Lansing Update

Lansing Update publishes on Fridays when the Michigan Legislature is in session and chronicles legislative activity of interest to Michigan Catholic Conference. Join the Catholic Advocacy Network to receive Lansing Update in your inbox.

Budget in Stalemate as GOP Rejects Executive Order; Legislation Introduced to Allow Second Parent Adoptions; Next Week’s Committee Hearings of Interest.

MCC Questions Governor’s Support for Human Cloning; Tax Increases, Budget Cuts Recommended to Solve Economic Woes.

House Committee Assignments Finalized; Senate Committee Listing; Senate Panel Receives Update on State Health Care Plan.

School Safety Bill Signed Into Law; MCC President Named to State Emergency Financial Advisory Panel; House Democrats Roll Out Restructured Committees; State of State Address Set for February 6.

Legislation Creating a Statewide Cord Blood Bank Enacted; Farmland Preservation Bill Vetoed; 94th Legislature Set to Begin Next Week.

Governor to Sign Welfare Reform Legislation; State to Award New Michigan Promise Scholarship; MCC to Seek Support for “Net Neutrality’; New Report Troubling for Michigan Children; Jack Kevorkian to be Paroled from Prison.

Bills Promoting Adult Stem Cells Moving Through Legislature; Legislature Again Seeking Limits on State Assistance Programs; 2007-2008 Legislative Leaders Elected.

MCC Calls for Religious Freedom in Child-Placement Services; “The Issues, The Candidates and Your Vote 2006’ Headed to Parishes; Conference Seeks Support for Foster Care Families.

Strict Welfare Reform Measures Headed to Senate.

One United Michigan Campaign Kicks-Off.

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