Bills

The chair of the Senate appropriations committee says revenue is tighter this year, but she hopes to adopt a balanced budget without raising taxes.

Bill sponsors say they're responding to courts raising questions about the constitutionality of Michigan's current terroristic threatening law.

The Flint city council Wednesday approved spending $50,000 to leverage state and private funding that could eliminate around $32 million in medical debt.

Advocates say election distractions, negotiations, and a slim Democratic majority in the Michigan House have kept a suite of polluter-pay bills stuck in committee.

State law limits maintenance of county drains to no more than $5,000 per mile — not nearly enough, according to Michigan drain commissioners.

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.

State and federal officials have been touting practices to maintain septic systems, as part of SepticSmart week, but bills in Lansing that propose to increase regulation on septic systems are still in limbo.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed more bills that change how sexual assaults are dealt with in Michigan.

There's a partisan split over voting rights bills working their way through the Legislature.

People who lost power this week might be throwing out food and dealing with other costs.