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Michigan House adopts resolution to create Select Committee on Protecting Michigan Employees and Small Businesses
Summary
The Michigan House of Representatives adopted House Resolution 7 to create a select committee focused on protecting employees and small businesses; the measure passed by voice vote. Members also granted committees leave to meet and approved an excusal for Representative Bridal without objection.
The Michigan House of Representatives adopted House Resolution 7, creating a Select Committee on Protecting Michigan Employees and Small Businesses, during its session.
The resolution was introduced by Speaker Hall and read by the clerk before members voted by voice. "All those in favor of the resolution will say aye," the clerk said; members responded, and the clerk declared the resolution adopted. The record does not include a roll-call tally.
House Resolution 7 establishes a select committee, described in the resolution text as aimed at "protecting Michigan employees and small businesses." The resolution language was read aloud to the chamber by the clerk as "House resolution number 7, introduced by Speaker Hall, a resolution to create the Select Committee on Protecting Michigan Employees and Small Businesses." The resolution passed by voice vote; no vote counts or recorded individual votes were provided in the transcript.
In related floor business, a member moved to excuse Representative Bridal; that motion was approved "without objection," according to the clerk. Majority Floor Leader Posthumus moved that committees be given leave to meet "during the balance of today's session;" that motion also was approved without objection.
Majority Floor Leader Posthumus later told members there would be no further voting that day and said the House "stands adjourned until Tuesday, January 14 at 01:30PM" when it next meets. The transcript does not record a formal roll-call or recorded vote for the scheduling statement.
The actions taken on the floor were procedural and organizational: adoption of a resolution to create a select committee, approval of an excusal for a member, authorization for committees to meet during the remainder of the session, and a scheduling announcement. The transcript contains the resolution's title and the chamber's voice adoption but does not include the committee's membership, charge beyond the resolution title, or any debate on the measure.
Members and staff on the floor who are identified in the transcript include Speaker Hall, Majority Floor Leader Posthumus and the clerk; the mover of the excusal motion and some other floor comments are recorded without a speaker name in the transcript.
The House gave permission to several media outlets to record the session, and the session included an invocation and the pledge of allegiance before business began; those ceremonial items are not substantive to the resolution vote and are not detailed here.
