State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) joined Governor Gretchen Whitmer for the signing of House Bill 4550 Wednesday, October 23, 2019. The law requires the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to improve screening procedures for court-appointed guardians. Introduced by Rep. Brenda Carter, the bill would require DHHS to include fingerprint-based criminal record checks and child abuse and child neglect central registry checks on successor guardians and all adults living in the successor guardian’s home.
Sens. Rosemary Bayer (D–Beverly Hills), Stephanie Chang (D–Detroit) and Jeremy Moss (D–Southfield), along with Reps. Robert Wittenberg (D–Huntington Woods), Brenda Carter (D–Pontiac) and Jon Hoadley (D–Kalamazoo) announced a bill package to expand universal background checks for guns to cover all types of firearms, at a Capitol press conference Wednesday, December 4, 2019.
State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) in committee on Wednesday, May 8, 2019.
A coalition of Michigan House and Senate legislators introduced a plan today to guarantee pay equity for all residents of the state, on Wednesday, May 22, 2019. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, without any policy interventions to ensure equal status for women, the disparity in wages between men and women will not end in Michigan until the year 2059. House Bills 4629-40 and Senate Bills 328-39 were introduced to close that significant pay gap.
State Reps. Kristy Pagan (D-Canton), Matt Koleszar (D-Plymouth), Lori Stone (D-Warren), Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) and Sheryl Kennedy (D-Davison) submitted a bill to repeal the mandatory retention part of Michigan’s third-grade reading law, on Wednesday, May 8, 2019. Only 44 percent of Michigan third-graders passed the M-Step reading test administered in April 2018. Under current law, the 2019-20 school year marks the first year that third graders will be retained. Without this change, we are setting up hundreds of Michigan children for failure. Research clearly shows that retaining a student is not an effective strategy to improve student achievement. In fact, data from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that retention does not reliably boost student achievement, and that retained students are much more likely to drop out of school than students who have not been retained.
State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) welcomed members of the Michigan Association of School Boards to the Capitol on Wednesday, April 17, 2019.
State Reps. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) and Tyrone Carter (D-Detroit) listen to testimony in the House Education Committee on Tuesday, March 13, 2019.
State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) in the House Education Committee on Tuesday, March 13, 2019.
State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) welcomed Bishop William H. Murphy, Jr., of New Mount Moriah International Church, for the invocation on Wednesday, February 20, 2019.
State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) escorted the state officers into the House chambers for the State of the State address Tuesday, February 12, 2019
State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) introduced a resolution to dedicate January as Local School Board Recognition Month, on Wednesday, January 23, 2019. There are 600 school boards or boards of education managing and overseeing the school districts in Michigan. The resolution passed unanimously.

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