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Irwin Calls Out House EGLE Budget as an Endangerment to Michigan People, Environment
While Senate EGLE budget invests in Michigan soil, water, and air quality, House plan eliminates critical resources to strengthen public health and environment LANSING, Mich. (Aug. 27, 2025) — Nearly two months past the deadline, House Republicans finally passed their...
Irwin Proposes Back-to-School Tax Holiday to Help Michigan Families Afford School Supplies, Clothing
With tariff-driven inflation on the rise, annual two-week holiday would help offset costs of back-to-school season purchases LANSING, Mich. (Aug. 27, 2025) — With the start of the school season officially upon us, many families across Michigan are feeling the...
Senate Democrats Call Out House Republicans for Budget Delays, Warn of Real Consequences for Michigan Students
LANSING, Mich. (Aug. 13, 2025) — Today, Michigan Senate Democrats renewed their call for House Republicans to take action on an education budget, warning that continued inaction is putting students, teachers, and schools at risk. “As House Republicans continue holding...
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The Michigan Senate just passed legislation to prevent price gouging during declared states of emergency.
These bills, SBs 1041-1043 prohibit large and unjustified price increases during a declared state of emergency. The bills affect hotels and lodging, emergency services, and energy products like gasoline.
Here is a description of the bills:
senatedems.com/chang/2026/06/17/senate-democrats-continue-affordability-push-with-bills-to-protec...
The Senate Fiscal Agencies description:
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When Michigan was moving towards a bill to exempt data centers from sales tax on their computers, I fought alongside many Senate Democratic colleagues to include protections for ratepayers and for water.
In that bill, for example, we included language that data centers couldn't raise rates for residents and that their water use must be regulated by local governments. The idea here was to increase accountability, water conservation, and proper handling of any waste. Reducing aquifer use and sending their water waste to plants that are accustomed to processing industrial wastes from big polluters was important to me.
Although we won some protections in that law and Michigan has some of the rules that other states are lacking, we didnt get all of our proposals for regulating data centers in the law.
These bills propose to increase the protections for ratepayers and water while also banning non-disclosure agreements and other transparency measures. These proposals also require community benefit agreements and strengthen the requirements in the original law requiring the use of clean and renewable energy.
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