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The plan would give families with young children who qualify for the EITC an additional credit worth $5,000 for children under three and $2,500 for children between the three and six.
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The Michigan Legislature will return to Lansing this week following its spring recess. Much of the focus over the next few months will be on the state budget.
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Restoration work of the dome at the Michigan state Capitol building is nearing its end. Scaffolding is scheduled to start coming down next week.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed bills Monday to lift Michigan’s 35-year-old ban on the use of paid pregnancy surrogates. Michigan was one of the first states to outlaw paid surrogacy contracts in 1988. Now, Whitmer said, Michigan will be the final state in the nation to allow families to use in vitro fertilization with compensated surrogates without fear of criminal prosecution.
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Michigan's new child restraint law takes age, height, and weight into account before switching a child among a rear-facing seat, a front-facing seat, and a booster seat, among other changes.
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A federal court this week approved a new plan for Michigan’s state House districts around metro-Detroit. Here's what that means for the future of redistricting in Michigan.
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Bipartisan majorities in the Michigan legislature passed a bill giving local governments more control over speed limits and allowing lower speed limits if speeding poses a public safety hazard.
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The Michigan Senate adopted two bills this week to expand Michigan’s ethnic intimidation law.
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The Senate passed bills to create an R&D tax credit, resurrect an expired jobs program, and reshape an existing economic incentives program.
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The bills would replace Michigan’ s 1988 state law that makes paying a woman to carry a pregnancy a crime. That would streamline the path for infertile couples to make surrogacy agreements. The bills passed the Senate on mostly party-line votes.