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The officers in the Detroit Police Department's mental health department aren't your regular gun-toting, blue-uniformed cops. Instead, they're unarmed officers wearing khaki green uniforms.

An Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention would be established within the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to help veterans navigate behavioral health challenges like Rep. William Bruck (R-Erie) described in testimony under HB 5276.

A two-bill package requiring hotels and rental car companies to provide customers with their policy on smoking fees before renting a vehicle or a room received opposition in committee Wednesday from the lodging and rental car industry association.

A House panel is looking to wrangle together post-mortem care regulations amid an atmosphere described by Paul Gittler, CEO of Macomb County-based funeral home provider Heritage Services, as the “Wild West.”

The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is putting $1.3 million from the opioid settlement toward keeping babies exposed to addictive drugs with mothers in the same room after birth.