HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
COMMITTEE ON ETHICS AND OVERSIGHT
REP. ERIN BYRNES
CHAIR
COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
Thursday, February 29, 2024
11:00 AM
Room 521, House Office Building
The House Committee on Ethics and Oversight was called to order by Chair Byrnes.
The Chair requested attendance be called:
Present: Reps. Byrnes, Hope, Breen, Churches, Hoskins, Wegela, Kunse, Wozniak, Harris.
Absent: None.
Excused: None.
Chair Byrnes offered the following proposed Committee rules:
1. For any item of legislation considered by the committee, at least 1 meeting will be called at
which the public may address the committee regarding that item of legislation. Oral testimony
may be limited at the discretion of the committee chair. The Committee may accept written
testimony in lieu of oral testimony.
2. All testimony shall be on the subject matter pertaining to the committee agenda.
The Committee discussed the proposed rules.
Representative Hope moved to adopt the proposed Committee rules. The motion prevailed 9-0-0:
FAVORABLE ROLL CALL
Yeas: Reps. Byrnes, Hope, Breen, Churches, Hoskins, Wegela, Kunse, Wozniak, Harris.
Nays: None.
Pass: None.
Representative Churches moved to adopt the meeting minutes from January 25, 2024. There
being no objection, the motion prevailed by unanimous consent.
The Chair laid the presentation from the Michigan Department of Civil Rights before the
Committee.
Gloria Lara, Chair of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, John Johnson, Kimberly
Woolridge, and Marcelina Trevino, representing the Michigan Department of Civil Rights,
provided a presentation on the Office of the Auditor General Report on Michigan Department of
Civil Rights 151-0200-22, August 2023. Questions and discussion followed.
At 11:43 AM, the Chair laid the committee at ease.
At 11:44 AM, Majority Vice Chair Hope called the committee back to order.
There being no further business before the committee, Majority Vice Chair Hope adjourned the
meeting at 11:49 AM.
Representative Erin Byrnes, Chair
Dakota Soda
Committee Clerk
dsoda@house.mi.gov