HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE
REP. KARA HOPE
CHAIR
COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
9:00 AM
Room 519, House Office Building
The House Committee on Criminal Justice was called to order by Chair Hope.
The Chair requested attendance be called:
Present: Reps. Hope, Andrews, Tyrone Carter, Breen, Young, Arbit, Dievendorf,
Tsernoglou, Filler, Mueller, Bezotte, Harris, BeGole.
Absent: None.
Excused: None.
Representative Breen joined the committee remotely.
Representative Andrews moved to adopt the meeting minutes from June 4, 2024. There being
no objection, the motion prevailed by unanimous consent.
The Chair laid HB 5788 before the committee:
HB 5788
(Rep. Hope)
A bill to enact the uniform public expression
protection act; and to provide protections and
remedies to persons sued for exercising rights to
expression and other constitutionally protected
rights.
At 9:05 AM, the Chair laid the committee at ease.
At 9:06 AM, Majority Vice Chair Andrews called the committee back to order.
Chair Hope testified in support of HB 5788. Questions and discussion followed.
At 9:13 AM, Majority Vice Chair Andrews laid the committee at ease.
At 9:14 AM, the Chair called the committee back to order.
Kaitlin Wolff, representing the Uniform Law Commission, testified in support of HB 5788.
Questions and discussion followed.
Danielle Canepa, representing Pitt McGehee, testified in support of HB 5788. Questions and
discussion followed.
Elizabeth Abdnour, representing Abdnour Weiker LLP, testified in support of HB 5788.
Questions and discussion followed.
Christy McGillivray, representing the Sierra Club Michigan, testified in support of HB 5788.
Heath B. Lowry, representing the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence,
testified in support of HB 5788.
The following people submitted a card in support of HB 5788, but did not wish to speak:
Merissa Kovach, representing the ACLU of Michigan.
Mitch Albers, representing the Michigan Association for Justice.
There being no further business before the committee, Chair Hope adjourned the meeting at
9:53 AM.
Representative Kara Hope, Chair
Melissa Sweet
Committee Clerk
msweet@house.mi.gov