Michigan Legislature

Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966 that set up the biannual time change.

The Michigan Senate voted Thursday to extend protections for health care systems that take part in a federal drug affordability program.

State House Republicans without advance notice Thursday muscled through a $20 billion dollar bare-bones budget, touching off a rancorous floor fight and setting up a showdown with the Senate Democratic majority.

A Michigan Court of Claims judge has ruled the Republican-controlled Michigan House should send nine bills being held in the clerk’s office to Governor Gretchen Whitmer for her to sign or veto. But the judge stopped short of issuing a court order to comply with the decision.

A group of seven conservative GOP legislators put their names on a non-binding resolution Tuesday calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the landmark decision that struck down same-sex marriage bans —including Michigan’s dormant amendment.

The Michigan House voted Tuesday to keep lawmakers from signing non-disclosure agreements.The practice has come under scrutiny in recent years as some lawmakers and state officials have signed NDAs as part of talks to bring some economic development projects.

A dispute between the state Senate Democratic majority and Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Twp.) landed Monday before a Michigan Court of Claims judge who spent more than an hour listening to arguments regarding nine bills being held in legislative limbo.

The bill cut the extra 32 hours of unpaid sick leave for small businesses but kept the 72 hours of paid leave for larger businesses. It also gives small businesses until October to comply with the sick leave law.

Under the bills, lawmakers, statewide elected officials, and department heads would have to wait at least two years after their term to become a lobbyist.

The final legal briefs were filed this week in a lawsuit that pits state Senate Democrats against House Republicans for failing to send bills adopted by both chambers to Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Is this leading the state Capitol toward its own constitutional crisis?