SB 297 Repeal Mandatory Motorcycle Helmet Law
This bill would repeal the mandatory motorcycle helmet requirement for persons at least 21 years old who have either been licensed for two years or completed a motorcycle safety course, and have in effect $10,000 security for the payment of first-party medical benefits payable if he or she is involved in a motorcycle accident. The bill also allows motorcycle passengers 21 or over to ride without a helmet if they are riding with a person meeting the above requirements. Bill passed 66-37.
SB 1146 and SB 1147 Increase Penalties for Harboring Fugitives
These bills create penalties for knowingly or willfully concealing or harboring individuals who are wanted on criminal or civil warrants. Harboring someone with an arrest warrant, or a bench warrant in a civil or misdemeanor case would be punishable by up to 93 days in jail. Harboring someone wanted for a felony would be a felony punishable by up to four years in prison. Bot bills passed unanimously.
HB 4460 School "Lockdown" Drills
This bill would schools to replace two of the existing eight required fire drills with "lockdown" drills that would be conducted to restrict the school's occupants to the interior of the building and secure the premises. Such a drill would include security measures as appropriate to respond to an emergency such as the release of a hazardous material or the presence of an armed individual on or near the premises. Bill passed 101-0, and now goes to the Governor for her signature.
SB 861 Eliminate Merit Award for Out-of-State Students
This bill eliminates the $1,000 merit award college scholarship that under current law is granted to qualifying high school students who attend a college that is not in Michigan. Bill passed 61-40.
HB 6034 Expand MEGA Eligibility
This bill revises the definition of "high tech business" in the Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA) law so that its Single Business Tax (SBT) breaks could be granted to a particular facility that meets the definition, even if the company as a whole does not. The legislation is needed to complete pending MEGA deals with Ford/Visteon and General Motors/Delphi. Bill passed 101-0, and now goes to the Governor for her signature.
HB 6118 Expand MEGA Tax Credits
This bill would revise the eligibility for Single Business Tax (SBT) breaks under the Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA) program, in order to allow the DSM company in South Haven to be eligible. The bill passed 102-0, and was sent to the Senate for consideration.
HB 5719 Prohibit Possession of Public Safety Badges and Uniforms
This bill would prohibit the sale or possession of firefighter or emergency medical service providers uniforms, patches, and badges. The bill passed 102-1, and was sent to the Senate for consideration.
HB 5349 Long-term Care Insurance Policies
This bill would outline regulations under which insurers will be allowed to offer long-term care policies. Bill passed 98-2.
HB 5348 Expand Long Term Care Policies to Blue Cross Blue Shield
This bill would allow nonprofit health care corporations (Blue Cross Blue Shield) to offer long-term care policies provided the policy is offered through a subsidiary of the corporation. Bill passed 100-0.
HB 5962 Allow Blue Cross Blue Shield to Share Patient Information
This bill would allow Blue Cross Blue Shield to share certain information with providers and group health plans, provided that the sharing of information was permissible under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Bill passed 101-0.
SB 689 Limit Liability for Fire Departments
The bill would provide governmental immunity for fire departments and local units of government when they sell or donate used fire control or rescue equipment to other local governing units. The bill passed 103-0, and was returned to the Senate for concurrence.
SB 471 Eliminate State Court Information Management Commission
This bill eliminates the State Court Information Management Commission. This commission was created as a temporary commission in 1996 to last for two years and to make a detailed recommendation to the Supreme Court, the Legislature, and the Governor as to the design, implementation, and operation of a computerized information management system. The bill passed 103-0.
SB 472 Eliminate the Michigan Superconducting Super Collider Commission
This bill eliminates the Michigan Superconducting Super Collider Commission authorized in 1987 to represent Michigan before the United States Department of Energy and to take any action needed to support a proposal to build the superconducting super collider in this state. Any powers the commission had will instead be vested in the Department of Labor and Economic Growth (DLEG). Bill passed 103-0.
SB 473 Eliminate a Public Records Review Committee
This bills eliminates the Enhanced Access to Public Records Joint Review Committee authorized in 1996 to report to the legislature on a law allowing local governments to charge users for enhanced electronic access to public records for inspection, purchase, or copying by digital means. Such systems are now in place. Bill passed 103-0.
SB 474 Eliminate an Obsolete Treasury Advisory Board
This bill eliminates the treasury advisory board established in 1980 to oversee a state loan to the Chrysler Corporation. Bill passed 103-0.
SB 475 Eliminate the State Research Fund Feasibility Review Panel
This bill would eliminate the state research fund feasibility review panel established in 1982 to oversee the fund created then to subsidize the commercialization of various technological developments created by Michigan public universities. Bill passed 103-0.
SB 476 Eliminate Strategic Fund Advisory Committee
This bill eliminates the Michigan Strategic Fund research center fund advisory committee established in 1985 to subsidize nonprofit research and development enterprises doing research in "emerging technologies". Bill passed 103-0.
SB 478 Eliminate Highway Safety Task Force
This bill abolishes the Highway Safety Task Force which was established in 1987 to study the effects of legislation that was enacted in 1987 that increased the speed limit on rural interstate highway and established a new system of points and fines for speed violations on limited access highways. Bill passed 103-0.
SB 481 Eliminate Oversight Committee of the Cyber Court
This bill eliminates the legislative oversight committee on the cyber court which was established in 2002 to monitor the development of a "cyber court" that was intended to expedite certain cases involving businesses, but has not been developed due to budget constraints. Bill passed 103-0.
SB 816 and SB 817 Prohibit Tampering With marine Safety Devices
These two bills would make it a crime to knowingly steal, tamper with or remove a "marine safety device" that was owned or maintained by the State. The bills establish a penalty of 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine if the action is the "proximate cause" in the death of another. Both bills passed unanimously.
HB 5901 Repayment Plan for Bad Axe Downtown Development Authority
This bill allows the Bad Axe Downtown Development Authority (DDA) to enter into a repayment plan with the Department of Treasury to repay $97,000 it mistakenly captured in school tax dollars. Bill passed 99-1.
HB 6110 Rename the White Pine Trail
This bill would change the name of the White Pine Trail (State Park) to the "Fred Meijer White Pine Trail State Park." Bill passed 101-0.
HB 6075 Trespassing on Airport Property
This bill would make the crime of trespassing on airport property a misdemeanor offense punishable by imprisonment for up to one year and/or a fine of not more than $1,000. Bill passed 105-0.
SB 1202 Telephone Customer Privacy
This bill prohibits phone companies from selling any type of customer information to another person without permission from the customer. The bill would also make it a crime to use fraudulent statements or documents to try to get a customer's records. Bill passed 104-0.
HB 5822 and SB 1282 Prohibit Electronic Sale of Ephedrine
These bills prohibit selling over-the-counter medications that contain ephedrine or pseudoephedrine via the mail, internet, telephone, or other electronic means. Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are used in the production of methamphetamines. Both bills passed 103-1.
HB 5930 Allow Medical Exams of Children Exposed to Meth
The bill allows the Department of Human Services (DHS) to have a medical examination performed on a child, without a court order, if it is suspected they have been exposed to methamphetamine (meth) production. Bill passed 104-0.
HB 5843 Protect Children from Exposure to Meth
This bill requires that central registry cases involving a child's exposure to or contact with methamphetamine production be referred to the county prosecuting attorney where the child is located. The prosecuting attorney must review the investigation of the case to determine if it complies with protocol. Names of individuals are placed on the statewide abuse and neglect Central Registry if there is a preponderance of evidence substantiating that the individual has abused or neglected their child. Bill passed 104-0.
HB 5844 Establish Exposure to Meth Production as Child Abuse
This bill includes methamphetamine production in the definition of suspected child abuse that a health care or social service professional must report, and that law enforcement agencies must promptly investigate. Bill passed 104-0.
HB 5798 Procedures for Cleanup of Meth Labs
This bill requires the Department of Community Health and the Department of Environmental Quality departments to create a methamphetamine lab cleanup guidance document that establishes and prescribes standard protocols and practices for cleanups. Bill passed 104-0.
SB 1112 Meth Lab Cleanup Authority
This bill transfers authority from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to the Department of Community Health (DCH), for reporting by law enforcement agencies regarding potential contamination of property due to onsite illegal drug manufacturing. Bill passed 104-0.
HB 5396 Prohibit Minors from Purchasing Tobacco
This bill would expand the law that prohibits tobacco product use by minors to explicitly also prohibit their possessing or attempting to purchase tobacco products, including the use of fake identification to do so. Bill passed 101-4.
HB 6183 Brownfield and Historic Preservation Tax Credits
The bill would allow a taxpayer who has any brownfield or historic preservation credits still pending to receive those credits even after the SBT is repealed. Bill passed 105-0.
SB 1172 Extend Sunset on 9-1-1 Services
This bill would extend until Dec. 31, 2007 a Dec. 31, 2006 sunset in the law that authorizes county 9-1-1 services, and also extend 29-cent monthly 9-1-1 cell phone tax. Bill passed 103-2.
HB 5014 Hepatitis C Education
This bill would require the Department of Community Heath to provide educational materials on the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of Hepatitis C for health care workers, public safety workers, veterans, parolees and others considered to be at high-risk for contacting or having contacted this disease. Bill passed 105-0.
HB 5015 Hepatitis C Advisory Task Force
This bill creates a Hepatitis C Advisory Task Force, to advise the Governor and Legislature on policies related to Hepatitis C virus, including recommendations for allocation of the Michigan Health Initiative fund. Bill passed 105-0.
HB 5125 Allow Local Watercraft Regulations
This bill would establish criteria that the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) would use to approve or deny a local ordinance regulating the use of watercraft on waters of the state, in order "to assure compatibility of uses and to protect public safety." Bill passed 105-0.
HB 5977 Partial Exemption for Pre-LaborDay School Ban
This bill would allow an Intermediate School District that provides student programs or services under contract to a regular school district to be exempt from the ban on starting school before Labor Day if the regular school district is also exempt (because of previous labor contracts or because it has a year round school schedule). Bill passed 105-0.
HB 6005 Downtown Development Authority Authorization
This bill would create an exception in the law authorizing Downtown Development Authorities (DDA) to allow the Village of Milford's DDA, which did not follow proper procedures in creating its tax increment financing plan, to continue to operate their DDA. Bill passed 105-0.
HB 5132 Providing Public Documents to State Library
This bill would revise the requirement that certain public documents must be provided to state libraries. The bill would reduce from 75 to 15 the minimum number of copies of provided to the library of each document issued by state officials, departments, boards, commissions, and agencies. However, no paper copies would be needed if the printed copies are not produced, the document is in a nonproprietary format and the document is freely available on the state's website. Also, the bill requires pubic colleges and universities to provide two paper copies of publications from the college or university press. Bill passed 105-0.
SB 582 Require Electronic Filing of Administrative Rules
This bill requires the executive branch to send copies of new administrative rules to the legislature in electronic form, as well as in paper form. Bill passed 104-0.
HB 5581 School Bus Safety
This bill requires that a school bus operator actuate the bus' roof-top strobe light whenever students are boarding or getting off the bus. Bill passed 104-0.
HB 5562 Alcohol Licenses for Gas Stations
This bill would make available more package beer and wine licenses to gas stations in small towns in rural counties by modestly increasing the population size of towns that are permitted to have gas stations sell alcohol. Bill passed 98-7.
HB 6110 RenameWhitePineTrailState Park
This bill would change the name of the White Pine Trail (State Park) to the "Fred Meijer White Pine Trail State Park." Bill passed 105-0.
HB 5914 and HB 5915 Prohibit Leaving a Child Unattended in a Vehicle
This bill would make it a crime to leave a child unattended in a vehicle for a period of time that a reasonable person would determine poses a risk of harm or injury, punishable by up to 93 days in jail and/or a $500 fine. If the child suffers harm, serious harm or death the maximum penalties would be one year, 10 years, and 15 years respectively. The bills passed 101-2 and 98-5, respectively.
HB 6116 Allow Donation of Abandoned Bicycles
This bill would allow abandoned bicycles in the possession of a county sheriff department to be donated to a licensed charity. This applies to stolen bicycles that have not been claimed by the proper owner. Bill passed 103-0.
SB 1120 Lengthen Time to Pay for Public Works Projects
This bill increases the number of years from 30 to 40 that county or local units of government can assess to pay for a public works project. Bill passed 103-1.
HB 5800 Allow Michigan Youth Correctional Facility
This bill provides that if the privately-run Michigan Youth Correctional Facility located in Lake County is not used by the Department of Corrections to house prisoners, the private company may use the facility to house prisoners from local, state or federal agencies. Bill passed
SB 541 Structured Settlement Payments
This bill revises the Michigan Structured Settlement Act to comply with National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) recommendations. A "structured settlement" is the settlement of a tort or insurance claim by way of a series of future installment payments instead of a lump-sum payment. The bill would establish regulations for "factoring" transactions, in which the injured party sells the right to continued payments for a lump sum, in an amount discounted from the present value of the structured settlement payments. Bill passed 105-0.
HB 4861 Allow "Pepper Foam"
This bill would allow law enforcement officers to use "pepper foam" in addition to pepper spray that is currently used by law enforcement. Additionally, the bill allows law enforcement officers to use a higher strength spray or foam under certain circumstances. Bill passed 106-0.
HB 5193 Provide Address of Recently Released Sex Offenders
This bill requires the Department of Corrections to notify local law enforcement agencies of proposed domiciles and residences of soon-to-be paroled or discharged inmates who are required to register as sex offenders. Bill passed 106-0.
HB 5194 and HB 6135 Require Sex Offenders to Provide Address Prior to Release
These bills require soon-to-be paroled or discharged prison inmates, subject to the Sex Offender Registry, to provide the Department of Corrections with proposed residence and address information prior to being released. Both bills passed 106-0.
HB 5061 State Employee Leave of Absence for Disaster Relief
This bill would require the state to allow a state employee skilled in emergency assistance to take a leave of absence with pay for not more than 10 days in any 12-month period from his or hers employment to provide disaster or emergency relief assistance within and outside this state. Bill passed 106-0.
SB 538 Loan Program for Biomass Energy Systems for Farmers
This bill would allow loans up to $200,000 from the Small Business Pollution Prevention
Assistance Revolving Loan Fund for the structures, equipment, and apparatus that would be used for methane digesters using agricultural biomass (manure). Bill passed 95-11.
HB 6213 Return to Federal Overtime Regulations
This bill will amend Michigan's minimum wage law to allow the federal standard for overtime to continue after October 1, 2006 when the state's minimum wage is increased higher than the federal minimum wage. Three Democratic amendments failed to be adopted before the bill was passed 57-49.
- Rep. Meisner offered an amendment to tie-bar the bill to another bill that would expand the overtime pay law to "executive, administrative or professional" employees who make less than $100,000 and do not supervise at least five other workers. The amendment failed 49-55.
- Rep. Meisner offered an amendment to tie-bar the bill to another bill that would reverse recent Supreme Court decisions which defined "serious impairment" in the no fault auto insurance law. The amendment failed 49-55.
- Rep. McDowell offered an amendment to tie-bar the bill to another bill that would increase the maximum length of time an individual may receive unemployment insurance benefits. The amendment failed 53-50.
SB 1105 Authorize Apprentice Hunting License
This bill would create an "apprentice" hunting license for a person who has not hunted before or taken a hunter safety class. An "apprentice" would have to he accompanied in the field by an adult with a regular hunting license. Bill passed 103-2.
HB 5192 Lower Hunting License Age
This bill would allow 12 to 14 year olds to hunt deer, bear and elk on private property, and also allows 10 and 11 year olds to hunt small game on private property. A parent or legal guardian would still have to apply for a hunting license for a minor child and the minor would have to complete a hunter safety course. When hunting, the minor child would have to be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian or an adult authorized by the parent or legal guardian. The bill passed 89-16.
HB 4735 Increase Certain State Police Retirement Pensions
This bill would supplement the retirement benefits of a state police retiree (or his or her beneficiary) who participated and accrued leave time in the bank time hours program between December 22, 1957 and July 13, 1963. Bill passed 103-0.
HBs 6014 and 6016 Exempt a BibleCollege from State Regulations
These bills exempt Grace Baptist "college" from state regulations for institution of higher education, thus allowing Grace Baptist to use the terms "college" and "degree". The bills passed 65-41 and 66-39, respectively.
HB 6047, HB 6202 and SB 1260 Leaking Underground Storage Tank Cleanup
The three-bill package establishes new programs for the expenditure of $60 million appropriated from the Refined Petroleum Fund (RPF) for leaking underground storage tank (LUST) cleanups. All three bills passed unanimously.
SB 900 Increase Agricultural Renaissance Zones
This bill would allow for the designation of 30 renaissance zones for agricultural processing facilities, rather than 20 as under current law. "Qualified agricultural processors" who locate in a zone are exempt from state and local taxes for up to 15 years. Bill passed 103-0.
HB 5952 Revise State Fuel Standards
This bill would repeal the requirement that motor fuel sold or used in Michigan be in compliance with ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) standards. This is related to the coming introduction of low-sulfur diesel fuel and other new kinds of fuel. The bill passed 104-0.
SB 1074 Lower Fuel Tax for Certain Biofuels
This bill would lower the gas tax on gasoline that contains from 70 percent to 85 percent ethanol from 19-cents to 12-cents per gallon, and on diesel fuel that contains 5 percent biodiesel from 15-cents to 12-cents per gallon. Bill passed 104-0.
SB 1075 Infrastructure for State-owned Alternative Fuel Vehicles
This bill would require the Department of Management and Budget to install the necessary fueling infrastructure at all State motor transport facilities so that all State-owned vehicles capable of using alternative fuels were able to use them. Bill passed 102-2.
SB 1078 and HB 5752 Tax Break for Renewable Energy Facilities
These bills authorize the establishment of up to 10 tax-free "renaissance zones" that provide substantial tax breaks for "renewable energy facilities," defined as a system that creates energy from a process using residue from agricultural products, forest products, paper products industries, and food production and processing; trees and grasses grown specifically to be used as energy crops; and gaseous fuels produced from solid biomass, animal waste, a wind conversion device, photovoltaic cells, or landfills. Both bills passed 104-0.
SB 1079 Establish Alternative Fuel Standards
This bill would require the Department of Agriculture to establish standards for diesel fuel, biodiesel fuel blends and hydrogen fuel. Bill passed 103-1.
HB 5181 Create Alternative Fuels Commission
This bill would create a Commission to investigate strategies to promote the development and use of alternative fuels. The Commission would be composed of representatives from agriculture, auto manufacturers, higher education, state governmental agencies, the petroleum industry and biofuels producers. Bill passed 100-4.
HB 5754 Matching Grant Program for Alternative Fuel Pumps
This bill creates a matching grant program for service stations to purchase/install equipment to dispense E85 fuel and for biodiesel fuel delivery systems and for bulk plants to provide biodiesel. Bill passed 99-5.
HB 4971 Tax Break for New Automobile Research Plant
The bill provides a MEGA Single Business Tax credit for a new Troy-based joint venture between Daimler Chrysler, GM, and BMW to do research and development on a hybrid technology transmission. The joint venture will employ over 550 people. Bill passed 104-0.
HB 6009 Increase Penalties for Drunk Driving
This bill makes a third drunk driving offense anytime during a person's life a felony, potentially subject to up to five years in prison. Under current law, this only applies to a third offense within 10 years of previous offenses. Bill passed 102-4.
SB 1040 Authorize Small Dam Removal
This bill eases permit restrictions and requirements on removing small dams (less than two-feet high) that have minimal environmental impacts. Bill passed 104-0.
SB 802 Revise Michigan Economic Growth Authority Act
The bill makes several changes to the "Michigan Economic Growth Authority Act (MEGA)." The bill would ease a number of the job-promise requirements that make a firm eligible for these tax subsidies. Bill passed 104-0.
HB 5967 and HB 5968 Tighten Probation Rules
These bills establish that as a condition for eligibility for discharge and dismissal of an assault and battery or aggravated assault domestic violence charge after the successful completion of a probation period, and that the accused not have been previously convicted of an assaultive crime. The bills are in response to Patrick Selepak being improperly released on parole and committing several murders earlier this year. Both bills passed 104-0.
HB 5970 Clarify Meaning of "Policy Directives"
The bill would amend the Administrative Procedures Act to exclude a "policy directive" from the definition of a rule. The bill would place a policy directive on the same level as a form with instructions, an interpretive pamphlet, or other material, all of which do not have the force and effect of law but are merely explanatory. Bill passed 106-0.
HB 5661 and HB 5663 Provide Insurance Discount for Seniors Who Take Safety Class
These two bills provide for insurers to offer a premium discount on auto insurance for seniors (50 and over), upon completion by the driver of a "Traffic Accident Prevention Driver Safety Course." HB 5661 passed 106-0 and HB 5663 passed 102-3.
HB 5672 Create Cancer Drug Donation Program
This bill would create the Cancer Drug Repository Program to allow individuals to donate unused prescription cancer drugs and supplies for use by uninsured, underinsured, and other cancer patients in Michigan. Bill passed 106-0.
HB 6032 Revise Health Insurance Review Law
The bill would clarify an exemption to the review requirements of the Patient's Right to Independent Review Act (PRIRA) by specifically limiting it to state departments or agencies that administer Medicaid. Bill passed 106-0.
Revise Licensure Under the Public Health Code
HB 6062 Acupuncturists
HB 6063 Veterinarians
HB 6064 Respiratory Therapists
HB 6086 Sanitarians
HB 6139 Optometrists
HB 6140 Audiologists
HB 6145 Occupational Therapists
HB 6146 Social Workers
HB 6147 Technical Cleanup of the Public Health Code
This package of bills that transfers provisions for title protection and board terms of expiration from general provision sections under the Public Health Code to each individual health occupation licensing act as listed above. The bills make no substantive changes to the law, but would simplify the process of amending licensing provisions for health occupations. All the bills passed 106-0, except HB 6086 which passed 104-2.
SB 1176 Tax Credit for Stillborn Birth
The bill would provide a one-time refundable $150 income tax credit for a taxpayer who has a stillborn birth. Bill passed 106-0.
HB 5327 Board of Nursing Membership
This bill would require preference for representation on the Board of Nursing by at least one member from every health service area in the state. Bill passed 68-38.
HB 5872 Revise Cleanup Criteria for Dioxin
The bill directs the Department of Environmental Quality to recalculate cleanup criteria for dioxin based on the conclusions of a review of the risk of dioxin exposure expected to be released in the near future by the National Academy of Sciences. Bill passed 104-0.
HB 6137 Specialty License Plates
The bill revises the fund-raising specialty license plate program for nonprofit organizations, which would require, among other things, an organization wanting to sponsor a plate to make a nonrefundable upfront payment of $15,000 to cover programming, layout and other startup costs. It would also require minimum sales levels of 2,000 plates in the first year, and 500 new plates (not renewals) in each additional year, or production of the plate would be dropped. Legislative approval would still be needed for any new specialty plates. Additionally, the bill authorizes a "Support Our Troops" specialty license plate, with the net premium revenue going to the "Support Our Troops Inc." organization. Bill passed 106-0.
HB 5959 Exempt Racing Fuel from the Gas Tax
This bill exempts high octane leaded gasoline used in race cars on race tracks from the state gas tax. Bill passed 105-1.
HB 5479 Local Review of School Site Plans
The bill establishes a process for township or county zoning authorities to review site plans for new or expanded high schools. Currently local governments do not have authority to review the school siting plans of school districts. Bill passed 105-1.
HB 6183 Continue Tax Credits After SBT Repeal
The bill would allow a taxpayer who has any brownfield or historic preservation credits still pending to receive those credits even after the SBT is repealed. Bill passed 106-0.
HB 6194 Revise Insurance Board of Directors Rules
This bill would require the board of directors of Michigan-based insurance companies to meet at least four times each year, in person or by phone conference, and require board members to take an oath to diligently and honestly perform the duties, and to not knowingly violate any insurance laws or regulations. Bill passed 101-5.
HB 6195 Voting by Insurance Board of Directors
This bill would allow actions that require a vote by the board of directors of a Michigan-based insurance company to be taken over the phone, by mail or e-mail, if all board members consent in writing. Bill passed 106-0.
HB 6196 Eliminate Restrictions on Insurance Board of Directors
This bill would eliminate certain restrictions on the granting of pensions, insurance or long-term contracts by Michigan-based insurance companies to members of their boards or officers. Bill passed 106-0.
HB 6175 Revise Title Fee Procedure
This bill would allow an auto dealer to include the fee incurred for getting a certificate of title in the fees charged to the buyer, and allow the amount to be included in a vehicle loan. Bill passed 104-0.
HB 6089 and 6090 Tax Exemption for Direct Mail
These two bills would exempt postage charges on direct mail from sales (HB 6090) and use (HB 6089) taxes. Both bills passed 106-0.