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An automated, electric bus may soon be carting visitors around Sleeping Bear Dunes after an Ann Arbor company was awarded a $250,000 grant, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II and National Park officials announced Monday.

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.

M-185, the state highway circling the car-less Mackinac Island, will have a speed limit of 15 miles per hour under legislation approved by the Senate on Tuesday. The legislation aims to regulate electric bicycles, with some capable of reaching 40 miles an hour.

Short-term rentals would have to pay a 6% excise tax under legislation that received testimony in the House Local Government and Municipal Finance Committee Wednesday.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sent a letter to Congress, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Small Business Administration asking for more ways to help winter businesses impacted by the lack of snow.