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The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
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The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
- Vote date
- 2024-12-19
- Chamber
- senate
- Result
- passed
- Yeas
- 20
- Nays
- 17
- Excused
- 0
- Not voting
- 1
- Related measure
- measure-4921
- Related sitting
- sitting-756
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- Chamber
- senate
- Context text
- population just like I do, and you wouldn’t like it either if the rest of the state could just go out and collect signatures and tell you what to do for an issue that only matters to your area. That’s why our Constitution has protections in it for local acts, to make sure we don’t do that. This was an attempt to provide those kinds of protections against what’s essentially a local act. We shouldn’t be repealing this. We should be reforming it. We should be fixing it. We should be standing up for our small areas against special interests in other areas taking advantage of us, people who think they know better. Please vote “no.” The following bill was read a third time: House Bill No. 5576, entitled A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” by amending section 685 (MCL 168.685), as amended by 2018 PA 650. 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
- Measure id
- measure-4921
- Motion text
- The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
- Nays
- 17
- Not voting
- 1
- Result
- passed
- Sitting id
- sitting-756
- Vote date
- 2024-12-19
- Vote id
- vote-8178
- Vote number
- 660
- Yeas
- 20
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