Recent Legislature Votes and Adoptions 2025 House Resolution 17: Adopted in the House on Jan. 30, 2025 A resolution of tribute offered as a

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants the Michigan Legislature to preserve the state's current tipped wage system at least until July 1 and work out a plan for what to do next.

Both chambers of the Michigan Legislature will be up for grabs. Voters will select two justices for the Michigan Supreme Court. Michigan will have another open U.S. Senate race. On top of all that, voters will be asked whether we should rewrite the state constitution.

The Legislature is staring down a Friday deadline to make alterations to new minimum wage and paid sick leave standards before they take effect. We have more from Rick Pluta.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer called on the Michigan Legislature to reach a bipartisan deal this week on new state minimum wage and earned sick leave laws or temporarily extend the status quo into the summer.

Record-Eagle Business correspondent Bill O’Brien reported on the improved committee assignments several legislators from this region have attained in the hierarchy of the Michigan Legislature.

A state judge will rule on a dispute between the Michigan House and Senate over the fate of nine bills that the last Legislature failed to present to Whitmer.

Attorneys for the House and Senate argued their cases to a state judge Monday morning in a case over nine bills passed last year.

Michigan’s Democratic and Republican parties have new leaders at the helm ahead of the crucial 2026 elections that will decide the state’s political direction.

The tip credit, or subminimum wage, was expected to increase to 48% of the minimum wage on Feb. 21, 2025, continue to increase, and then be phased out completely by Feb. 21, 2029. The laws Whitmer signed made it so the subminimum wage remained at 38% and will instead increase by 2% each year through Jan. 1, 2031, when it will reach 50%.

A Michigan judge presiding over an intra-party lawsuit in the state Legislature said Monday that she had issues with arguments made by the GOP-controlled House to prevent her from intervening.