Bill Tracker
CRA has wide ranging interests. It tracks legislation on issues ranging from road and infrastructure funding to unfunded liabilities, agriculture, the logging industry, safety and more. The following are the bills CRA is tracking. Click the years below to view prior years Bill Tracker tables:
HB 4575, Rep. Steele (R-Oakland), 6/5/25 Provides appropriations for fiscal year 2025-2026 for the Department of Transportation. Read more... House introduced bill.
HB 4597, Rep. Shriver (R-Oakland), 6/10/25 Would amend the Michigan Vehicle Code (MVC) by allowing local units of government (counties, townships, cities and villages) to establish or modify a speed limit within their respective jurisdictions. The bill would require a public hearing and prior approval of their local law enforcement. No traffic or engineering study would be required; however, items that must be taken into consideration include public safety, traffic risks and flow, accidents, deaths, character of the community, roadway features and environmental concerns. Read more... House introduced bill.
HB 4644, Rep. St. Germaine (R-Macomb), 6/12/25 Would amend the MVC by modifying the population threshold for allowing golf carts on city streets and county roads. The threshold could increase, by resolution, from 30,000 to 65,000 in a city and from 30,000 to 65,000 by township resolution unless rejected by the county board of commissioners.
Read more...House introduced bill.
SB 288, Sen. Klinefelt (D-Macomb), 5/7/25 Would amend the Open Meetings Act by modifying grounds for going into closed session when a public body consults with its attorney. Read more... Senate introduced bill.
HB 4706, Rep. Bollin (R-Livingston), 7/1/25 Provides a House “zero” FY 2026 Appropriations budget bill for multiple Michigan departments and branches. This bill will likely be used to roll up all the individual FY 2026 budget bills, excluding K-12 and higher education, once approved at the House level. Read more... House introduced bill.
SB 448, Sen. Victory (R-Ottawa), 6/26/25 Would amend the Michigan Transportation Fund (MTF) Act by establishing and administering a local road incentive program (the Road Investment Incentive program) that makes matching grants to local road agencies. CRA discovered the intent of the bill is to encourage local millages for road improvements (as opposed to maintenance) that would be used as match for this grant program. This is not a CRA Legislative Priority. Read more... Senate introduced bill.
HB 4654, Rep. Bohnak (R-Marquette), 6/17/25 Would use a supplemental appropriation to provide General Fund revenue to local units of government involved in the 2025 Baraga County flood. Read more... House introduced bill.
HB 4656, Rep. Pavlov (R-St. Clair), 6/17/25 Would prohibit road construction projects that shut down all lanes of a road. Read more... House introduced bill.
SB 80, Sen. Webber (R-Oakland), 2/13/25 Would amend the MTF Act by creating, funding and operating an MDOT noise abatement measure (sound wall) program. MDOT would select projects for their state trunkline system. Local road agencies may participate in developing this program. Read more... Senate introduced bill. Support
SB 92, Sen. Anthony (D-Ingham), 2/19/25 Would amend the Michigan Transportation Fund (MTF) Act by creating and managing a new grant program for business that lost revenue due to MDOT construction projects. At this time, local road agencies are not required to participate. Read more... Senate introduced bill. Oppose
SB 150, Sen. Bellino (D-Monroe), 3/13/25 Would amend the MTF by removing the $100,000 competitive bidding threshold for local road agencies (counties and municipalities) on construction projects and inserting:
• A city or village with a population of more than 500,000, to any construction project with costs exceeding $100,000 for construction or preservation, excluding routine maintenance.
• If the local road agency is not a city or village with a population of more than 500,000, to both of the following:
- To any construction project with individual project or contiguous project costs exceeding $250,000 for construction or preservation, excluding routine maintenance.
- To each construction project after a local road agency exceeds $800,000 in total costs for construction or preservation, excluding routine maintenance, in a fiscal year. Read more...Senate introduced bill. Support
SB 162, Sen. Anthony (D-Ingham), 3/18/25 Would create the multiple departments and branches Omnibus budget for FY 2026. Read more...
Senate introduced bill.
SB 184, Sen. Anthony (D-Ingham) 3/18/25 Would create supplemental appropriations for multiple departments and branches for FY 2025. Read more... Senate introduced bill.
SB 265, Sen. Victory (D-Ottawa), 4/29/25 Would amend the MTF Act by expanding the authorized use of nonmotorized transportation funds to include constructing, improving, maintaining or repairing these facilities. The bill does not include snow removal. Read more... Senate introduced bill.
SB 319, Sen. Klinefelt (D-Macomb), 5/21/25 Would amend the Public Employment Relations statute by making minimum staffing levels within a bargaining unit as a mandatory component of bargaining for certain public employees. A reintroduction from last session, HB 4688, introduced by Rep. Haadsma (D-Calhoun) – which only got as far as being reported out of the Labor Committee. Read more... Senate introduced bill.
HB 4084, Rep. Robinson (R-Macomb), 2/13/25 Would amend the MTF Act to create, fund, and operate an MDOT a sound wall program. Identical to SB 80. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4118, Rep. Schuette (R-Midland), 2/25/25 Would amend the Michigan Drain Code to allow special assessments to pay the cost of construction of a drain to be levied on lands owned or controlled by the DNR in an amount determined by the drain commissioner. Read more... House introduced bill. Neutral
HB 4137, Rep. Slagh (R-Ottawa), 2/26/25 Would amend the Michigan Vehicle Code by modifying how speed limits are determined in accordance with traffic engineering practices. (Note: This issue was addressed in a 2024 bill but has not had the far-reaching effect visualized by its supporters.) Read more... House introduced bill. Neutral
HB 4142, Rep. Farhat (D-Wayne), 2/26/25 Would create a new Digital Advertising Services Tax Act specifying that any revenue collected be deposited in either or both the state School Aid Fund or the Michigan Transportation Fund (MTF). Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4143, Rep. Farhat (D-Wayne), 2/26/25 Would amend the Income Tax Act of 1967 by providing an earmark from corporate income tax (CIT) to the MTF, more specially, $500 million to county road agencies and $500 million to cities and villages in FY 2027. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4144, Rep. Farhat (D-Wayne), 2/26/25 Would amend the Income Tax Act of 1967 by increasing the CIT and earmarking the increased revenue for School Aid Fund. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4161, Rep. Bollin (R-Oakland), 2/26/25 Would provide appropriation budgets for multiple Michigan departments and branches for fiscal years 2025 and 2026. These are customary place-holder bills with no content at present. Read more... House introduced bill. No position
HB 4180, Rep. Steele (R-Oakland), 3/6/25 Would amend the General Sales Tax Act by exempting motor and aviation fuel from sales tax beginning October 1, 2025. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4181, Rep. Frisbie (R-Oakland), 3/6/25 Would amend the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Revenue Equalization Act by excluding tax on motor fuel beginning October 1, 2025. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4182, Rep. Slagh (R-Shiawassee), 3/6/25 Would amend the Use Tax Act by exempting motor and aviation fuel sales use tax beginning October 1, 2025. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4183, Rep. Kunse (R-Mecosta), 3/6/25 Would amend the Motor Fuel Tax Act by increasing motor fuel tax by 20¢ (total 51¢) after the state sales tax is removed on the purchase of fuel and recognizing it as Constitutionally-protected Michigan Transportation Fund (MTF) revenue beginning October 1, 2025 (Note: This distribution would flow through the MTF Act as written.) This is a CRA Legislative Priority. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4184, Rep. Thompson (R-Oakland), 3/6/25 Would amend the Aeronautics Code of the State of Michigan by increasing the excise tax on aviation fuel and modifies distribution. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4185, Rep. Linting (R-Oakland), 3/6/25 Would amend the General Sales Tax Act by modifying the distribution of sales tax revenue for schools based on shifted sales tax revenue on fuel beginning October 1, 2025. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4186, Rep. Carra (R-Macomb), 3/6/25 Would amend the Michigan Business Tax Act by providing a rate increase from 4.95% to 30% and election to file under CIT Act and allow for certain taxpayers beginning October 1, 2025. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4187, Rep. Outman (R-Montcalm), 3/6/25 Would amend the Income Tax Act of 1967 by redirecting $2.2 billion of CIT revenue to the Michigan Transportation Fund (to be distributed 50% to county road agencies, 40% to cities/villages, 10% to MDOT) beginning October 1, 2025. This increase in MTF is a CRA Legislative Priority. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4203, Rep. Johnsen (D-Ionia), 3/11/25 Would amend the Motor Vehicle Code by expanding seasonal weight restrictions exemption for emergency public utility vehicles to include removing a vehicle involved in an accident or a disabled or impounded vehicle on restricted roads for tow truck, wrecker, or road service vehicles to remove a vehicle involved in an accident or a disabled or impounded vehicle on restricted roads. As with a public utility, a wrecker company must notify the county road agency of their purpose for accessing a restricted road. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4210, Rep. Morgan (D-Washtenaw), 3/11/25 Would amend the General Sales Tax Act by increasing the current auto-related sales tax collected and transfer to the Comprehensive Transportation Fund (CTF within the MTF) from less than 27.9% of 25% of the original 4% state sales tax to not less than 60% of 25% of 4%, beginning October 1, 2026. Read more...
House introduced bill. Neutral
HB 4230, Rep. Outman (R-Montcalm), 3/13/25 Would amend the MTF Act by creating the neighborhood road fund and provides for the distribution of the fund to municipalities' local streets and county road agencies' urban local roads based on these specific miles of streets and roads. No specific funding has been identified. Read more... House introduced bill. Support
HB 4343, Rep. Borton (R-Otsego), 4/17/25 Would amend the MVC by suspending Michigan’s weight restriction (frost law) for commercial vehicles traveling to assist with or directly assisting with a disaster or emergency during a state of disaster or state of emergency declared under the Emergency Management Act. Read more... House introduced bill.
HB 4415, Rep. Kuhn (D-Oakland), 5/1/25 Would amend the County Road Law by increasing the purchase competitive bidding threshold from $15,000 to $50,000 and for emergencies from $50,000 to $250,000 by county road agencies. This is a CRA Legislative Priority. Read more... House introduced bill.