5 ways the state Legislature helped Michiganders in 2020
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
The Senate Chambers pictured at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on Thursday, April 25, 2019.Neil Blake | MLive.com
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LANSING, MI - Michigan Capitol politics in 2020 perhaps will perhaps be best defined by conflict over state power and COVID-19.
Legislative Republicans led by Speaker of the House Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clark Lake, battled Gov. Gretchen Whitmer all year on her legal authority to create COVID-19 legislation. They sued her administration, successfully invalidating her executive orders in the Michigan Supreme Court.
She countered with public health orders from the Department of Health and Human Services. Republicans passed bills to limit the timeline of those orders and want to create committees that can unilaterally suspend any rule or regulation from the Whitmer administration.
Lawmakers send Meijer tax break bill to governor
Lansing Legislation headed to the governor s desk would create a tax break for automated equipment at a Lansing-area Meijer distribution site.
The three-bill package would change Michigan tax law to exempt from sales, use and property taxes automated consumer goods handling systems that sort and recombine products into pallets for storage at distribution sites and eventual shipment to stores.
The tax exemption would apply to similar machinery at distribution sites statewide, but Meijer anticipates an immediate effect at its Delta Township distribution facility where the company is planning a multimillion-dollar expansion, John VanFossen, of Meijer, told lawmakers Wednesday.
KAFFER: 15 Michigan lawmakers will act like this never happened — and that s crazy shorelinemedia.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from shorelinemedia.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
15 Michigan lawmakers will act like this never happened and that s crazy Nancy Kaffer, Detroit Free Press
Republicans try to deliver their own electoral votes to the Capitol in Lansing
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This is a real pickle: Fifteen Michigan GOP legislators supported a lawsuit brought by another state, attempting to overturn the results of an election in which an 5.5 million Michiganders cast ballots, in thousands of races across the state.
And I m not sure how they move forward.
I mean, I know what s going to happen everyone involved will play like this never happened, even as those lawmakers continue working to undermine the results of the 2020 election the same election, incidentally, that secured their own seats.
Internal COVID-19 protocols in Michigan Capitol lag behind other Republican-led legislatures mlive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mlive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.