| House Bill |
Sponsor |
Why it impacts
newspapers. |
HB
6020
|
Miller
|
Modifies
the number of years before certain property can be subjected to
foreclosure. Maintains newspaper language.
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| HB 5986 |
Sak |
Creates
a Right of Publicity Act.
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HB 5960
|
Opsommer
|
Establishes
an interstate compact on educational opportunity for military
children. Contains some Open Meetings exemptions.
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HB 5954
|
Spade
|
Calls
for forfeiture of assets in crimes involving identity theft. Requires
newspaper notice.
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HB 5947
|
Tobocman |
Creates
art districts and the process for designating. Requires
compliance with OMA and FOIA.
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HB 5907
|
McDowell
|
Would
allow posting of special or irregular meetings on websites under the
open meetings act.
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HB 5871
|
Elsenheimer
|
Allows
the sale of certain forestland. Maintains current newspaper
notice language.
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| HB 5824 |
LaJoy
|
Revises
the procedures to approve annexation petitions. Would allow for posting
of public notice at public places rather than newspapers as opposed to
in addition to newspapers.
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HB 5797
|
Byrnes
|
Provides
an exemption from the MBT surcharge for newspapers with a circulation
under 4000 that print with recycled ink. Also allows the same
exemptions from gross receipts as the advertising agencies receive.
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HB 5690
|
Hood
|
Creates
a regional convention facility authority. The authority would be
subject to OMA and FOIA.
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HB 5681
|
Tobocman
|
Allows
certain electronic communication and makes other general changes to the
business, nonprofit corporation law. Maintains current newspaper notice
language.
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HB 5644
|
Jones |
Establishes
voter approval for creation of a police and fire special assessment in
the property tax law. Maintains current newspaper notice language.
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HB 5639
|
Spade
|
Amends
the Michigan-based business preference in bid processing for school
jobs. Maintains current newspaper language.
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| HB 5630 |
Sheltrown
|
Changes
some language for the procedure for dissolution of a lake board.
Maintains current newspaper posting language.
|
HB 5613
|
Sak |
Creates
a regional infrastructure Authority. Requires the authority to follow
OMA and FOIA
|
HB 5612
|
Sak |
Would
impose a 1-cent recycling fee on sales transactions.
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HB 5592
|
Palsrok
|
Creates
a Michigan Port Authority. Requires the authority to follow OMA
and FOIA.
|
HB 5581
|
Bauer
|
Establishes
an elder death review team. Would exempt information reviewed by
the team from FOIA.
|
HB 5577
|
Wojno
|
Maintains
current language in law that keeps criminal background information
about nursing home employs exempt from disclosure.
|
HB 5557
|
Stahl
|
Would
exempt the names and addresses of minors who have been victims of child
abuse or sex crimes from FOIA.
|
HB
5520
|
Miller
|
Provide
for approval of proposed sale of generating plants. Would exempt
nonpublic information and materials submitted by an electric utility
under this section.
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HB 5475
|
Law,
David
|
Creates
a passenger bill or rights for airline passengers. Would exempt
records in a complaint file that contain trade secrets or proprietary
business information.
|
HB 5267
|
Wenke |
Allows
for a taxing jurisdiction to opt out of capture for economic
development. Maintains current newspaper posting requirements.
|
HB 5266
|
Wenke |
Would
allow a taxing jurisdiction to opt out of capture in a local
development financing authority action. Maintains current
newspaper posting language.
|
HB 5265
|
Wenke |
Would
allow a taxing jurisdiction to opt out of capture in a DDA
action. Maintains current newspaper posting language.
|
HB 5182
|
Amos
|
Maintains
current newspaper notice language in the Tax Increment Finance
Authority Act.
|
HB 5180
|
Amos
|
Maintains
current newspaper notice language in the Local Development Finance Act.
|
HB 5178
|
Jones |
Maintains
current newspaper notice language in the Downtown Development Authority
Act.
|
HB 5137
|
Hoogendyke |
Would
require the creation of a searchable database listing all state
expenditures.
|
HB 5116
|
Wenke
|
Requires
legislative office budgets and expenditures to be public records.
|
HB 5111
|
Sak |
Maintains
current newspaper posting language in the cigarette law section
regarding seizure of property.
|
| HB 5090 |
Stakoe
|
Exempts
the home address and home phone number of a public employee from FOIA.
|
HB 5072
|
Valentine
|
Changes
in the regulation of bottled water facilities. Requires more disclosure
under FOIA.
|
HB 5070
|
Sak |
Modify
authority for water users committees and local ordinances. Meetings of
these committees will be subject to the open meetings act.
|
HB 5023
|
Byrum
|
Makes
technical revisions to the zoning enabling act. Requires newspaper
notice.
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HB 5008
|
Huizenga
|
Repeal
and enact uniform securities act. Requires that most records obtained
under this act be public records. However several records are
provided exemptions.
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HB 4999
|
V.
Smith
|
Amends
the no fault insurance act and requires disclosure of records by
insurance commissioner and public notice of base rate increases.
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HB 4973
|
Miller
|
Exempts
the employment relations commission from OMA.
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HB 4964
|
Condino
|
Creates
a sentencing guidelines commission within the Legislature. The
commission would comply with OMA and FOIA.
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HB 4952
|
Palmer
|
Creates
and Environmental Ombudsman. Provides for FOIA exemption o f
reports and recommendations the office files with the Commission.
|
HB 4948
|
Warren
|
Prohibit
disclosure of business audit for real or person property in the
property tax process. Exempts identifying information from FOIA.
|
HB 4895
|
Sheltrown |
Extend
the property tax foreclosure process to 3 years. Maintains current
notice requirements.
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HB 4858
|
Hoogendyke
|
Requires
school districts to publish their statement of percentage of funding
spent on instruction. They can put it on their Web and in their
annual report. They are also required to send it electronically
to the legislature.
|
HB 4839
|
Farrah
|
Clarifies
the procedures for the disposition of abandoned vehicles. Maintains
current newspaper notice language.
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HB 4819
|
Meadows
|
Creates
a Senior Medical Alert Program. Requires reporting of seniors to
newspapers. Makes news providers immune from civil liability.
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HB 4724
|
Jones |
Provides
for new regulations in requirements for expert testimony in a tort
action. Maintains criminal background checks for experts who are
licensed health care professionals.
|
HB 4688
|
Nitz
|
ncreases
the amount the drain commissioner can spend on maintenance of a drain.
Changes current notice language to make it either newspapers or mail
rather than both.
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| HB 4686 |
Caswell
|
Would
require Dept. of Labor and Econ. Growth to administer exams for
property tax assessment officers. The board governing this process is
subject to OMA/FOIA.
|
HB 4676
|
Sak |
Requires
the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Assoc. to comply with OMA.
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HB 4675
|
Sak
|
Requires
the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Assoc. to comply with FOIA.
|
HB 4642
|
Mayes
|
Provides
for new language in the current drain code. Maintains current newspaper
notice language.
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HB 4627
|
Law
|
Would
establish a commission on pay equity. The commission would be subject
to OMA and FOIA.
|
HB 4611
|
Jones |
Would
create an act to deal with former law enforcement officers and the
qualifications sot get a CCW. This act would create a registry and the
registry would not be subject to FOIA.
|
| HB 4544 |
Law
|
Would
create committee to review statutory mandates. The committee would be
subject to OMA and FOIA.
|
HB 4542
|
LaJoy
|
Would
create a committee on government efficiency. The committee would be
subject to OMA and FOIA.
|
HB 4486
|
Ebli
|
Regulate
the development of solid waste management plans. Requires notice of
public hearings in a newspaper.
|
HB 4477
|
Schuitmaker
|
Provides for criminal background
checks for adult foster care providers. There is no language exempting
this information from disclosure.
|
| HB 4415 |
Ward
|
Changes
provisions of contributions and expenditures in the campaign finance
law. Creates a Michigan McCain-Feingold like law.
|
HB 4290
|
Hammel
|
Transfers
to functions of an appointed county road commission to the county board
of commissioners. Maintains current newspaper notice requirements.
|
HB 4286
|
Cheeks
|
Modifies
the Property tax redemption process. Strengthens current newspaper
posting requirements.
|
HB 4233
|
Caswell |
Clarifies
who is authorized to request and receive certain records of birth and
marriage.
|
| HB 4222 |
Brown
|
Earmarks
certain funding and surcharges on solid waste entering landfills.
Involves newspaper recycling and new programs to promote recycling.
|
HB 4202
|
Cushingberry
|
Creates
a new act to bring about a single payer health care system. This bill
would create some entities for oversight that would be subject to OMA.
|
| HB 4199 |
Vagnozzi
|
Creates
a do-not-mail list that would allow people to opt-out of receiving junk
mail.
|
HB 4187
|
Proos
|
Allows
for information submitted in the process of a public utility
restructuring to be exempt from FOIA.
|
HB 4131
|
Moss
|
Creates
a regional water and sewer district. Provides that the board would be
subject to OMA and FOIA.
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| HB 4118 |
Hansen
|
Permits
a per parcel levy for a mileages assessed for police and fire
districts. Maintains current newspaper notice language.
|
HB 4110
|
LaJoy
|
Allows
for the posting of board meeting minutes on a township website and
allow for them not to be in newspapers.
|
HB 4020
|
Jones
|
Revise
membership and standard for determining necessity of a project with
regard to drain boards of determination. Maintains current newspaper
notice language.
|
HB 4007
|
Knollenberg
|
Allows
for an extension in the time frame for required connection to available
public sewer lines. Maintains current newspaper notice language.
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