The Senate agreed to the title of the bill.
Protest
Senator McBroom, under his constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against the passage of Senate Bill No. 330 and moved that the statement he made during the discussion of the bill be printed as his reasons for voting “no.”
The motion prevailed.
Senator McBroom’s statement is as follows:
I’ve served in the Legislature now for—almost finished 13 years, right? I keep telling people I have 14 months and, I think, 13 days left. This is not the first time that we have voted on exceptions to jury duty. The frustrating part to me on all of those votes continues to be that it ignores the provisions that are in the law that already allow for dismissal if the life of another person or the health of another person depends on you. You already have the ability to tell a judge that somebody else is dependent on your being there for them and to get an exemption from serving.
We keep on doing additional exemptions—on top of that, we’re just making it more illegal than it already is for the judge to force you to do jury duty. That’s why I have voted “no” on all these bills over the years—sponsored by Democrats or Republicans—and will continue to do so today.
The following bill was read a third time:
Senate Bill No. 456, entitled
A bill to amend 2012 PA 176, entitled “Mozelle senior or vulnerable adult medical alert act,” by amending the title and section 5 (MCL 28.715).
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows: