Senator McBroom offered the following amendment:
1. Amend page 31, following line 10, by inserting:
“Sec. 312. (1) A plane owned and operated by the State of Michigan shall be available for the use of legislators representing the Upper Peninsula to attend and return from session once per week, subject to availability. The state aeronautics fund must be compensated from the Senate or the House according to a fee schedule negotiated between the individual houses and the department.
(2) The department may send bills for real costs incurred by a legislative cancellation to the House or Senate business offices respective to the membership of the individual or individuals that canceled if such a cancellation was made with less than four days’ notice. The department shall not directly fine, charge, or punish legislators.
(3) The department may place non-legislator state employees on any plane with legislators and make other stops as necessary when legislators are passengers but legislators are not subject to being bumped or pre-empted by other state employees.
(4) There shall be at least 4 FTE pilot positions in the aeronautics division regardless of the number of FTEs throughout the department.
(5) The department shall enter into contract(s) with services providing pilots to provide pilots when the department has no active, FTE pilots.
(6) The aeronautics division shall not disallow overtime or flying outside of business hours for the flights provided to legislative members going to or from the Upper Peninsula.
(7) The department shall attempt to sell one of the Baron aircraft and buy a plane able to more safely fly in poorer weather conditions than the Baron and able to carry more than three passengers from the UP to Lansing that is smaller than the King Air model.”.
The amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows: