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Legislative office employees at the Michigan House are currently engaged in an organizing campaign with Teamsters Local 243, the union said Monday, confirming a report MIRS published earlier in the month.

Payday loan operators in Michigan could not charge customers more than a 36 percent annual interest rate under legislation the Senate approved Thursday, 24-13.

As a Senate committee moves forward in adopting legislation to extend sales and use tax exemptions to Michigan-placed data centers, environmentalists are awaiting guardrails to monitor data centers' water and energy consumption.

If a child is at least five years old, their parents or legal guardians would be required to send them to kindergarten under legislation being spearheaded by Senate Education Chair Dayna Polehanki (D-Livonia).

Former GOP Sen. Wayne Schmidt and former Democratic House member LaMar Lemmons III, both of whom have worked on legislative staff