{"id":4423,"date":"2015-05-15T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2015-05-15T11:48:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T15:48:17","slug":"legislative-subpoena-authority-bills-move-out-of-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2015\/05\/15\/legislative-subpoena-authority-bills-move-out-of-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Subpoena Authority Bills Move Out of Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the House Oversight and Ethics committee passed out <a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.mi.gov\/(S(azlbfm4jgaad3tspqbadsrd1))\/documents\/2015-2016\/billcurrentversion\/House\/PDF\/2015-HCVBH-4522-3458.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HB 4522<\/a> with only one legislator voting no. \u00a0A different substitute was adopted from last week requiring that at least one minority vote must be in favor of passing the subpoena resolution in an attempt to help limit abuse of the act. \u00a0It also stated an attorney must be consulted before passing the resolution and the normal 18 hour notice of a committee hearing must now be a 72 hour notice when a subpoena resolution will be on the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>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 receives and reviews auditor general reports (the Oversight committee in this case) to subpoena witnesses by a vote of the committee \u00a0and not the full house\/senate.<\/p>\n<p>The League along\u00a0well the Michigan Townships Association, Michigan Association of Counties, Michigan Sheriff&#8217;s Association and school organizations are opposed to this legislation.<\/p>\n<p><em>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the House Oversight and Ethics committee passed out HB 4522 with only one legislator voting no. \u00a0A different substitute was adopted from last week requiring that at least one minority vote must be in favor of passing the subpoena resolution in an attempt to help limit abuse of the  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-4423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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