Blog tagged as Legislature

Three bills that require legislators or executive officials from registering as a lobbyist for two years after leaving office and ban sitting legislators from registering as lobbyists in other states passed the House on Thursday with more than 90 votes each.

More than a year has passed since a Detroit Free Press editorial piece called Lansing a “sad little town,” advocating for the state capital to be moved back to Detroit.

Rep. Bill G. Schuette, the incoming chair of the House Rules Committee, said his committee will take up bills that change administrative rule promulgation authority and bills that need extra work, with the intent of avoiding major changes from being made in floor substitutes in the future.

In the midst of the flap last year over one of the governor's appointees spending a wad of money on an office coffeemaker, Rep. Joseph Aragona (R-Clinton Township) fashioned a bill to ferret out more suspected government wasteful spending.

As the story about the nine bills from last session sitting in the House clerk's office continues, MIRS learned Thursday of a similar situation from 15 years ago that may be relevant to the conversation today.