Senator Irwin’s statement is as follows:
I wanted to rise briefly, but not too briefly, to just raise a note of support for House Bill No. 5028 which supports fundamental freedoms here in our state of Michigan. Now, it’s not uncommon for us here in the people’s Capitol to pass laws that protect the freedom of our residents to do what they want with their property, and it gives me great joy to stand up and to say, We need to stand up for the freedom of our residents to invest in clean energy. Right now we’ve got rays from the sun that are dropping energy all over our state and we need to make it possible for people to invest in ways that allow them to collect the value of that sun to meet our clean energy goals, to make our state more energy independent, but also—and we get to focus on this with House Bill No. 5028—because we believe in the fundamental freedoms of people to use their property as they see fit. In a situation like this, when the use of that property isn’t negatively affecting their neighbors in any way but is actually positively affecting the health of our electricity grid and is actually positively affecting the help of our environment, in those cases we should be especially eager to support the freedoms of our residents. So I wanted to take this opportunity to extend our debate on this important legislation, to thank the Representative from Canton for standing up for basic freedoms, and to support this clean energy bill.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4718, entitled
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” (MCL 760.1 to 777.69) by adding section 21d to chapter VIII.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
Senator Runestad offered the following amendment:
1. Amend page 2, line 5, after “ orientation. ” by inserting “ This subsection does not apply unless the discovery of, knowledge about, or potential disclosure of the victim’s actual or perceived sex, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation was the sole or exclusive basis for the use of force. ”.
The question being on the adoption of the amendment,
Senator Lauwers requested the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered, 1/5 of the members present voting therefor.
The amendment was not adopted, a majority of the members serving not voting therefor, as follows: