Michigan Votes

Sets the 2025-2026 school-aid budget, appropriating about $22.3 billion for K-12 public education.

Regulates carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) in Michigan.

Prohibits the manufacture, sale, transfer, or possession of bump stocks and multiburst trigger activators.

Expands the state's ability to investigate and penalize deceptive or fraudulent business practices.

Broadens the definition of "sex" to explicitly include pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions, ensuring these are protected under anti-discrimination law.

Would codify a state advisory council to recommend policies to the governor and state agencies aimed at addressing alleged discrimination and racial inequities.

Bans the use of someone's actual or perceived sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation as evidence for certain legal defenses.

Revises Michigan's election-recount process by increasing per-precinct recount fees and setting a 48-hour deadline for filing recount petitions after vote certification.

Requires Michigan insurers to cover telemedicine the same as in-person visits and cannot demand face-to-face visits if telemedicine is suitable.

Mandates kindergarten attendance for five-year-old Michigan children starting in the 2025-2026 school year.

Mandates extensive training hours and a department-approved exam for cosmetology and electrology instructors, requires manicurists and estheticians to meet higher age, education, and training standards, and offers limited licenses for those specializing in certain services.

Bans firearm possession in and around election-related locations.

Requires each city or township to have at least one absent voter ballot drop box that registered electors in that city or township may use to return voted absent voter ballots and completed absent voter ballot applications.

Extends the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program to cover privately owned agricultural property, alongside existing commercial and industrial coverage.

Designates Juneteenth a public holiday on June 19th.

Enacts a red flag law known as the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act.

Abolishes "right-to-work" provisions for private employees, eliminating their ability to refrain from labor organization and collective bargaining.

Repeals criminal sentencing guidelines for administering an abortion.

Provides $19.6 billion to public school districts, as part of the state's education omnibus appropriation bill for FY 2022-23.

Would amend the Michigan Constitution to reduce current term limits for state legislators to a combined total of 12 years and require state elected officials to file an annual public financial disclosure report.

Would require that a voter without his or her identification for election purposes vote with a provisional ballot to be processed after the election.

Would amend the state's handgun licensing law to provide that an executive emergency order does not affect the issuance or renewal of a concealed pistol license (CPL).

Would limit the effectiveness of an emergency public health order to control an epidemic to 28 days unless an extension is approved by the Legislature.

Appropriated $1.3 billion in federal COVID-19 funding for FY 2020-21, including $600 million to support Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.