Health facilities: hospitals; record of direct care registered professional nurse-to-patient ratios for each unit for each shift; require hospitals to maintain.
Vehicles: equipment; child restraint safety seats; require positioning of car seats to depend on weight of child, and make other revisions.
Labor: collective bargaining; collective bargaining rights for graduate assistants and student athletes; provide for.
Environmental protection: sewage; onsite wastewater treatment systems; regulate and provide for assessments and evaluations.
Elections: presidential electors; presidential electors who are elected under the agreement among the states to elect the President by national popular vote; clarify.
Criminal procedure: sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for crime of sodomy between consenting adults; eliminate.
A resolution to declare March 2023 as National Social Work Month in the state of Michigan.
Elections: other; agreement among the states to elect the President by national popular vote; enter into.
Enters Michigan in the National Popular Vote interstate compact, a progressive scheme to end-run the Electoral College and grant Michigan’s electoral votes in a presidential election to the candidate who receives the most votes nationally. Michigan’s adoption of SB 126 would mean that NPV supporters would have 210 of the 270 electoral votes necessary to adopt this new method of electing a president and bypass the U.S. Constitution’s amendment process. The compact requires all states to cast their electoral votes for the same candidate, but does not require federal elections to be conducted according to the same procedures or ballot security standards. This shifts the power in presidential elections to large states and jurisdictions capable of stuffing the most votes into the ballot box, regardless whether those votes are validly cast or not. The NPV compact also creates chaos in the event of a close or disputed national election – a nationwide recount is practically impossible – and is incompatible with ranked-choice voting models. Rather than reducing voter confidence in election results via the NPV compact, Michigan’s electoral votes should continue to be awarded to the candidate receiving the most votes from Michigan residents.
Education: discipline; certain actions regarding a pupil who reports being sexually assaulted; require, and prohibit a pupil from being expelled or suspended for certain actions related to the incident.