our constituents, we encourage you to embrace this project and commit the National Archives and Records Administration funding to advance it; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate, That we request support and funding from the National Archives and Records Administration for the restoration of the reflecting pool and fountain at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan; and be it further
Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the Archivist of the United States.
The question being on the adoption of the resolution,
Senator Webber was named co-sponsor of the resolution.
The motion prevailed.
Senator Huizenga’s statement is as follows:
I rise today in support of Senate Resolution No. 84, requesting the National Archives and Records Administration to designate funds for the restoration of the reflecting pool and fountain at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids. The presidential museum is one of West Michigan’s most important civic spaces and one of our greatest community assets. It both connects residents and visitors to the lives of President and Mrs. Ford and serves as a gateway to the American presidency, inspiring a commitment to our shared democratic values and the type of active citizenship necessary for the health of our state and nation.
The reflecting pool and fountain are an important part of this inspiring history. Not only are they reminiscent of the reflecting pool on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and at nearly 100 yards long, commemorative of Ford’s football career as a player and a coach, but it’s also an integral connection between the museum and downtown Grand Rapids. As an extension of the design of the museum itself, it mirrors Ford’s hometown and allows people to see themselves in both Ford and the presidency, thus continuing his representation of those in our community.
When the reflecting pool and fountain stopped working in 2019, a special aspect of that museum was lost, leaving an empty concrete pool that visually distracts from the campus and downtown Grand Rapids. Many in our community think that now is the time to restore these important features; especially as we approach the 50th anniversary of President Ford’s call to serve as our nation’s 38th president.
The Gerald R. Ford Foundation is ready to engage with our community for support, but their work cannot begin until your commitment to the restoration is obtained. I ask my colleagues to join me in supporting this resolution.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
General Orders
The motion prevailed, and the President, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist, designated Senator Bellino as Chairperson.
After some time spent therein, the Committee arose; and the President pro tempore, Senator Moss, having assumed the Chair, the Committee reported back to the Senate, favorably and without amendment, the following bills:
House Bill No. 4477, entitled
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” by amending section 16g of chapter XVII (MCL 777.16g), as amended by 2020 PA 50.
A bill to amend 2008 PA 551, entitled “Uniform securities act (2002),” (MCL 451.2101 to 451.2703) by amending the title, as amended by 2014 PA 355, and by adding article 5A.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” (MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 931b.
The bills were placed on the order of Third Reading of Bills.
House Bill No. 4476, entitled
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled “The Michigan penal code,” (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 147c.
Substitute (S-3).
House Bill No. 4695, entitled
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” by amending sections 570, 662, 668b, 674, 736b, 736c, 736d, 736e, 795b, and 797a (MCL 168.570, 168.662, 168.668b, 168.674, 168.736b, 168.736c, 168.736d, 168.736e, 168.795b, and 168.797a), section 570 as amended by 2017 PA 113, section 662 as amended by 2022 PA 219, section 668b as added by 2018 PA 614, section 674 as amended by 2018 PA 120, sections 736b, 736c, 736d, and 736e as amended by 2018 PA 190, section 795b as amended by 1990 PA 109, and section 797a as amended by 1996 PA 583, and by adding sections 8, 720a, 720b, 720c, 720d, 720e, 720f, 720g, 720h, 720i, and 720j.
Substitute (S-2).
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
Motions and Communications
House Bill No. 4197
House Bill No. 4129
House Bill No. 4695
House Bill No. 4476
House Bill No. 4477
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
Senator Singh moved that the Senate recess subject to the call of the Chair.
The
motion prevailed, the time being 11:09 a.m.
The Senate was called to order by the President, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
Messages from the House
A bill to amend 1945 PA 327, entitled “Aeronautics code of the state of Michigan,” by amending section 80f (MCL 259.80f), as added by 2001 PA 225.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment, printing and presentation to the Governor.
Senate Bill No. 103
Senate Bill No. 374
Senate Bill No. 529
Senate Bill No. 613
Senate Bill No. 614
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “Natural resources and environmental protection act,” (MCL 324.101 to 324.90106) by adding sections 48714a and 48714b.
The House of Representatives has amended the bill as follows:
1. Amend page 6, line 12, after “Consideration” by striking out “of value”.
2. Amend page 6, line 14, after “Consideration” by striking out “of value”.
3. Amend page 7, line 25, after “section” by striking out “1.” and inserting “2.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill as amended, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The question being on concurring in the amendments made to the bill by the House,
The amendments were concurred in, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 706 Yeas—24
Anthony Cherry Klinefelt Santana
Bayer Daley McCann Shink
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Singh
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Huizenga Moss Webber
Chang Irwin Polehanki Wojno
Nays—13
Albert Hoitenga Lindsey Outman
Bellino Johnson McBroom Runestad
Damoose Lauwers Nesbitt Theis
Hauck
Excused—0
Not Voting—1
Bumstead
In The Chair: President
The question being on concurring in the committee recommendation to give the bill immediate effect,
The recommendation was not concurred in, 2/3 of the members serving not voting therefor.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “Natural resources and environmental protection act,” (MCL 324.101 to 324.90106) by adding sections 43528c and 43528d.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The question being on concurring in the committee recommendation to give the bill immediate effect,
The recommendation was not concurred in, 2/3 of the members serving not voting therefor.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “Natural resources and environmental protection act,” by amending section 40113a (MCL 324.40113a), as amended by 2016 PA 382.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The question being on concurring in the committee recommendation to give the bill immediate effect,
The recommendation was not concurred in, 2/3 of the members serving not voting therefor.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to provide for the review and prevention of deaths from drug overdose in this state; to allow for the creation of overdose fatality review teams; to provide for the powers and duties of the overdose fatality review teams; to regulate certain entities; to prescribe powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities; and to prescribe remedies for a violation of this act.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1973 PA 116, entitled “An act to provide for the protection of children through the licensing and regulation of child care organizations; to provide for the establishment of standards of care for child care organizations; to prescribe powers and duties of certain departments of this state and adoption facilitators; to provide penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 1, 2b, and 2c (MCL 722.111, 722.112b, and 722.112c), section 1 as amended by 2022 PA 208, section 2b as amended by 2007 PA 217, and section 2c as amended by 2017 PA 257.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for
enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1970 PA 132, entitled “An act to provide for the filing of surveys in the office of the register of deeds relative to land divisions; and to prescribe the conditions of the survey,” by amending sections 1, 2, and 3 (MCL 54.211, 54.212, and 54.213), sections 1 and 3 as amended by 2018 PA 193 and section 2 as amended by 1988 PA 24.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” by amending sections 658 and 661 (MCL 168.658 and 168.661), as amended by 2012 PA 270.
The House of Representatives has substituted (H-2) the bill.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill as substituted (H-2), ordered that it be given immediate effect and amended the title to read as follows:
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “An act to reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws; to provide for election officials and prescribe their powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees; to provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office; to provide for the resignation, removal, and recall of certain public officers; to provide for the filling of vacancies in public office; to provide for and regulate primaries and elections; to provide for the purity of elections; to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise; to define violations of this act; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and all other acts inconsistent with this act,” by amending sections 658 and 661 (MCL 168.658 and 168.661), as amended by 2023 PA 88, and by adding section 847a.
The question being on concurring in the substitute made to the bill by the House,
The substitute was concurred in, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 707 Yeas—30
Albert Cherry McBroom Polehanki
Anthony Geiss McCann Santana
Bayer Hertel McDonald Rivet Shink
Brinks Huizenga McMorrow Singh
Bumstead Irwin Moss Victory
Camilleri Johnson Nesbitt Webber
Cavanagh Klinefelt Outman Wojno
Chang Lauwers
Nays—8
Bellino Damoose Hoitenga Runestad
Daley Hauck Lindsey Theis
Excused—0
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The Senate agreed to the title as amended.
The
bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to
the Governor.
Senator Lindsey, under his constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against concurring in the House substitute to Senate Bill No. 374.
Senator Lindsey’s statement is as follows:
A lot of us—I voted “no” on it originally because the content of the bill was about changing precinct sizes. I disagreed with that, but I also wanted to point out to this chamber that when it came back to the House from us it added information having to do with the implementation of Proposal 1, specifically it now makes it so that candidates running for office who fail to file this paperwork will not be seated in the Legislature. I think this is an egregious abuse of what we’re doing up here. There is no corollary for sitting members. Sitting members can fail to file their disclosures, they can fail to comply with the new laws that this chamber is passing, without any equivalent penalty, but those people who run against us to try to unseat us will have this heavy penalty of not even being able to join the chamber if they fail to meet this new burdensome regulation. I think it’s a terrible bill that we just concurred in.
A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “Revised judicature act of 1961,” by amending section 2946 (MCL 600.2946), as amended by 1995 PA 249.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled “The social welfare act,” by amending section 117a (MCL 400.117a), as amended by 2019 PA 114.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 288, entitled “Probate code of 1939,” by amending section 18 of chapter XIIA (MCL 712A.18), as amended by 2022 PA 209.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 620, entitled “Appellate defender act,” by amending the title and sections 2, 4, 6, and 7 (MCL 780.712, 780.714, 780.716, and 780.717) and by adding sections 1a and 8a.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled “The social welfare act,” (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding section 117k.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for
enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 288, entitled “Probate code of 1939,” by amending sections 2f, 18, 28, and 29 of chapter XIIA (MCL 712A.2f, 712A.18, 712A.28, and 712A.29), section 2f as added by 2016 PA 185, section 18 as amended by 2022 PA 209, section 28 as amended by 2020 PA 362, and section 29 as amended by 2003 PA 74, and by adding section 29a to chapter XIIA; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1990 PA 250, entitled “DNA identification profiling system act,” by amending section 6 (MCL 28.176), as amended by 2018 PA 310.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 204, entitled “The children’s ombudsman act,” by amending the title and sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5a, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 (MCL 722.921, 722.922, 722.923, 722.924, 722.925, 722.925a, 722.926, 722.927, 722.928, 722.929, 722.930, 722.931, and 722.932), the title and sections 3, 5, and 11 as amended by 2004 PA 560, sections 2 and 6 as amended by 2020 PA 186, sections 4 and 10 as amended by 2014 PA 243, section 5a as amended by 2014 PA 455, sections 7 and 8 as amended by 2013 PA 38, and section 9 as amended by 2020 PA 185.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1973 PA 116, entitled “An act to provide for the protection of children through the licensing and regulation of child care organizations; to provide for the establishment of standards of care for child care organizations; to prescribe powers and duties of certain departments of this state and adoption facilitators; to provide penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 5a and 10 (MCL 722.115a and 722.120), section 5a as added by 1994 PA 205 and section 10 as amended by 2022 PA 69.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1975 PA 238, entitled “Child protection law,” by amending sections 7, 7b, and 7k (MCL 722.627, 722.627b, and 722.627k), section 7 as amended by 2022 PA 68, section 7b as amended by 2011 PA 89, and section 7k as added by 2011 PA 67.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled “Michigan vehicle code,” by amending section 803r (MCL 257.803r), as amended by 2023 PA 129 and by adding section 803s.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for
enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” by amending section 11d of chapter XVII (MCL 777.11d), as amended by 2023 PA 83.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” by amending sections 46, 47, 581, 795c, 822, 841, 842, and 846 (MCL 168.46, 168.47, 168.581, 168.795c, 168.822, 168.841, 168.842, and 168.846), section 46 as amended by 2002 PA 431, section 795c as amended by 2015 PA 268, section 822 as amended by 2018 PA 614, section 841 as amended by 2015 PA 197, and section 842 as amended by 2018 PA 382, and by adding section 814.
The House of Representatives has substituted (H-2) the bill.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill as substituted (H-2), ordered that it be given immediate effect and amended the title to read as follows:
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “An act to reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws; to provide for election officials and prescribe their powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees; to provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office; to provide for the resignation, removal, and recall of certain public officers; to provide for the filling of vacancies in public office; to provide for and regulate primaries and elections; to provide for the purity of elections; to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise; to define violations of this act; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and all other acts inconsistent with this act,” by amending sections 22a, 22b, 46, 47, 581, 795c, 822, 842, 846, and 882 (MCL 168.22a, 168.22b, 168.46, 168.47, 168.581, 168.795c, 168.822, 168.842, 168.846, and 168.882), sections 22a and 22b as added and section 882 as amended by 1995 PA 261, section 46 as amended by 2002 PA 431, section 795c as amended by 2015 PA 268, section 822 as amended by 2018 PA 614, and section 842 as amended by 2018 PA 382, and by adding section 814.
The question being on concurring in the substitute made to the bill by the House,
The substitute was concurred in, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 708 Yeas—20
Anthony Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Cherry McCann Santana
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Nays—18
Albert Hauck Lindsey Runestad
Bellino Hoitenga McBroom Theis
Bumstead Huizenga Nesbitt Victory
Daley Johnson Outman Webber
Damoose Lauwers
Excused—0
Not Voting—0
In
The Chair: President
The Senate agreed to the title as amended.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled “Michigan vehicle code,” by amending sections 217, 222, and 233a (MCL 257.217, 257.222, and 257.233a), sections 217 and 233a as amended by 2022 PA 224 and section 222 as amended by 2014 PA 290.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” by amending section 31a (MCL 168.31a), as amended by 2018 PA 603.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” by amending section 13 (MCL 168.13) and by adding section 845a.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “Revised judicature act of 1961,” by amending sections 4501 and 4545 (MCL 600.4501 and 600.4545).
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 2022 PA 85, entitled “Opioid liability litigation act,” by amending sections 2 and 3 (MCL 691.1672 and 691.1673).
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
Senator Singh moved that the bill be given immediate effect.
The motion prevailed, 2/3 of the members serving voting therefor.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” by amending section 509ii (MCL 168.509ii), as added by 2018 PA 350.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for
enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to require certain public officers to file annual financial disclosure reports; to create a financial disclosure form; to prescribe penalties and civil sanctions; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities.
The House of Representatives has substituted (H-3) the bill.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill as substituted (H-3) and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The question being on concurring in the substitute made to the bill by the House,
Senator Johnson offered the following amendment to the House substitute:
1. Amend page 7, following line 2, by inserting:
“(p) The name, mailing address, and employer identification number of a political organization organized under section 527 of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 527, or an organization described and exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(4) of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 501, in which the public officer or the public officer’s spouse is listed as an officer or director.”.
The question being on the adoption of the amendment,
The amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor.
The question being on concurring in the substitute made to the bill by the House,
The substitute was concurred in, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 709 Yeas—36
Albert Cherry Johnson Outman
Anthony Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Damoose Lauwers Santana
Bellino Geiss McBroom Shink
Brinks Hauck McCann Singh
Bumstead Hertel McDonald Rivet Theis
Camilleri Hoitenga McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Huizenga Moss Webber
Chang Irwin Nesbitt Wojno
Nays—2
Lindsey Runestad
Excused—0
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
Senator Runestad, under his constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against concurring in the House substitute to Senate Bill No. 613 and moved that the statement he made during the discussion of the substitute be printed as his reasons for voting “no.”
The motion prevailed.
Senator Runestad’s statement is as follows:
As someone who has pushed for greater transparency throughout my time in office—I think I have sponsored, co-sponsored, or voted for just about every single transparency bill in my almost-nine years. I was pleased to see that the voters of Michigan overwhelmingly called for greater financial transparency from their elected officials, but as month after month of delay drug on, finally the smoke slowly began to clear and the hastily-crafted Styrofoam tablets were run down from the mountaintop just before the end of session.
I am certain we will be treated to endless gushing, the euphoric pronouncements from the other side of the aisle that this is just a good first step and that we’re going to do good transparency work next year. Pronouncements that fall right in line with what we have heard all year long, that in several months, then in the spring, and then in the fall that we will get real transparency here in Michigan. Sure enough, that’s what the majority has produced—mostly hot air. All with the accompanying triumphant, almost-euphoric speeches of proud ecstasy over this stillborn fetus of a transparency bill.
The bill the Democratic majority finally coughed up does not near live up to the spirit of what the voters approved nor what they thought they would get. The disclosures are weak. The loopholes are Grand Canyon cavernous sized. I wanted to see changes that would have required the disclosure of non-lobbyist gifts above certain thresholds, including trips to beautiful Caribbean islands from anyone other than an immediate family member. I wanted to see this bill close the consultant Batman loophole and classify consultants as lobbyists so that officials couldn’t hide a tsunami of undue influence and mountains of cash behind those relationships and from the voters and the media. I also want to see a Wentworth/Curtis Hertel Jr. type of disclosure of officials potential financial interests and any appropriation requests to provide transparency in the process so that those often negotiated are done in—by very few in dark rooms.
Because of these critical omissions, this bill is nothing more than a hoax, a smoke and mirrors attempt to delude the voters. I must vote “no” on this mostly-toothless bill here today. I realize that the bill sponsors and the champions on the other side of the aisle will trumpet this as a triumph for transparency, knowing full well that when they were under the gun, when they had to act, after a year of dragging their feet, they produced this sham and that we had this one shot, this one opportunity that will now be gone with the passage of this bill. If the Legislature will not do the right thing, now, under the gun, is anyone deluded enough to think that they will fix what needs to be rectified when the pressure is all gone?
I am very discouraged that the quality and the caliber of this so-called disclosure would be this weak. It is as a sick, blind, deaf three-legged kitten just got tossed in among the Lansing wolves. Today is a terrible loss for all voters who wanted true transparency. I believe because of this lost opportunity, the people of Michigan will never be given the true financial transparency that they deserve.
The motion prevailed.
Senator Johnson’s statement is as follows:
I appreciate some of the changes made by our colleagues in the House in the H-3 substitute, but they still don’t go near far enough to ensure the sunshine and transparency that the people of Michigan need, want, and deserve. My amendment would require that an official or candidate covered under this act report the name, mailing address, and employer identification number of any political organization or social welfare organization organized under section 527 or section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code for which they or their spouse are listed as an officer or director. One such group supporting a current serving statewide official accepted $6.5 million in just one year. This included an individual donation of $857,000 from a single undisclosed donor, and another single undisclosed donation of $400,000. This is commonly called dark money.
The people of Michigan deserve to know about these accounts and the potential influence they place on their elected officials. My amendment is common-sense transparency. It’s a measure that will provide additional and sorely-needed sunshine on the ownership of these accounts which are often used by officials and candidates outside the view of traditional campaign finance reporting and without the most basic transparency. This is huge loophole that’s helped Michigan earn the grade of F—failing. I strongly urge my colleagues to support this amendment.
Senator Singh’s statement is as follows:
I’d like to thank the House for sending us this H-3 substitute on Senate Bill No. 613 and an H-2 on Senate Bill No. 614 because it strengthened what we had sent over to them. I want to just remind people that this was a joint effort between the Democratic caucus and the Republican caucus. I’d like to thank the Republican leader from the 20th District and the majority leader from the 29th District for coming together in this bipartisan fashion. I want to thank the staffs of both the policy of the Republican caucus staff and the Democratic caucus staff. I want to also thank the legal counsels for both the Republican caucus and the Democratic caucus for putting together a compromise that could get done in this chamber, also pass the House, and get signed by the Governor.
I want to just acknowledge that we have increased, with this substitute coming over, increased the transparency for spouses to make sure that if they have contracts and other relationships with the state, that those are also taken a look at and disclosed within the forms. I remind people that we also have a section that will allow for people who want to go beyond what we have here today can do so in a voluntary fashion, and I know many of us will utilize that. But I do know that when you have legislation like this, you sometimes have to take the art of the possible. I want to thank both caucuses for coming together.
I do want to acknowledge that the Senator from the 38th District and the Senator from the 7th District will have bills read in today that will put the Legislature, as well as the Governor, under FOIA. As I’ve said as the chair of oversight, that I am willing and looking forward to taking a look at the lobbying act and making changes, but also would be willing to take a look at non-lobbying agents and how they interact with us as well. I look forward to taking up that type of legislation that I think will strengthen the entire part of this conversation when we get into the new year. So I want to thank everyone for this bipartisan effort in both chambers and I look forward to improving this as well as other disclosure items in the near future.
A bill to require certain candidates for state elective office to file financial disclosure reports; to create a financial disclosure form; to prescribe penalties and civil sanctions; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities.
The House of Representatives has substituted (H-2) the bill.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill as substituted (H-2) and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The question being on concurring in the substitute made to the bill by the House,
The substitute was concurred in, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 710 Yeas—36
Albert Cherry Johnson Outman
Anthony Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Damoose Lauwers Santana
Bellino Geiss McBroom Shink
Brinks Hauck McCann Singh
Bumstead Hertel McDonald Rivet Theis
Camilleri Hoitenga McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Huizenga Moss Webber
Chang Irwin Nesbitt Wojno
Nays—2
Lindsey Runestad
Excused—0
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The bill was referred to the Secretary
for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” (MCL 169.201 to 169.282) by adding section 44a.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending section 44 (MCL 169.244), as amended by 2017 PA 119.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
Third Reading of Bills
Recess
Senator Singh moved that the Senate recess subject to the call of the Chair.
The motion prevailed, the time being 1:51 p.m.
The Senate was called to order by the President, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist.
Senator Singh moved that the Senate proceed to consideration of the following bill:
House Bill No. 4387
The motion prevailed.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4387, entitled
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” by amending section 16g of chapter XVII (MCL 777.16g), as amended by 2020 PA 50.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 711 Yeas—36
Albert Cherry Johnson Outman
Anthony Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Damoose Lauwers Santana
Bellino Geiss Lindsey Shink
Brinks Hauck McCann Singh
Bumstead Hertel McDonald Rivet Theis
Camilleri Hoitenga McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Huizenga Moss Webber
Chang Irwin Nesbitt Wojno
Nays—0
Excused—0
Not Voting—2
McBroom Runestad
In The Chair: President
Senator Lauwers moved that Senator McBroom be excused from the balance of today’s session.
The motion prevailed.
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to criminal procedure and to define the jurisdiction, powers, and duties of courts, judges, and other officers of the court under the provisions of this act; to provide laws relative to the rights of persons accused of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for the arrest of persons charged with or suspected of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for bail of persons arrested for or accused of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for the examination of persons accused of criminal offenses; to regulate the procedure relative to grand juries, indictments, informations, and proceedings before trial; to provide for trials of persons complained of or indicted for criminal offenses and ordinance violations and to provide for the procedure in those trials; to provide for judgments and sentences of persons convicted of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to establish a sentencing commission and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for procedure relating to new trials and appeals in criminal and ordinance violation cases; to provide a uniform system of probation throughout this state and the appointment of probation officers; to prescribe the powers, duties, and compensation of probation officers; to provide penalties for the violation of the duties of probation officers; to provide for procedure governing proceedings to prevent crime and proceedings for the discovery of crime; to provide for fees of officers, witnesses, and others in criminal and ordinance violation cases; to set forth miscellaneous provisions as to criminal procedure in certain cases; to provide penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4320, entitled
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled “The Michigan penal code,” (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 145h.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 712 Yeas—37
Albert Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Anthony Damoose Lauwers Runestad
Bayer Geiss Lindsey Santana
Bellino Hauck McCann Shink
Brinks Hertel McDonald Rivet Singh
Bumstead Hoitenga McMorrow Theis
Camilleri Huizenga Moss Victory
Cavanagh Irwin Nesbitt Webber
Chang Johnson Outman Wojno
Cherry
Nays—0
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to revise, consolidate, codify, and add to the statutes relating to crimes; to define crimes and prescribe the penalties and remedies; to provide for restitution under certain circumstances; to provide for the competency of evidence at the trial of persons accused of crime; to provide immunity from prosecution for certain witnesses appearing at criminal trials; to provide for liability for damages; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4942, entitled
A bill to authorize the state administrative board to convey state-owned property in Ingham County to the house of representatives; to prescribe conditions for the conveyance; to provide for powers and duties of state agencies and departments concerning the property and the conveyance; and to provide for disposition of revenue derived from the conveyance.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
Senator Theis offered the following amendment:
1. Amend page 6, following line 19, by inserting:
“Enacting section 1. Section 1988 of article 6 of 2023 PA 119 is repealed.”
The question being on the adoption of the amendment,
Point of Order
Senator Singh raised the Point of Order that the amendment is out of order as it is not germane to the bill, pursuant to Mason’s, § 402 as the amendment attempts to repeal a section of a different act within a new act on a different subject. Pursuant to § 402-6, “No proposal on a subject different from that under consideration may be introduced under color of an amendment.”
The President, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist, ruled that the point is well taken and the amendment is out of order pursuant to § 402-6 of Mason’s.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 713 Yeas—20
Anthony Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Cherry McCann Santana
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Nays—17
Albert Hauck Lauwers Runestad
Bellino Hoitenga Lindsey Theis
Bumstead Huizenga Nesbitt Victory
Daley Johnson Outman Webber
Damoose
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The Senate agreed to the title of the bill.
The following bill was read a third time:
Senate Bill No. 493, entitled
A bill to amend 1975 PA 46, entitled “An act to create the office of the legislative corrections ombudsman; to prescribe the powers and duties of the office, the ombudsman, the legislative council, and the department of corrections; and to provide remedies from administrative acts,” by amending the title and sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 (MCL 4.351, 4.352, 4.354, 4.355, 4.356, 4.357, 4.358, 4.359, 4.360, 4.361, 4.362, 4.363, and 4.364), sections 1, 6, 7, and 10 as amended by 1998 PA 318, sections 4, 5, 8, 9, and 13 as amended by 2018 PA 571, section 11 as amended by 1995 PA 197, and section 12 as amended by 1982 PA 170.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 714 Yeas—37
Albert Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Anthony Damoose Lauwers Runestad
Bayer Geiss Lindsey Santana
Bellino Hauck McCann Shink
Brinks Hertel McDonald Rivet Singh
Bumstead Hoitenga McMorrow Theis
Camilleri Huizenga Moss Victory
Cavanagh Irwin Nesbitt Webber
Chang Johnson Outman Wojno
Cherry
Nays—0
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The Senate agreed to the title of the bill.
The motion prevailed.
Senator Santana’s statement is as follows:
I just wanted to rise and kind of really level-set the conversation around our Corrections Department and as you all know, you all have maybe received calls to your office from loved ones concerned about their loved ones who are locked up in our corrections facilities here in the state of Michigan. I’ve been working on this budget for several years and working on corrections for several years here in the House as well as in the Senate. I think this is an opportunity through this policy for us to provide transparency as well as provide the tools necessary for the ombudsman’s office to actually be able to perform their job at a level that helps to provide transparency by offering opportunities for professionals to be able to provide analysis and also input into some of the decision making for some of the inquiries that come into the corrections facilities. This is great policy and I definitely hope to have unanimous support from this body.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4082, entitled
A bill to amend 2001 PA 142, entitled “Michigan memorial highway act,” (MCL 250.1001 to 250.2092) by adding section 23b.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 715 Yeas—37
Albert Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Anthony Damoose Lauwers Runestad
Bayer Geiss Lindsey Santana
Bellino Hauck McCann Shink
Brinks Hertel McDonald Rivet Singh
Bumstead Hoitenga McMorrow Theis
Camilleri Huizenga Moss Victory
Cavanagh Irwin Nesbitt Webber
Chang Johnson Outman Wojno
Cherry
Nays—0
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In
The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to consolidate prior acts naming certain Michigan highways; to provide for the naming of certain highways; to prescribe certain duties of the state transportation department; and to repeal acts and parts of acts and certain resolutions,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The following bill was read a third time:
Senate Bill No. 482, entitled
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “Public health code,” by amending sections 13809 and 13810 (MCL 333.13809 and 333.13810), as added by 1990 PA 21.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 716 Yeas—37
Albert Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Anthony Damoose Lauwers Runestad
Bayer Geiss Lindsey Santana
Bellino Hauck McCann Shink
Brinks Hertel McDonald Rivet Singh
Bumstead Hoitenga McMorrow Theis
Camilleri Huizenga Moss Victory
Cavanagh Irwin Nesbitt Webber
Chang Johnson Outman Wojno
Cherry
Nays—0
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The Senate agreed to the title of the bill.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4126, entitled
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled “Michigan vehicle code,” by amending section 627 (MCL 257.627), as amended by 2022 PA 52.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 717 Yeas—37
Albert Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Anthony Damoose Lauwers Runestad
Bayer Geiss Lindsey Santana
Bellino Hauck McCann Shink
Brinks Hertel McDonald Rivet Singh
Bumstead Hoitenga McMorrow Theis
Camilleri Huizenga Moss Victory
Cavanagh Irwin Nesbitt Webber
Chang Johnson Outman Wojno
Cherry
Nays—0
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Senator Singh moved that the bill be given immediate effect.
The motion prevailed, 2/3 of the members serving voting therefor.
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to provide for the registration, titling, sale, transfer, and regulation of certain vehicles operated upon the public highways of this state or any other place open to the general public or generally accessible to motor vehicles and distressed vehicles; to provide for the licensing of dealers; to provide for the examination, licensing, and control of operators and chauffeurs; to provide for the giving of proof of financial responsibility and security by owners and operators of vehicles; to provide for the imposition, levy, and collection of specific taxes on vehicles, and the levy and collection of sales and use taxes, license fees, and permit fees; to provide for the regulation and use of streets and highways; to create certain funds; to provide penalties and sanctions for a violation of this act; to provide for civil liability of manufacturers, the manufacturers of certain devices, the manufacturers of automated technology, upfitters, owners, and operators of vehicles and service of process on residents and nonresidents; to regulate the introduction and use of certain evidence; to regulate and certify the manufacturers of certain devices; to provide for approval and certification of installers and servicers of certain devices; to provide for the levy of certain assessments; to provide for the enforcement of this act; to provide for the creation of and to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies; to impose liability upon the state or local agencies; to provide appropriations for certain purposes; to repeal all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act or contrary to this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on a specific date,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4897, entitled
A bill to amend 1951 PA 51, entitled “An act to provide for the classification of all public roads, streets, and highways in this state, and for the revision of that classification and for additions to and deletions from each classification; to set up and establish the Michigan transportation fund; to provide for the deposits in the Michigan transportation fund of specific taxes on motor vehicles and motor vehicle fuels; to provide for the allocation of funds from the Michigan transportation fund and the use and administration of the fund for transportation purposes; to promote safe and efficient travel for motor vehicle drivers, bicyclists, pedestrians, and other legal users of roads, streets, and highways; to set up and establish the truck safety fund; to provide for the allocation of funds from the truck safety fund and administration of the fund for truck safety purposes; to set up and establish the Michigan truck safety commission; to establish certain standards for road contracts for certain businesses; to provide for the continuing review of transportation needs within the state; to authorize the state transportation commission, counties, cities, and villages to borrow money, issue bonds, and make pledges of funds for transportation purposes; to authorize counties to advance funds for the payment of deficiencies necessary for the payment of bonds issued under this act; to provide for the limitations, payment, retirement, and security of the bonds and pledges; to provide for appropriations and tax levies by counties and townships for county roads; to authorize contributions by townships for county roads; to provide for the establishment and administration of the state trunk line fund, local bridge fund, comprehensive transportation fund, and certain other funds; to provide for the deposits in the state trunk line fund, critical bridge fund, comprehensive transportation fund, and certain other funds of money raised by specific taxes and fees; to provide for definitions of public transportation functions and criteria; to define the purposes for which Michigan transportation funds may be allocated; to provide for Michigan transportation fund grants; to provide for review and approval of transportation programs; to provide for submission of annual legislative requests and reports; to provide for the establishment and functions of certain advisory entities; to provide for conditions for grants; to provide for the issuance of bonds and notes for transportation purposes; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials; to provide for the making of loans for transportation purposes by the state transportation department and for the receipt and repayment by local units and agencies of those loans from certain specified sources; to investigate and study the tolling of roads, streets, highways, or bridges; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending sections 12 and 13b (MCL 247.662 and 247.663b), section 12 as amended by 2020 PA 152.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 718 Yeas—37
Albert Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Anthony Damoose Lauwers Runestad
Bayer Geiss Lindsey Santana
Bellino Hauck McCann Shink
Brinks Hertel McDonald Rivet Singh
Bumstead Hoitenga McMorrow Theis
Camilleri Huizenga Moss Victory
Cavanagh Irwin Nesbitt Webber
Chang Johnson Outman Wojno
Cherry
Nays—0
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The Senate agreed to the title of the bill.
The following bill was read a third time:
Senate Bill No. 501, entitled
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled “Michigan
vehicle code,” by amending section 722 (MCL 257.722), as amended by 2018 PA
274.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 719 Yeas—23
Anthony Cavanagh Klinefelt Santana
Bayer Chang McCann Shink
Bellino Cherry McDonald Rivet Singh
Brinks Geiss McMorrow Victory
Bumstead Hertel Moss Wojno
Camilleri Irwin Polehanki
Nays—14
Albert Hoitenga Lindsey Runestad
Daley Huizenga Nesbitt Theis
Damoose Johnson Outman Webber
Hauck Lauwers
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The Senate agreed to the title of the bill.
Senator Singh moved that the Senate proceed to consideration of the following bill:
House Bill No. 4476
The motion prevailed.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4476, entitled
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled “The Michigan penal code,” (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 147c.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
Senator Johnson offered the following amendment:
1. Amend page 2, line 13, by striking out all of subdivision (f) and relettering the remaining subdivision.
The question being on the adoption of the amendment,
Senator Johnson withdrew the amendment.
Senator Johnson offered the following amendment:
1. Amend page 5, line 23, after “Damages” by striking out the balance of the subdivision and inserting “of not more than 3 times the actual damages.”.
The question being on the adoption of the amendment,
Senator Johnson withdrew the amendment.
Senator Chang offered the following substitute:
Substitute (S-4).
The question being on the adoption of the substitute,
Senator Johnson offered the following amendment to the substitute:
1. Amend page 2, line 13, by striking out all of subdivision (f) and relettering the remaining subdivision.
The question being on the adoption of the amendment to the substitute,
Senator Lauwers requested the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, 1/5 of the members present voting therefor.
The amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members not voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 720 Yeas—17
Albert Hauck Lauwers Runestad
Bellino Hoitenga Lindsey Theis
Bumstead Huizenga Nesbitt Victory
Daley Johnson Outman Webber
Damoose
Nays—20
Anthony Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Cherry McCann Santana
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Senator Johnson offered the following amendment to the substitute:
1. Amend page 5, line 23, after “Damages” by striking out the balance of the subdivision and inserting “of not more than 3 times the actual damages.”.
The question being on the adoption of the amendment to the substitute,
Senator Lauwers requested the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, 1/5 of the members present voting therefor.
The amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members not voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 721 Yeas—18
Albert Hauck Lauwers Runestad
Bellino Hoitenga Lindsey Theis
Bumstead Huizenga Nesbitt Victory
Daley Johnson Outman Webber
Damoose Klinefelt
Nays—19
Anthony Chang McCann Santana
Bayer Cherry McDonald Rivet Shink
Brinks Geiss McMorrow Singh
Camilleri Hertel Moss Wojno
Cavanagh Irwin Polehanki
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The question being on the adoption of the substitute,
The substitute was adopted, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 722 Yeas—24
Anthony Cherry Klinefelt Santana
Bayer Damoose McCann Shink
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Singh
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Huizenga Moss Webber
Chang Irwin Polehanki Wojno
Nays—13
Albert Hauck Lauwers Outman
Bellino Hoitenga Lindsey Runestad
Bumstead Johnson Nesbitt Theis
Daley
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In
The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to revise, consolidate, codify, and add to the statutes relating to crimes; to define crimes and prescribe the penalties and remedies; to provide for restitution under certain circumstances; to provide for the competency of evidence at the trial of persons accused of crime; to provide immunity from prosecution for certain witnesses appearing at criminal trials; to provide for liability for damages; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
Protest
Senator Runestad, under his constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against the passage of House Bill No. 4476 and moved that the statement he made during the discussion of the bill be printed as his reasons for voting “no.”
The motion prevailed.
Senator Runestad’s statement is as follows:
I certainly could have been a “yes” vote on this bill if the sponsors were open to reasonable changes, but there was just an intransigence to really working on some of these things that would have made sure that we aren’t doing constitutional harm with this bill. To start with, the bill has language which includes that essentially a local ordinance or substantially corresponding to this section would be in force. What local ordinance? Is it sort of like the language here? To write something so wide open ended when you’re talking about such an important bill to get the language right, to me, seems completely inappropriate. And yet, I couldn’t get that changed. There are countless local ordinances and there’s no chance I, or anyone else, could vet all the possible potential municipal ordinances and rules across the state of Michigan to see which may be applicable and could work with this language of this bill. This is the quintessential bill of unintended consequences.
Second, this language refers to a scheme or course of conduct to be aggregated for purposes of determining the total amount of destruction or injury. A scheme or a course of conduct. What is a scheme or a course of conduct when you’re talking about the destruction or injury? In aggregating these schemes of course of conduct, and may be in conjunction with a local ordinance which we don’t even know what it is. Further, I would challenge anyone to define for me this important scheme or course of conduct pertaining to the provisions of these bills. It should never be included.
Third, with all the attempts by the Democrats recently to desperately try to reduce penalties wherever possible, even for the most violent and habitual offenders, this language though says that a penalty under this bill cannot be reduced more than 20 percent. Why would we deny the court the ability to reduce a penalty to a lower level if the circumstances are deemed appropriate by the court? It seems to me that the court’s ability to reduce penalties could be very important in certain cases. Taking this discretion arbitrarily out did not make sense.
Lastly, the endless numbers of hoaxes we have heard over the years, from Jussie Smollett to Bubba Wallace to Tawana Brawley, that have absorbed massive law enforcement resources. This bill should also include—and I tried to get it in there—that if an individual uses this statute unconstitutionally, they will be subject to the same penalties prescribed in the act. This would provide the needed protection to make sure this statute is not used frivolously or that non-true threats are prosecuted. Because the sponsors, again, rejected all of these good changes, I will be voting “no” on this bill.
Senators Johnson and Chang asked and were granted unanimous consent to make statements and moved that the statements be printed in the Journal.
The motion prevailed.
Senator Johnson’s first statement is as follows:
This amendment would remove a reference to
the digital or online assets of an institution in this bill. My concern is that
there’s no clear definition of what this would encompass. In fact, it’s because
of that concern that language was removed earlier today from a bill. For
example, would it include a comment made on a website or social media run by an
institution? The intent of the bill is to increase the penalties for
institutional desecration, which I understand to mean the physical damage or
destruction of an institution, or a true threat of physical damage or
destruction to an institution. I support the intent of the bill but feel that
the language referencing the digital or online assets of an institution is too
broad and too vague and therefore I offer this amendment. I ask for my
colleagues to support its adoption.
Senator Johnson’s second statement is as follows:
This amendment would change the prescribed penalty in civil court for a violation of this proposed law. Currently, the bill states if someone is found responsible for institutional desecration in civil court, that a judge must award damages equal to three times the actual damages or $25,000, whichever is greater. This means that an act resulting in $100 in damage could result in a $25,000 fine. I agree with the intent of this section and I would even support damages beyond the actual cost based on other factors outlined in the bill. However, prescribing a mandatory $25,000 fine regardless of the value of the actual damage doesn’t seem consistent with the ideals of due process and fairness.
My amendment would instead state that a fine of up to three times the actual damages could be imposed, giving discretion to a judge or jury hearing the specific facts and circumstances of a particular case to establish an appropriate fine which may be up to three times greater than the actual damages. I appreciate the opportunity to offer this amendment and would request my colleagues to support it.
Senator Chang’s statement is as follows:
I just wanted to remind everyone in the chamber about what these bills do and why they’re so important, especially right now in this moment. In committee we heard some pretty painful but important testimony from leaders in both the Muslim and Jewish communities about real incidents that have happened right here in Michigan where hate has been directly impacting our faith communities right here in our state. When we’re talking about the bills that are before us today, I just really want to make sure everyone is aware that what we are doing today is actually a tremendous step forward to help protect people of all different faith backgrounds to ensure their institutions are protected from harm. This is an important step for us and I will be happily voting “yes” and I encourage my colleagues to do so as well.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4477, entitled
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” by amending section 16g of chapter XVII (MCL 777.16g), as amended by 2020 PA 50.
The question being on the of the bill,
Senator Chang offered the following substitute:
Substitute (S-1).
The substitute was adopted, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 723 Yeas—24
Anthony Cherry Klinefelt Santana
Bayer Damoose McCann Shink
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Singh
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Huizenga Moss Webber
Chang Irwin Polehanki Wojno
Nays—13
Albert Hauck Lauwers Outman
Bellino Hoitenga Lindsey Runestad
Bumstead Johnson Nesbitt Theis
Daley
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In
The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to criminal procedure and to define the jurisdiction, powers, and duties of courts, judges, and other officers of the court under the provisions of this act; to provide laws relative to the rights of persons accused of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for the arrest of persons charged with or suspected of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for bail of persons arrested for or accused of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for the examination of persons accused of criminal offenses; to regulate the procedure relative to grand juries, indictments, informations, and proceedings before trial; to provide for trials of persons complained of or indicted for criminal offenses and ordinance violations and to provide for the procedure in those trials; to provide for judgments and sentences of persons convicted of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to establish a sentencing commission and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for procedure relating to new trials and appeals in criminal and ordinance violation cases; to provide a uniform system of probation throughout this state and the appointment of probation officers; to prescribe the powers, duties, and compensation of probation officers; to provide penalties for the violation of the duties of probation officers; to provide for procedure governing proceedings to prevent crime and proceedings for the discovery of crime; to provide for fees of officers, witnesses, and others in criminal and ordinance violation cases; to set forth miscellaneous provisions as to criminal procedure in certain cases; to provide penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
Protests
The motion prevailed.
Senator Singh moved that the Senate proceed to consideration of the following bill:
House Bill No. 4197
The motion prevailed.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4197, entitled
A bill to amend 2008 PA 551, entitled “Uniform securities act (2002),” (MCL 451.2101 to 451.2703) by amending the title, as amended by 2014 PA 355, and by adding article 5A.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 724 Yeas—37
Albert Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Anthony Damoose Lauwers Runestad
Bayer Geiss Lindsey Santana
Bellino Hauck McCann Shink
Brinks Hertel McDonald Rivet Singh
Bumstead Hoitenga McMorrow Theis
Camilleri Huizenga Moss Victory
Cavanagh Irwin Nesbitt Webber
Chang Johnson Outman Wojno
Cherry
Nays—0
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to enact the uniform securities act (2002) relating to the issuance, offer, sale, or purchase of securities; to prohibit fraudulent practices in relation to securities; to establish civil and criminal sanctions for violations of the act and civil sanctions for violation of the rules promulgated pursuant to the act; to require the registration of broker-dealers, agents, investment advisers, and securities; to regulate Michigan investment markets; to make uniform the law with reference to securities; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4129, entitled
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” (MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 931b.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
Senator Johnson offered the following amendment:
1. Amend page 2, following line 15, by inserting:
“(5) This section does not apply to any permitted activity by a challenger as provided under section 733.” and renumbering the remaining subsection.
The question being on the adoption of the amendment,
Senator Lauwers requested the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, 1/5 of the members present voting therefor.
The amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 725 Yeas—17
Albert Hauck Lauwers Runestad
Bellino Hoitenga Lindsey Theis
Bumstead Huizenga Nesbitt Victory
Daley Johnson Outman Webber
Damoose
Nays—20
Anthony Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Cherry McCann Santana
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 726 Yeas—21
Anthony Cherry Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Geiss McCann Santana
Brinks Hertel McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Huizenga McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Chang
Nays—16
Albert Damoose Lauwers Runestad
Bellino Hauck Lindsey Theis
Bumstead Hoitenga Nesbitt Victory
Daley Johnson Outman Webber
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws; to provide for election officials and prescribe their powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees; to provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office; to provide for the resignation, removal, and recall of certain public officers; to provide for the filling of vacancies in public office; to provide for and regulate primaries and elections; to provide for the purity of elections; to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise; to define violations of this act; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and all other acts inconsistent with this act,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The
motion prevailed.
Senator Johnson’s statement is as follows:
I rise to support my amendment. While I support the intent of this bill, we have existing laws which already make it illegal to threaten election workers, who are the backbone of our elections. Extra precautions may be appropriate but I feel there are flaws in this bill that my amendment seeks to address. The bill states that constitutionally-protected activities including news gathering, protesting, or lobbying are not subject to this act. However, the bill does not include the protected activities of poll challengers, another important cog in the wheel of our elections. Poll challengers are recognized in our laws and provide an important check-and-balance on our elections. These are citizen-volunteers who have been trained and are credentialed to observe and help to ensure the integrity of our elections. This bill provides that protestors cannot be held liable under this act for intimidating an election worker, but a trained and credentialed poll challenger—recognized under Michigan law—does not have the same protections. This is simply not right. My amendment would extend the same protections to the statutorily-protected activities of a poll challenger. This is a very important amendment and I ask for my colleagues’ support.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4695, entitled
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” by amending sections 674 and 720j (MCL 168.674 and 168.720j), section 674 as amended and section 720j as added by 2023 PA 81.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 727 Yeas—21
Anthony Cherry Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Geiss McCann Santana
Brinks Hertel McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Huizenga McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Chang
Nays—16
Albert Damoose Lauwers Runestad
Bellino Hauck Lindsey Theis
Bumstead Hoitenga Nesbitt Victory
Daley Johnson Outman Webber
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws; to provide for election officials and prescribe their powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees; to provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office; to provide for the resignation, removal, and recall of certain public officers; to provide for the filling of vacancies in public office; to provide for and regulate primaries and elections; to provide for the purity of elections; to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise; to define violations of this act; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and all other acts inconsistent with this act,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
Senator Singh moved that the Senate proceed to consideration of the following bill:
House Bill No. 4346
The motion prevailed.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4346, entitled
A bill to amend 1976 PA 267, entitled “Open meetings act,” by amending section 3a (MCL 15.263a), as amended by 2021 PA 54.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 728 Yeas—27
Anthony Daley Lauwers Santana
Bayer Damoose McCann Shink
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Singh
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Huizenga Nesbitt Webber
Chang Irwin Outman Wojno
Cherry Klinefelt Polehanki
Nays—10
Albert Hauck Lindsey Runestad
Bellino Hoitenga Moss Theis
Bumstead Johnson
Excused—1
McBroom
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to require certain meetings of certain public bodies to be open to the public; to require notice and the keeping of minutes of meetings; to provide for enforcement; to provide for invalidation of governmental decisions under certain circumstances; to provide penalties; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,”
The
Senate agreed to the full title.
By unanimous consent the Senate proceeded to the order of
Introduction and Referral of Bills
Senators McCann, Bayer, Geiss and Cavanagh introduced
Senate Joint Resolution I, entitled
A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state constitution of 1963, by amending section 1 of article II, to provide that at a primary election a citizen who will be 18 years of age on or before the date of the next November election and who is otherwise qualified to vote may vote at that primary election.
The joint resolution was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.
Senators Shink, Cherry and Chang introduced
A bill to amend 1993 PA 327, entitled “Tobacco products tax act,” by amending section 14 (MCL 205.434).
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs.
Senators Chang, Shink and Cherry introduced
A bill to amend 1993 PA 327, entitled “Tobacco products tax act,” by amending the title and sections 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 12 (MCL 205.422, 205.423, 205.426, 205.427, 205.428, 205.431, and 205.432), the title as amended by 2012 PA 188 and sections 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, and 12 as amended by 2022 PA 171.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs.
Senators Cherry, Singh and Shink introduced
A bill to amend 1915 PA 31, entitled “Youth tobacco act,” by amending the title and sections 4 and 5 (MCL 722.644 and 722.645), the title as amended by 2019 PA 18, section 4 as amended by 2022 PA 167, and section 5 as added by 1988 PA 314, and by adding sections 1a and 2d.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs.
Senators Cherry, Singh and Shink introduced
A bill to amend 1971 PA 79, entitled “Age of majority act of 1971,” by amending sections 2 and 3 (MCL 722.52 and 722.53), section 2 as amended by 1990 PA 104 and section 3 as amended by 2022 PA 170.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs.
Senators Singh, Klinefelt, Cherry, Chang and Shink introduced
A bill to amend 1915 PA 31, entitled “Youth tobacco act,” by amending the title and sections 1, 4, and 5 (MCL 722.641, 722.644, and 722.645), the title as amended by 2019 PA 18, sections 1 and 4 as amended by 2022 PA 167, and section 5 as added by 1988 PA 314, and by adding sections 1a, 1c, 1e, 1g, 1i, 1k, 1m, 1o, and 2f.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs.
Senators Singh, Klinefelt, Cherry, Chang and Shink introduced
A bill to amend 1971 PA 79, entitled “Age of majority act of 1971,” by amending sections 2 and 3 (MCL 722.52 and 722.53), section 2 as amended by 1990 PA 104 and section 3 as amended by 2022 PA 170.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs.
Senators Cavanagh, Singh, Cherry, Chang and Shink introduced
A bill to amend 1971 PA 79, entitled “Age of majority act of 1971,” by amending sections 2 and 3 (MCL 722.52 and 722.53), section 2 as amended by 1990 PA 104 and section 3 as amended by 2022 PA 170.
The
bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on
Regulatory Affairs.
Senators Wojno, Cavanagh, Cherry, Singh, Chang and Shink introduced
A bill to amend 1915 PA 31, entitled “Youth tobacco act,” by amending the title and sections 1, 2, and 5 (MCL 722.641, 722.642, and 722.645), the title and section 2 as amended by 2019 PA 18, section 1 as amended by 2022 PA 167, and section 5 as added by 1988 PA 314.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs.
Senators McCann, Irwin, McBroom and Chang introduced
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending sections 52, 52a, and 69 (MCL 169.252, 169.252a, and 169.269), section 52 as amended by 2015 PA 269 and sections 52a and 69 as amended by 2013 PA 252; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.
Senators Johnson, Runestad and Bellino introduced
A bill to amend 1998 PA 386, entitled “Estates and protected individuals code,” by amending section 5423 (MCL 700.5423), as amended by 2012 PA 173.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
Senator Polehanki introduced
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled “The Michigan penal code,” by amending section 50 (MCL 750.50), as amended by 2019 PA 135.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
Senator Wojno introduced
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled “The Michigan penal code,” by amending section 50b (MCL 750.50b), as amended by 2018 PA 452.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
Senators Bayer, Cherry, Chang, Geiss, Shink, Santana and Anthony introduced
A bill to establish the privacy rights of consumers; to require certain persons to provide certain notices to consumers regarding the collection, processing, sale, sharing, and retention of personal data; to prohibit certain acts and practices concerning the collection, processing, sale, sharing, and retention of personal data; to establish standards and practices regarding the collection, processing, sale, sharing, and retention of personal data; to require the registration of data brokers; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to create certain funds; and to provide remedies.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection.
Senators Bayer, Chang, Shink, McMorrow, Geiss, Klinefelt, Irwin, Cherry and Hertel introduced
A bill to regulate the creation of stormwater management utilities by local units of government; to provide for the creation of stormwater management plans; to provide for the adoption of stormwater management utility fee ordinances; to provide for the establishment and collection of stormwater management utility fees; to provide for the reduction or elimination of stormwater management utility fees; to provide for appeals; and to prescribe the powers and duties of certain local governmental officers and entities.
The
bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on
Local Government.
Senators Bayer, Chang, Irwin, Geiss, Shink and Hertel introduced
A bill to amend 1978 PA 454, entitled “Truth in renting act,” by amending sections 2 and 3 (MCL 554.632 and 554.633), section 3 as amended by 1998 PA 72.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Housing and Human Services.
Senators Bayer, Chang, Shink and Geiss introduced
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “Natural resources and environmental protection act,” by amending sections 30701, 30716, and 30717 (MCL 324.30701, 324.30716, and 324.30717), section 30701 as added by 1995 PA 59, section 30716 as amended by 2002 PA 216, and section 30717 as amended by 2002 PA 217.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
Senators Shink and Bayer introduced
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “Natural resources and environmental protection act,” by amending section 3103 (MCL 324.3103), as amended by 2005 PA 33.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Energy and Environment.
Senators Bumstead, Cherry, Lauwers, Hoitenga, Damoose, Chang, Outman, Daley, McBroom, Hauck, Huizenga, Bellino, Theis and Lindsey introduced
A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “The revised school code,” (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1163a.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture.
Senator Hoitenga introduced
A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “Revised judicature act of 1961,” by amending sections 8501 and 8507 (MCL 600.8501 and 600.8507), section 8501 as amended by 2016 PA 165 and section 8507 as amended by 2005 PA 326.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
Senators McCann, Irwin, Geiss and Bayer introduced
A bill to amend 1972 PA 284, entitled “Business corporation act,” by amending section 911 (MCL 450.1911), as amended by 2012 PA 569, and by adding section 961.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection.
Senators McCann, Irwin, Geiss and Bayer introduced
A bill to amend 1972 PA 284, entitled “Business corporation act,” by amending sections 105, 106, 131, 202, 211, 745, 746, and 762 (MCL 450.1105, 450.1106, 450.1131, 450.1202, 450.1211, 450.1745, 450.1746, and 450.1762), sections 105, 106, and 211 as amended by 2012 PA 569, sections 131, 202, 746, and 762 as amended by 2018 PA 85, and section 745 as added by 2008 PA 402, and by adding chapter 9A.
The
bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on
Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection.
Senator Hertel introduced
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “Public health code,” by amending sections 17801, 17820, and 17824 (MCL 333.17801, 333.17820, and 333.17824), section 17801 as amended by 2009 PA 55, section 17820 as amended by 2016 PA 499, and section 17824 as amended by 2014 PA 260; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
Senators Moss and McBroom introduced
A bill to amend 1976 PA 442, entitled “Freedom of information act,” by amending sections 2 and 3 (MCL 15.232 and 15.233), section 2 as amended by 2018 PA 68 and section 3 as amended by 2018 PA 523.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Oversight.
Senators McBroom and Moss introduced
A bill to amend 1976 PA 442, entitled “Freedom of information act,” by amending sections 6, 10, and 13 (MCL 15.236, 15.240, and 15.243), section 6 as amended by 1996 PA 553, section 10 as amended by 2014 PA 563, and section 13 as amended by 2023 PA 64, and by adding section 14a.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Oversight.
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled “The Michigan penal code,” by amending section 234d (MCL 750.234d), as amended by 1994 PA 158.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled “The Michigan penal code,” by amending section 234d (MCL 750.234d), as amended by 1994 PA 158.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.
A bill to amend 1988 PA 57, entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation by 2 or more municipalities of certain authorities for the purpose of providing emergency services to municipalities; to provide for the powers and duties of authorities and of certain state and local agencies and officers; to provide for certain condemnation proceedings; to provide for fees; to provide for the levy of property taxes for certain purposes; to authorize the issuance of bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” by amending section 2 (MCL 124.602).
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to amend 1933 PA 167, entitled “General sales tax act,” by amending section 25 (MCL 205.75), as amended by 2023 PA 20.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection.
A bill to amend 2000 PA 489, entitled “Michigan
trust fund act,” by amending the title and section 2 (MCL 12.252), the
title as amended by 2005 PA 232 and section 2 as amended by 2023 PA 174, and by
adding sections 11a and 11b.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “Natural resources and environmental protection act,” by amending section 20120a (MCL 324.20120a), as amended by 2018 PA 581.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection.
A bill to amend 1986 PA 182, entitled “State police retirement act of 1986,” by amending section 66 (MCL 38.1666), as added by 2018 PA 674.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture.
A bill to amend 1969 PA 306, entitled “Administrative procedures act of 1969,” by amending sections 33, 39a, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, and 48 (MCL 24.233, 24.239a, 24.241, 24.242, 24.243, 24.244, 24.247, and 24.248), as amended by 2018 PA 267; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Agriculture.
A bill to amend 1941 PA 359, entitled “An act for controlling and eradicating certain noxious weeds within the state; to permit townships, villages, and cities to have a lien for expenses incurred in controlling and eradicating such weeds; to permit officials of counties and municipalities to appoint commissioners of noxious weeds; to define the powers, duties, and compensation of commissioners; to provide for sanctions; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 2 (MCL 247.62), as amended by 2010 PA 358.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to amend 1937 PA 94, entitled “Use tax act,” by amending section 4cc (MCL 205.94cc), as added by 2015 PA 252.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection.
A bill to amend 1933 PA 167, entitled “General sales tax act,” by amending section 4ee (MCL 205.54ee), as added by 2015 PA 251.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection.
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The
code of criminal procedure,” by amending section 16d of chapter XVII (MCL
777.16d), as amended by 2023 PA 59.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled “The Michigan penal code,” (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 81g.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled “Michigan vehicle code,” (MCL 257.1 to 257.923) by adding section 811hh.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled “Michigan vehicle code,” (MCL 257.1 to 257.923) by adding section 811gg.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled “Michigan vehicle code,” by amending sections 303 and 304 (MCL 257.303 and 257.304), section 303 as amended by 2020 PA 376 and section 304 as amended by 2023 PA 125.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
A bill to establish and allow for the use of assisted reproduction, including surrogacy; to provide for a child conceived, gestated, and born through the use of assisted reproduction, including through surrogacy; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state officers and entities; to provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “Public health code,” by amending sections 2822, 2824, 2831, 2832, and 2891 (MCL 333.2822, 333.2824, 333.2831, 333.2832, and 333.2891), section 2822 as amended by 2017 PA 142, sections 2824, 2831, and 2832 as amended by 1996 PA 307, and section 2891 as amended by 2020 PA 209.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The
code of criminal procedure,” by amending section 15g of chapter XVII (MCL
777.15g), as amended by 2017 PA 259.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
A bill to amend 1998 PA 386, entitled “Estates and protected individuals code,” by amending section 2114 (MCL 700.2114), as amended by 2012 PA 160.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
A bill to amend 1956 PA 205, entitled “The paternity act,” by amending sections 1, 4, 4b, and 7 (MCL 722.711, 722.714, 722.714b, and 722.717), section 1 as amended by 2000 PA 31, section 4 as amended by 2014 PA 367, section 4b as added by 1994 PA 388, and section 7 as amended by 2014 PA 364, and by adding section 4c.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
A bill to amend 2012 PA 159, entitled “Revocation of paternity act,” by amending the title and sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15 (MCL 722.1431, 722.1433, 722.1435, 722.1437, 722.1439, 722.1441, 722.1443, and 722.1445), sections 3 and 5 as amended by 2014 PA 376, section 7 as amended by 2014 PA 368, and sections 13 and 15 as amended by 2016 PA 178.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
A bill to amend 2014 PA 366, entitled “Summary support and paternity act,” by amending section 3 (MCL 722.1493).
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
A bill to amend 1996 PA 305, entitled “Acknowledgment of parentage act,” by amending sections 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 (MCL 722.1002, 722.1003, 722.1004, 722.1006, and 722.1007), section 3 as amended by 2014 PA 409, section 6 as amended by 2006 PA 105, and section 7 as amended by 2012 PA 161.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
A bill to amend 2014 PA 365, entitled “Genetic parentage act,” by amending the title and section 5 (MCL 722.1465).
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety.
Recess
Senator Singh moved that the Senate recess subject to the call of the Chair.
The
motion prevailed, the time being 4:07 p.m.
The Senate was called to order by the President, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist.
Senators Anthony and Camilleri introduced
A bill to amend 1974 PA 263, entitled “An act to permit counties to impose and collect an excise tax on persons engaged in the business of providing rooms for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes to transient guests; to provide for the disposition of the revenues thereof; and to prescribe penalties,” by amending the title and sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 (MCL 141.861, 141.862, 141.863, 141.864, 141.866, and 141.867), section 2 as amended by 2004 PA 118, section 4 as amended by 2014 PA 284, and section 7 as amended by 1989 PA 13, and by adding section 2a.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
Senators Camilleri and Anthony introduced
A bill to amend 1974 PA 263, entitled “An act to permit counties to impose and collect an excise tax on persons engaged in the business of providing rooms for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes to transient guests; to provide for the disposition of the revenues thereof; and to prescribe penalties,” by amending section 5 (MCL 141.865) and by adding section 2b.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
Senator Huizenga introduced
A bill to amend 1980 PA 299, entitled “Occupational code,” by amending section 1205a (MCL 339.1205a), as added by 2020 PA 20.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs.
Senator Huizenga introduced
A bill to amend 1969 PA 242, entitled “An act to provide for the registration of trademarks and service marks; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state officers and agencies; to prescribe remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending the title and sections 1 and 10 (MCL 429.31 and 429.40), as amended by 1984 PA 203.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs.
Senator Huizenga introduced
A bill to amend 1966 PA 313, entitled “An act to award tuition grants to resident students enrolled in independent nonprofit institutions of higher learning; and to make an appropriation therefor,” by amending sections 2 and 3 (MCL 390.992 and 390.993), section 3 as amended by 2021 PA 41.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Senator Huizenga introduced
A bill to amend 2005 PA 248, entitled “Children of veterans tuition grant act,” by amending sections 2 and 4 (MCL 390.1342 and 390.1344).
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
Senator Huizenga introduced
A bill to amend 1964 PA 208, entitled “An act to grant scholarships to students enrolled in postsecondary education institutions; and to provide for the administration of the scholarship program,” by amending sections 2 and 4 (MCL 390.972 and 390.974), section 4 as amended by 2021 PA 40.
The
bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on
Appropriations.
Senators Singh, Cavanagh, Hertel, Klinefelt, Moss, Geiss, Chang, Polehanki, McCann, Irwin, Bayer and Wojno introduced
A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “The insurance code of 1956,” by amending sections 3905 and 4037 (MCL 500.3905 and 500.4037), section 3905 as added by 1992 PA 84 and section 4037 as amended by 1994 PA 226, and by adding section 3406rr.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
Senators Hertel, Cavanagh, Klinefelt, Singh, Moss, Geiss, Chang, Polehanki, McCann, Irwin, Bayer and Wojno introduced
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” by amending sections 13n and 16p of chapter XVII (MCL 777.13n and 777.16p), section 13n as amended by 2023 PA 63 and section 16p as amended by 2008 PA 467.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
Senators Klinefelt, Cavanagh, Hertel, Singh, Moss, Geiss, Chang, Polehanki, McCann, Irwin, Bayer and Wojno introduced
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “Public health code,” by amending sections 17752 and 20175 (MCL 333.17752 and 333.20175), section 17752 as amended by 2020 PA 4 and section 20175 as amended by 2023 PA 62, and by adding section 16221c.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
Senators Cavanagh, Hertel, Klinefelt, Singh, Moss, Geiss, Chang, Polehanki, McCann, Irwin, Bayer and Wojno introduced
A bill to regulate physician assistance for patient-requested life-ending medication; to require safeguards for determining that a patient is qualified to receive life-ending medication; to require documentation and reporting; to specify certain legal consequences regarding insurance; to provide for civil and criminal immunity and freedom from professional sanctions for persons acting in conformity with this act; to provide for penalties and sanctions for violations of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
Resolutions
House Concurrent Resolution No. 10.
A concurrent resolution providing for the final adjournment of the Legislature.
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That when the House of Representatives adjourns on Thursday, November 9, 2023, it stands adjourned until Tuesday, November 14, 2023, at 11:30 a.m.; and be it further
Resolved, That when the Senate adjourns on Thursday, November 9, 2023, it stands adjourned until Tuesday, November 14, 2023, at 11:45 a.m.; and be it further
Resolved, That when the Legislature adjourns on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, it stands adjourned without day.
The House of Representatives has adopted the concurrent resolution.
Senator Singh moved that the rule be suspended.
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
The question being on the adoption of the concurrent resolution,
Senator Lauwers requested the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, 1/5 of the members present voting therefor.
Senator Lauwers moved that Senator Runestad be excused from the balance of today’s session.
The motion prevailed.
The concurrent resolution was adopted, a majority of the members voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 729 Yeas—20
Anthony Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Cherry McCann Santana
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Nays—16
Albert Damoose Johnson Outman
Bellino Hauck Lauwers Theis
Bumstead Hoitenga Lindsey Victory
Daley Huizenga Nesbitt Webber
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Protests
Senators Huizenga, Bellino, Daley, Nesbitt, Lindsey and Theis, under their constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against the adoption of House Concurrent Resolution No. 10.
Senators Huizenga, Bellino, Daley and Nesbitt moved that the statements they made during the discussion of the concurrent resolution be printed as their reasons for voting “no.”
The motion prevailed.
Senator Huizenga’s statement is as follows:
I urge you to reject this resolution to adjourn sine die early this year. I came to Lansing to help solve problems facing the people of West Michigan and our entire state, and I don’t believe this work is done. While I understand that we’re not going to solve all the problems we face in the next six weeks, we should at the very least be meeting as an elected body trying to achieve positive solutions. Michigan families and small business owners are struggling to make ends meet as costs for everything continue to increase. They deserve and need us to continue to work on solutions to help them improve their lives.
During my time in the private sector, the people I worked for expected me to show up and do my job. As Senators, we work for the people, and they have the same expectations for us. Teachers in my district are still showing up to teach. Factory line workers are still showing up to help build our economy. Police officers are still standing up to protect our communities. It only seems fair that we do our part as well.
The people in our districts entrusted us
to do a job—representing them in this chamber. Let’s honor that trust and
uphold the commitment we made to them when we ran for office by rejecting this
resolution and continuing the legislative work on their behalf. I urge a “no”
vote.
Senator Bellino’s statement is as follows:
Mr. President, most people outside the Capitol bubble don’t know the term sine die. In fact, I was explaining it to my 35-year-old daughter last week and she said, Oh, it sounds more like a paid vacation, dad. I said, Yes, it is.
Many people in my district when they get a holiday, they’ll get two days off, maybe three days if the holiday is a Friday, or maybe the holiday’s a Monday. My friends across the aisle are about to give me two months off—62 days to be exact—and the people of my district are going to pay for it. I’ve got news for my colleagues across the aisle. You’ve still got work to do. You’ve paid off union bosses, you’ve paid off corporate CEOs, you gave a lot of money to a company connected to the Chinese Communist Party, but Michigan workers and their families have nothing but higher taxes and higher energy rates to show for the last few months of work. Now is not the time for paid vacation. I urge a “no” vote.
Senator Daley’s statement is as follows:
As the only Republican member of the Legislature who has served in the minority before this term, I am in a unique position to comment on the bills passed out of this House and this chamber. From the repeal of right-to-work and Michigan’s very own Green New Deal, Democrats have pushed through laws that will hurt our state and our people. Their policies have made Michigan an enemy of business and industry.
Like many other Michiganders, I have family living in other states. What incentive is there for my loved ones to move back to Michigan? They look at our higher taxes, our higher energy costs, and decide that they will stay where they are. The Governor says she wants to attract people to the state of Michigan, but the Democrats’ policies are only pushing people away. It is the same behavior that I saw the last time I was in the minority, with disastrous effects for our state. We had a Lost Decade then and we’re heading for another Lost Decade now.
And to make matters even worse, Democrats will be ending session for the year earlier this year than ever before—since 1967, as a matter of fact. This sine die shows a shocking lack of awareness by the majority. While our constituents are continuing to work each and every day, the Democrats have decided to wait until next year before they show up again. All of this is done so the Governor can get the presidential primary scheduled for February, supporting her political aspirations. In the five years since she was first elected to this chamber, I have never once seen our Governor on the floor of the Senate working with the Legislature. There has been no bipartisanship, no compromise, and no signs of changing that.
I hope that when we return in the New Year, the Senate can put these mistakes behind us and move forward with bills that will help Michigan to help our people. Thank you, and I ask for a “no” vote from my colleagues.
Senator Nesbitt’s statement, in which Senators Lindsey and Theis concurred, is as follows:
Mr. President, if I could describe this past year in a couple words, it would be, Missed opportunity, and with this Democratic majority pushing to start their Christmas break early, it seems my description will remain accurate. The hard-working people of the state of Michigan elected this 102nd Legislature with the expectation that we would work together. In fact, many of us ran for office on the exact same points regardless of party affiliation. I came into this hopeful as it seemed like we could work together, but that just has not been the case.
At every chance, every fork in the road, every time you were confronted with the opportunity to work in the common-sense, middle-70 percent, you made the conscious decision to sprint to the left. Whether it was the billion-dollar handouts to multinational corporations, rigging the system for union bosses, shoving through your Green New Deal that will raise electric rates, or fighting to increase taxes on hard-working Michiganders and small business owners, you have shown the people of Michigan where your loyalties lie. But the most prominent example of your one-sided partisan agenda that has led to your push to leave town early came at the beginning of the year when a certain presidentially-ambitious Governor ordered you to change Michigan’s presidential primary date. Yes, she got her orders from the DNC and the Biden White House and made that the very first thing the majority would take up. Never mind the fact that it disenfranchises almost half of the voters in the state of Michigan, or the fact that it’s not even necessary because Joe Biden’s running for re-election—and you complied, just as you’re complying now, leaving early to give the Governor her presidential primary, just in case. Mr. President, we should just call the resolution what it is: the Whitmer presidential exploratory committee contingency plan.
If anyone wants any more proof that
Democratic leadership never had any intention of working in a bipartisan
manner, all you need to do is look across the Capitol. Yes, Mr. President, less
than 48 hours after an election brought the Michigan House to a bipartisan tie,
Lansing Democrats are shutting down the Capitol for the rest of the year rather
than having to work with Republicans. I guess the silver lining will be that
you can’t impose any more harmful policies on the struggling families and small
businesses here in Michigan. A small needed respite indeed.
So, Mr. President, since we won’t be here doing what taxpayers pay us to do, I’d like to wish my colleagues and the people of our state a happy Veterans Day, happy hunting, happy Thanksgiving, happy Hanukkah, merry Christmas, and happy New Year. Let’s hope for a better 2024.
The motion prevailed.
Senator Brinks’ statement is as follows:
I want to take this opportunity to take a step back for a moment and celebrate all that we have accomplished so far this year. We have set a new standard in both quality and volume of legislation that we can get done here, and I want to highlight some of our successes. We passed the working families tax credit; this bill passed in our first few months here will help Michiganders who are working hard but earning the least to make ends meet. We passed gun violence prevention measures, extreme risk protection orders, safe storage requirements, and universal background check policies that will save lives. We protected reproductive rights; voters from all parts of our political spectrum came out in support of women’s autonomy to make their own reproductive decisions and by repealing the 1931 ban and passing the Reproductive Health Act, we are bringing our laws inline with the will of the voters.
We stood up for LGBTQ rights by updating the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act; we are telling Michigan’s LGBTQ community that they are welcome, wanted, and protected here. And, tax relief for Michigan seniors. We lifted our state’s retirement tax that punished seniors who have worked their whole lives only to have an extra tax levied against them when they retired. We can and should support our retirees, including, by the way, retired police officers and firefighters and we should do so as soon as possible. And that’s just a drop in the bucket of all the things that we’ve accomplished.
Mr. President, I’m going to face head-on the intentional delays the other side has tried to create in this body. By not participating in providing these key measures immediate effect, the Republican minority attempted to hold back legislation that can change and save lives—just because. Let’s do a quick by-the-numbers. With our 81 days of voting, we are right on par with the previous majorities. In fact, the average number of voting days since 2001 is 83. Your criticism of the 81 incredibly productive days is at least as much a condemnation of your previous Republican leadership over decades as it is of us, and it smacks only of political game-playing, not serious or productive leadership for our state.
You can go ahead and try and call me lazy, but I am willing to forego two days in this building if it means we can protect kids from gun violence sooner, repeal the retirement tax sooner, enshrine reproductive rights sooner, establish civil rights for LGBTQ folks sooner, and get critical aid into the hands of working folks sooner. That is our job, and shame on anyone, especially those who forced this timeline who would weaponize a couple of session days at the expense of the health and safety of Michiganders and the forward momentum of our state.
I am extremely proud of the work we have accomplished this year together, and I thank everyone—yes, everyone—for your tireless work to get it done. It’s what we were sent here to do, and our constituents deserve no less.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
Motions and Communications
The following communication was received and read:
Office of the Senate Majority Leader
November 9, 2023
Pursuant to rule 3.203(c) I reassign House Bills 4824, 4825 and 4826 to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs.
Respectfully,
Winnie Brinks
Senate Majority Leader
29th District
The communication was referred to the Secretary for record.
House Bill No. 4457, entitled
A bill to designate June 19 of each year as Juneteenth.
The motion
prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, and the bill was
placed on the order of General Orders.
House Bill No. 4276, entitled
A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled “The social welfare act,” (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding sections 105i and 105j.
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, and the bill was placed on the order of General Orders.
House Bill No. 4230, entitled
A bill to amend 1978 PA 390, entitled “An act to regulate the time and manner of payment of wages and fringe benefits to employees; to prescribe rights and responsibilities of employers and employees, and the powers and duties of the department of labor; to require keeping of records; to provide for settlement of disputes regarding wages and fringe benefits; to prohibit certain practices by employers; to prescribe penalties and remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 7 (MCL 408.477), as amended by 2015 PA 15.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending sections 4, 6, 11, 54, 55, and 57 (MCL 169.204, 169.206, 169.211, 169.254, 169.255, and 169.257), sections 4, 6, 54, and 55 as amended by 2019 PA 93, section 11 as amended by 2017 PA 119, and section 57 as amended by 2015 PA 269.
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, and the bills were placed on the order of General Orders.
House Bill No. 4457
House Bill No. 4276
House Bill No. 4230
House Bill No. 4234
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
General Orders
The motion prevailed, and the President, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist, designated Senator Bellino as Chairperson.
After some time spent therein, the Committee arose; and the President, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist, having resumed the Chair, the Committee reported back to the Senate, favorably and without amendment, the following bills:
House Bill No. 4457, entitled
A bill to designate June 19 of each year as Juneteenth.
A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled “The social welfare act,” (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding sections 105i and 105j.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 390, entitled “An
act to regulate the time and manner of payment of wages and fringe benefits to
employees; to prescribe rights and responsibilities of employers and employees,
and the powers and duties of the department of labor; to require keeping of
records; to provide for settlement of disputes regarding wages and fringe
benefits; to prohibit certain practices by employers; to prescribe penalties
and remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending
section 7 (MCL 408.477), as amended by 2015 PA 15.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending sections 4, 6, 11, 54, 55, and 57 (MCL 169.204, 169.206, 169.211, 169.254, 169.255, and 169.257), sections 4, 6, 54, and 55 as amended by 2019 PA 93, section 11 as amended by 2017 PA 119, and section 57 as amended by 2015 PA 269.
The bills were placed on the order of Third Reading of Bills.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
Motions and Communications
House Bill No. 5141
House Bill No. 5143
House Bill No. 5144
House Bill No. 5145
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
General Orders
The motion prevailed, and the President, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist, designated Senator Bellino as Chairperson.
After some time spent therein, the Committee arose; and the President, Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist, having resumed the Chair, the Committee reported back to the Senate, favorably and with a substitute therefor, the following bill:
House Bill No. 5141, entitled
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending section 47 (MCL 169.247), as amended by 2015 PA 269, and by adding section 59.
Substitute (S-1).
The following are the amendments to the substitute recommended by the Committee of the Whole:
1. Amend page 4, line 15, by inserting “originally”.
2. Amend page 6, following line 23, by inserting:
“(e) A business or its affiliate if the business or its affiliate is regulated by the Michigan public service commission or the Federal Communications Commission.”.
House Bill No. 5143, entitled
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending section 2 (MCL 169.202), as amended by 2001 PA 250.
Substitute (S-1).
House Bill No. 5144, entitled
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” (MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 932f.
The following are the amendments recommended by the Committee of the Whole:
1. Amend page 3, following line 8, by inserting:
“(e)
If the media was generated by editing an existing image, audio, or video, the
media includes a citation directing the viewer or listener to the original
source from which the unedited version of the existing image, audio, or video
was obtained.”.
2. Amend page 5, line 14, by striking out the balance of the bill and inserting:
“(iii) Was produced by artificial intelligence as that term is defined in section 2 of the Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.202.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 5143 of the 102nd Legislature is enacted into law.”.
House Bill No. 5145, entitled
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” by amending section 11d of chapter XVII (MCL 777.11d), as amended by 2023 PA 83.
Substitute (S-1).
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
Motions and Communications
House Bill No. 4457
House Bill No. 4276
House Bill No. 4230
House Bill No. 4234
House Bill No. 5141
House Bill No. 5143
House Bill No. 5144
House Bill No. 5145
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
Third Reading of Bills
Senator Singh moved that the Senate proceed to consideration of the following bills:
House Bill No. 4457
House Bill No. 4276
House Bill No. 4230
House Bill No. 4234
House Bill No. 5141
House Bill No. 5143
House Bill No. 5144
House Bill No. 5145
The motion prevailed.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4457, entitled
A bill to designate June 19 of each year as Juneteenth.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 730 Yeas—36
Albert Cherry Johnson Outman
Anthony Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Damoose Lauwers Santana
Bellino Geiss Lindsey Shink
Brinks Hauck McCann Singh
Bumstead Hertel McDonald Rivet Theis
Camilleri Hoitenga McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Huizenga Moss Webber
Chang Irwin Nesbitt Wojno
Nays—0
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The Senate agreed to the title of the bill.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4276, entitled
A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled “The social welfare act,” (MCL 400.1 to 400.119b) by adding sections 105i and 105j.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 731 Yeas—36
Albert Cherry Johnson Outman
Anthony Daley Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Damoose Lauwers Santana
Bellino Geiss Lindsey Shink
Brinks Hauck McCann Singh
Bumstead Hertel McDonald Rivet Theis
Camilleri Hoitenga McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Huizenga Moss Webber
Chang Irwin Nesbitt Wojno
Nays—0
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In
The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to protect the welfare of the people of this state; to provide general assistance, hospitalization, infirmary and medical care to poor or unfortunate persons; to provide for compliance by this state with the social security act; to provide protection, welfare and services to aged persons, dependent children, the blind, and the permanently and totally disabled; to administer programs and services for the prevention and treatment of delinquency, dependency and neglect of children; to create a state department of social services; to prescribe the powers and duties of the department; to provide for the interstate and intercounty transfer of dependents; to create county and district departments of social services; to create within certain county departments, bureaus of social aid and certain divisions and offices thereunder; to prescribe the powers and duties of the departments, bureaus and officers; to provide for appeals in certain cases; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state department with respect to county and district departments; to prescribe certain duties of certain other state departments, officers, and agencies; to make an appropriation; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4230, entitled
A bill to amend 1978 PA 390, entitled “An act to regulate the time and manner of payment of wages and fringe benefits to employees; to prescribe rights and responsibilities of employers and employees, and the powers and duties of the department of labor; to require keeping of records; to provide for settlement of disputes regarding wages and fringe benefits; to prohibit certain practices by employers; to prescribe penalties and remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 7 (MCL 408.477), as amended by 2015 PA 15.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 732 Yeas—20
Anthony Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Cherry McCann Santana
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Nays—16
Albert Damoose Johnson Outman
Bellino Hauck Lauwers Theis
Bumstead Hoitenga Lindsey Victory
Daley Huizenga Nesbitt Webber
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
The Senate agreed to the title of the bill.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4234, entitled
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending sections 4, 6, 11, 54, 55, and 57 (MCL 169.204, 169.206, 169.211, 169.254, 169.255, and 169.257), sections 4, 6, 54, and 55 as amended by 2019 PA 93, section 11 as amended by 2017 PA 119, and section 57 as amended by 2015 PA 269.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 733 Yeas—20
Anthony Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Cherry McCann Santana
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Nays—16
Albert Damoose Johnson Outman
Bellino Hauck Lauwers Theis
Bumstead Hoitenga Lindsey Victory
Daley Huizenga Nesbitt Webber
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to regulate political activity; to regulate campaign financing; to restrict campaign contributions and expenditures; to require campaign statements and reports; to regulate anonymous contributions; to regulate campaign advertising and literature; to provide for segregated funds for political purposes; to provide for the use of public funds for political purposes; to create certain funds; to provide for reversion, retention, or refunding of unexpended balances in certain funds; to require other statements and reports; to regulate acceptance of certain gifts, payments, and reimbursements; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments and state and local officials and employees; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
Protests
Senators Johnson, Daley, Damoose, Bellino, Nesbitt and Theis, under their constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against the passage of House Bill No. 4234.
Senator
Johnson moved that the statement she made during the discussion of the bill be
printed as her reasons for voting “no.”
The motion prevailed.
It’s bad enough that this bill that amends campaign finance law was referred to the Committee on Labor, but now at the 11th hour as we adjourn for the year, it gets discharged straight to a vote on the floor of the Senate. Mr. President, it’s not even Thanksgiving yet, yet my colleagues on the other side of the chamber are already busy shamelessly stuffing the Christmas stockings of union bosses. This bill will make it even easier for labor organizations to funnel money out of the pockets of workers and into campaigns of Democratic politicians. I ask for a “no” vote.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 5141, entitled
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending section 47 (MCL 169.247), as amended by 2015 PA 269, and by adding section 59.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 734 Yeas—20
Anthony Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Cherry McCann Santana
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Nays—16
Albert Damoose Johnson Outman
Bellino Hauck Lauwers Theis
Bumstead Hoitenga Lindsey Victory
Daley Huizenga Nesbitt Webber
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to regulate political activity; to regulate campaign financing; to restrict campaign contributions and expenditures; to require campaign statements and reports; to regulate anonymous contributions; to regulate campaign advertising and literature; to provide for segregated funds for political purposes; to provide for the use of public funds for political purposes; to create certain funds; to provide for reversion, retention, or refunding of unexpended balances in certain funds; to require other statements and reports; to regulate acceptance of certain gifts, payments, and reimbursements; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments and state and local officials and employees; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,”
The
Senate agreed to the full title.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 5143, entitled
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending section 2 (MCL 169.202), as amended by 2001 PA 250.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 735 Yeas—20
Anthony Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Cherry McCann Santana
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Nays—16
Albert Damoose Johnson Outman
Bellino Hauck Lauwers Theis
Bumstead Hoitenga Lindsey Victory
Daley Huizenga Nesbitt Webber
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to regulate political activity; to regulate campaign financing; to restrict campaign contributions and expenditures; to require campaign statements and reports; to regulate anonymous contributions; to regulate campaign advertising and literature; to provide for segregated funds for political purposes; to provide for the use of public funds for political purposes; to create certain funds; to provide for reversion, retention, or refunding of unexpended balances in certain funds; to require other statements and reports; to regulate acceptance of certain gifts, payments, and reimbursements; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments and state and local officials and employees; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 5144, entitled
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” (MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 932f.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 736 Yeas—20
Anthony Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Cherry McCann Santana
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Nays—16
Albert Damoose Johnson Outman
Bellino Hauck Lauwers Theis
Bumstead Hoitenga Lindsey Victory
Daley Huizenga Nesbitt Webber
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws; to provide for election officials and prescribe their powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees; to provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office; to provide for the resignation, removal, and recall of certain public officers; to provide for the filling of vacancies in public office; to provide for and regulate primaries and elections; to provide for the purity of elections; to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise; to define violations of this act; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and all other acts inconsistent with this act,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 5145, entitled
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” by amending section 11d of chapter XVII (MCL 777.11d), as amended by 2023 PA 83.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 737 Yeas—20
Anthony Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Bayer Cherry McCann Santana
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Shink
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Singh
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Nays—16
Albert Damoose Johnson Outman
Bellino Hauck Lauwers Theis
Bumstead Hoitenga Lindsey Victory
Daley Huizenga Nesbitt Webber
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: President
Pursuant to Joint Rule 20, the full title of the act shall be inserted to read as follows:
“An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to criminal procedure and to define the jurisdiction, powers, and duties of courts, judges, and other officers of the court under the provisions of this act; to provide laws relative to the rights of persons accused of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for the arrest of persons charged with or suspected of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for bail of persons arrested for or accused of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for the examination of persons accused of criminal offenses; to regulate the procedure relative to grand juries, indictments, informations, and proceedings before trial; to provide for trials of persons complained of or indicted for criminal offenses and ordinance violations and to provide for the procedure in those trials; to provide for judgments and sentences of persons convicted of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to establish a sentencing commission and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for procedure relating to new trials and appeals in criminal and ordinance violation cases; to provide a uniform system of probation throughout this state and the appointment of probation officers; to prescribe the powers, duties, and compensation of probation officers; to provide penalties for the violation of the duties of probation officers; to provide for procedure governing proceedings to prevent crime and proceedings for the discovery of crime; to provide for fees of officers, witnesses, and others in criminal and ordinance violation cases; to set forth miscellaneous provisions as to criminal procedure in certain cases; to provide penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act,”
The Senate agreed to the full title.
Protests
Senators Johnson and Bellino, under their constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against the passage of House Bill Nos. 5141, 5143, 5144, and 5145.
Senator Johnson moved that the statement she made during the discussion of House Bill No. 5141 be printed as her reasons for voting “no.”
The motion prevailed.
Senator Johnson’s statement, in which Senator Bellino concurred, is as follows:
These are huge changes in Michigan election law and I think they deserve adequate time to take testimony, seek feedback from stakeholders, and get the best language that we can. I feel that it’s just too rushed, and while I appreciate the intent here, I’m not convinced that the language before us in these bills is as good as it can be. Rushing often leads to unintended consequences and it’s important that we get this right. Therefore, I cannot support these bills at this time.
Recess
Senator Singh moved that the Senate recess subject to the call of the Chair.
The motion prevailed, the time being 5:56 p.m.
The
Senate was called to order by the President pro tempore, Senator Moss.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
Messages from the House
Senate Bill No. 148
Senate Bill No. 149
Senate Bill No. 441
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
A bill to amend 1969 PA 224, entitled “An act to license and regulate dealers in and research facilities using dogs and cats for research purposes; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 12 (MCL 287.392) and by adding sections 11a and 12a.
The House of Representatives has substituted (H-3) the bill.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill as substituted (H-3) and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The question being on concurring in the substitute made to the bill by the House,
The substitute was concurred in, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 738 Yeas—25
Anthony Daley Klinefelt Santana
Bayer Geiss McCann Shink
Brinks Hertel McDonald Rivet Singh
Camilleri Huizenga McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Webber
Chang Johnson Polehanki Wojno
Cherry
Nays—11
Albert Damoose Lauwers Outman
Bellino Hauck Lindsey Theis
Bumstead Hoitenga Nesbitt
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: Moss
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1969 PA 224, entitled “An
act to license and regulate dealers in and research facilities using dogs and
cats for research purposes; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by
amending the title and sections 1 and 7 (MCL 287.381 and 287.387) and by adding
section 8a.
The House of Representatives has substituted (H-4) the bill.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill as substituted (H-4), ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The question being on concurring in the substitute made to the bill by the House,
The substitute was concurred in, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 739 Yeas—25
Anthony Daley Klinefelt Santana
Bayer Geiss McCann Shink
Brinks Hertel McDonald Rivet Singh
Camilleri Huizenga McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Webber
Chang Johnson Polehanki Wojno
Cherry
Nays—11
Albert Damoose Lauwers Outman
Bellino Hauck Lindsey Theis
Bumstead Hoitenga Nesbitt
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: Moss
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1947 PA 336, entitled “An act to prohibit strikes by certain public employees; to provide review from disciplinary action with respect thereto; to provide for the mediation of grievances and the holding of elections; to declare and protect the rights and privileges of public employees; to require certain provisions in collective bargaining agreements; to prescribe means of enforcement and penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to make appropriations,” (MCL 423.201 to 423.217) by adding section 11a.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1947 PA 336, entitled “An act to prohibit strikes by certain public employees; to provide review from disciplinary action with respect thereto; to provide for the mediation of grievances and the holding of elections; to declare and protect the rights and privileges of public employees; to require certain provisions in collective bargaining agreements; to prescribe means of enforcement and penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; and to make appropriations,” by amending section 1 (MCL 423.201), as amended by 2014 PA 414.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill and ordered that it be given immediate effect.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for
enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled “Natural resources and environmental protection act,” by amending sections 44508, 44524, 47325, 47327, and 47333 (MCL 324.44508, 324.44524, 324.47325, 324.47327, and 324.47333), sections 44508, 47325, and 47333 as added by 1995 PA 57, section 44524 as amended by 2012 PA 249, and section 47327 as amended by 2020 PA 385.
The House of Representatives has substituted (H-1) the bill.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill as substituted (H-1), ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
The question being on concurring in the substitute made to the bill by the House,
The substitute was concurred in, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
Roll Call No. 740 Yeas—23
Anthony Cherry Lauwers Santana
Bayer Daley McCann Shink
Brinks Geiss McDonald Rivet Singh
Camilleri Hertel McMorrow Victory
Cavanagh Irwin Moss Wojno
Chang Klinefelt Polehanki
Nays—13
Albert Hauck Johnson Outman
Bellino Hoitenga Lindsey Theis
Bumstead Huizenga Nesbitt Webber
Damoose
Excused—2
McBroom Runestad
Not Voting—0
In The Chair: Moss
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “Public health code,” by amending section 12606a (MCL 333.12606a), as amended by 2022 PA 168.
The House of Representatives has passed the bill, ordered that it be given immediate effect and pursuant to Joint Rule 20, inserted the full title.
Senator Singh moved that the bill be given immediate effect.
The motion prevailed, 2/3 of the members serving voting therefor.
The Senate agreed to the full title.
The
bill was referred to the Secretary for enrollment printing and presentation to
the Governor.
By unanimous consent the Senate returned to the order of
Resolutions
House Concurrent Resolution No. 11.
A concurrent resolution to authorize the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules to meet during the interim between sessions to consider waiving session days.
Whereas, Section 35 of the Administrative Procedures Act of 1969, MCL 24.235, creates the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. That section provides that the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules “may meet . . . during an interim between sessions”; and
Whereas, Under section 45a of the Administrative Procedures Act of 1969, MCL 24.245a, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules has 15 session days in which to consider a proposed rule after receiving a notice of transmittal from an agency proposing a rule under section 45(2), MCL 24.245(2). However, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules may waive any remaining session days under section 45a(1)(d); now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That, pursuant to section 35 of the Administrative Procedures Act of 1969, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules is authorized to meet during the interim between sessions to consider waiving session days pursuant to section 45a(1)(d).
The House of Representatives has adopted the concurrent resolution.
Senator Singh moved that the rule be suspended.
The motion prevailed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor.
The concurrent resolution was adopted.
Announcements of Printing and Enrollment
House Bill Nos. 4127 4128 4360 4605 4606 4824 4825 4826 4857 4905 4906 4917 4918 5056 5058 5103 5207 5208 5209 5210 5211 5212 5213 5214 5215
The Secretary announced that the following bills were printed and filed on Thursday, November 9, and are available on the Michigan Legislature website:
Senate Bill Nos. 642 643 644 645 646
Committee Reports
The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure reported
Senate Bill No. 465, entitled
A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled “Michigan vehicle code,” (MCL 257.1 to 257.923) by adding section 643b.
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Erika Geiss
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Geiss, Klinefelt, Wojno, Hertel, Camilleri, Chang, McCann, Bellino, McBroom, Victory and Bumstead
Nays: None
The bill and the substitute recommended by the committee were referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Health Policy reported
House Bill No. 4167, entitled
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled “Public health code,” (MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding sections 5135 and 5135a.
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Kevin Hertel
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Hertel, Santana, Wojno, Cherry, Klinefelt, Geiss, Webber, Hauck and Huizenga
Nays: Senator Runestad
The bill and the substitute recommended by the committee were referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection reported
Senate Bill No. 282, entitled
A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “The insurance code of 1956,” by amending sections 2118 and 2120 (MCL 500.2118 and 500.2120), as amended by 2019 PA 21, and by adding section 2116c.
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Mary Cavanagh
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Cavanagh, Moss, McCann, Bayer, Irwin, Huizenga, Theis and Daley
Nays: None
The bill and the substitute recommended by the committee were referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection reported
Senate Bill No. 415, entitled
A bill to amend 1933 PA 167, entitled “General sales tax act,” by amending sections 12 and 18 (MCL 205.62 and 205.68), as amended by 2022 PA 3.
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Mary Cavanagh
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Cavanagh, Moss, McCann, Bayer, Irwin, Huizenga, Theis and Daley
Nays: None
The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection reported
Senate Bill No. 416, entitled
A bill to amend 1937 PA 94, entitled “Use tax act,” by amending sections 14a and 14b (MCL 205.104a and 205.104b), as amended by 2022 PA 4.
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Mary Cavanagh
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Cavanagh, Moss, McCann, Bayer, Irwin, Huizenga, Theis and Daley
Nays: None
The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection reported
House Bill No. 4197, entitled
A bill to amend 2008 PA 551, entitled “Uniform securities act (2002),” (MCL 451.2101 to 451.2703) by amending the title, as amended by 2014 PA 355, and by adding article 5A.
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Mary Cavanagh
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Cavanagh, Moss, McCann, Bayer, Irwin, Huizenga, Theis and Daley
Nays: None
The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole.
COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE REPORT
The Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Consumer Protection submitted the following:
Meeting held on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 9:45 a.m., Room 1200, Binsfeld Office Building
Present: Senators Cavanagh (C), Moss, McCann, Bayer, Irwin, Huizenga,
Theis and Daley
The Committee on Elections and Ethics reported
House Bill No. 4129, entitled
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” (MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 931b.
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Jeremy Moss
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Moss, Wojno, Santana, McMorrow, Chang and Camilleri
Nays: Senators Johnson and McBroom
The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Elections and Ethics reported
House Bill No. 4695, entitled
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” by amending sections 570, 662, 668b, 674, 736b, 736c, 736d, 736e, 795b, and 797a (MCL 168.570, 168.662, 168.668b, 168.674, 168.736b, 168.736c, 168.736d, 168.736e, 168.795b, and 168.797a), section 570 as amended by 2017 PA 113, section 662 as amended by 2022 PA 219, section 668b as added by 2018 PA 614, section 674 as amended by 2018 PA 120, sections 736b, 736c, 736d, and 736e as amended by 2018 PA 190, section 795b as amended by 1990 PA 109, and section 797a as amended by 1996 PA 583, and by adding sections 8, 720a, 720b, 720c, 720d, 720e, 720f, 720g, 720h, 720i, and 720j.
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Jeremy Moss
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Moss, Wojno, Santana, McMorrow, Chang, Camilleri and McBroom
Nays: Senator Johnson
The bill and the substitute recommended by the committee were referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Elections and Ethics reported
House Bill No. 5141, entitled
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending section 47 (MCL 169.247), as amended by 2015 PA 269, and by adding section 59.
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Jeremy Moss
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Moss, Wojno, Santana, Chang and Camilleri
Nays: Senator Johnson
The bill and the substitute recommended by the committee were referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Elections and Ethics reported
House Bill No. 5143, entitled
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending section 2 (MCL 169.202), as amended by 2001 PA 250.
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Jeremy Moss
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Moss, Wojno, Santana, McMorrow, Chang and Camilleri
Nays: Senator Johnson
The bill and the substitute recommended by the committee were referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Elections and Ethics reported
House Bill No. 5144, entitled
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” (MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 932f.
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Jeremy Moss
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Moss, Wojno, Santana, Chang and Camilleri
Nays: Senators Johnson and McBroom
The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The Committee on Elections and Ethics reported
House Bill No. 5145, entitled
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Jeremy Moss
Chairperson
To Report Out:
Yeas: Senators Moss, Wojno, Santana, Chang and Camilleri
Nays: Senators Johnson and McBroom
The bill was referred to the Committee of the Whole.
COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE REPORT
The Committee on Elections and Ethics submitted the following:
Meeting held on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 1:00 p.m., Room 1100, Binsfeld Office Building
Present: Senators Moss (C), Wojno, Santana, McMorrow, Chang, Camilleri, Johnson and McBroom
COMMITTEE ATTENDANCE REPORT
The Committee on Appropriations submitted the following:
Meeting held on Wednesday, November 8, 2023, at 12:00 noon, Harry T. Gast Appropriations Room, 3rd Floor, Capitol Building
Present: Senators Anthony (C), McCann, McDonald Rivet, Cherry, Bayer, Santana, Shink, Irwin, Hertel, Camilleri, Klinefelt, McMorrow, Cavanagh, Bumstead, Albert, Damoose, Huizenga, Outman and Theis
Senator Singh moved that the Senate adjourn.
The motion prevailed, the time being 7:30 p.m.
Pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution No. 10, the President pro tempore, Senator Moss, declared the Senate adjourned until Tuesday, November 14, 2023, at 11:45 a.m.
DANIEL OBERLIN
Secretary of the Senate