Governor Rick Snyder signed a stack of bills this week.
While the lawmakers are away, the governor will…sign? Before heading out on their holiday break, lawmakers sent a flurry of bills to the governor’s desk.
One big package the governor signed includes a plan to help make sure municipalities have the money they need for employee retirement.
Anna Heaton is a spokesperson for Governor Snyder. She says this legislation was a priority for the governor.
“This puts into place an early warning system so they can see the total picture and see if they’re adequately funding these benefits before it’s too late to really get their arms around the problem.”
She says this is pretty typical for this time of year.
“They had a few dozen bills that they sent over right before they went back to their districts so the governor has a two week window in which to sign that flurry of bills that came across.”
Democratic Representative Andy Schor sponsored a bill the governor signed. The new law will include grocery stores for the state’s community revitalization incentives in certain areas. Schor says increasing the availability of fresh food in a given area will encourage people to live there and grow the economy.
“This is blocking off just a little bit of money for grocery stores around the state to show that we can create those grocery stores to help attract the talent the governor’s been talking about for eight years now.”
School busses will also now be more visible. They can now be equipped with additional flashing advisory signs.