2011 House Bill 4158: Repeal item pricing mandatePublic Act 15 of 2011
Introduced by Rep. Lisa Lyons R-Alto on January 27, 2011
To repeal the state’s “item pricing” law, which mandates retailers place price tags on every item of merchandise, with certain exceptions. The measure was recommended by Gov. Rick Snyder in his first State of the State address.
Official Text and Analysis.
Referred to the House Commerce Committee on January 27, 2011
Reported in the House on February 15, 2011
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered in the House on February 15, 2011
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that has a $100,000 appropriation for a "public awareness" campaign, and revises other details.
The substitute passed by voice vote in the House on February 15, 2011
Amendment offered by Rep. Tim Melton D-Auburn Hills on February 15, 2011
To require that a retail customer who seeks to collect the penalty bonus from a retailer who overcharges for an item due to a scanner error must have a receipt that CLEARLY describes the item.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on February 15, 2011
Amendment offered by Rep. Vicki Barnett D-Farmington Hills on February 15, 2011
To extend prohibitions on certain improper merchandise marketing techniques (like "bait and switch," etc.) to real estate sales, and insert in this statute also provisions from the civil rights law banning discrimination in retail marketing.
Amendment offered by Rep. Kate Segal D-Battle Creek on February 15, 2011
To prohibit a retailer from increasing the price on an item more than once a day.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on February 15, 2011
Amendment offered by Rep. Jon Switalski D-Warren on February 15, 2011
To strip out a $100,000 appropriation added to the bill to pay for a public awareness campaign about the proposed item price law changes.
The amendment failed by voice vote in the House on February 15, 2011
To repeal the state’s “item pricing” law, which mandates retailers place price tags on every item of merchandise, with certain exceptions. The measure was recommended by Gov. Rick Snyder in his first State of the State address
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Received in the Senate on February 17, 2011
Referred to the Senate Economic Development Committee on February 17, 2011
Reported in the Senate on March 9, 2011
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Amendment offered by Sen. Virgil Smith D-Detroit on March 15, 2011
To give additional retail price marking enforcement duties to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Amendment offered by Sen. John Gleason D-Flushing on March 15, 2011
To retain the item pricing mandate for nonpresciption drugs.
Amendment offered by Sen. Glenn Anderson D-Westland on March 15, 2011
To increase the penalties for retail scanner errors.
Amendment offered by Sen. Tupac Hunter D-Detroit on March 15, 2011
To not repeal the item pricing mandate, but allow stores a limited number of exemptions for items they choose.
Amendment offered by Sen. Virgil Smith D-Detroit on March 15, 2011
To not appropriate $100,000 for a public information campaign about the repeal of this law.
Amendment offered by Sen. Coleman Young, II D-Detroit on March 15, 2011
To prohibit a retailer from increasing the price on an item more than once a day.
Amendment offered by Sen. Virgil Smith D-Detroit on March 15, 2011
To require the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to prepare a report after six months on whether retail stores reduced the number of employees overall because they no longer were mandated to put price tags on every item.
Amendment offered by Sen. Morris Hood, III D-Detroit on March 15, 2011
To not repeal the item pricing mandate, but allow stores a limited number of exemptions for items they choose.
To repeal the state’s “item pricing” law, which mandates that retailers must place price tags on every item of merchandise, with certain exceptions. The measure was recommended by Gov. Rick Snyder.
Motion in the Senate on March 15, 2011
To allow the repeal of the item pricing mandate to go into effect immediately. Without this "immediate effect" vote, retailers will have to keep putting price tags on ever item until March, 2012.
Motion in the Senate on March 16, 2011
Moved to reconsider in the Senate on March 17, 2011
The vote by which the bill was passed.
The motion passed by voice vote in the Senate on March 17, 2011
Received in the Senate on March 17, 2011
To repeal the state’s “item pricing” law, which mandates retailers place price tags on every item of merchandise, with certain exceptions. The measure was recommended by Gov. Rick Snyder, and will now go into effect on Sept. 1, 2011.
Motion in the Senate on March 17, 2011
To give the bill immediate effect.
Received in the House on March 17, 2011
Amendment offered by Sen. Mike Kowall R-White Lake on March 17, 2011
To make the item pricing repeal effective as of takes effect Sept. 1, 2011.
The amendment passed by voice vote in the Senate on March 17, 2011
To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill, which made the repeal effective as of Sept. 1, 2011.
Signed by Gov. Rick Snyder on March 28, 2011