After the passage of the 2024-25 fiscal year budget late Wednesday, advocacy groups, agencies and organizations mostly praised the spending plan.
A Detroit-area Senate map adopted Wednesday by the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission offers a fairly stable plan from a partisan standpoint but includes some radical geographic changes for the members across 15 amended districts.
Michigan took a significant step toward becoming the latest state to operate under a state-based health care exchange Wednesday when it passed a bill package along party lines that would set up an exchange and provisions for fees and various forms of coverage.
Bills allowing home care workers to unionize passed the Senate on Wednesday hours after a rally on the Capitol steps urged passage of the legislation.
A single Detroit-area Senate map has become the favorite to be adopted by the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission , but the constitutional majority necessary to adopt that map was still elusive Tuesday evening.
Senate Democrats pushed through a vehicle bill Thursday in line with the governor's proposal for diverting money from the state's contribution to the other post-employment benefits portion of the teacher retirement fund as negotiations on an education budget continue.
A Senate panel reported an amended version of legislation that would modify the definitions relating to brands and brand extensions for certain alcoholic beverages.
Additional protections for vulnerable adults against abuse and financial exploitation were introduced Thursday by Senate Democrats, a move they said would help prevent such activities at the hands of family members or others entrusted with their care.
Groups representing school districts across the state have spoken out in support of newly introduced bills in the House and Senate that would decrease the capped percentage schools must pay toward the state pension fund and end the requirement for teachers themselves to pay into the fund altogether.
Testimony was taken Wednesday on a bill that would modify the definitions relating to brands and brand extensions for certain alcoholic beverages, a move supporters said would provide clarity in statute but opposed by multiple stakeholders as being damaging to producers of products.