In order to help make our state government more transparent and accessible to my constituents, each week that there is session I am going to post to my website a synopsis of the work each House committee will do for the week. This will include the time and location for the meeting as well as any bills or presentations the committee will hear. Each agenda item will include the bill number, the sponsor, and a brief summary of the legislation. If you would like to read in greater detail about any of these bills, you can read them in their full-text at www.legislature.mi.gov.
Please also note that you and your neighbors are welcome to observe any committee meeting or legislative session. Most House committee meetings are in the House Office Building (124 N. Capitol Ave. in Lansing) but some convene in the Capitol across the street.
As your elected officials, it is our job to conduct legislative business with efficiency and transparency. I hope you find these posts helpful and please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any additional questions or concerns.
Week of June 2, 2014: Committee Meetings
Regulatory Reform
Date: Tuesday, June 3
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Room 521, House Office Building
Agenda:
HB 5095 – (Rep. McCready) – Animals; animal shelters; pet shop, dog pound, and animal shelters act; modify to include large-scale commercial dog breeders and to make other general revisions.
Energy and Technology
Date: Tuesday, June 3
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Room 519, House Office Building
Agenda:
HB 5612 – (Rep. Shirkey) – Public utilities; consumer services; use of money in utility consumer representation fund; modify.
HB 5397 – (Rep. Haveman) – Energy; alternative sources; residential renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements; provide for local financing of in communities with municipal electric utilities
Transportation and Infrastructure
Date: Tuesday, June 3
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 521, House Office Building
Agenda:
HB 4814 – (Rep. Zorn) – Highways; name; renaming a bridge on US-24; designate as the “Matt Urban Memorial Bridge”.
HB 5142 – (Rep. McCready) – Traffic control; other; fee for commercial look-up service; provide for additional fee for web portal development, and allow private entities to provide a commercial look-up service.
SB 803 – (Sen. Kahn) – Property; state buildings; official residences; provide for operation, maintenance, and improvement.
Health Policy
Date: Tuesday, June 3
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 519, House Office Building
SB 690 – (Sen. Moolenaar) – Occupations; physical therapists; prescription requirement; eliminate under certain circumstances.
SB 691 – (Sen. Warren) – Insurance; health care corporations; reimbursement for physical therapy services; allow health care corporation to withhold unless patient has a prescription from a licensed health professional.
SB 692 – (Sen. Casperson) – Insurance; prudent purchaser agreements; reimbursement for physical therapy services; allow insurance companies to withhold unless patient has a prescription from a licensed health professional.
SB 693 – (Sen. Hildenbrand) – Worker’s compensation; benefits; reimbursement for physical therapy services; allow employer to withhold unless patient has a prescription from a licensed health professional.
SB 694 – (Sen. Green) – Insurance; health; reimbursement for physical therapy services; allow insurers to withhold unless patient has a prescription from a licensed health professional.
SB 853 – (Sen. Jones) – Health; occupations; refraction of human eye and issuance of prescriptions for spectacles or contact lenses; prohibit by unlicensed individuals.
Oversight
Date: Tuesday, June 3
Time: Noon
Location: Room 326, House Office Building
Agenda:
HB 5081 – (Rep. McMillin) – Law enforcement; reports; reports of disposition of certain forfeited property; require, and provide a penalty for failing to report.
HB 5250 – (Rep. McMillin) – Criminal procedure; forfeiture; uniform forfeiture reporting act; enact.
HB 5251 – (Rep. Robinson) – Criminal procedure; forfeiture; reports of disposition of certain forfeited property; amend public health code to require, and provide a penalty for failing to report.
HB 5252 – (Rep. Callton) – Criminal procedure; forfeiture; seizure and forfeiture of property for abatement of nuisance to be reported to the department of state police under the uniform forfeiture reporting act; require.
HB 5610 – (Rep. Denby) – Legislature; other; journal of the Senate and House of Representatives; revise number of copies to be printed and bound.
Natural Resources
Date: Tuesday, June 3
Time: Noon
Location: Room 307, House Office Building
Agenda:
SB 444 – (Sen. Casperson) – Natural resources; nonnative species; permits for treatment of aquatic invasive species; revise, and authorize certain local ordinances.
SB 613 – (Sen. Booher) – Natural resources; wildlife; game killed by a vehicle; allow salvaging of.
HR 381 – (Rep. LaFontaine) – A resolution to call on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw their proposed rule expanding the definition of “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act.
HCR 31 – (Rep. LaFontaine) – A concurrent resolution to call on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw their proposed rule expanding the definition of “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act.
Tax Policy
Date: Wednesday, June 4
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Room 519, House Office Building
Agenda:
SB 156 – (Sen. Brandenburg) – Michigan business tax; administration; gross receipts, certain credit and apportionment provisions; modify to clarify original intent.
HB 5552 – (Rep. Pettalia) – Property tax; assessments; definition of transfer of ownership; exclude certain transfers to a trust.
SB 327 – (Sen. Robertson) – Taxation; administration; certain guidelines used by employees involved in the administration, collection, or auditing of taxes; clarify.
HB 5034 – (Rep. Cavanagh) – Property tax; delinquent taxes; sales of tax reverted property; revise conditions for purchase.
HB 4882 – (Rep. Cavanagh) – Property tax; delinquent taxes; interest imposed on delinquent taxes in distressed communities; revise.
Agriculture
Date: Wednesday, June 4
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Room 307, House Office Building
Agenda:
SB 685 – (Sen. Booher) – Agriculture; weights and measures; date reference in handbook; revise to 2013.
HB 5432 – (Rep. MacMaster) – Natural resources; nonnative species; status of native swine; clarify.
HB 5379 – (Rep. Outman) – Counties; boards and commissions; act authorizing a county to levy a special tax or appropriate from the county general fund for the purpose of advertising agricultural advantages; repeal.
Presentation on the Karegnondi Water Authority and its Impact on Agriculture
Appropriations
Date: Wednesday, June 4
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Room 352, Capitol Building
Agenda:
SB 678 – (Sen. Kahn) – Taxation; tobacco; distribution of tobacco products tax revenue; modify.
HB 5608 – (Rep. Schmidt) – Public employees and officers; compensation and benefits; survivor health benefits for certain public safety officers killed in the line of duty; provide for surviving spouse and dependents.
HB 5507 – (Rep. MacGregor) – Human services; county services; county administrative rate for foster care services; eliminate.
Criminal Justice
Date: Wednesday, June 4
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 327, House Office Building
HR 382 – (Rep. Roberts) – A resolution to urge the Congress of the United States to approve President Obama’s budget proposal to provide $35 million to help communities process evidence from untested sexual assault kits.
HCR 32 – (Rep. Roberts) – A concurrent resolution to urge the Congress of the United States to approve President Obama’s budget proposal to provide $35 million to help communities process evidence from untested sexual assault kits.
SB 535 – (Sen. Proos) – Criminal procedure; other; methamphetamine offenders registry; create, and require offenders to obtain a prescription to purchase ephedrine or pseudoephedrine products for a period of 10 years.
SB 756 – (Sen. Proos) – Crimes; other; selling or furnishing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine without a prescription to individual previously convicted of methamphetamine-related offense; prohibit under certain circumstances.
HB 5363 – (Rep. Price) – Crimes; controlled substances; purchasing or possessing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine knowing or having reason to know it is intended to be used to manufacture methamphetamine; prohibit, and provide a penalty.
SB 563 – (Sen. Proos) – Criminal procedure; sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for crime of purchasing or possessing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine knowing that it will be combined with any other quantity of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine for the purpose of manufacturing or attempting to manufacture methamphetamine; enact.
HB 5089 – (Rep. Genetski) – Crimes; controlled substances; purchasing or attempting to purchase ephedrine or pseudoephedrine knowing that it will be combined with any other quantity of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine for the purpose of manufacturing or attempting to manufacture methamphetamine; prohibit and provide a penalty.
HB 5090 – (Rep. Nesbitt) – Criminal procedure; sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for crime of purchasing or attempting to purchase ephedrine or pseudoephedrine knowing that it will be combined with any other quantity of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine for the purpose of manufacturing or attempting to manufacture methamphetamine; enact.
Education
Date: Wednesday, June 4
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 307, House Office Building
SB 66 – (Sen. Proos) – Education; graduation requirements; Michigan merit curriculum; revise.
SB 817 – (Sen. Pappageorge) – Education; teachers; implementation dates for performance evaluation requirements for teachers and school administrators; modify.
Commerce
Date: Wednesday, June 4
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 519, House Office Building
Agenda:
SB 900 – (Sen. Brandenburg) – Worker’s compensation; funds; limitations on reimbursement from the Michigan compensation supplement fund; modify
HB 5390 – (Rep. Cotter) – Civil procedure; garnishment; writ of garnishment regarding periodic payments; modify liability of garnishee.
HB 5391 – (Rep. McCready) – Labor; fair employment practices; deductions from wages without written consent of employee; include certain reimbursements related to garnishment.
Detroit’s Recovery and Michigan’s Future
Date: Wednesday, June 4
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Location: Room 352, State Capitol Building
Agenda:
HB 5600 – (Rep. Walsh) – Public employees and officers; ethics; membership of a financial review commission; clarify exclusions from conflict of interest.
Families, Children and Seniors
Date: Wednesday, June 4
Time: Noon
Location: Room 308, House Office Building
Agenda:
SB 520 – (Sen. Emmons) – Crime victims; restitution; restitution orders for crime of nonpayment of support; clarify.
SB 521 – (Sen. Emmons) – Family law; child support; authority of friend of the court to issue subpoenas for show cause and notice to appear; allow, and provide for other general amendments.
SB 522 – (Sen. Caswell) – Family law; child support; certain fees; repeal.
SB 526 – (Sen. Caswell) – Family law; child support; assignments of support process; modify.
SB 527 – (Sen. Caswell) – Civil procedure; costs and fees; fees for actions involving child custody, support, or parenting time; require payment at time action is filed.
SB 528 – (Sen. Nofs) – Gaming; lottery; distribution of lottery winnings for child support arrearages; update to reflect payment to the state disbursement unit.
SB 529 – (Sen. Caswell) – Family law; child support; allocation and distribution determination authority; modify.
SB 530 – (Sen. Caswell) – Family law; friend of the court; powers and duties of office of child support; modify, and provide other general amendments.
Financial Services
Date: Wednesday, June 4
Time: Noon
Location: Room 326, House Office Building
HB 5593 – (Rep. Pettalia) – Financial institutions; loan officers; origination of mortgage loans on behalf of a depository institution or the loan officer’s sponsor; allow.
Appropriation: Subcommittee on School Aid
Date: Thursday, June 5
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Room 352, State Capitol Building
Agenda:
Quarterly Report by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan on Deficit Districts
Conference Committee on SB 768
Date: Thursday, June 5
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Senate Appropriations, State Capitol Building
SB 768 – (Sen. Schuitmaker) – Appropriations; zero budget; higher education; provide for fiscal year 2014-2015.
Insurance
Date: Thursday, June 4
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 519, House Office Building
HB 4926 – (Rep. Callton) – Vehicles; title; access to salvage or scrap certificate of title; allow for insurance companies under certain circumstances.
SB 715 – (Sen. Casperson) – Insurance; other; certificates of insurance model act; enact.