House introduces multiple bills; referrals set to committees

The Michigan House clerk read into the record a series of newly introduced House bills and assigned them to committee for first reading, then the session adjourned for lack of a quorum.

Speaker 2 introduced a slate of bills including House Bill 5474 "a bill to amend the corrections code of 1953," House Bill 5475 concerning an official personal identification card, House Bill 5476 addressing the enhanced driver's license and official enhanced personal identification card act, and subsequent bills addressing the vehicle code, insurance code, the General Sales Tax Act, the revised school code, the Michigan liquor control code of 1998, the Management and Budget Act, a bill described as amending the "Michigan bridal code," and a proposed amendment to the income tax act of 1967. Each bill was presented as a first reading and referred to the committee named by the clerk (committees named included Government Operations, Insurance, Transportation and Infrastructure, Education and Workforce, Regulatory Reform, Appropriations, Judiciary and Finance).

The clerk also noted that a set of bills had been reproduced and made available electronically on Thursday, Jan. 22. Because the session did not achieve a quorum, none of the introduced bills received floor debate or a vote during this sitting. The clerk additionally entered a notification from the Michigan Strategic Fund about a site readiness grant modification for the Detroit Regional Partnership into the record.