Mich. lawmakers vote to repeal law used by Dem Gov. Whitmer to impose COVID-19 restrictions
Mich. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer arrives to speak at Beech Woods Recreation Center in Southfield, Mich. on October 16, 2020. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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UPDATED 6:38 PM PT – Saturday, July 24, 2021
Michigan state lawmakers voted to repeal a decades-old law which gave Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer the authority to impose COVID restrictions. In a 60 to 48 vote on Thursday, the state’s House of Representatives passed a bill scrapping the Emergency Powers of the Governor Act of 1945.
The State Senate has already approved the legislation last week and it will now go into effect 91 days after the legislature ends its session.