Blog tagged as Legislature

The Senate version of legislation undoing Michigan’s "No Stricter Than Federal" environmental regulation statute is headed to the Governor’s desk after passing along partisan lines in the House Wednesday, reopening the door for state agencies to consider more stringent non-emergency restrictions.

More than $87 billion in state spending for this fiscal year and next – making up 1,600 pages of bill text – was revealed in a joint House-Senate appropriations subcommittee a little after 3 p.m. Wednesday and then passed by both the House and Senate without changes around 10 p.m.

As the Legislature gears up to pass a record budget for next year totaling nearly $81 billion, MIRS has laid out the 10 significant, big-dollar differences between the Governor's proposed budget and the spending plans passed by the House and Senate.

Only six bills have passed the House with unanimous support so far in 2023, marking a massive decline over the past 10 sessions based on an analysis conducted by MIRS.

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson asked a legislative panel Thursday to give her department subpoena power to investigate campaign finance or lobbying law violations as a way to help bring Michigan from “worst to first” in government transparency and ethics requirements.