Chair and Lobbyist Resources

SUPPORTING POSITION: You want TO ALLOW Newborn Safety Devices (NSDs) to be installed and used at emergency service provider locations in order to ensure the safety of newborns who are being legally abandoned by parents who are unwilling to engage in face-to-face interaction while legally abandoning their child.

OPPOSING POSITION: You OPPOSE this bill. It does not address who will be held liable happens to a baby placed in an NSD as well as requiring standards for NSD to be outlined by the Michigan department of Health after the bill passes, rather than including those standards in the bill itself. This means that no one will know what those standards are until after this bill is signed into law.

Bill and Analysis – HB 5751 Safe Haven Device
Chair Instructions
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• Opposing Arguments – Testimony
• Support and Opposition – Bill Summary 

SUPPORTING POSITION: Lower the voting age to 16.

OPPOSING POSITION: Keep the voting age at 18

Bill and Analysis – HB 6183 Lower Voting Age
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• Supporting Arguments – Testimony
• Opposing Arguments – Testimony 1
• Opposing Arguments – Testimony 2

SUPPORTING POSITION: You want TO BAN teenagers from using cell phones while driving for their safety and the safety of other drivers.

OPPOSING POSITION: You want MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO in that all drivers with a level 3 license can use their cell phone while driving, regardless of their age.

Bill and Analysis – HB 4181 Ban Cell Phone Use for Minors While Driving
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• Support and Opposition – Bill Summary
• Supporting Arguments – Testimony

SUPPORTING POSITION: You want TO ALLOW individuals and others to resell tickets for more than face value without obtaining permission from the venue, treating tickets as the property of the ticketholder.

OPPOSING POSITION: You want TO KEEP THE CURRENT BAN ON TICKET SCALPING.

Bill and Analysis – HB 4015 Repeal Ban on Ticket Scalping
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• Support and Opposition – Bill Summary
• Supporting Arguments – Testimony

SUPPORTING POSITION: Wireless providers should be REQUIRED BY LAW TO PROVIDE the location information on a wireless device to a law enforcement officer in emergency conditions. 

OPPOSING POSITION: Wireless providers should have the FREEDOM TO DECIDE whether to release location information on a cell phone to a law enforcement officer in an emergency.

Bill and Analysis – HB 4006 Cell Phones in Emergencies
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SUPPORTING POSITION: You want schools to be REQUIRED TO CREATE A POLICY formally prohibiting bullying with procedures and punishments. 

OPPOSING POSITION: You want schools to have the FREEDOM TO DECIDE procedure and policy for bullying on a case by case basis.

Bill and Analysis – HB 4162 Prohibit Bullying
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• Explanatory Article
• Supporting Arguments – Testimony
• Opposing Arguments – Testimony 1
• Opposing Arguments – Testimony 2
• Opposing Arguments – Testimony 3

Bill and Analysis – HJR M Abolish Board of Education
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• Support and Opposition – Bill Summary

SUPPORTING POSITION: You want to ALLOW PAROLE for certain criminals who meet certain medical requirements.

OPPOSING POSITION: You want to MAINTAIN CURRENT PENALTIES AND PROCEDURES for criminals, even if they have certain medical issues.

Bill and Analysis – HB 4129 Medically Frail Parole
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• Supporting Arguments – Testimony
• Supporting Arguments – Explanation and Testimony
• Opposing Arguments – Testimony
• Opposing Arguments – Testimony 2
• Support and Opposition – Bill Summary

SUPPORTING POSITION: You want to INCREASE THE NUMBER OF TERMS that an elected official can serve in public office.
*Note: While in real life, passing this resolution would bring the issue to the Michigan people to vote on, for LEAD, the students will be framing the debate as though passing this resolution would increase the number of terms that an elected official can serve in a public office. 

OPPOSING POSITION: You want TO KEEP CURRENT TERM LIMITS.
*Note: While in real life, passing this resolution would bring the issue to the Michigan people to vote on, for LEAD, the students will be framing the debate as though passing this resolution would increase the number of terms that an elected official can serve in a public office.

Bill and Analysis – HJR C Modify Term Limits
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• Support and Opposition – Bill Summary
• Explanatory Article
• Supporting Arguments – Testimony

SUPPORTING POSITION: You want to REINSTATE THE DEATH PENALTY in Michigan.
*Note: While in real life, passing this resolution would bring the issue to the Michigan people to vote on, for LEAD, the students will be framing the debate as though passing this resolution would reinstate the death penalty.

OPPOSING POSITION: You want the death penalty to REMAIN UNCONSTITUTIONAL in Michigan.
*Note: While in real life, passing this resolution would bring the issue to the Michigan people to vote on, for LEAD, the students will be framing the debate as though passing this resolution would reinstate the death penalty.

Bill and Analysis – HJR H Death Penalty
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• Supporting Arguments – Testimony
• Supporting Arguments – Testimony 2
• Opposing Arguments – Testimony
• Opposing Arguments – Article 
• Support and Opposition – Bill Summary

SUPPORTING POSITION: You want TO CHANGE MICHIGAN’S SPEED LIMIT LAWS, including increasing maximum speed on rural highways to 80 mph and basing a number of existing speed limits on the number of access points on a given segment of road.
*Note: This bill restructures most of Michigan’s speed limit laws. You’ll want to make sure you familiarize yourself with the entire bill.

OPPOSING POSITION: You want TO KEEP existing speed limit laws.
*Note: This bill restructures most of Michigan’s speed limit laws. You’ll want to make sure you familiarize yourself with the entire bill.

Bill and Analysis – HB 4423 Modify Speed Limits
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• Support and Opposition – Bill Summary Arguments

SUPPORTING POSITION: You want to create a legal definition for vulnerable children (i.e., a child with disabilities) and INCREASE PENALTIES for abusing a vulnerable child.  You are opposing HB 4071 Abuse of a Vulnerable Child

OPPOSING POSITION: You want to MAINTAIN THE PENALTIES FOR CHILD ABUSE.

Bill and Analysis – HB 4071 Abuse of a Vulnerable Child
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• Support and Opposition – Bill Summary
• Explanatory Article
• Supporting Arguments – Testimony
• Supporting Arguments – Testimony 2

SUPPORTING POSITION: ALLOW TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS THE RIGHT TO TRY EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS whose effectiveness, safety, or danger is still unknown.

OPPOSING POSITION: DENY TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS THE RIGHT TO TRY EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENTS whose effectiveness, safety, and danger is still unknown.

Bill and Analysis – SB 991 Right to Try
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• Supporting Arguments – Testimony
• Opposing  Arguments  – Testimony
• Assessment of the Right-to-Try Law: The Pros and the Cons – Article
• Pharmacy and Therapeutics – Article

SUPPORTING POSITION: Individuals who have spent time in prison for a crime they did not commit SHOULD BE AUTOMATICALLY COMPENSATED.

OPPOSING POSITION: THE STATUS QUO SHOULD BE PRESERVED allowing wrongfully imprisoned individuals to sue state for compensation. 

Bill and Analysis – SB 98 Wrongful Imprisonment
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• Supporting Arguments – Testimony
• Supporting Arguments – Testimony 2
• Supporting Arguments – Article
• Supporting Arguments – Statistics
• Opposing Arguments – Testimony
• Opposing Arguments – Testimony 2