HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT
REP. JAY DEBOYER
CHAIR
COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
Tuesday, November 4, 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, Meerman, Paquette, Carra, Bruck, Rigas, Woolford, Wozniak,
Lightner, St. Germaine, Miller, Pohutsky, Conlin, MacDonell, Mentzer, Tsernoglou and
Wegela.
Absent: Reps. Bierlein, Jaime Greene and Schriver.
Excused: Reps. Bierlein, Jaime Greene and Schriver.
Due to Representatives Bierlein, Jaime Greene and Schriver being absent, the Chair elevated
Representatives Wozniak, Lightner and St. Germaine.
Representative Paquette moved to adopt the meeting minutes from October 28, 2025. There being
no objection, the motion prevailed with unanimous consent.
Representative Meerman moved that the House Oversight Committee authorize the Chair of the
committee to execute a subpoena to the Michigan Department of Education.
At its last meeting, this Committee heard testimony regarding the Health Education
Standards Framework currently proposed by the Michigan Department of Education. The House
Oversight Committee and, more broadly, the House of Representatives, has a clear legislative
purpose in examining the proposed education standards and the process by which they were
proposed, given that the proposed standards implicate several statutes enacted by the Legislature
regarding sex education and health education in Michigan schools, and potential noncompliance
with those statutes.
On October 24, 2025, Representative Meerman and Chair DeBoyer sent a letter to the
Michigan Department of Education, requesting internal documents regarding the proposed Health
Education Standards Framework and related policy discussions.
On October 31, 2025, the Michigan Department of Education responded that it would take
“several months” to produce the requested documents. It appears that the Department does not
want its internal communications about these standards revealed to the Legislature or the public
before the standards are adopted.
The party to be subpoenaed is the Michigan Department of Education. The documents to
be produced by the Department are spelled out in the subpoena document that has been provided to
all members of this committee.
The motion prevailed 10-7-0:
FAVORABLE ROLL CALL
Yeas: Reps. DeBoyer, Meerman, Paquette, Carra, Bruck, Rigas, Woolford, Wozniak, Lightner
and St. Germaine.
Nays: Reps. Miller, Pohutsky, Conlin, MacDonell, Mentzer, Tsernoglou and Wegela.
Pass: None.
The Chair laid before the committee testimony from Senator Webber.
Senator Webber provided testimony on Michigan's Hawthorn Psychiatric Hospital. Questions and
discussion followed.
The Chair laid before the committee a presentation on the Michigan Auditor General Performance
Audit Report-Office of Recipient Rights, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services,
September 2025.
Ivy Jaroche, Heidi Herendeen, and Yvonne Benn, representing the Michigan Office of the Auditor
General, gave a presentation on the Michigan Auditor General Performance Audit Report-Office
of Recipient Rights, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, September 2025.
Questions and discussion followed.
The following person submitted a card wishing to speak, but due to the time constraints was unable
to speak:
Michelle Massey Barnes.
Representative Mentzer moved to excuse Representatives Bierlein, Schriver and Jaime Greene
from the meeting. There being no objection the motion prevailed by unanimous consent.
There being no further business before the committee, Chair DeBoyer adjourned the meeting at
10:35 AM.
Representative Jay DeBoyer, Chair
Edward Sleeper
Committee Clerk
esleeper@house.mi.gov