The Michigan House of Representatives passed a package of bills on Tuesday that would cement key components of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in Michigan law. House Bills 4619–4623 include …
LANSING State Rep. Gary Howell and his colleagues had been up all night when then-Gov. Rick Snyder called a morning meeting with House Republicans to brief them on a last-minute deal he’d brokered to finalize a massive rewrite of Michigan energy laws.
It was the final day of Michigan’s 2016 lame-duck session, a biennial tradition of frantic and often partisan post-election legislating. Snyder was asking lawmakers to cap a marathon meeting by voting for a plan that spanned more than 200 pages and had been negotiated in the dark of night by his administration, electric utilities, environmental and business groups.