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2025-08-26

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For 2025-08-26, the release reports observations found. It contains 886 attributable activity rows naming 147 members.

Chamber sittings: 2
Committee meetings: 2

Counts describe collected public records on this date. They do not measure all work, and a proceeding-level quorum outcome does not establish any individual's attendance.

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Attributable activity records

886

Committee meeting count

Committee meetings

Actual end
2025-08-26 12:43:00.000000
Actual start
Not recorded
Chamber
house
Committee id
committee-25
Committee name
Families and Veterans
Evidence text
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON FAMILIES AND VETERANS REP. KATHY SCHMALTZ CHAIR COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES Tuesday, August 26, 2025 Noon. Room 307, House Office Building The House Committee on Families and Veterans was called to order by Chair Schmaltz. The Chair requested attendance to be called: Present: Reps. Schmaltz, Wozniak, Fox, Johnsen, Thompson, Pavlov, Woolford, Young, Byrnes, Rheingans and Xiong. Absent: None. Excused: None. Representative Young moved to adopt the meeting minutes from August 19, 2025. There being no objection, the motion prevailed with unanimous consent. The Chair laid HB 4750 before the committee: HB 4750 (Rep. Schmaltz) A bill to amend 1994 PA 203, entitled "Foster care and adoption services act," (MCL 722.951 to 722.960) by adding section 8f. The following person submitted a card in opposition to HB 4750, but did not wish to speak: Josh Pease, representing the Children's Law Section. Representative Johnsen moved to adopt substitute (H-1) to HB 4750. The motion prevailed 10-0-1: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Schmaltz, Wozniak, Fox, Johnsen, Thompson, Pavlov, Woolford, Young, Byrnes and Xiong. Nays: None. Pass: Rep. Rheingans. Representative Pavlov moved to report out HB 4750 with recommendation, as substitute (H-1). The motion prevailed 7-0-4: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Schmaltz, Wozniak, Fox, Johnsen, Thompson, Pavlov and Woolford. Nays: None. Pass: Reps. Young, Byrnes, Rheingans and Xiong. The Chair laid a presentation on Veteran Benefit Screening and Tiny Homes Projects before the Committee. Ann Rudisil gave a presentation on Veteran Benefit Screening and Tiny Homes Projects. Questions and discussion followed. There being no further business before the committee, Chair Schmaltz adjourned the meeting at 12:43 PM. Representative Kathy Schmaltz, Chair Keith Feldpausch Committee Clerk kfeldpausch@house.mi.gov
Location
Room 307, House Office Building
Media count
2
Meeting date
2025-08-26
Meeting id
meeting-202
Meeting state
held
Minutes url
Open official source ↗
Quorum state
quorum not determined
Scheduled start
2025-08-26 12:00:00.000000
Session name
2025-2026
Actual end
2025-08-26 10:37:00.000000
Actual start
Not recorded
Chamber
house
Committee id
committee-32
Committee name
Oversight
Evidence text
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT REP. JAY DEBOYER CHAIR COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES Tuesday, August 26, 2025 9:00 AM Room 352, State Capitol Building The House Committee on Oversight was called to order by Chair DeBoyer. The Chair requested attendance to be called: Present: Reps. DeBoyer, Bierlein, Meerman, Paquette, Carra, Bruck, Jaime Greene, Rigas, Schriver, Woolford, Miller, Pohutsky, Conlin, MacDonell, Mentzer, Tsernoglou and Wegela. Absent: None. Excused: None. Representative Miller moved to adopt the meeting minutes from July 22, 2025. There being no objection, the motion prevailed with unanimous consent. Chair DeBoyer moved that the House Oversight Committee authorize the Chair of the committee to execute a subpoena to Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. 1. The information being sought is necessary to the work of the Committee because: The two previous subpoenas from this Committee to the Department of Attorney General involved criminal investigations that presented issues regarding conflicts of interest between the Department of Attorney General and the suspects of the criminal referral and criminal investigation. The Michigan House of Representatives has an interest in obtaining documents regarding these closed investigations, as the House examines and debates whether to enact legislation addressing how conflicts of interest such as this should be regulated by statutory law. Furthermore, the House has the ability to impeach civil officers of the State of Michigan, where corrupt conduct in office occurs. In order to faithfully exercise its responsibilities in this regard, the House is entitled to investigate the Department of Attorney General’s decision to decline issuing criminal charges in these matters, which involved either a family member of the Attorney General, or a high-ranking officer of a major political party of this state. 2. Previous efforts made to obtain the information being sought are as follows: On July 22, 2025, this Committee voted 15-0 to authorize a document subpoena to the Department of Attorney General for documents regarding a criminal referral from the Michigan Department of State for an alleged violation of the Michigan Campaign Finance Act by an organization called Bipartisan Solutions, and any investigation into potential criminal activity regarding that referral. Also, on July 22, 2025, this Committee voted 17-0 to authorize a document subpoena to the Department of Attorney General for documents regarding an investigation into potential criminal activity by an individual named Traci Kornak. These two subpoenas required the production of documents by August 5, 2025. The Department of Attorney General has stated that both of the referenced investigations are closed. However, the Department has failed and/or refused to produce the subpoenaed documents, despite having had 5 weeks to gather and produce those documents. Furthermore, the Department has refused to identify a date on which the documents will be produced, stating only that the issues referenced in the Oversight Committee’s subpoenas aren’t very important. Meanwhile, the Chief Legal Counsel for the Department of Attorney General refuses to even take a telephone call from the House General Counsel to discuss the Department’s intentions with regard to the subpoenas. It appears that the Department of Attorney General is repeatedly stonewalling the Michigan House of Representatives as its Oversight Committee seeks to investigate these important issues. 3. The party to be subpoenaed is Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. 4. The subpoena is for the witness to appear and testify before this committee on Tuesday, September 16, 2025. The subject of the testimony will include inquiry into why the Department of Attorney General is failing and/or refusing to comply with the subpoenas previously issued by this Committee. In addition, the subpoena will direct Attorney General Nessel to produce the documents listed on the two subpoenas previously sent to the Department of Attorney General. The motion prevailed 17-0-0: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. DeBoyer, Bierlein, Meerman, Paquette, Carra, Bruck, Jaime Greene, Rigas, Schriver, Woolford, Miller, Pohutsky, Conlin, MacDonell, Mentzer, Tsernoglou and Wegela. Nays: None. Pass: None. The Chair laid before the committee presentations from Oversight Subcommittee Chairs. Representative Meerman, Chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on the Child Welfare System, gave a presentation on the work of the Subcommittee. Questions and discussion followed. Representative Rigas, Chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on Weaponization of State Government, gave a presentation on the work of the Subcommittee. Representative Woolford, Chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on State and Local Public Assistance Programs, gave a presentation on the work of the Subcommittee. Questions and discussion followed. Representative Bierlein, Chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on Public Health and Food Security, gave a presentation on the work of the Subcommittee. Questions and discussion followed. Representative Bruck, Chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on Homeland Security and Foreign Influence, gave a presentation on the work of the Subcommittee. Questions and discussion followed. Representative Carra, Chair of the Oversight Subcommittee on Corporate Subsidies and State Investments, gave a presentation on the work of the Subcommittee. Questions and discussion followed. There being no further business before the committee, Chair DeBoyer adjourned the meeting at 10:37 AM. Representative Jay DeBoyer, Chair Edward Sleeper Committee Clerk esleeper@house.mi.gov
Location
Room 352, State Capitol Building
Media count
6
Meeting date
2025-08-26
Meeting id
meeting-203
Meeting state
held
Minutes url
Open official source ↗
Quorum state
quorum not determined
Scheduled start
2025-08-26 09:00:00.000000
Session name
2025-2026

Day date

2025-08-26

Interpretation

Counts describe collected public records on this date. They do not measure all work, and a proceeding-level quorum outcome does not establish any individual's attendance.

Members with activity

147

Observation state

observations found

Sitting count

Sittings

Chamber
house
Evidence status
convened journal
Journal object name
2025-HJ-08-26-075
Linked media count
2
Named action count
14
Quorum method
explicit language
Quorum state
quorum confirmed
Quorum text
The roll was called by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, who announced that a quorum was present.
Roll call count
1
Scheduled start
2025-08-26T13:30:00
Scheduled state
weekly schedule observed
Session name
2025-2026
Sitting date
2025-08-26
Sitting id
sitting-145
Chamber
senate
Evidence status
convened journal
Journal object name
2025-SJ-08-26-071
Linked media count
1
Named action count
17
Quorum method
explicit language
Quorum state
quorum confirmed
Quorum text
The roll was called by the Secretary of the Senate, who announced that a quorum was present.
Roll call count
7
Scheduled start
Not recorded
Scheduled state
official schedule observed
Session name
2025-2026
Sitting date
2025-08-26
Sitting id
sitting-146

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