![]() ![]() The only other issue with a time component – moving up the date of Michigan’s 2024 presidential primary – can wait until 2023. Although some groups pushed for the Legislature and Whitmer to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and address a forthcoming big increase in the tipped minimum wage, neither side showed any interest in moving. There appeared to be little appetite to grind out session days. This year, each chamber held just two voting session days after Thanksgiving. Usually, there are three weeks of session after Thanksgiving with nine voting session days. There was little incentive for Whitmer to negotiate with the outgoing Republican majority given the new dynamic in 2023, and Republicans lacked much leverage considering their soon-to-be minority party status. What Whitmer will do with the 55 bills eventually sent (10 are now on her desk with another 45 on the way following the final voting session concluding late last night) to her is not clear, but should she veto a large number of them, 2022 could wind up as the year with the fewest public acts generated during the lame duck period.įrom the moment Whitmer and the Democrats swept the November elections and control of state government in the 2023-24 term, it became clear this year’s lame duck session was likely to be quiet. In the 1969-70 term, just 33 bills passed by the Legislature following the November 1970 election were signed into law by then-Gov. ![]() Gretchen Whitmer‘s desk during the post-election lame duck session, assuring the second-fewest number of public acts generated during the weeks following the election since Michigan moved to a full-time Legislature in the 1969-70 term. Just 55 bills won legislative approval and will be sent to Gov. ![]()
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