Insider Intelligence
Senate Appropriations Committee Moves Budgets
Mostly on a party-line vote, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported over a dozen state budget bills this week. The budgets reported include the Department of Education, Higher Education, Judiciary, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the...
School Cell Phone Restrictions Pass
Legislation requiring all school districts statewide to introduce cell phone policies was passed by the Michigan Senate this week. Key Points: SB 234 was introduced by Senator Dayna Polehanki (D-Livonia), a former teacher. The bill only requires school districts to...
Report on Impact of Federal Cuts Released
Earlier this year, Governor Whitmer signed an executive directive, directing the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to identify the potential impact that proposed Federal cuts to Medicaid would have on the state. Overall, according to State Budget...
Department Shares, Posts Election Documents
Following a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee, the Department of State has provided an additional 1,900 pages of material. The materials from the eLearning center for Michigan clerks don’t contain sensitive information related to election security and...
State Recognizes Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day
On Monday, May 5, the Department of Health and Human Services joined communities statewide in recognition of May 5 as Missing and Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. For decades, cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people have been under-reported,...
Looking Ahead to the Week of May 10 – 16, 2025
The House and Senate are scheduled to hold their typical Tuesday–Thursday session schedule. The biannual Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference will be held on Friday, May 16. We will post a recap of the conference that afternoon on the MLC...
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