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- Meeting date
- 2025-04-17
- Scheduled start
- 2025-04-17 10:30:00.000000
- Documented start
- Not recorded
- Documented end
- 2025-04-17 11:12:00.000000
- Location
- Room 519, House Office Building
- Official minutes
- Open official source ↗
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- Actual end
- 2025-04-17 11:12:00.000000
- Actual start
- Not recorded
- Chamber
- house
- Committee id
- committee-34
- Committee name
- Rules
- Evidence text
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON RULES REP. BILL SCHUETTE CHAIR COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES The House Committee on Rules was called to order by Chair Schuette. The Chair requested attendance to be called: Present: Reps. Schuette, Aragona, Wendzel, Martin, Posthumus, DeBoer, Witwer, Liberati and Herzberg. Absent: None. Excused: None. Representative DeBoer moved to adopt the meeting minutes from March 13, 2025. There being no objection, the motion prevailed with unanimous consent. The Chair laid a presentation from the Michigan Farm Bureau before the committee. Robert Anderson, representing the Michigan Farm Bureau, testified regarding the effects of administrative rules on the Michigan Farm Bureau. Questions and discussions followed. The Chair laid HB 4235 before the committee: Representative Smit testified in support of HB 4235. Representative Martin moved to adopt substitute (H-1) to HB 4235. The motion prevailed 6-0-2: Thursday, April 17, 2025 10:30 AM Room 519, House Office Building HB 4235 (Rep. Smit) A bill to prohibit the use of certain applications on government-issued devices; to require public employers to take certain actions related to prohibited applications; to prohibit certain employees or officers from downloading or accessing certain applications; to provide exceptions; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities. FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Schuette, Aragona, Wendzel, Martin, Posthumus and DeBoer. Nays: None. Pass: Reps. Witwer and Liberati. Representative Aragona moved to report out HB 4235 with recommendation, as substitute (H-1). The motion prevailed 6-0-2: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Schuette, Aragona, Wendzel, Martin, Posthumus and DeBoer. Nays: None. Pass: Reps. Witwer and Liberati. The Chair laid HB 4240 before the committee: At 10:44 AM, the Chair laid the committee at ease. At 10:49 AM, Majority Vice Chair Aragona called the committee back to order. Chair Schuette testified in support of HB 4240. At 10:47 AM, Majority Vice Chair Aragona laid the committee at ease. At 10:48 AM, the Chair called the committee back to order. Representative Aragona moved to report out HB 4240 with recommendation. The motion prevailed 6-0-2: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Schuette, Aragona, Wendzel, Martin, Posthumus and DeBoer. Nays: None. Pass: Reps. Witwer and Liberati. The Chair laid HB 4241 before the committee: HB 4240 (Rep. Schuette) A bill to prohibit public bodies from receiving gifts and grants from foreign actors under certain circumstances; to prohibit public bodies from entering into agreements with foreign actors under certain circumstances; to establish disclosure requirements for certain gifts, grants, contracts, and other interests relating to certain foreign actors; to prescribe civil sanctions; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities; and to require the promulgation of rules. HB 4241 (Rep. Hoadley) A bill to amend 1984 PA 270, entitled "Michigan strategic fund act," (MCL Representative Martin moved to report out HB 4241 with recommendation. The motion prevailed 6-0-2: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Schuette, Aragona, Wendzel, Martin, Posthumus and DeBoer. Nays: None. Pass: Reps. Witwer and Liberati. The Chair laid a presentation from the Associated Builders and Contractors before the committee. Shane Hernandez, representing the Associated Builders and Contractors testified regarding the effects of administrative rules on builders and contractors. Questions and discussions followed. The Chair laid HB 4125 and HB 4129 before the committee: Representative Andrews testified in support of HB 4125 and HB 4129. Representative Wendzel moved to report out HB 4125 with recommendation. The motion prevailed 9-0-0: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Schuette, Aragona, Wendzel, Martin, Posthumus, DeBoer, Witwer, Liberati and Herzberg. Nays: None. Pass: None. 125.2001 to 125.2094) by adding section 7c. HB 4125 (Rep. McFall) A bill to create a program that awards grants to certain postsecondary schools in this state that establish or expand certain educational programs that lead to degrees or credentials supportive of the nuclear and hydrogen industries; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state officers and entities. HB 4129 (Rep. Andrews) A bill to create a nuclear and hydrogen graduate attraction and retention program to award grants to certain graduates of a postsecondary school who are employed in this state at a qualified electric generation facility after graduation; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to prohibit the submission of false information and prescribe penalties; to provide remedies; to create certain funds; to provide for the distribution of money from certain funds; and to allow the promulgation of rules. Representative Wendzel moved to report out HB 4129 with recommendation. The motion prevailed 9-0-0: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Schuette, Aragona, Wendzel, Martin, Posthumus, DeBoer, Witwer, Liberati and Herzberg. Nays: None. Pass: None. The following people submitted a card in support of HB 4125 and HB 4129, but did not wish to speak: Ed Rivet, representing the Michigan Conservative Energy Forum. Joe Fedewa, representing DTE Energy. John Kran, representing the Michigan Electric Co-Op Association. Dave Worthams, representing the Michigan Manufacturers Association. Daniel Hurley, representing the Michigan Association of State Universities, testified in support of HB 4125. There being no further business before the committee, Chair Schuette adjourned the meeting at 11:12 AM. Representative Bill Schuette, Chair Taylor Thrush Committee Clerk tthrush@house.mi.gov
- Location
- Room 519, House Office Building
- Media count
- 2
- Meeting date
- 2025-04-17
- Meeting id
- meeting-86
- Meeting state
- held
- Minutes url
- Open official source ↗
- Quorum state
- quorum not determined
- Scheduled start
- 2025-04-17 10:30:00.000000
- Session name
- 2025-2026
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