The bill is meant to make minimum staffing a mandatory topic at the bargaining table for public employees like many firefighters who bargain their contracts.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer highlighted more than $1 billion in total funding to support local law enforcement officers, firefighters, and public safety initiatives in communities across the state since taking office. In the balanced, bipartisan budget Governor Whitmer signed in July, she made the largest one-year investment in public safety in Michigan history.