Legislation that would require city officials to consider housing needs while developing their master plan passed the House on Thursday.
Lawmakers had lots of questions about legislation that would prohibit pharmaceutical manufacturers from denying access to drugs for certain organizations that participate in the federal 340B drug pricing program.
A wider variety of housing needs would have to be taken into consideration during municipal zoning under new legislation being considered by the House.
To overcome the onslaught of misinformation around the hate crime legislation the House passed last year, Rep. Noah Arbit (D-West Bloomfield) has introduced a new set of bills aimed at protecting people from violence based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, age and disability.
Lawmakers and statewide officers were required to file financial disclosures on Monday for the first time in state history, though the specifics of the filings were limited as officials for the most part don't need to report specific amounts of income.
GRAND RAPIDS – Former President Donald Trump shredded his Democratic opponent's immigration policy Tuesday, calling the nation's southern border a mess that is leading to carnage in Michigan and across the nation at the hands of people in the country illegally.
Supporters of legislation that would ease the process through which adult adoptees could access their birth certificates and other vital records drew divided testimony Thursday over the balance between the rights of adoptees and those of birth parents who wish to remain anonymous.
Michigan is facing a housing crisis, and during a data heavy meeting, the House Economic Development and Small Business Housing Subcommittee heard about the challenges the state must contend with to solve it.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer wants 75,000 new or refurbished homes built in Michigan to replace or upgrade aging housing stock over the next five years, a goal legislators and those in the economic development sector said was an ambitious but attainable benchmark.
A review of the multitude of new election laws enacted in the past five years is signaling that House Democrats will go much longer without the majority they won in 2022 than first thought, that the House could be split 54-54 perhaps until mid-May.