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Michigan teachers who pay for school supplies could get a tax credit
A new bill would provide a tax credit for educators who pay out-of-pocket for classroom supplies. Senate Bill 315 and House Bill 4582 provide up to $1,000 for a single return and up to $2,000 for a joint return to teachers buying school supplies. The bills were...
Nurses applaud plan to reduce violence against health care workers
The Michigan Nurses Association today applauded the introduction of a bipartisan legislative plan to address the epidemic of workplace violence against nurses and other healthcare workers. The plan takes a proactive approach, focusing on prevention. Violence against...
Senate bills to expand adoption rights to LGBT families
Four state senators introduced a bill to expand adoption rights to all LGBT couples in Michigan. The proposed bills would prevent adoption agencies from discriminating based on sexual orientation. It expands on Attorney General Dana Nessel’s recent court settlement to...
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When Michigan was moving towards a bill to exempt data centers from sales tax on their computers, I fought alongside many Senate Democratic colleagues to include protections for ratepayers and for water.
In that bill, for example, we included language that data centers couldn't raise rates for residents and that their water use must be regulated by local governments. The idea here was to increase accountability, water conservation, and proper handling of any waste. Reducing aquifer use and sending their water waste to plants that are accustomed to processing industrial wastes from big polluters was important to me.
Although we won some protections in that law and Michigan has some of the rules that other states are lacking, we didnt get all of our proposals for regulating data centers in the law.
These bills propose to increase the protections for ratepayers and water while also banning non-disclosure agreements and other transparency measures. These proposals also require community benefit agreements and strengthen the requirements in the original law requiring the use of clean and renewable energy.
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Today the Senate passed my legislation to create a low-income housing tax credit program in Michigan.
This legislation will support the development or rehabilitation of thousands of units over the coming years.
This program would operate alongside the federal low-income housing tax credit, sharing the systems set up to analyze and support the best proposed projects.
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Car insurance rates in Michigan are way too high. That's why I proposed legislation to reduce rates by 10%.
Here is my testimony on the legislation.
Here is the legislation: www.legislature.mi.gov/Bills/Bill?ObjectName=2025-SB-0328
It passed out of Senate commitee today with all Democrats in support and all Republicans opposed.
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