Who’s new in the Michigan House of Representatives
Updated Jan 05, 2021;
Posted Jan 05, 2021
The House Chamber pictured at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on Thursday, April 25, 2019.Neil Blake
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The new legislative session brings with it substantial turnover for the Michigan House of Representatives, which will have 28 new lawmakers serving their first full terms in office.
Most of the freshman class will fill House seats vacated by members who hit their six-year term limit serving in the state House, although some defeated incumbents or are replacing members who sought other offices last fall.
Speaker-elect Jason Wentworth, R-Clare, and Democratic Leader-elect Donna Lasinski, D-Scio Township, will fill the leadership slots left open by the departures of former Reps. Lee Chatfield and Christine Greig.
Domestic violence victim confidentiality law signed by Whitmer
Anna Liz Nichols
Lansing – Michigan survivors of domestic and sexual violence and their families will have an added level of privacy through a confidentiality measure signed into law by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
The act, which had bipartisan support, allows victims of crimes and their children to apply for identification numbers and substitute addresses with assigned post boxes for the state to mail state documents and items such as driver’s licenses. Those who apply to be a part of the program will be sent new state ID cards with a state post office box listed so participants’ residential addresses are not listed.
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A Macomb County lawmaker missed dozens of roll call votes in Lansing the most of any member in either chamber of the Michigan Legislature in COVID-stricken 2020.
That s the findings of the Missed Votes Report, a project of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and released Monday.
State Rep. Steve Marino was the top vote-misser among the lawmakers, missing 299 of the 649 votes. That s 46% of the votes taken for the entire year.
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The 31-year-old Republican from Harrison Township said a nagging health issue is the cause. He tested negative for COVID-19 but doctors are still trying to determine the cause of his medical condition.