20703 Education 519 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/10/2011 Tuesday Pending introduction and referral of: HB 4625 (Rogers) Education; teachers; standards for achieving and retaining teacher tenure; revise, and make certain revisions to hearing procedures. HB 4626 (Scott) Education; teachers; discharge or demotion of a teacher on continuing tenure; revise permissible grounds for, change definition of demote, and limit length of time salary continues during suspension. HB 4627 (O'Brien) Education; teachers; effectiveness as determining factor when reduction of teachers is required; establish, and require mutual consent policy for teacher placement. HB 4628 (Yonker) Education; employees; additional prohibited subjects of bargaining for public school employees; provide for. H051A 517-373-2002 Updated 05/09/2011 20691 Energy and Technology 519 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/10/2011 Tuesday Presentation on Plug-In Electric Vehicles (PEV's) and the Michigan Plug-In Electric Vehicle Preparedness Task Force H094A 517-373-8538 20678 Natural Resources, Tourism, and Outdoor Recreation 307 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/10/2011 Tuesday HB 4577 (Johnson) Natural resources; funding; natural resources trust fund; require to be used to make PILT payments on certain land. HB 4579 (Foster) Property tax; other; PILT payments; revise funds against which payments are charged. Testimony HB 4379 (Kowall) Natural resources; inland lakes; procedure for dissolution of lake improvement boards; expand to include a petition of property owners being assessed by the lake board for 2/3 of cost. HB 4554 (MacMaster) Natural resources; Great Lakes; submerged log permits; modify requirements. H107A 517-373-2013 20693 Redistricting and Elections 521 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/10/2011 Tuesday HB 4005 (Heise) Elections; school; dates of school elections; require to be in November of even numbered years. HB 4006 (Heise) Elections; school; technical amendments to revised school code concerning school board elections; provide for. Gary P. Gordon of Dykema Gossett PLLC testifying to constitutional and statutory standards and criteria for redistricting H036A 517-373-1260 20696 Commerce 519 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/10/2011 Tuesday HB 4452 (Yonker) Employment security; benefits; eligibility of educational contractor employees; revise. HB 4584 (Opsommer) Occupations; business licensing and regulation; professional employer organizations; revise effective and implementation dates in regulatory act. H104A 517-373-7256 20686 Families, Children, and Seniors 327 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/10/2011 Tuesday Testimony Only: HB 4384 (Kurtz) Children; protection; central repository pertaining to death of a child; create. HB 4385 (Hooker) Children; protection; notification to children's ombudsman regarding death of a child who is a ward of the state; require. HB 4386 (Haines) Children; protection; access to documents referencing death of a child who was a ward of the state; allow. HB 4387 (O'Brien) Children; protection; sharing of case-specific information related to child deaths while in state care; require. H058A 517-373-5795 20699 Military and Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security 308 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/10/2011 Tuesday Presentation by: Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. H084A 517-373-2002 New 05/09/2011 09:11:17 AM 20695 Oversight, Reform, and Ethics 326 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/10/2011 Tuesday HB 4060 (Geiss) Retirement; fire and police; amount of defined benefit pension of municipal fire and police; limit as a percent of base pay. H045A 517-373-2013 20704 Education 519 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/11/2011 Wednesday Presentation on Education Reform and Teacher Quality given by: Frederick M. Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. HB 4625 (Rogers) Education; teachers; standards for achieving and retaining teacher tenure; revise, and make certain revisions to hearing procedures. HB 4626 (Scott) Education; teachers; discharge or demotion of a teacher on continuing tenure; revise permissible grounds for, change definition of demote, and limit length of time salary continues during suspension. HB 4627 (O'Brien) Education; teachers; effectiveness as determining factor when reduction of teachers is required; establish, and require mutual consent policy for teacher placement. HB 4628 (Yonker) Education; employees; additional prohibited subjects of bargaining for public school employees; provide for. H051A 517-373-2002 New 05/09/2011 01:37:52 PM 20694 Agriculture 307 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/11/2011 Wednesday For discussion and testimony: HB 4503 (McBroom) Agriculture; animals; sporting swine livestock operations; regulate. HB 4504 (Tyler) Agriculture; animals; certain sporting swine; exclude from regulation as game. HB 4505 (Tyler) Agriculture; animals; ability of registrant under privately owned cervidae producers marketing act to operate sporting swine estate; provide for. HB 4506 (McBroom) Criminal procedure; sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for sporting swine marketing act violations; enact. HB 4507 (McBroom) Agriculture; animals; cervidae livestock facilities; transfer regulatory responsibility to the department of agriculture and rural development. H082A 517-373-8538 20687 Appropriations Room 352, House Appropriations, 3rd Floor, State Capitol 05/11/2011 Wednesday SB 139 (Kahn) State financing and management; budget; revenue estimating conference; include additional variables, and provide general amendments. H040A 517-373-1988 20692 Regulatory Reform 521 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/11/2011 Wednesday HB 4016 (Stamas) Environmental protection; other; NREPA programs; require peer review or benchmark analysis. HB 4017 (Agema) Environmental protection; other; stratified random sampling process; establish for inspections under NREPA. Testimony Only: HB 4553 (MacMaster) Occupations; landscape architects; requirement for continuing education for renewal of license; establish. HB 4307 (Bumstead) Labor; health and safety; definition of agricultural operations in MIOSHA; modify to include Christmas trees. H038A 517-373-5795 20700 Transportation 307 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/11/2011 Wednesday HB 4303 (McBroom) Natural resources; wetlands; wetland mitigation; exempt county road commission. Presentation by the Michigan Department of Treasury regarding pre-paid gas taxes H093A 517-373-1260 New 05/09/2011 09:11:17 AM 20644 Appropriations: Joint Capital Outlay Room 352, House Appropriations, 3rd Floor, State Capitol 05/12/2011 Thursday Meeting #2 - Capital Outlay/Natural Resources Transfer - Lease for Private Property - SBA Leases H044A 517-373-1988 20706 Local, Intergovernmental, and Regional Affairs 307 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/12/2011 Thursday Testimony Only: HB 4148 (Denby) Property tax; special assessments; revolving loan fund to pay bonds funded by delinquent special assessments; create. HB 4149 (Denby) Property tax; payment and collection; interest rate on uncollected taxes returned to county for collection; provide option to adjust interest rate. HB 4150 (Rogers) Property tax; payment and collection; interest rate on uncollected taxes returned to county for collection; provide option to adjust interest rate. HB 4538 (Denby) Environmental protection; water pollution; Great Lakes water quality bonds; deposit a portion of the proceeds into the delinquent special assessment revolving loan fund. H052A 517-373-1260 New 05/09/2011 04:23:55 PM 20711 Judiciary 521 House Office Building, Lansing, MI 05/12/2011 Thursday HB 4589 (Somerville) Torts; governmental immunity; liability for a defect in a sidewalk; clarify that inference regarding a defect of less than 2 inches applies to any sidewalk maintained by a municipal corporation. HB 4565 (Tyler) Crimes; controlled substances; possession of certain MDPV; prohibit, and establish penalties. 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