Michigan House receives messages, introduces dozens of bills and adjourns after failing to reach quorum

The Michigan House of Representatives received messages from the Senate and heard introductions of dozens of bills on Sept. 25, 2025, before the chamber stood adjourned until Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, at 10 a.m., after the clerk announced a lack of quorum.

Clerk of the House staff announced receipt of multiple Senate bills, and House members formally offered a long series of House bills. The bills were read for the first time and referred to committees as recorded on the floor; no floor votes on the measures were taken before adjournment.

The clerk announced Senate bills including Senate Bill 109 (to amend the Emergency Management Act), Senate Bill 273 (to amend the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act), and a set of other Senate measures (including Senate Bills 382, 383, 418, 419, 420, 421, 540, 541, 542, 563, 565, 566, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578 and 579). Those Senate bills were read into the record and the clerk indicated they were being considered a first time and referred to committees as announced on the floor.

On the House side, members formally offered and had read into the record a long series of House bills, which were recorded as first readings and referred to committee. Notable introductions included House Bill 5070, a general-appropriations measure to make and consolidate appropriations for state departments and branches for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2026; related supplemental or adjustment appropriations bills (House Bills 5071 and 5072) were also offered and referred to appropriations. Other House measures introduced included House Bill 5063 (to amend the Income Tax Act of 1967), House Bill 5086 (to repeal the Tobacco Products Tax Act), House Bill 5085 (to amend the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act), and bills addressing the Michigan Liquor Control Code of 1998, the Single State Construction Code Act, the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act, the Open Meetings Act and various regulatory and code provisions. Each bill introduction on the record was followed by the clerk’s announcement of committee referral as entered on the journal.

Several representatives were named as offering bills on the floor. Representative Fairbairn offered House Bills 5056 and 5057 (related to the Single State Construction Code Act). Representative McFall offered House Bill 5063 (Income Tax Act of 1967). Representative Song offered House Bill 5070 (general appropriations for fiscal 2026). Representative Myers Phillips offered House Bill 5071, and Representative Seth Burns offered House Bill 5072; each of those was referred to the committee on appropriations as announced. Representative Brenda Carter offered House Bill 5066. Representative Carr offered House Bills 5085 and 5086 (including the repeal of the Tobacco Products Tax Act). Representative Phil Green offered House Bill 5087. Representative Weiss offered House Bill 5088 (a proposal limiting appropriations from the state school aid fund for community colleges and higher education). Other representatives listed bills on the record as offered and referred; the clerk recorded the committee referrals as read on the floor.

The clerk also announced the receipt, earlier in the day, of a set of Senate bills (Senate Bills 563, 565 and 566) and numerous subsequent Senate messages and transmittals during the session. The clerk’s routine reading of messages and bill introductions concluded without substantive floor debate on the measures recorded that day.

Because the clerk announced that a quorum of the House was not present, the Speaker directed the chamber to stand adjourned; the clerk announced the House would reconvene Monday, Sept. 29, 2025, at 10 a.m. No floor votes on the introduced bills were recorded in the transcript of the Sept. 25 proceeding; the measures proceed to the committees listed by the clerk for further consideration.