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Find out more about Notify! and other free services provided by the Legislative Internet Technology Team in cooperation with the Michigan Legislative Council, the Michigan House of Representatives, and the Michigan Senate. 07/17/2008 2007-2008 Michigan Manual online version is available on the Publications page. 05/14/2008 See your ten most recently viewed items listed at the bottom left, under the main menu. 04/17/2008 Select a color from the color picker to customize your visit.  When logged in as a registered user your selection will be saved in your profile for the next time you log in.  03/15/2008 If a bill succeeded in creating a Public Act, and that Public Act is currently in the Michigan Compiled Law, the bill status page for that bill now links to that portion of the law. Find this feature next to the Public Act number at the top of the bill status page. 03/07/2008 Now you can search for specific actions that have been taken on bills! 02/26/2008 Bill history items can now be sorted by date.  Once you decide on a sort order the site will remember that order for the remainder of your visit. 01/16/2008 Repealed laws that have been frequently requested by website users are now being made available on the site. Find this new feature under the Laws section of the side menu. 12/05/2007 Daily Introduced, Passed By Chamber, and Enrolled page has been expanded to include full bill descriptions. 08/15/2007 The Bill Status (also called bill summary) and most supporting documents (Analysis, Calendars, Journals) as far back as 1995 are now available on the Michigan Legislative Website. It is no longer necessary to go to a seperate Archive Site to access these documents. Look for all page specific menu items, such as the printable version, the short link, "add to print basket" and "add to filing cabinet", at the top of each page. Prior to this new change, some of these page specific menu items were at the bottom of the pages they served. 07/19/2007 House Official Journal for 2006 is now available on the Publications page. Senate Official Journal for 2006 is now available on the Publications page. 06/19/2007 Three new layout tools have been added for registered users. View and manage your Personal Email Notifications, Filing Cabinet, and Print Basket on every page using these new layout controls. Find out more. 04/30/2007 New Survey! Please tell us what video overviews of the website you would like us to create for you. Full Text Search Syntax Updates While mostly maintaining backward compatibility with our previous full text search syntax, we now support Google’s basic syntax standards, with which most users have grown accustomed. Examples: landlord tenant = all docs containing both words landlord -tenant = all docs containing the first word but not the second landlord “tenant relationships” = all docs containing the word and the exact phrase landlord -“tenant relationships” = all docs containing the word but not the exact phrase "Legislative Activity" and "How do I..." added to the home page, providing quick access to items of interest.  The Legislature number has also been added to the site. "Adjourned Until" item added to the top of the website. New 2007 Legislative Telephone Book available. See the publications page for an order form. 03/28/2007   Video overview "Overview of the Committee Bill Record Search Page" is available on the Help page. 02/02/2007 It is now possible to be automatically notified of changes to sections of law. This is an addition to the many other options already available. Learn more about the Notification System, which is a free service provided by Michigan Legislative Council, the Michigan House of Representatives, and the Michigan Senate. A "Printable Version" button has been added to the Committee Bill Records page. Use this printer icon at the top of the page. Hint: This report looks best when printed in landscape mode. A Citizen's Guide To State Government / First Glance has replaced the prior version of this document on the Publications page. The 2006 Michigan Taxpayer's Guide has been updated with the 2007 Michigan Taxpayer's Guide on the Publications page. 01/25/2007 The last history action for bills and resolutions is now included in the nightly notification reports that are sent to registered users who are utilizing this feature. 01/03/2007 The Committee Bill Records Page has been updated! Choose from or combine a number of criteria to search and sort on, including sponsor, committee, and whether or not there is a meeting or status associated with the record. When Committee Bill Records begin to arrive on the website for the 2007 session, you will see this new feature by first selecting a Committee Bill Record from the list of Standing Committees. 11/15/2006 Michigan Public and Local Acts for the years 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 have been added to the Publications page. 11/6/2006 House Official Journal for 2005 is now available on the Publications page. Senate Official Journal for 2005 is now available on the Publications page. Status pages for resolutions from 2005 forward now display introduced version documents (for the House) and the adopted version documents (for both the House and Senate). For resolutions prior to 2005, please continue to refer to the journal linked in each resolution's history. 7/28/2006 2005-2006 Michigan Manual online version is available on the Publications page. 7/27/2006   Video overview "Overview of the Bills Page" is available on the Help page. Registered users can now easily check the status of their email address by visiting the Notify page (only available when logged in) and viewing the status message next to the email address. If your notification emails have been bouncing back to us, the status will indicate INACTIVE; to see the reasons why, click the Bounced Email Status link under the Notification Functions section of the Notify page. 6/20/2006   Video overview "Searching for Bills from the Home Page" is available on the Help page. 6/12/2006 Added "Initiatives" to menu. 5/23/2006 Short, safe-to-paste links are now provided for most pages within the site. If you need to copy and paste a URL into an email or instant message, click the link icon next to the page header and follow the instructions given. 4/7/2006 An "Add Checked Items to Notification" button has been added to the registered user Filing Cabinet page, making it simple to sign up for email notification of updates to items in your filing cabinet.  Contents of the Filing Cabinet are now automatically alphabetized.  Also, new formatting and default values make this feature easier to use and understand.  Find out more about the filing cabinet, or find out more about notification.  The most recent history item has been added to the result list of bill searches, so it is no longer necessary to open each bill to determine the last activity on the item. The Daily Introduced, Engrossed and Enrolled Bills page now returns the first several characters of the description of each bill, so it is no longer necessary to open each bill to determine the nature of the bill.  An RSS 2.0 XML file has been provided on the Bills page for syndication of bill updates. An option to receive plain text notification emails (as opposed to Html emails) has been added to the Notify page.  Note that you can only access the Notify page when logged in with your registered username and password. The ability to search Committee Bill Records by key word has been added to the Advanced Legislative Search page. 3/27/2006 Search result limitations have been removed. History items on the bill status pages now link committee names (as in "referred to committee on...") to their Committee Bill Records. When a link on the site has been "visited" it will change to a slightly different color to help with site navigation. Registered users now have the option of being notified when bills they are watching have analysis files submitted to the site. The Search Introduced, Engrossed, and Enrolled Bills page can now be queried using a date range or a specific date. This essentially provides a "Currently Enrolled Bills" report, among other things. A "Printable Version" of most pages in the site can be accessed by clicking on the new printer icon at the top of the page. An MCL document outline, or "index", is available, and can be seen as an   index icon at the top of MCL pages.  Bill searches by category and by detailed category can take multiple categories.  The result of a search using multiple categories/detailed categories will be only those bills that belong to all of the selected categories/detailed categories. 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