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 Avenue, Lansing, Michigan) 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 May 12, 2014: Committee Meetings
Energy and Technology
Date: Tuesday, May 13
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Room 519, House Office Building
Agenda:
HB 5555 – (Rep. Nesbitt) – Public utilities; natural gas utilities; infrastructure expansion investment costs for certain underserved or unserved areas; allow natural gas utilities to recover.
HB 5556 – (Rep. Townsend) – Natural resources; gas and oil; administrative fines for certain pipeline violations; modify.
HB 5557 – (Rep. Nesbitt) – Public utilities; public service commission; assessment of certain fines or penalties; prohibit.
Detroit’s Recovery and Michigan’s Future
Date: Tuesday, May 13
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 352, House Office Building
HB 5566 – (Rep. Walsh) – State financing and management; authorities; oversight commission act; create.
HB 5567 – (Rep. Kivela) – Cities; home rule; chief financial officer for a city with a population of more than 600,000; require, and require 4-year financial plan.
HB 5568 – (Rep. Haines) – Cities; home rule; base pay to calculate pension benefit in a defined benefit plan established by a city with a population of more than 600,000; provide for, and provide a defined contribution plan and elimination of retiree health benefits for new hires after December 31, 2014.
HB 5569 – (Rep. LaFontaine) – Labor; public service employment; opt-out for public employee contribution to employer-provider health care benefits; modify.
HB 5570 – (Rep. Yonker) – Retirement; pension oversight; oversight of certain pensions of cities with a population of more than 600,000; provide for.
HB 5571 – (Rep. Goike) – Local government; authorities; art institute authorities act; remove authorization to levy a new tax or renew an existing tax.
HB 5572 – (Rep. Olumba) – State financing and management; funds; budget stabilization fund distributions; modify.
HB 5573 – (Rep. Talabi) – State financing and management; funds; Michigan trust fund act; allow allocation of certain revenues into the budget stabilization fund; provide for.
HB 5574 – (Rep. Stallworth) – State financing and management; funds; budget stabilization fund distribution; provide for.
HB 5575 – (Rep. Durhal) – State financing and management; authorities; Michigan settlement administration authority; create.
Transportation and Infrastructure
Date: Tuesday, May 13
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 521, House Office Building
Agenda:
HB 4916 – (Rep. Brown) – Traffic control; traffic regulation; solicitation of charitable donations in public right-of-way; allow under certain circumstances.
HB 4985 – (Rep. Kosowski) – Highways; name; certain portion of M-153; designate as the “Firefighter Brian Woehlke Memorial Highway”.
Health Policy
Date: Tuesday, May 13
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 519, House Office Building
HB 5247: – (Rep. Nesbitt) – Health facilities; hospitals; lifeguard requirement; exempt certain hospital-owned health and wellness center pools.
SB 713 – (Sen. Booher) – Mental health; community mental health; powers of governing board of a community mental health services authority; expand.
HB 5176 – (Rep. Cotter) – Health; occupations; report or allegation of misconduct by a licensed health care professional; prohibit department from investigating if based on information seen on a reality television show
Oversight
Date: Tuesday, May 13
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Location: Room 326, House Office Building
Agenda:
Hearing on Hailstorm/Stingray type surveillance devices.
Expert testimony from:
Christopher Soghoian, Principal Technologist and Senior Policy Analyst at the National ACLU
Brian Owsley, former United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Texas and professor at Texas Tech University School of Law
Natural Resources
Date: Tuesday, May 13
Time: Noon
Location: Room 307, House Office Building
Agenda:
HB 4874 – (Rep. Goike) – Environmental protection; sewage; requirement to dispose of septage waste at receiving facilities; eliminate sunset on exemption for owners of certain storage facilities.
HB 5361 – (Rep. Smiley) – Natural resources; hunting; small game hunting from a personal assistive mobility device; allow.
SB 759 – (Sen. Casperson) – Natural resources; hunting; prohibition on person holding a fur dealer’s license from holding a license to trap beaver; remove.
Regulatory Reform
Date: Wednesday, May 14
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Location: Room 521, House Office Building
Agenda:
HB 5426 – (Rep. Hovey-Wright) – Liquor; licenses; scope of farmer’s market permits; expand to include micro brewers.
HB 5427 – (Rep. Schor) – Liquor; licenses; scope of farmer’s market permits; expand to include micro brewers.
HB 5317 – (Rep. McCready) – Water; quality; testing lawn sprinkler backflow preventers; reduce frequency.
HB 5318 – (Rep. McCready) – Construction; plumbing; testing lawn sprinkler backflow preventers; reduce frequency.
SB 494 – (Sen. Caswell) – Occupations; community planners; registration, application, and examination fees for community planners; repeal.
SB 476 – (Sen. Hildenbrand) – Occupations; auctioneers; licensing of auctioneers in occupational code; repeal.
SB 477 – (Sen. Hildenbrand) – Occupations; licensing fees; registration, application, and examination fees for auctioneers; repeal.
SB 479 – (Sen. Jansen) – Occupations; interior design; regulation of interior designers; repeal, and rescind administrative rules.
SB 607 – (Sen. Kahn) – Occupations; ocularists; registration fee for ocularists; repeal.
SB 878 – (Sen. Jones) – Gaming; bingo and charitable gaming; millionaire parties; provide for general amendments.
Agriculture
Date: Wednesday, May 14
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Room 307, House Office Building
Agenda:
HB 5439 – (Rep. Daley) – Agriculture; other; industrial hemp; authorize research.
HB 5440 – (Rep. Pettalia) – Controlled substances; marihuana; definition of “marihuana”; revise to exclude industrial hemp grown or cultivated for research.
Appropriations
Date: Wednesday, May 14
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Room 352, Capitol Building
Agenda:
HB 5414 – (Rep. Haveman) – Traffic control; other; certain driver responsibility fees; shorten assessment period and provide for sunset.
HB 5501 – (Rep. Talabi) – Traffic control; other; driver responsibility fee assessment; remove from definition of “license sanction” pertaining to enhanced driver licenses.
SB 893 – (Sen. Kahn) – Use tax; collections; assessment of tax on health maintenance organizations; provide for.
SB 913 – (Sen. Kahn) – Taxation; health insurance claims; assessment on carriers and third party administrators; provide for reduction under certain circumstances.
Tax Policy
Date: Wednesday, May 14
Time: 9 a.m.
Location: Room 519, House Office Building
Agenda:
SB 536 – (Sen. Proos) – Economic development; other; short-term abatement program; provide for.
SB 425 – (Sen. Brandenburg) – Property tax; principal residence exemption; exemption for trust-owned property; revise.
SB 473 – (Sen. Brandenburg) – Individual income tax; withholding requirements; flow-through entities that have entered into certain housing agreements; eliminate withholding requirement.
Criminal Justice
Date: Wednesday, May 14
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 327, House Office Building
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 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 5088 – (Rep. Kivela) – Law enforcement; other; reporting certain methamphetamine-related offenses to department of state police; require, and prohibit sale of ephedrine or pseudoephedrine to individual convicted of methamphetamine-related offense without a prescription.
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.
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.
Commerce
Date: Wednesday, May 14
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 519, House Office Building
Agenda:
HB 5478 – (Rep. Graves) – Worker’s compensation; administration; private employer group self-insurers security fund; create.
HB 5479 – (Rep. Graves) – Worker’s compensation; administration; liability of various self-insurer funds; establish.
HB 5480 – (Rep. Graves) – Worker’s compensation; administration; trustee authorization of payments from the private employer group self-insurers security fund; provide for.
HB 5481 – (Rep. Graves) – Worker’s compensation; administration; reimbursement from second injury fund; provide for private employer group self-insurers security fund.
HB 5482 – (Rep. Graves) – Worker’s compensation; administration; reimbursement from the compensation supplement fund; provide for the private employer group self-insurers security find.
HB 5483 – (Rep. Santana) – Worker’s compensation; administration; authority to assess for insufficiencies in the private employer group self-insurers security fund; establish.
HB 5484 – (Rep. Santana) – Worker’s compensation; administration; attorney general representation of the private employer group self-insurers security fund; provide for.
HB 5485 – (Rep. Santana) – Worker’s compensation; administration; rights against insolvent employer; establish for private employer group self-insurers security fund.
HB 5486 – (Rep. Santana) – Worker’s compensation; administration; availability of certain records; provide for private employer group self-insurers security fund.
HB 5487 – (Rep. Phelps) – Worker’s compensation; administration; calculation of and increased assessment limits for certain claims; authorize and provide for audits and for sanctions for delinquent payments.
HB 5488 – (Rep. Kosowski) – Worker’s compensation; administration; reimbursement for delinquent carriers; restrict.
HB 5489 – (Rep. Jacobsen) – Worker’s compensation; administration; certain payments from the self-insurers’ security fund; authorize.
HB 5490 – (Rep. Foster) – Worker’s compensation; administration; rights of certain funds; establish as same as an employer or carrier.
Families, Children and Seniors
Date: Wednesday, May 14
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Location: Room 308, House Office Building
Agenda:
HB 5472 – (Rep. Rendon) – Family law; child support; alternative contempt track docket for certain individuals behind in child support; create.
HB 5508 – (Rep. Zorn) – Family law; child support; office of child support to develop an electronically accessible registry containing names of individuals with outstanding child support to intercept gambling winnings; establish.
HB 5509 – (Rep. MacGregor) – Gaming; casinos; distribution of casino winnings for child support arrearages; update to reflect payment to the state disbursement unit.
HB 5512 – (Rep. Kurtz) – Human services; services or financial assistance; eligibility for family independence program assistance benefits; deny for certain noncompliance with child support provisions.
HB 5338 – (Rep. MacGregor) – Children; protection; provision related to access to certain documents, reports, or records; provide for.
HB 5341 – (Rep. Hooker) – Human services; county services; certain documents received from another agency or department; exempt from freedom of information act.
HB 5473 – (Rep. Lori) – Family law; paternity; court refusal to enter an order setting aside a paternity determination revoking an acknowledgment of parentage; allow under certain circumstances.
HB 5510 – (Rep. Kurtz) – Family law; paternity; acknowledgment of parentage process; modify.
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, May 14
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 326, House Office Building
SB 664 – (Sen. Kowall) – Consumer credit; debt management; debt management act; make general revisions.
Detroit’s Recovery and Michigan’s Future
Date: Wednesday, May 14
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Location: Room 352, House Office Building
Same as above
Joint Committee on Administrative Rules
Date: Wednesday, May 14
Time: 3:30 p.m. Location: 402/403 Capitol Building
Agenda:
Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs: Elevators – (JCAR #14-08) (2012-009 LR)
Tourism
Date: Thursday, May 15
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 327, House Office Building
HB 5553 – (Rep. Franz) – Recreation; trails; statewide trail network; include Pure Michigan Trails and provide for trail operators and funding.
HB 5559 – (Rep. Pagel) – Recreation; trails; statewide trail network; include Pure Michigan Trails and provide for trail maintenance.
SB 873 – (Sen. Moolenaar) – Recreation; trails; statewide trail network; include Pure Michigan Trails and provide for Pure Michigan Water Trails and Pure Michigan Trail Towns.
SB 875 – (Sen. Hildenbrand) – Recreation; trails; statewide trail network; include Pure Michigan trails and provide definitions.
SB 876 – (Sen. Hansen) – Recreation; trails; statewide trail network; include Pure Michigan Trails and provide for trail maintenance.
SB 877 – (Sen. Casperson) – Recreation; trails; statewide trail network; include Pure Michigan Trails and provide for trails advisory council oversight of water trails.
Insurance
Date: Thursday, May 15
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.
Presentation from the Griffith Foundation
Local Government
Date: Thursday, May 15 Time: 10:30 a.m.
Location: Room 521, House Office Building
HB 5560 – (Rep. Price) – Local government; other; publication of legal notices; revise, and create the local government public notice act.
SB 680 – (Sen. Kowall) – Natural resources; inland lakes; county authority to designate use of public road end for purpose of installing a seasonal dock; prohibit county road commission from exercising.
HB 5398 – (Rep. Bumstead) – Property tax; exemptions; acquisition of certain property by foreclosing governmental unit; authorize.
HB 5457 – (Rep. Lane) – Counties; charter; number of charter commissioners required for counties with a population over 600,000; modify.
Detroit’s Recovery and Michigan’s Future
Date: Thursday, May 15
Time: 1:30 p.m.
Location: Room 352, House Office Building
Agenda:
Same as above