The House Education and Workforce Committee adopted the minutes of its Oct. 22 meeting and advanced nine bills previously heard, recording roll‑call votes on several measures.
Committee members first adopted the prior minutes without objection. The panel then took up the H‑1 substitute to House Bill 48‑13, which updates definitions and terms in the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children; Representative Pavlov moved the referral to the House Committee on Rules and the clerk recorded 11 ayes, 0 nays.
Vice Chair Linting moved to refer House Bill 48‑95, which would allow licensed occupations to complete required continuing education remotely; the roll call showed 11 ayes, 0 nays. The committee reported House Bill 49‑22 (removing an additional endorsement requirement for school librarians) with a recorded tally of 7 yeas and 4 nays. The committee then considered a six‑bill epinephrine access package (House Bills 50‑49, 50‑50, 50‑51, 50‑52, 50‑53 and 50‑54). Each of those bills was moved and reported or referred with unanimous roll‑call results recorded by the clerk (11 ayes, 0 nays on each listed vote).
Clerk roll calls and the clerk’s announcements supplied the vote tallies recorded on the public transcript. No oral public commenters appeared during the votes; written cards were entered into the record for some items (for example, a support card from Jarette Skowup of the Mackinac Center on an earlier item and an opposition card from Andy Newman of the Michigan Education Association for a later item).
The committee then moved to extended testimony on separate legislation (House Bill 50‑44) and a workforce presentation. With no further business, Chair closed the committee and adjourned.
Votes at a glance (recorded in meeting transcript):
- HB 48‑13 H‑1 (interstate compact updates): refer to Rules — 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- HB 48‑95 (remote continuing education for licensed occupations): refer to Rules — 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- HB 49‑22 (librarian endorsement): reported — 7 yeas, 4 nays.
- HB 50‑49 (epinephrine access): reported — 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- HB 50‑50 (epinephrine access): refer to Rules — 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- HB 50‑51 (epinephrine access): reported — 11 yays, 0 nays.
- HB 50‑52 (epinephrine access): reported — 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- HB 50‑53 (epinephrine access): reported — 11 ayes, 0 nays.
- HB 50‑54 (epinephrine access): reported — 11 yays, 0 nays.
The clerk’s roll calls are the official source of the tallies recorded in the transcript.