Require Disclosures by Tax Refund Anticipation Loan Providers
HB 5903 Passed 102-5
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
House Bill 5903 creates a new act that requires disclosures be given to consumers who are applying for a an income tax refund anticipation loan (RAL).
Authorize Global Positioning System Monitoring for Certain Parolees
HB 4330 Passed 108-0
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
HB 4330 amends the Corrections Code to require a global position monitoring system for a person who has been paroled on an aggravated stalking charge.
Authorize Global Positioning System Monitoring For Aggravated Stalkers
HB 4453 Passed 108-0
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
HB 4453 authorizes a global position monitoring system as a condition of parole for individuals convicted of aggravated stalking.
Allow Active Military And Reserve Units To Conduct Raffles
HB 4594, Passed 105-1
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
This bill allows active military and reserve units to conduct raffles that are otherwise prohibited under the state's bingo law.
Require Disclosure of Due Process Rights In Student Expulsion
HB 5411 Passed 106-2
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
This measure requires school districts to have in their code of student conduct a description of the due process rights that must be provided for a student and the student's parents or legal guardians in permanent expulsion proceedings, including the process for reinstatement, and to give this information to a student and parents or guardians if and when expulsion proceedings are initiated.
Require Recusal of School Board Member On Certain Expulsion Votes
HB 5832 RC 323, 4/29/2008, Passed 107-0
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
HB 5832 requires school board members to abstain from voting on an student's expulsion when a conflict of interest exists.
Authorize Electronic Nonprofit Corporation Shareholder Meetings
HB 5681 Passed 106-0
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
This bill authorizes the use of electronic communications for various notices and filings by nonprofit corporations, and allows board and shareholder meetings to take place via remote communications. The bill specifies various procedures that must be followed to do this. For-profit corporations are already allowed to do this.
Clarify Joint Planning Commission Rules
SB 115 Passed 107-0
Next: Returned to Senate for consideration
SN 115 allows the participating municipalities in a joint land use planning commission arrangement to adopt a joint zoning ordinance, with the joint planning commission acting as the zoning commission. The bill would also clarify these joint planning bodies so as to specify which types of procedures may be used by the joint entity, and allow for the phased transfer of the powers and duties of existing planning boards to the new entity.
Require the Use of High Efficiency Lights in State Buildings
HB 5316 Passed 77-29
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
HB 5316 requires the use of high efficiency light bulbs and electronic ballasts (used in fluorescent lights) in public facilities.
Revise Definition of Renewable Energy Renaissance Zone
HB 4950 Passed 106-0
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
This measure broadens the definition of a "renewable energy facility" to include, among other things, a facility that creates energy using the wind, agricultural commodities, materials from landfills, or which researches renewable energy systems.
Revise Certain Veterans Preferences
SB 751 Passed 106-0
Next: Returned to Senate and ordered enrolled
SB 751 requires the state to make an effort to award at least five percent of state construction, goods and services purchasing contracts to disabled veterans. Under current law the target preference level is 3 percent.
Exempt Employment Relations Commission from Open Meetings Act
HB 4973 Passed 59-49
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
This bill exempts meetings of the Michigan Employment Relations Commission from the Open Meetings Act, which requires all meetings of a public body to be open to the public. The MERC is empowered to issue authoritative rulings and orders that deem the actions of one side or the other in a labor dispute to be unfair labor practices prohibited by the state's labor law.
Revise Collection of Certain Court Costs, Penalties and Fees
HB 5314 Passed 108-0
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
HB 5314 establishs that penalties, fines, or costs levied in connection with a criminal conviction may be collected in same manner as a civil money judgment.
Revise Non-Child Abuse Documentation Request Restrictions
HB 5910 Passed 82-26
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
This measure revises the conditions limiting a request from an individual for documentation that he or she is not named as a perpetrator in the state's central registry of serious child abuse cases, and allows the person to request that the state share the information with whoever is appropriate for purposes of seeking employment. Under current law only a person applying to work in a child care center, child caring institution, or child placing agency can ask for this documentation.
Fire Safe Cigarettes
HB 5110 Passed 92-16
HB 5111 Passed 92-16
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
These bills create a new act that will prevent cigarettes from being sold in Michigan unless they meet the "fire-safe cigarette" standards and authorizes the Department of Treasury to inspect cigarettes and verify that they meet the standards established in the Fire Safety Standard and Firefighter Protection Act.
Exempt Veterans from Concealed Weapons Training Requirements
HB 5108 101-7
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
HB 5108 exempts current and former peace officers, and honorably discharged veterans who have had pistol training from the state's Concealed Pistol Permit (CPL) safety training requirement.
Revise Tax Tribunal Procedures
HB 4433 Passed 106 - 1
Next: Presented to the Governor
HB 4433 authorize a mediation process for property tax disputes taken to the Michigan Tax Tribunal, and give the Tribunal the authority to approve mediators and create rules for the process.
Revise Tax Tribunal Dispute Cap
HB 4436 Passed 107-0
Next: Presented to the Governor
This measure increases from $6,000 to $20,000 the cap on the size of property tax disputes that can be heard by the residential and small claims division of the Michigan Tax Tribunal, and specifies that a proceeding before the entire tribunal may be heard in the small claims division by leave of the tribunal and consent of the parties. Hearings before the small claims division are more informal and streamlined than hearings before the entire tribunal.
Authorize Certain Housing Project Tax Breaks
HB 5893 Passed 107-1
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
HB 5893 authorizes a Michigan Business Tax deduction for the gains to firms participating in certain low income housing ventures.
Provide Incentives to Provide Low Income Housing in Downtown Areas
HB 4657 107-1
HB 4658 Passed 107-1
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
These bills expand the "Michigan Affordable Housing Fund" and "Michigan Housing and Community Development Program" to also allow grants and loans to selected organizations or companies that provide housing for low income households in "downtown areas". They also establish a definition of "downtown area" for purposes of providing the housing subsidies.
Establish Certain Timetables in "Local Historic District" Formation
HB 5952 Passed 107-1
Next: Sent to Senate for consideration
House Bill 5952 amends the Local Historic Districts Act to provide clarity to the Act and set certain deadlines into the process under which local historic districts may be established.
Establish Standards for Trauma Scene Waste Management Practitioners
HB 5574 Passed 56-52
HB 5575 Passed 61-47
Next: Sent to the Senate for consideration
House Bill 5574 would amend the public health code to require state registration and regulation of trauma scene waste management practitioners, who engage in the cleanup, handling, and transport of trauma scene waste from a trauma scene. These bills would also set new regulations on medical waste disposal procedures and require new medical waste treatment technology to be reviewed and approved by the state.
Allow Local Cable Right Of Way Fee Rule Exception
SB 108 Passed 108-0
Next: Sent to the Senate for consideration
The bill would amend the Metropolitan Extension Telecommunications Rights-of-Way Oversight (METRO) Act to revise the deadline by which a municipality could opt to receive funds under the Act.
Uniform Securities Act
HB 5008 Passed 106-1
HB 5009 Passed 107-1
HB 5010 Passed 108-0
HB 5011 Passed 108-0
HB 5012 Passed 108-0
HB 5014 Passed 108-0
HB 5015 Passed 107-0
HB 5016 Passed 107-0
HB 5017 Passed 107-0
HB 5018 Passed 106-0
HB 5019 Passed 107-0
HB 5020 Passed 107-0
HB 5022 Passed 107-0
HB 5023 Passed 106-0
HB 5024 Passed 107-0
Next: Sent to the Senate for consideration
This package would create the Uniform Securities Act (2002), which is designed to coordinate federal and state securities legislation, and is an effort to give states regulatory and enforcement authority that blends with federal regulation and enforcement in a more efficient system for investor protection. These bills protect consumers from unscrupulous investors.