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Vote Yes on this bill if you want short-term rentals to remain legal statewide but with more local oversight to reduce noise, overcrowding, safety risks, and repeat violations.
Organizations that support this bill may include neighborhood associations, city and county governments, and public safety groups that want occupancy limits, permits, neighbor notice, and stronger enforcement for problem short-term rentals.
Vote No on this bill if you want fewer rules on short-term rental owners and guests and believe these new permit, occupancy, and enforcement requirements go too far.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include vacation rental owners, property rights advocates, and online rental platforms that object to added permits, occupancy caps, background checks, insurance requirements, and higher fines.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want municipalities to be able to renew an existing general plan for another 10 years and give smaller, slower-growing towns more flexibility over whether a new plan goes to voters, which could reduce cost and delay.
Organizations that support this bill may include city and town governments, local planning departments, homebuilders, chambers of commerce, and property-rights groups that want a simpler and less costly way to keep local land-use plans in place.
Vote No on this bill if you want cities to create fresh long-range plans more often and want residents in more towns to have a guaranteed vote on major growth, housing, and land-use decisions instead of giving more control to local officials.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include voting-rights advocates, neighborhood associations, smart-growth groups, and environmental organizations that want voters to keep a stronger direct role in long-term development decisions.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to make it harder to close certain state-owned outdoor shooting ranges by requiring approval from state agencies, public hearings, the Legislature, and the governor.
Organizations that support this bill may include gun-rights groups, shooting sports clubs, sportsmen’s associations, and hunting advocacy organizations that want stronger protections against closing state-owned outdoor shooting ranges.
Vote No on this bill if you want closures of certain shooting ranges to remain easier than this bill allows, so officials can respond more quickly to noise, growth, land-use conflicts, or public concerns.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include neighborhood groups, local government associations, land-use planning advocates, and gun-violence prevention organizations that want communities and agencies to have more flexibility to close ranges when problems arise.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want schools to automatically place top-performing middle school students into available advanced math classes unless parents opt out, while keeping parents informed about both advanced placement and math remediation needs.
Organizations that support this bill may include parent advocacy groups, STEM education organizations, charter school supporters, and education reform groups that want more students placed into advanced math earlier.
Vote No on this bill if you want schools and families to keep more local discretion over advanced math placement and avoid automatic enrollment rules that could strain course availability or place some students in classes that may not fit their needs.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include teachers unions, school administrator associations, and student equity advocates concerned about automatic placement, staffing limits, and reduced local flexibility.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want Michigan local governments to rely on existing statewide opioid settlements, avoid more local civil lawsuits against covered companies, and give those settling defendants broader legal finality.
Organizations that support this bill may include pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmacy chains, business associations, and state officials who want opioid claims handled through statewide settlements instead of new local lawsuits.
Vote No on this bill if you want local governments to keep the power to file or continue their own opioid-related civil lawsuits and seek additional accountability or compensation beyond statewide settlements.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include counties, cities, townships, school districts, local government groups, and public health advocates who want communities to keep the option to sue for more opioid-related damages.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want the House to endorse tax policies that let working families keep more of their income through tax breaks for tips, overtime, children, seniors, adoption, education, car loans, and health savings accounts.
Organizations that support this bill may include taxpayer advocacy groups, business associations, restaurant and hospitality groups, senior groups, and family organizations that favor lower taxes and expanded tax credits.
Vote No on this bill if you want to reject the House’s endorsement of these tax cuts because you believe they are fiscally risky, unevenly targeted, or less helpful than direct public investments and services.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include budget watchdog groups, tax fairness advocates, and public interest organizations that worry these tax cuts reduce federal revenue and may weaken funding for public services.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to limit EPA oversight of many federal projects and agency rules in order to reduce delays, cut regulatory overlap, and speed up government action.
Organizations that support this bill may include business associations, construction and manufacturing groups, energy industry organizations, and others that want faster federal decisions with less EPA review.
Vote No on this bill if you want to keep stronger EPA review of federal projects and rules so potential air pollution and environmental harms are more likely to be identified before decisions are made.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include environmental groups, public health advocates, conservation organizations, and community groups concerned about weaker federal review of pollution risks.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want EPA to more easily exclude air-monitoring data tied to wildfires and prescribed burns, give states more flexibility, and encourage controlled burning to reduce the size and frequency of catastrophic wildfires.
Organizations that support this bill may include state forestry agencies, prescribed burn and wildfire management groups, western state and local governments, and business groups that want wildfire smoke and prevention burns treated more flexibly in federal air-quality decisions.
Vote No on this bill if you want federal air-quality decisions to keep counting more smoke pollution data, maintain stricter clean-air oversight, and avoid creating loopholes that could reduce accountability for unhealthy air in affected communities.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include clean air advocates, environmental justice groups, public health organizations, and community groups concerned that excluding more smoke data could weaken air-pollution enforcement and hide harmful health impacts.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to repeal an old state law on telephone regulation and reduce government oversight of phone and telemarketing activity, if the related bill also becomes law.
Organizations that support this bill may include telephone companies, telemarketing firms, and business groups that want fewer state rules on phone services and sales calls.
Vote No on this bill if you want to keep existing state-level rules and oversight for telephone and telemarketing activity to help protect residents from unwanted calls and possible abuse.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include consumer protection groups, senior advocates, and privacy organizations concerned about weaker safeguards against unwanted or abusive calls.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to stop automated bots from grabbing large numbers of tickets, protect purchase limits and online waiting lines, and give regular fans a fairer chance to buy tickets at normal prices.
Organizations that support this bill may include consumer protection groups, event venues, artists, sports teams, and ticket sellers that want fairer online sales and fewer bot-driven bulk purchases.
Vote No on this bill if you want fewer state rules on online ticket sales and do not want the government restricting how buyers and resellers use automated tools in the ticket market.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include ticket resellers, scalping businesses, and technology or business groups that worry about added regulation of online sales practices.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want tighter screening of private election funding, more public reporting, and stronger penalties meant to keep foreign-connected money out of election administration.
Organizations that support this bill may include election security groups, government accountability advocates, and groups that want stronger limits on foreign influence in election administration.
Vote No on this bill if you want election offices to keep more flexibility to accept private help, and if you are concerned the bill could add red tape, legal risk, and new barriers for groups supporting election operations.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include voting rights groups, local government associations, and nonprofit organizations that worry the bill could discourage lawful private support for election offices and invite more lawsuits.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want school bond and override ballots to give voters clearer cost, tax, project, and expiration information, along with stronger public oversight of how the money is used.
Organizations that support this bill may include taxpayer watchdog groups, government transparency advocates, and voters who want clearer information about school bond and override tax measures.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid new election rules and state review requirements that could add administrative burdens and make it tougher for school districts to renew or approve local funding.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include school district associations, some education advocacy groups, and local officials who believe the bill adds red tape and could make it harder to win school funding elections.