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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.
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A new website hosts newly-required financial reports for Michigan elected officials and candidates for office.
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Supporters of an interest-rate cap say the current system can result in what are effectively triple-digit annual interest rates on payday loans.
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The bills would require so-called “dark money” groups with ties to officials and campaigns to register with the Secretary of State, starting in 2026.
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The bill lists a wide variety of illegal election fraud, influence or voter threat convictions that would disqualify a person from serving on the state or county canvassing boards that confirm vote tallies.
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Michigan public school students could start undergoing dyslexia screenings at least three times a year—through third grade. That’s under bills passed Tuesday in the Michigan Senate.
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As Michiganders adjust to the “spring forward” daylight saving schedule that started on Sunday, some state lawmakers are working to put it to an end.