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Key votes on guns, same-sex adoptions, pensions, nanny-statism.
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Column Descriptions Senate Bill 34: Revise concealed pistol license procedures to eliminate county concealed pistol licensing boards, and transfer their duties to the State Police and county clerks. A similar bill passed by the previous legislature was vetoed by Gov. Rick Snyder due to some specific provisions which have been removed from this version, including one requiring a concealed pistol license be issued to the target of a personal protection order who is otherwise eligible for the permit • House Roll Call 16 on February 25, 2015. • Senate Roll Call 5 on February 3, 2015. Senate Bill 69: Extend business job training subsidy Foreverto extend until 2023 the sunset on a 2008 law that authorized state job training subsidies for particular employers provided through community colleges. Also, to revise details of a minimum wage condition on the subsidies. The House removed a Senate-passed provision prohibiting the beneficiary companies from also collecting certain other state subsidies and tax breaks. Senate Bill 71 would repeal a $50 million annual debt cap on the program • Senate Roll Call 21 on February 25, 2015. Senate Bill 69: Extend business job training subsidy to 2013to extend until 2023 the sunset on a 2008 law that authorized state job training subsidies for particular employers provided through community colleges. Also, to revise details of a minimum wage condition on the subsidies. The House removed a Senate-passed provision prohibiting the beneficiary companies from also collecting certain other state subsidies and tax breaks. Senate Bill 71 would repeal a $50 million annual debt cap on the program • House Roll Call 267 on June 18, 2015. Senate Bill 86: Extend allowing local debt for pensionsto extend for three years the Dec. 31, 2015 sunset on a law passed in 2012 to allow local governments to borrow money to cover unfunded employee pension liabilities, which is allowed only if the local has closed its traditional “defined benefit” pension system to new employees. The law also allows locals to incur long term debt to pay for future retiree health insurance costs, which unlike pensions are not legally enforceable obligations. This would be the second extension of this deadline • House Roll Call 182 on May 20, 2015. • Senate Roll Call 36 on March 4, 2015. Senate Bill 139: Authorize fundraising "bake sales" in schoolsto require the Michigan Department of Education (MDOE) to “take all steps necessary to ensure maximum state and local control" over school lunch nutrition mandates. Also, to limit to three per week the number of school day fundraising sales of food or beverages that do not meet mandated school lunch nutritional standards. The bill was introduced in response to federal and MDOE restrictions and bans on the sales • House Roll Call 145 on May 13, 2015. • Senate Roll Call 60 on March 19, 2015. House Bill 4189: Let adoption agencies refuse adoptions that...to specify in statute that a “child placing agency” (private adoption or foster care agency) is not required to assist or participate in an adoption or placement that violates its written religious or moral convictions, including adoptions of a child by a homosexual. Also, to prohibit a state agency from discriminating or taking an “adverse action” against an agency for this reason • House Roll Call 36 on March 18, 2015. • Senate Roll Call 282 on June 10, 2015. House Bill 4041: Ban welfare for persistent truancy to withhold welfare benefits from a household with children who are persistently truant from school. A truant child age 16 and above could be removed from the household • House Roll Call 50 on March 26, 2015. • Senate Roll Call 222 on May 26, 2015. WARNING: This roll call vote duplicates Roll Call ID 709536. Remove this duplicate roll call. View Bill: to require the Michigan Department of...to require the Michigan Department of Education (MDOE) to “take all steps necessary to ensure maximum state and local control" over school lunch nutrition mandates. Also, to limit to three per week the number of school day fundraising sales of food or beverages that do not meet mandated school lunch nutritional standards. The bill was introduced in response to federal and MDOE restrictions and bans on the sales
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