Some bipartisan effort highlighted business Thursday in the Senate as it began the process of moving their slate of appropriations bills, with members of both parties acknowledging work on an amendment to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development budget.
The Senate voted Wednesday along party lines for legislation that would require renewable energy projects without state funding to pay the prevailing wage over objections from Republicans who said the changes were a slippery slope in expanding the prevailing wage beyond public projects.
Michigan's secretary of state, voting rights experts and activists told a Senate panel Wednesday that they supported legislation to enact a State Voting Rights Act.
New definitions of child neglect and abuse could prevent parents from being unnecessarily reported to Children's Protective Services, Sen. Jeff Irwin and Sen. Ed McBroom said in a Tuesday committee hearing.
The legislation needed to extend the sunset on the current funding system for trial courts is on the path to the governor's desk ahead of its May 1 sunset, but the bill that would examine a new mechanism to fund the courts is dead on the House floor, for now.
A bill to restore licensure for registered dietitian nutritionists for practicing nutrition therapy passed the Senate Wednesday with bipartisan support despite some members calling the proposal unnecessary.
The Strategic Fund Board unanimously approved a $50 million grant from the Strategic Site Readiness Program for developing a copper mine in the western Upper Peninsula during its Tuesday meeting.
A lawsuit surrounding a 2015 law that triggered an income tax cut has reached the Michigan Supreme Court, as the plaintiffs seek to invalidate a Court of Appeals opinion that held the rate was to be reduced for one year only.
Sweeping changes to how and when recounts take place in the state's elections were reported Wednesday to the full Senate in party-line votes.
Senators voted Tuesday in favor of allowing traffic enforcement cameras to be placed in construction zones to enforce speed limits.