House Rules Committee adopts substitutes and reports two bills (HB 4391, HB 4017)

The Michigan House Rules Committee adopted substitutes and reported two bills during its session.

Representative Liberati moved to adopt the minutes of the committee’s June 5 meeting; the motion carried by unanimous consent. The committee then took up House Bill 4391 and Representative Aragona moved to adopt substitute H-2, which the clerk described as specifying that “certain sections do not apply to preliminary oral fluid tests since the subsections are only meant to apply to lab based chemical tests.” On the motion to adopt the H-2 substitute for HB 4391 the chair recorded 7 yeas, 0 nays and 0 passes; the substitute was adopted. Representative DeBoer then moved to report HB 4391 with recommendation as substituted; the clerk recorded 5 yays, 0 nays and 2 passed and the motion prevailed. The bill was reported with recommendation as substituted.

The committee next considered House Bill 4017. The H-2 substitute for HB 4017 specifies that the department shall forgive fines “to the maximum amount allowed under federal OSHA penalty adjustment factors.” Representative Aragona moved to adopt H-2; the clerk recorded 7 yays, 0 nays and 0 passes and the motion prevailed. A support card for HB 4017 was submitted by Joshua Scramlin of the Michigan Farm Bureau. Representative Posthumus moved to report HB 4017 with recommendation as substituted; on the motion the clerk recorded 8 yays, 0 nays and 0 passed, and the motion prevailed. The bill was reported with recommendation as substituted.

There were no roll-call vote details naming individual yes/no votes beyond the tallies provided by the clerk in the transcript. With no further business, the committee adjourned.