HB 5881, which would allow MDOC retirees to work in prisons part time through September 2013, passed out of the state House of Representatives Wednesday evening. 58 representatives voted for the bill and 48 voted against.
Here’s a list of representatives and how they voted:
(Not sure who your state representative is? Click here.)
| Yeas—58 Bolger Haines MacGregor Potvin Bumstead Haveman MacMaster Price Callton Heise McBroom Pscholka Cotter Hooker McMillin Rendon Crawford Horn Moss Rogers Daley Hughes Muxlow Schmidt, R. Damrow Huuki Nesbitt Schmidt, W. Denby Jacobsen O’Brien Shirkey Foster Johnson Olson Somerville Franz Knollenberg Opsommer Stamas Genetski Kowall Ouimet Tyler Gilbert Kurtz Outman Walsh Glardon LaFontaine Pettalia Yonker Goike Lund Poleski Zorn Graves Lyon |
Nays—48 Agema Dillon Jackson Rutledge Ananich Durhal Jenkins Santana Barnett Farrington Kandrevas Segal Bauer Forlini Lane Slavens Bledsoe Geiss LeBlanc Smiley Brown Greimel Lindberg Stallworth Brunner Hammel Lipton Stanley Byrum Haugh Liss Stapleton Cavanagh Hobbs McCann Switalski Clemente Hovey-Wright Meadows Talabi Constan Howze Nathan Tlaib Darany Irwin Oakes Townsend |
This bill will now go to the state Senate for a vote. The Senate reconvenes Tuesday. It is imperative you contact your state senator right away and ask for a no vote! Click here to email your senator.
(Please note, the campaign this link will take you to is not the same exact campaign MCO posted in October. We have updated the email you can send your Senator to reflect the most recent action on the bill. Even if you emailed your legislators last month, don’t hesitate to email them this updated letter.)