The Senate agreed to the full title.
Protests
Senators Johnson, Daley, Damoose, Bellino, Nesbitt and Theis, under their constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against the passage of House Bill No. 4234.
Senator Johnson moved that the statement she made during the discussion of the bill be printed as her reasons for voting “no.”
The motion prevailed.
Senator Johnson’s statement, in which Senators Daley, Damoose, Bellino, Nesbitt and Theis concurred, is as follows:
It’s bad enough that this bill that amends campaign finance law was referred to the Committee on Labor, but now at the 11th hour as we adjourn for the year, it gets discharged straight to a vote on the floor of the Senate. Mr. President, it’s not even Thanksgiving yet, yet my colleagues on the other side of the chamber are already busy shamelessly stuffing the Christmas stockings of union bosses. This bill will make it even easier for labor organizations to funnel money out of the pockets of workers and into campaigns of Democratic politicians. I ask for a “no” vote.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 5141, entitled
A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “Michigan campaign finance act,” by amending section 47 (MCL 169.247), as amended by 2015 PA 269, and by adding section 59.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows: