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Rev. Zane Abberger, Pastor of Lakeview Baptist Church in Lakeview, offered the following invocation:
“Dear Heavenly Father, we thank You for these men and women here today who serve our state and the needs of our people. We humbly ask that You give to them Your wisdom to discern the good from the evil, Your courage to stand alone, if need be, and Your mercy for their humanity. We ask that You’d be with their families and give them protection, direction, and Your hand, a blessing. Deliver them from the power of darkness as they that rule over men must be just and give to them the assurance of Your excellent loving kindness. In Jesus name we pray amen.”
The Speaker called the Speaker Pro Tempore to the Chair.
Rep. Wilson moved that Rep. Hood be excused from today’s session.
The motion prevailed.
Third Reading of Bills
House Bill No. 4331, entitled
A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “The insurance code of 1956,” by amending section 2227 (MCL 500.2227), as amended by 2014 PA 509.
Was read a third time and passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:
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- Not recorded
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- Was read a third time and passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:
- Nays
- 9
- Not voting
- Not recorded
- Result
- passed
- Vote date
- 2023-09-26
- Vote number
- 306
- Yeas
- 100
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- Senator Cherry’s statement is as follows:
Similar to my colleague, I’d like to hearken back when we included prevailing wage in our laws we passed in the fall for our clean energy projects. Part of the reasoning behind that was because we understand when we do work using trained, well-paid workers, it’s cheaper than doing the same work twice with untrained, poorly-paid workers. I would contend that actually by allowing our agency to enforce the laws we passed in the fall, we are actually holding down the cost of our transition by making sure we’re doing that work most efficiently and with well-trained workers.
Senator McBroom’s statement is as follows:
Mr. President, I’d like to address the idea that somehow the characterization that some of what is established through prevailing wage programs is not artificial as we heard someone claim just a little bit ago. The fact is that in many areas of the state, such as the Upper Peninsula, the wages that are established are entirely artificially established wages that are not representative of the prevailing wage in that community at all. Due to the way we have structured our prevailing wage law in this state, they are indeed not the actual prevailing wages for that community but are taken from communities ten hours away—nearly 500 miles away. They don’t compare to the wages that are paid on other jobs locally, even union labor jobs. We have created a system that does not do what it’s supposed to do, and when we voted on prevailing wage months ago, I spoke to it then—about the opportunities we had to make a better program that actually represented that and provided the important protections that prevailing wage has been created to do, the important protections it’s provided to create safer projects for our state to invest in, and safer conditions. I’m not opposed to the idea of prevailing wage. However, the way that the program is structured is not fully vetted, it’s not fully matured to deliver what it promises, and that’s why I believe we should support Senator Albert’s amendment.
Senator Albert’s second statement is as follows:
Today this legislation creates a new bureaucracy that will take time and added cost for businesses seeking to participate in state-funded projects or wind and solar energy projects. I guess it’s important to make note that this is not just applying to the wind and solar projects—this is for all prevailing wage projects, this provision. It creates a state project registration mandate for contractors on all state-financed projects and for contractors on these new wind and solar projects. As outlined in the bill, the registration would be valid for only one year at which point it would need to be renewed.
This amendment would ease the registration requirement to once every ten years to reduce the administrative burden on businesses. Thank you, and I urge my colleagues to support this amendment.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4331, entitled
A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “The insurance code of 1956,” by amending section 2227 (MCL 500.2227), as amended by 2014 PA 509.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
- Excused
- 0
- Motion text
- The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
- Nays
- 14
- Not voting
- 0
- Result
- passed
- Vote date
- 2024-05-01
- Vote number
- 106
- Yeas
- 24
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- Nays—6
Carra Friske Maddock Schriver
Fox Green, P.
In The Chair: Pohutsky
The House agreed to the title as amended.
The bill was referred to the Clerk for enrollment printing and presentation to the Governor.
The Speaker laid before the House
House Bill No. 4331, entitled
A bill to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “The insurance code of 1956,” by amending section 2227 (MCL 500.2227), as amended by 2014 PA 509.
(The bill was received from the Senate on June 12, with substitute (S-1) and full title inserted, consideration of which, under the rules, was postponed until June 13, see House Journal No. 53, p. 704.)
The question being on concurring in the substitute (S-1) made to the bill by the Senate,
The substitute (S-1) was concurred in, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:
- Excused
- Not recorded
- Motion text
- The substitute (S-1) was concurred in, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, by yeas and nays, as follows:
- Nays
- 14
- Not voting
- Not recorded
- Result
- unknown
- Vote date
- 2024-06-27
- Vote number
- 292
- Yeas
- 96