A year after beginning work on the legislation, the House Military, Veterans and Homeland Security Committee heard testimony on bills targeting veteran mental health through a centralized office in state government.
Several tornadoes struck southwest Michigan on Tuesday, including large tornadoes that caused significant damage in Portage and through Colon and Sherwood.
Michigan's direct care workers want to see improved wages in the 2024-25 fiscal year budget, but the state only has a limited capacity to provide funding, Rep. Christine Morse said on Wednesday.
A House subcommittee voted Wednesday to allocate $53.4 million toward opioid recovery and addiction care services, a move that comes amid criticism the state has been slow to spend money it received as part of a national opioid settlement.
House races across the state are starting to take shape with the window for candidate filing closed as of 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
Rep. Andrew Beeler is the seventh member of the House to announce he will not seek reelection this year.
Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services who testified before the House Appropriations Health and Human Services Subcommittee on Wednesday said that $10 million from Governor Gretchen Whitmer's proposed fiscal year 2024-25 budget could be the final push needed to complete provisions from a 2006 federal child welfare lawsuit.
Rep. Christine Morse will be on the campaign trail this year after all, though not for the House.
Rep. Graham Filler will not run for reelection.
New legislation would formally establish a court-appointed special advocate program to provide volunteers to advocate for a child's best interest.