Insider Intelligence
Five Things We’re Reading
Below are some articles the MLC lobby team has been reading this past week. We hope you find them as interesting and useful as we do. To Air Is Human – Was the switch from road cycling to mountain biking as easy as the author anticipated it would be? To Solve a...
Directive Expanding Access to Voter Information Signed
Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive directive requiring departments and agencies to adopt a set of “Voting Information Best Practices.” The best practices aim to ensure residents can easily access voter information on materials produced by state...
Supplemental Funding Signed
This week, Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation providing supplemental funding in a number of areas statewide. Key Points: Funds the new Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential. Funding to provide debt relief to five school districts...
State of the Great Lakes Released
A report outlining the progress made in cleaning up pollution in the Great Lakes, the momentum behind fisheries management, strategies to compact invasive aquatic species, and more was released this week. The Office of the Great Lakes, housed within the Department...
Minimum Wage Increasing
On January 1, 2024, Michigan’s minimum wage rate is set to increase. Passed in 2018, Michigan’s Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act established an annual schedule of increases. Effective January 1: The minimum hourly wage will increase from $10.10 per hour to...
Looking Ahead to the Weeks of December 22, 2024 – January 5, 2024
In celebration of the holidays, MLC will be closed from December 22 – January 1. The House and Senate have completed session for the year and will not hold session or committees. All legislation that was passed during 2023 that didn’t receive immediate effect will...
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