Insider Intelligence
Looking Ahead to the Week of January 6 – 12, 2024
The first scheduled session day for the year is Wednesday, January 10. The Michigan Supreme Court will hold January’s oral arguments on January 10 and 11. The biannual Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference will be held in Lansing on Friday, January 12. All...
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...
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