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State Sen. Dana Polhankie outlines recent laws on housing, firearms storage, benefits and workplace protections
Summary
At the March 11 Canton Township Board of Trustees meeting, State Sen. Dana Polhankie reviewed a slate of bills passed during the recent legislative session — from source-of-income housing protections to expanded child-safe storage rules for firearms — and answered trustees' questions about the state budget and education funding.
State Sen. Dana Polhankie, who represents Canton and surrounding communities, briefed the Canton Township Board of Trustees on March 11 about recent state legislation and developments in Lansing, including new laws she described as affecting housing, public safety and worker benefits.
Polhankie said several laws passed in the recent session that she supports will have direct effects on residents. “One is to end housing discrimination — prevents landlords from denying a renter housing based on their source of income,” she said. She also described a new child-safe-storage law that she called “one of the laws I’m most proud of,” saying it imposes penalties when unsecured firearms in homes, cars or at friends’ houses are accessed by children.
Why it matters: Polhankie said the housing measure expands access for renters whose income comes from sources such as housing vouchers, and that the safe-storage law will require schools to send electronic notices to families about the new requirement so more people are aware of it.
Polhankie listed other enacted measures, including an expansion of the stateethnic-intimidation (hate-crime) statute to add…
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