The first bills of the highly anticipated school safety package received a hearing in the House on Tuesday.
Michigan Republican Party delegates have two national committee races, along with the presidential primary, during the upcoming March convention.
Two-thirds of the Michigan Senate Republican caucus earlier this month endorsed former President Donald Trump in his bid for returning to the White House.
The most conservative caucus within the House Republicans has seen a parting of ways, but the separation has less to do with principles than with strategy.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Elections Director Jonathan Brater on Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed last year by a group of Republicans challenging the legality of the recent constitutional amendments passed by voters making sweeping changes to state voting laws.
Democrats took control of state government for the first time in decades in January with Governor Gretchen Whitmer winning reelection and the party taking both the House and Senate.
Despite a Republican push for maintaining strict government oversight of barbershops, the House voted to pass legislation that would ease inspections on barbershops and barber colleges.
A group of legislative Republicans filed suit Thursday in federal court challenging the legality of the recent constitutional amendments passed by voters making sweeping changes to state voting laws.
The House took up a light agenda on Tuesday, passing a handful of bills related to insurance, increasing the penalty for blight offenders and a bill that would allow peace officers to enforce off-road vehicle laws.
Voters enshrined abortion rights into the Constitution, so lawmakers have a mandate to remove restrictions around the procedure from statute, advocates said during a press conference Monday while at least one Democrat is resisting the current proposal.