Michigan
April 29: Michigan Legislative Roll Call
Home Invoice 4842, Revise state liquor wholesale charge element: Handed 33 to 2 within the Senate
To permit liquor makers to get the next wholesale worth if 40 p.c of the grain they use is grown in Michigan. Beneath Michigan’s terribly detailed “liquor management” regulatory regime, the state authorities is the only real statewide wholesaler of all distilled liquor, and sells to retailers at uniform statewide costs.
- Y Rick Outman (R) Six Lakes, Sen. Dist. 33
- Y Curt VanderWall (R) Ludington, Sen. Dist. 35
Home Invoice 5968, Create state “opioid therapeutic and restoration fund”: Handed 89 to 10 within the Home
To create a segregated state account (“fund”) to carry cash extracted from pharmaceutical corporations in lawsuits associated to their gross sales of opioid ache killers, and spend it in a way in step with the “judgment, settlement, or compromise of claims” in authorized settlements with sure drug producers (known as the “Janssen settlement” and the “Nationwide Prescription Opiate Litigation”).
- Y Jason Wentworth (R) Clare, Rep. Dist. 97
- Y Scott VanSingel (R) Grant, Rep. Dist. 100
- N Michele Hoitenga (R) Manton, Rep. Dist. 102
Senate Invoice 627, Undertake one other remonumentation of Michigan-Indiana state line plan: Handed 99 to 0 within the Home
To create a Michigan-Indiana state line fee comprised of the county surveyors of Berrien, Cass, St. Joseph, Department, and Hillsdale counties, to supervise a survey and remonumentation of the Michigan-Indiana state line. This could be paid for from an current state account that collects charges on recording deeds. It will be the eighth regulation handed prior to now 20 years associated to this activity.
- Y Jason Wentworth (R) Clare, Rep. Dist. 97
- Y Scott VanSingel (R) Grant, Rep. Dist. 100
- Y Michele Hoitenga (R) Manton, Rep. Dist. 102
Senate Invoice 258, Mandate newspapers submit printed authorized notices on free web site: Handed 61 to 38 within the Home
To require a newspaper wherein authorities authorized notices are revealed to additionally place these on a bit of an internet site that may be accessed at no cost. (Be aware: Earlier than the web even most small communities had each day or weekly newspapers, and state legal guidelines required them to publish sure native authorities notices to the general public, for which they have been paid. Because the twenty first century advances these legal guidelines have been modified to mirror modifications in know-how and the newspaper business, with some modifications opposed by newspapers beforehand paid to run the notices.)
- Y Jason Wentworth (R) Clare, Rep. Dist. 97
- Y Scott VanSingel (R) Grant, Rep. Dist. 100
- Y Michele Hoitenga (R) Manton, Rep. Dist. 102
Home Invoice 5512, Resolve medical marijuana regulation/drug court docket regulation battle: Handed 87 to 16 within the Home
To make clear that the place there are inconsistencies between the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act and sure components of the revised judicature act of 1961 associated to drug remedy courts, the provisions of the latter are those that apply. As a result of the invoice amends an initiated regulation positioned on the poll by a petition drive, amending it requires a three-fourths majority within the Home and Senate. The invoice addresses a problem in “drug specialty courts” of judges excluding defendants who use “medical marijuana.”
- Y Jason Wentworth (R) Clare, Rep. Dist. 97
- Y Scott VanSingel (R) Grant, Rep. Dist. 100
- Y Michele Hoitenga (R) Manton, Rep. Dist. 102
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Y = Sure, N = No, X = Not Voting