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Michigan League for Public Policy On Monday, the Michigan Legislature wrapped up the 2019-20 session by delivering some major gifts to Michigan residents in the Alpena area and around the state. That included the bipartisan passage of $465 million in supplemental budget funding to provide immediate help to Michigan workers, families, and businesses struggling because of the COVID-19 health crisis. That money was desperately needed to address the various impacts of COVID-19 on our families, our workers, our businesses, our public health, and our economy. But the politics of lame duck the time between elections and the start of a new legislative term can always be tricky, sometimes resulting in sound compromises, other times in disappointing stalemates.

Legislation to lift lifetime ban on food assistance for people with drug felonies passes the House

Credit Lucas Santos / Unsplash The Michigan House overwhelmingly passed legislation lifting a lifetime ban on food assistance benefits for people with drug felonies. The legislation passed out of the House on a 92-15 vote and is expected to be signed into law. Currently, Michigan residents with more than one drug felony conviction cannot receive food assistance benefits. Alex Rossman is with the Michigan League for Public Policy. “I really think it’s been a bipartisan mindshift to understand the economic repercussions that a criminal record or previous offenses are having on people and that it really makes it impossible to get out from under the punishment and payment of those mistakes,” he said.

Legislation To Lift Lifetime Ban On Food Assistance For People With Drug Felonies Passes The House

Phillip Hofmeister The Michigan House overwhelmingly passed legislation lifting a lifetime ban on food assistance benefits for people with drug felonies. The legislation passed out of the house on a 92-15 vote and is expected to be signed into law. Currently, Michigan residents with more than one drug felony conviction cannot receive food assistance benefits. Alex Rossman is with the Michigan League for Public Policy. “I really think it’s been a bipartisan mindshift to understand the economic repercussions that a criminal record or previous offenses are having on people and that it really makes it impossible to get out from under the punishment and payment of those mistakes,” he said.

Michigan lawmakers pass bills to curb driver s license suspensions

The Michigan Senate on Thursday approved criminal justice reform bills that would end automatic driver s license suspensions for unpaid fines and fees not related to dangerous driving, a practice that advocates say traps people in poverty. Other criminal justice bills passed by the Senate on Thursday would eliminate mandatory jail time for some misdemeanor offenses and remove a barrier to occupational licenses for people with criminal records. Some of the bills will go back to the House for concurrence on minor changes before they are sent to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Organizations from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan to Safe & Just Michigan to Americans for Prosperity-Michigan praised the bills as a step in ending the overuse of Michigan s jails. 

Michigan lawmakers pass bills to curb license suspensions for unpaid fines and fees

Michigan lawmakers pass bills to curb license suspensions for unpaid fines and fees Angie Jackson, Detroit Free Press © Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press Kamal Lukata Anderson of Detroit in front of his home on Thursday, February 27, 2020.Anderson is one of many that have had to deal with suspended drivers license and court cost. He had his license suspended back in 1994 and it took him years to get things back on the right track. The Michigan Senate on Thursday approved criminal justice reform bills that would end automatic driver s license suspensions for unpaid fines and fees not related to dangerous driving, a practice that advocates say traps people in poverty.

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