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Today, the House Oversight and Ethics committee for the second week took up HB 4522<\/a>, a bill that would grant\u00a0any\u00a0legislative committee subpoena power over local units of government and schools. \u00a0A substitute was adopted that narrowed this to only the committees who receive and review\u00a0the auditor general reports (oversight committee) in each of the house and senate and would require a resolution passed by 2\/3 of the committee.<\/p>\n

The ability to subpoena local records is already allowed under Act 118 of 1931 by a resolution of the full house\/senate.\u00a0 This legislation would give authority to the committee that recieve and review auditor general reports (the Oversight committee in this case) to subpoena witnesses by a 2\/3 vote of the committee members and not the full house\/senate.<\/p>\n

The League is opposed to this legislation.<\/p>\n

Nikki Brown is a legislative associate for the League handling economic development, land use and municipal services issues. \u00a0She can be reached at nbrown@mml.org or 517-908-0305.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, the House Oversight and Ethics committee for the second week took up HB 4522, a bill that would grant\u00a0any\u00a0legislative committee subpoena power over local units of government and schools. \u00a0A substitute was adopted that narrowed this to only the committees who receive and review\u00a0the auditor general reports (oversight committee) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nBill Giving Subpoena Power to Legislative Committee Gets Hearings in House - 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