Anthony G. Forlini

Republican · MI · Macomb County Clerk

Anthony G. Forlini is Macomb County Clerk and a former state representative and Harrison Township supervisor. He wants to use public databases to remove ineligible voters from the rolls and to cut wait times at Secretary of State offices.

Supports

Government Efficiency (67 records), Election Integrity (30 records)

Mixed record

Anti-Corruption (69 support · 6 oppose), Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties (80 support · 51 oppose), Data Privacy (32 support · 33 oppose),

Track record

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Anti-Corruption · 69 support · 6 oppose

Launched a public online tool for viewing and comparing Macomb County ballot images and vote records.
February 23, 2026Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: wxyz.com
Introduced a public historical Macomb County election results website.
November 25, 2025Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini voted to make the county apportionment tool and census data publicly available through the county website.
September 2, 2021Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Supported creating a veterans facility authority with borrowing powers and related transparency safeguards.
December 14, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 6075. The bill requires public reporting of local pension and retiree health liabilities and corrective steps for systems funded below 60 percent.
December 8, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5811. The bill creates a university employee vendor contract exception for goods and services offered to the public at the same price.
December 8, 2016Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5120. The bill shortens public water noncompliance notice from 30 days to 72 hours.
December 8, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5856. The tax increment authority package limits new millage capture and requires public revenue reporting.
December 1, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4580. The final law requires qualifying business personal property tax deals to include clawback terms.
November 29, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5826. The bill bars public bodies from suing Freedom of Information Act requesters for making authorized requests.
September 22, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5469. The House passed package extends public records access to the legislature and governor with specified exemptions and an internal legislative appeal process.
September 21, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported creating a state veterans facility ombudsman office.
June 8, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported placing Detroit schools under the Financial Review Commission and extending its oversight to the replacement community district. The March House proposal subjected school budgets and contracts to commission review; the May House proposal also required commission approval of the superintendent and changes to the superintendent’s contract or benefits.
June 2, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5639. The bill requires quarterly veterans facility operating reports.
June 2, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 292. The bill requires executive budgets to disclose departmental pension and retiree health unfunded liability payments.
June 1, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 738. The bill requires state pension reports to disclose unfunded liabilities in executive summaries.
May 12, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5407. The bill bars qualifying expelled or resigned legislators from the special election filling their vacated term.
March 24, 2016Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4540. The bill exempts critical energy infrastructure and cybersecurity records from public disclosure.
March 23, 2016Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4610. The package permits qualifying township contributors to require county road project competitive bidding and changes agency bid requirements.
October 21, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4505. The civil forfeiture package raises the proof standard to clear and convincing evidence and requires detailed agency reporting.
October 8, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4070. The final incompatible office exception applies to communities under forty thousand residents, with restrictions on union contract negotiations.
September 22, 2015Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Introduced 2015 House Bill 4759. Introduced removal of the 30 day primary and 60 day general election windows from issue advertisement sponsor identification rules. The candidate or ballot question still must be identified and targeted to the relevant electorate.
June 18, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for a 2014 constitutional proposal changing bill effective dates to ninety days after filing and requiring recorded two-thirds immediate-effect votes. It failed the ballot threshold. He cosponsored the related 2015 constitutional and statutory proposals, including ninety-day filing rules for initiated laws.
June 18, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported school fiscal early warning reporting, oversight and enforcement.
June 18, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored public disclosure of MEGA credit claimant names and amounts.
June 11, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported stronger proof requirements and agency reporting for civil asset forfeiture.
June 4, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported requiring physical presence for public body votes, with emergency, illness and video conference exceptions.
May 26, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported limiting revisions to existing corporate subsidy agreements, notifying legislators and requiring legislative approval for exceptions.
May 7, 2015Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported school expense transparency and an additional forty million dollar reading appropriation. The package also extends school prohibitions on using public funds for gifts, recreation, alcohol and illegal items.
December 19, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported limits on open records charges, itemized disclosures, posted procedures and response delay discounts. The final act limited fees by capable employee wages, ten cent paper copies and specified labor increments, with delay discounts and separate civil and punitive sanctions. The earlier House $2,000 punitive proposal differs from the final $1,000 wrongful denial sanction.
December 19, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported county electronic record fee caps of 25 cents per page and $1,500 per request. These replace the introduced ten cent and $500 limits. This is a voted proposal; no enacted outcome is asserted.
December 10, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported prohibiting tax collection quotas and requiring equal treatment of taxpayers by Treasury and contractors.
June 11, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to expand the children's ombudsman's investigation of deaths involving active or recent child protective services and foster care cases, with stated exceptions and immediate safety reporting.
February 27, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2013 House Bill 4291. Voted for tax audit transparency, including a complete copy of work papers, findings, and correspondence. The final proposal directs Treasury to develop standards within a year; it does not retain the introduced requirement to use federal audit standards.
February 27, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Introduced and voted for House Bill 5222 extending advertisement sponsor identification requirements from sixty days before a primary election through the general election. The requirements applied to advertisements referencing candidates or ballot proposals without expressly advocating their outcome.
February 20, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to require candidates to disclose felony convictions from the prior ten years on their affidavit of identity. This is a past policy vote rather than a current candidacy record.
February 5, 2014Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to grant an obsolete property tax exemption exception and require online reporting of approved and denied exception applications to legislators. The broader transparency duty makes this distinct from a solely individual application cure.
September 10, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Introduced 2013 House Bill 4843. The history names Forlini as introducing political robocall payer and authorization disclosure with misdemeanor fines.
June 13, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to make remote voting by a public body member a violation of the Open Meetings Act.
May 16, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Also on this bill
- February 28, 2012 · Supported requiring public body members to be physically present when casting votes under the Open Meetings Act. (Supports Anti-Corruption)
Voted to require agencies to justify rules as necessary, suitable, and proportionate to burdens.
May 14, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to require legal review and public posting of intergovernmental agreements.
April 10, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a proposal for a veterans facility ombudsman.
January 29, 2013Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported barring school board contract votes when relatives had an interest, with the remaining qualified members constituting a quorum.
December 13, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported publishing individual acquisition scores and costs, preferring locally supported projects and downtown trail connections, and excluding coerced land sales from the Natural Resources Trust Fund acquisition list. The final text gave consideration to acquisitions in counties with at least fifty percent private land or motorized recreation. Proposed board term limits did not survive. Both December 13 yeas remain one policy arc.
December 13, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported public employee compensation and severance disclosures in May, then the narrower December requirement to report aggregate state employee compensation.
December 13, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring state agencies to prepare detailed spending plans, classify core and support services, and publish approved plans. The package also required department performance scorecards.
December 12, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported pension investment reforms that expanded allowable global investments, required public financial reporting and service fee disclosure, limited board training and travel expenses and restricted payments to service providers after covered political contributions. The annual training and travel cap was the lesser of 150,000 dollars or 12,000 dollars per board member, with a 30,000 dollar individual cap and later inflation adjustment.
September 19, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored the September 11, 2012 bill criminalizing payments or other valuable consideration for becoming a candidate, with campaign contributions and expenditures excluded.
September 11, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported road fund performance audit revisions in December 2011 and July 2012. The final law transferred authority from Treasury to Transportation and made audits discretionary, including requests from House or Senate leaders, rather than requiring universal performance audits.
July 18, 2012Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported constitutional and statutory authority declarations and public posting for state interstate or federal agreements.
June 14, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to expand political committee reporting, increase penalties for knowing omissions and impose a felony for prolonged campaign statement nonfiling by candidate committees holding at least 20,000 dollars.
June 14, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported barring use of campaign funds for officials' civil or criminal legal costs, with specified election and campaign finance exceptions.
June 14, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 House Bill 5158. Forlini introduced and supported requiring state service contractors and grant recipients to allow contract compliance audits and retain related financial records for three years. The final law exempted proprietary records from public disclosure and preserved the Auditor General's authority. Introduced 2011 House Bill 5158.
June 14, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported publishing campaign finance complaint findings and conciliation agreements, mandatory referral or hearings when informal resolution failed, tripled improper contribution penalties, and revised late reporting thresholds and fee refunds. The final thresholds were cumulative 500 dollars for candidates and 2500 dollars for other committees; eligible noncandidate late fees from 2010 onward were refunded or waived.
June 12, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported a free searchable state database of agency purchases, contracts and grants.
May 30, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported online disclosure of government and school contracts above $25,000.
May 30, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported moving business subsidy selections from independent experts to the Michigan Strategic Fund board, reducing reporting and increasing permissible overhead spending.
May 15, 2012Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported specific public explanations and paper notices for emergency meetings held without the usual 18 hour notice. The final act requires notice to the county board within 48 hours by mail or email, while the earlier House version required both. Website posting applies where the official internet presence updates agendas or minutes at least monthly.
May 2, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2012 House Bill 5359. Voted for Lund's adopted amendment restricting state contracts worth at least $100,000 when a vendor employs members of a labor organization making covered contributions or gifts. It requires contractor certifications from represented unions, imposes civil fines up to three times a prohibited contribution or gift, and treats specified member or family contributions as union contributions. This is his amendment vote, not passage of the underlying bill.
March 22, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported removing notaries from office for misdemeanors involving public trust, fraud or dishonesty.
March 13, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring public body members to be physically present when casting votes under the Open Meetings Act.
February 28, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Also on this bill
- May 16, 2013 · Voted to make remote voting by a public body member a violation of the Open Meetings Act. (Supports Anti-Corruption)
Opposed making a prison vendor contract contingent on related legislation and resolving prisoner work and wage issues before signing. He supported distributing the required prison report to affected local governments and publishing it online.
February 16, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 House Bill 4653. His absentee ballot companion prohibited officials' names on distributed materials. Forlini introduced and supported prohibiting elected and appointed officials' names on polling place and absentee ballot materials. Introduced 2011 House Bill 4653, 2011 House Bill 4656.
January 25, 2012Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported preventing agencies from enforcing unpromulgated guidance or rules beyond statutory delegation. His earlier supported version also required small business impact protections, removed from the final bill.
December 7, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring a scientific explanation when environmental permit applications were denied.
November 10, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported central regulatory office authority to reject agency rulemaking requests and require online policy and appeal notices. The rulemaking companion required a formal decision record and approval of policy and legal grounds; the federal standards limit had moved to another bill.
November 10, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported school anti bullying policies without a religious belief exception, while opposing annual public bullying incident reports. His opposed Brown amendment concerned reporting, not enumeration or off campus speech.
November 10, 2011Opposes Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported publishing child fatality reports without prior agency approval and expanding reviews of deaths involving children under family court jurisdiction.
June 30, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported township authority to require competitive bidding when the township paid at least half a road project's cost.
June 23, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported a fair and equitable sampling process for environmental inspections, reasons and rights explained before inspection, and an opportunity to comment afterward. Exceptions preserve complaint, evidenced violation, follow up, permit issuance and legally required inspections.
June 16, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Introduced 2011 House Bill 4654. His complete companion bill barred responsible individuals from committee financial roles or forming new committees until reports and fees overdue twelve months were corrected. Forlini introduced candidate disqualification from any public office until campaign reports and payments overdue more than twelve months were corrected.
May 18, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported the passed House H 7 pension transparency proposal requiring all local public pension systems to publish annual reports, budgets and quarterly board expenditures, with annual salary information and six year online and original record retention. Benefit disbursements to members and retirees are excluded; participation in a statutory system can satisfy the duty through a website link.
May 18, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Introduced 2011 House Bill 4657. Forlini introduced payer and authorization disclosure for electronic campaign communications, prohibited campaign calls from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m., and set up to ninety days or a 500 dollar fine for violations.
May 18, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a free searchable website disclosing state purchase, contract and grant recipients, amounts and purposes.
January 25, 2011Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to establish an independent five elector commission setting elected township officials' compensation, subject to rejection by two thirds of the board.
May 26, 2009Supports Anti-Corruption
Source: harrisontownshipmi.api.civicclerk.com

Government Efficiency · 67 support

Installed office appointment and queue systems, replaced daytime voicemail with live staff telephone assistance and reported shorter customer waits.
July 31, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini completed a consolidated historical records storage facility and relocated deed film and vital record books into it.
May 27, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Launched a public online tool for viewing and comparing Macomb County ballot images and vote records.
February 23, 2026Supports Government Efficiency
Source: wxyz.com
Introduced a public historical Macomb County election results website.
November 25, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini's office tested secure electronic transmission of unofficial election results with eleven communities in the November election.
November 4, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Forlini coordinated jury questionnaires with district courts and introduced postcard summons to reduce duplicate mailings and postage.
October 1, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini partnered with the Secretary of State to provide supporting records and REAL ID applications in a single mobile office visit.
April 25, 2025Supports Government Efficiency
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Forlini expanded property searches across 5.6 million land records by adding property terms and standardizing parcel identifiers.
September 28, 2024Supports Government Efficiency
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini redesigned the clerk office website to improve public access to forms and services.
November 22, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
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Forlini implemented online marriage applications that prepared applicants forms before their clerk office appointment.
April 21, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini combined first time concealed pistol license applications and fingerprinting into a single office visit.
March 23, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini launched electronic campaign finance filing, giving local committees online submission accounts.
February 6, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini established countywide election inspector recruitment and training to support local clerks.
February 6, 2023Supports Government Efficiency
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 879. The transportation bill changes project material evaluation toward lifecycle costs.
December 15, 2016Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 963. The package consolidates skilled trades licensing, professional board standards and specified plumbing fee rules.
December 13, 2016Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported a state online child abuse reporting tool and treatment of complete online reports as satisfying mandatory reporting duties.
February 24, 2016Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 531. The package creates electronic civil court filing, supporting fees and a state fund, while protecting free document inspection.
December 15, 2015Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to let county boards dissolve appointed road commissions, transfer duties and funding, and submit elected commission dissolution to voters. He supported extending the transfer procedures through 2018 and then 2020.
December 15, 2015Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported streamlined unclaimed property audits for eligible Michigan businesses, a four year enforcement limit, exclusion of checks voided within 180 days and a limited exemption for property worth $25 or less.
December 10, 2015Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported eliminating county concealed pistol licensing boards and transferring their duties to the State Police and county clerks.
February 25, 2015Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to eliminate county concealed pistol licensing boards and transfer license issuance to county clerks, with State Police background checks. The proposal also lowered the application fee and revised qualification rules.
December 19, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported limits on open records charges, itemized disclosures, posted procedures and response delay discounts. The final act limited fees by capable employee wages, ten cent paper copies and specified labor increments, with delay discounts and separate civil and punitive sanctions. The earlier House $2,000 punitive proposal differs from the final $1,000 wrongful denial sanction.
December 19, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to allow county and local clerks to jointly select electronic voting systems under state requirements.
December 11, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported district court magistrates issuing arrest warrants and statewide electronic complaint transmission. The electronic search warrant companion is included.
December 10, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported replacing newspaper legal notices with phased electronic dissemination and permanent notice protocols over ten years, with an initial five year voter choice and regular or electronic mailing lists.
December 4, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported a public information and communications technology revolving loan fund for selected agency, local government, education and nonprofit public service projects.
November 13, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported electronic vehicle lien notification and release, authority to require electronic transactions, changed title issuance and new lien fraud offenses.
September 18, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported consolidating county prosecutor child support enforcement authority into a designated Friend of the Court or contracted agency attorney, with interstate and welfare related companions.
September 18, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported up to ten Michigan Strategic Fund entrepreneurs in residence to advise on small business outreach and development program efficiency.
June 3, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a resolution seeking stronger investigation and reduction of veterans health care delays.
February 18, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to limit personal business tax collection liability, require disclosure of known tax liability to business buyers, impose audit time limits, and permit appeals of unresolved refund claims after one year. The final buyer disclosure period is 60 days rather than the introduced 30 days. This incorporates provisions from vetoed Senate Bill 64.
January 15, 2014Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to require conditional liquor licenses within 20 days after complete applications, with a $300 fee and limited duration.
December 12, 2013Supports Government Efficiency
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to allow county electronic campaign finance filing systems and thresholds of either $1,500 or $5,000.
December 11, 2013Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to permit electronic court records and establish Supreme Court retention and disposal rules.
December 10, 2013Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to require an additional three percent annual interest on qualifying delayed tax refunds beginning 60 days after a claim.
October 9, 2013Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to accelerate dredging permit decisions, reduce fees for material at least 90 percent sand, and allow open lake disposal of uncontaminated material.
June 13, 2013Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to eliminate city and township canvassing boards and retain county boards for election tabulation.
June 4, 2013Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported contracting with private prisons when documented annual state cost savings reached ten percent. The final law retained American Correctional Association training and accreditation requirements and employment consideration for displaced state prison workers and returning military personnel. The earlier five percent threshold did not survive.
December 14, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported applying the Michigan Election Law to metropolitan district elections, with county election coordination, regular election administration, canvassing and recount procedures, and district payment of election costs. His February and December yeas remain one arc with House Bill 4122.
December 14, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2012 Senate Bill 1021. The bill imposed timely state payments and local reporting requirements, with penalties, for the related state land payment package. Supported increasing state land payments to local governments from two to four dollars per acre beginning in 2015 and indexing the amount to inflation.
December 13, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to revise accelerated sales and use tax payments for large taxpayers, permitting seventy five percent of the lower specified prior month liability with reconciliation and electronic transfer.
December 13, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported allowing local governments to contract for guaranteed energy-saving improvements. The mandatory requirement in the initial proposal was removed before his recorded votes.
December 13, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to revise state construction and leasing procedures, including capital project deadlines, university and college reporting, federal matching funds and appropriations act approval of facilities, conveyances and leases.
December 13, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 House Bill 4862. The bill made related substance abuse agency consolidation mandatory. Supported consolidating substance abuse coordinating agencies under community mental health programs in June and December.
December 13, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported moving Berkley into the Royal Oak district court in 2015 and reducing its three judgeships to one through attrition. The final law also adjusted Court of Appeals attrition timing.
December 13, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring state agencies to prepare detailed spending plans, classify core and support services, and publish approved plans. The package also required department performance scorecards.
December 12, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2012 Senate Bill 1291. The bill exempted internet-based security providers from duplicative alarm contractor licensing within the related new registration package. Supported registration, employee background checks and fingerprinting for internet-based premises security providers and their contractors.
December 5, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported fourteen-day issuance of sixty-day conditional liquor licenses after complete applications, with no compensation claims against local governments for revocation losses.
September 27, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported trial court jurisdiction sharing plans adopted by a majority of participating judges and approved by the Supreme Court, unless the applicable majority voted against a plan. The final law allowed individual judges to file objections for review; it did not give one judge an unconditional opt-out.
September 27, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported specialized business courts for business and commercial disputes exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars in June and September 2012.
September 27, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 House Bill 5062. Forlini introduced and supported requiring election clerk continuing education at least every two years, bipartisan ballot receiving boards and a state precinct audit program. The enacted law authorized audits and training of county staff rather than requiring every precinct to be audited after every election. Introduced 2011 House Bill 5062.
June 14, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2012 House Bill 5572. Forlini cosponsored and supported restricting state-supported voluntary home visiting services to evidence-based or evaluated promising programs, with shared data and annual outcome reporting. The law did not mandate family participation.
June 14, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored the May 22, 2012 bill granting provisional Medicaid approval to nursing home applicants after 45 days without an eligibility decision, followed by termination if later found ineligible.
May 22, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported remote expert testimony for good cause or when both parties accepted the arrangement.
March 22, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to restructure court districts, combine specified district and probate duties and reduce judgeships by attrition across the covered counties. He supported the initial appellate district reassignment and the later reduction from twenty eight to twenty four appeals judges.
February 21, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported allowing qualified election inspectors to work throughout the state instead of only in their home counties.
February 1, 2012Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported the initial House easement proposal and December 15 concurrence in the narrower Senate version. The final version requires road access for qualifying landlocked owners but retains restrictions for sensitive areas, protected lands, management plans and unreasonable damage, plus survey and fair market payment and reciprocal public access where applicable. It establishes 30 day completeness and 90 day decision deadlines.
December 15, 2011Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported deeming permit applications complete unless agencies identified deficiencies within 30 days.
November 10, 2011Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported central regulatory office authority to reject agency rulemaking requests and require online policy and appeal notices. The rulemaking companion required a formal decision record and approval of policy and legal grounds; the federal standards limit had moved to another bill.
November 10, 2011Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported environmental permit program benchmarking with regulated parties represented on review teams; the final version removed independent review requirements.
November 10, 2011Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported consolidating regular school board elections at the November general election in even numbered years from January 2012 and beginning elected terms the following January. The package removed prior options for May or odd year elections and aligned related election law.
November 9, 2011Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 8. The companion applied labor bargaining law to local service consolidation authorities. Supported local joint service authorities and property taxes up to five mills, requiring separate approval by each jurisdiction's board and voters.
November 3, 2011Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported statewide agency regulatory reviews prioritizing rules affecting the greatest number of businesses, groups and individuals and carrying the largest statewide compliance costs. The reviews assess continued need, public complaints, complexity, duplication and changed conditions.
June 16, 2011Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported school district contracts sharing an intermediate school district superintendent or receiving a supplied superintendent.
March 22, 2011Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored expanding environmental permit processing coverage and a sixty day default deadline with retained shorter deadlines.
January 25, 2011Supports Government Efficiency
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Recommended combining building and water department oversight temporarily in January 2010, with acting pay and an efficiency review. He supported a temporary repair worker and recommended extending the combined assignment in April. The board continued the arrangement through year end. His savings estimates were projections.
January 11, 2010Supports Government Efficiency
Source: harrisontownshipmi.api.civicclerk.com
Voted to mail absentee ballot applications to registered residents aged sixty and older and postcards explaining voting rights to younger residents. He also supported an unsuccessful request to stop duplicate county mailings.
February 25, 2008Supports Government Efficiency
Source: harrisontownshipmi.api.civicclerk.com

Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties · 80 support · 51 oppose

Voted for 2015 House Bill 4629. The bill removes the bond required to contest specified civil forfeitures and the provision imposing forfeiture proceeding costs on claimants.
December 15, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4982. The bill requires human review before unemployment sanctions based on computer discrepancies and changes notice procedures.
December 8, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4643. The bill permits injunctions against access blocking pickets and substantial daily penalties for violations.
December 7, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 291. The wrongful imprisonment compensation bill changes the proposed annual payment from 60000 to 50000 dollars.
December 7, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5409. The package restricts school seclusion and restraint and requires emergency policies, parent notice, incident records and trained personnel.
December 7, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 332. The final package changes only the first minor in possession offense to a civil fine and retains criminal treatment of later offenses.
December 6, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5826. The bill bars public bodies from suing Freedom of Information Act requesters for making authorized requests.
September 22, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5649. The package extends qualifying overdose treatment and helper drug offense immunity beyond people under 21.
September 20, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 92. The law enforcement standards package creates officer licensure, qualifications and suspension or revocation procedures, and changes training and confidential record access.
September 7, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Introduced 2016 House Joint Resolution OO. Forlini introduced an Article V convention application to restrict independent political spending.
July 13, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Also on this bill
- June 2, 2016 · Voted for 2015 House Joint Resolution N. Supported a proposed constitutional warrant requirement for government access to electronic data and communications. (Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Supports Data Privacy)
- December 19, 2014 · Voted for 2014 House Joint Resolution UU. Supported placing the sales tax increase from six to seven percent before voters in May 2015, with school aid earmarks and a conditional road tax package. Passage of the resolution is not voter approval of the package. (General)
- May 14, 2014 · Voted for 2013 House Joint Resolution N. Supported a proposed constitutional requirement for in-state university tuition for all honorably discharged veterans. House passage does not establish ballot placement or amendment approval. (General)
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 207. The package authorizes trained police oral fluid drug testing and a county pilot.
June 9, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 251. The bill creates a less formal confidential juvenile consent calendar with parental and prosecutor agreement.
June 9, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Joint Resolution N. Supported a proposed constitutional warrant requirement for government access to electronic data and communications.
June 2, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Also on this bill
- July 13, 2016 · Introduced 2016 House Joint Resolution OO. Forlini introduced an Article V convention application to restrict independent political spending. (Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties)
- December 19, 2014 · Voted for 2014 House Joint Resolution UU. Supported placing the sales tax increase from six to seven percent before voters in May 2015, with school aid earmarks and a conditional road tax package. Passage of the resolution is not voter approval of the package. (General)
- May 14, 2014 · Voted for 2013 House Joint Resolution N. Supported a proposed constitutional requirement for in-state university tuition for all honorably discharged veterans. House passage does not establish ballot placement or amendment approval. (General)
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5106. The bill expands qualifying National Guard activation authority while withholding police and arrest powers under the new provision.
May 24, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported making constitutional amendment and initiated legislation petition signatures older than 180 days void without the former rebuttal process.
May 18, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5273. The bill removes a successor sentencing judge's parole veto while preserving the original sentencing judge provision.
May 12, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5078. The package permits qualifying medically frail prisoner parole to supervised care and penalizes assistance absconding.
May 4, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4947. The proposed juvenile justice package moves 17 year olds from automatic adult prosecution into juvenile jurisdiction, separates youth from adult detention, adds age appropriate services and changes county incentives. Introduced 2015 House Bill 4951.
April 27, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4476. The bill restricts involuntary domestic relations mediation where protection orders or child abuse proceedings apply.
April 19, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4787. The bill enhances penalties for specified acts coercing a pregnant person to obtain an abortion.
March 24, 2016Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4436. The bill expands court relief on driver license suspension appeals, including restricted or restored driving privileges.
March 1, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed increasing unendorsed motorcycle operation fines from one hundred to five hundred dollars and adding repeat offense incarceration.
February 18, 2016Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4713. The bill establishes a default culpable mental state for qualifying criminal statutes that are silent, with specified strict liability and offense exceptions.
December 16, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 151. The bill removes the January 2016 deadline to seek conviction relief through new DNA testing.
December 8, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4321. The House passed bill restricts warrantless residence searches after an occupant's express objection, with emergency and victim exceptions.
October 28, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4769. The bill enhances methamphetamine manufacture penalties near schools or libraries.
October 28, 2015Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4479. The bill creates enhanced assault penalties for pregnant victims and repeat offenses.
October 15, 2015Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4505. The civil forfeiture package raises the proof standard to clear and convincing evidence and requires detailed agency reporting.
October 8, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4138. The final House proposal requires qualifying parole at high rather than average assessed safety probability, subject to exceptions.
October 1, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4711. The bill removes judicial solitary confinement and hard labor sentence authority and release conditioned on paid fines, alongside obsolete product packaging penalties.
August 19, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4710. The bill replaces criminal state camping registration penalties with a civil fine.
August 19, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported stronger proof requirements and agency reporting for civil asset forfeiture.
June 4, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported broader legislative authority to compel testimony and records from people and entities.
June 2, 2015Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported tax appeals without prepaying the disputed tax and a longer Tax Tribunal appeal period.
May 27, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported court stays protecting deployed military parents in child custody proceedings.
May 26, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported defining firearm brandishing by threatening conduct intended to induce fear.
April 30, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported civil and criminal liability protection for charitable food donations, with unsafe food exceptions.
March 26, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported commercial driver fraud prohibitions, graduated license revisions and narrower discretion over offensive vanity plates.
March 19, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported extending youthful trainee eligibility to ages 21 through 23, with work, education or community service conditions and revised incarceration rules.
March 12, 2015Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Introduced House Bill 4035 to allow jury trial waivers in rental agreements under the Truth in Renting Act.
January 21, 2015Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported limited access to confidential child abuse records for union representatives and disciplinary hearing officials concerning the employee's own proceeding. It is not general public disclosure of child records.
December 19, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported revising scrap tire storage, transportation and processing rules, including bonding, hauling permits, community cleanup exemptions and an open burning ban. The recorded arc also reduced certain felonies to misdemeanors and clarified forfeiture.
December 18, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for seizure and forfeiture of property used to knowingly possess or introduce prohibited aquatic species and revised prohibited list procedures. He opposed the related enhanced penalties and license suspensions.
December 18, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed removing the Michigan voter requirement for petition circulators and permitting nonresident collectors subject to jurisdiction consent and disclosure conditions.
December 18, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported foster parent rights to timely reimbursement, fair complaint investigations and due process with a grievance process. May 27 passage and December 18 concurrence were affirmative. Another member's proposed gender orientation restriction is not asserted as adopted without final text.
December 18, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to expand criminal record set aside eligibility to one felony and up to two misdemeanors, or up to two misdemeanors, with offense exclusions and waiting rules.
December 18, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported eliminating certain filing fees in child protective and delinquency proceedings. Both October 2 passage and December 18 concurrence were affirmative.
December 18, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported suspending rather than terminating Medicaid eligibility for covered people with mental illness or serious emotional disturbance in custody or state inpatient care, enabling benefits to resume after release.
December 17, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to require willful conduct for illegal firearm brandishing and exempt defensive pointing.
December 17, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported an administrative appeal for unclaimed property holders challenging state underreporting determinations, adding a route short of court. September 24, 2013 passage and December 16, 2014 concurrence were affirmative.
December 16, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed expanding nuisance related property seizure and sale to property connected to unlawful gun violence and human trafficking. Both November 12 passage and December 11 later passage were negative.
December 11, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported Corrections employability certificates for released prisoners who behave well and complete career and technical education, with licensing consideration and limited employer liability companions. Both April 29 passage and December 9 concurrence were affirmative. The final summary replaces broader introduction counseling and GED criteria.
December 9, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported a limited parole release presumption for specified nonviolent, drug or low risk prisoners after their minimum sentence, with exceptions and no automatic release mandate. This replaces the more expansive introduced minimum sentence and nine month release requirements.
December 4, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to extend youthful trainee eligibility to age twenty three with work, school or community service conditions and related sentencing and revocation changes.
December 3, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for a one year reasonable suspicion welfare drug testing pilot in at least three counties, with 500,000 dollars in funding and six month benefit sanctions for positive results or refusal. The House proposal protected children's benefits through a protective payee and exempted medical marijuana.
December 3, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported statewide sexual assault evidence kit handling deadlines and procedures through a state commission, with victim information and examination funding notices.
October 2, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported expanding criminal forfeiture to willfully blind property owners and certain transferred assets and serious offenses, with a 28 day notice period replacing the introduced 56 day period.
October 2, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Introduced 2014 House Bill 5869. The history names Forlini as introducing a proposal to allow jury trial waivers in rental leases.
October 1, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for methamphetamine precursor controls, including reporting offenders to a national database and blocking their ephedrine or pseudoephedrine purchases. He also supported penalties of up to ten years and a $10,000 fine for knowingly buying precursors for methamphetamine production, and adding those offenses to racketeering law.
June 12, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported increased impaired driving penalties, including fatalities and aggravated offenses.
June 12, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to increase penalties for second and later convictions for concealing stolen vehicles.
June 11, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to permit court ordered involuntary substance abuse treatment upon a family or clinician petition and clear and convincing evidence of imminent danger to self or others.
June 10, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported mandatory video recording of state child abuse and neglect interviews, with court use, retention and disclosure penalty companions. The read history establishes passed proposals, not implemented recording operations.
June 4, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to increase intentional vehicle and dwelling gun discharge penalties, including life imprisonment for fatalities and enhanced terms for injuries.
June 3, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported making unlawful imprisonment a first degree felony murder predicate with life without parole for qualifying murder.
May 27, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to allow parents or guardians to give impact statements after victims became adults for crimes suffered as minors, with specified guardian exclusions.
May 13, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported stronger borrower notice and correction opportunities before foreclosure auction purchasers inspect interiors or seek immediate possession during redemption.
May 6, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported confidentiality for voter Social Security numbers, petition signature date and address requirements, and vacancy filing rules. At March 27 concurrence, accepted out-of-state petition circulators subject to consent to Michigan jurisdiction. His February 20 passage and March 27 concurrence votes were affirmative.
March 27, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported deadly force and civil immunity for nuclear plant security officers who reasonably believe force necessary against entry intended for harm, sabotage or nuclear material theft.
March 12, 2014Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to allow state financing of community mental health services for jail inmates, changing the prior interpretation that counties must pay.
February 19, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to change juvenile mandatory life without parole sentencing following Miller v. Alabama. The final package permits a prosecutor to request life without parole; otherwise it requires a 25 to 40 year minimum and a maximum of at least 60 years. Existing prisoners receive the new standard only if a future ruling requires retroactivity.
February 13, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to restrict indirect tax assessments when required returns and adequate records exist and to establish minimum indirect audit standards.
January 15, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to limit personal business tax collection liability, require disclosure of known tax liability to business buyers, impose audit time limits, and permit appeals of unresolved refund claims after one year. The final buyer disclosure period is 60 days rather than the introduced 30 days. This incorporates provisions from vetoed Senate Bill 64.
January 15, 2014Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to establish mental health courts with treatment based dismissal, court and participant duties, and exit evaluations.
December 12, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted in 2012 and 2013 to prohibit Michigan public employees and the National Guard from participating in specified federal indefinite detention without charge or trial.
December 10, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to preserve jury trial and local court rights after transferring Court of Claims jurisdiction.
December 4, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to count predatory conduct directed at an undercover officer in sentencing for financial exploitation of a vulnerable person.
December 4, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to strengthen enforcement of unpaid blight fines through additional fines, escalating jail penalties, foreclosure, garnishment, and withholding approvals.
November 14, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to revise central child abuse registry notice, hearing, evidentiary, and removal rules. The revised hearing request period is 180 days rather than the introduced 90, with ten year removal except for specified serious cases.
November 13, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to increase sentencing consequences for drug delivery involving interstate travel.
October 22, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to allow appeals for erroneously omitted principal residence exemptions beyond the ordinary three year limit.
October 3, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for an indigent defense commission, statewide representation standards and state support above local maintenance of effort in 2012. He supported the 2013 refile and companion changes conforming assignment of defense counsel to the new minimum standards.
June 20, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to authorize discretionary GPS monitoring on bail for assaultive offenses.
May 28, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to repeal criminal peace bond authority.
April 11, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to allow consecutive sentences for specified financial exploitation offenses involving vulnerable adults.
March 21, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to include second degree vulnerable adult abuse among underlying offenses for first degree murder.
March 21, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to prohibit Michigan penalties for lawful taking or possession of game in another state.
March 7, 2013Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2013 Senate Bill 44. Voted against making expanded sex offender registration prospective only, then voted for the retroactive expansion covering specified offenses involving minors.
February 19, 2013Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported expungement for juveniles with at most three offenses, including at most one felony, subject to exclusions.
December 14, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported property taxpayers receiving an informal settlement conference with the local government during a tax appeal.
December 14, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported sentencing guidelines for tampering with or removing an electronic monitoring device and court ordered electronic monitoring of convicted felons released from jail for work or school where a qualifying court monitoring program existed. The individual paid device installation, monitoring, maintenance and removal costs.
December 13, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring parolees to consent to warrantless searches of their person or property. The final law excluded searches conducted solely to intimidate or harass, rather than the broader exclusion in the earlier Senate version.
December 13, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2012 House Bill 5692. The bill supplied sentencing guidelines for the first-degree arson package supported in November and December. The bill supplied first-degree arson penalties for multiunit dwellings, mines and fires causing physical injury, with lower-value property provisions in the related package. Supported a first-degree arson crime with higher penalties for multiunit dwellings, mines and fires causing injury. Related bills supplied definitions and sentencing guidelines. Supported the related first-degree arson definitions and penalties package.
December 13, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported government custody of child sexual abuse images used as evidence, with defense inspection at government premises rather than unrestricted copies.
December 13, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported additional crime victim notifications about absconding, commutation, pardon and death, and victim testimony and exhibits in parole hearings.
December 13, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2012 Senate Bill 1127. The bill required verification of employment or enrollment for prisoners released for work or school. Supported verification and electronic monitoring for prisoners released for work or school.
December 13, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported juvenile competency procedures, a rebuttable presumption of competency from age ten, information sharing and qualified examiner standards. Supported the related juvenile competency standards and procedures package, including the rebuttable presumption from age ten.
December 6, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported certified notice, a ninety day hearing request period and a ten year retention limit for most child abuse registry findings, while retaining lifetime records for specified severe abuse. The House text allowed a further sixty days for late hearing requests when the department found good cause. No retroactive application is asserted.
December 6, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported biometric collection beyond fingerprints for covered arrests where agencies had the capability, including palm prints, facial photographs and identifying marks.
November 29, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported adding strangulation and suffocation to felony assault definitions within the related domestic violence package. Supported higher domestic assault penalties for repeat offenders, including a five-year maximum, and related strangulation and prior diversion provisions. The bill supplied sentencing guidelines for the related domestic violence package. The bill counted prior domestic violence dismissal and deferral dispositions for repeat offense penalties within the related package.
November 29, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported audiovisual recording of entire custodial interrogations for major felonies, including Miranda warnings, defense access and jury instructions when recordings were missing. The final law used equipment availability and implementation deadlines, allowed documented objections and did not automatically suppress unrecorded statements or create a civil claim.
November 28, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported adding illegal animal fighting to racketeering predicate crimes and related asset seizure authority in November 2012. Supported forfeiture of real estate used for illegal animal fighting within the related racketeering and nuisance package. Supported nuisance closure and movable property seizure at illegal animal fighting premises within the related racketeering package.
November 28, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported veterans treatment courts for eligible offenses and treatment conditions, including post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury symptoms. Local funding approval was part of the final measure. Veterans treatment court representation on the advisory committee supported the related veterans court framework.
September 27, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported classroom and school building American flags within the related pledge legislation. Only the flag provision remained in this Senate bill at his vote. Supported daily classroom Pledge of Allegiance opportunities and flags, while prohibiting compelled student participation.
September 12, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported a twenty-five-year minimum sentence for specified serious fourth felony offenses, with convictions from one criminal transaction counted only once.
September 12, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2012 House Bill 5562. The bill supplied sentencing guidelines for the enhanced child abuse penalty package. Supported increasing first-degree child abuse penalties to life imprisonment and second-degree penalties to ten years, or twenty years for repeat offenses, with additional offenses for abuse witnessed by another child. The final House version removed the earlier proposed mandatory minimum sentences.
June 14, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored the June 14, 2012 bill restricting duplicate commercial vehicle citations for the same covered violation within 24 hours across enforcement agencies.
June 14, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported removing the sunset on the special alternative incarceration boot camp program.
June 13, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported phased suspicion-based drug screening and testing for adult cash assistance applicants and recipients, with temporary benefit exclusions after positive tests or refusals. The House-passed version allowed treatment and retesting after ninety days and deducted negative test costs from assistance payments.
June 7, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported protected individuals' rights, court approval for conservator property liens and excluding convicted abusers from victims' estates.
May 30, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported allowing criminal vulnerable adult abuse complaints signed by someone other than the victim on information and belief. The companion required prosecutor and social service protocols for investigating vulnerable adult abuse and neglect. The companion required nursing home staff to report abuse directly to the health department. The package allowed medical examiners to establish elder death review teams for suspicious deaths. The package allowed recorded or closed circuit testimony from vulnerable adults in specified court proceedings.
May 30, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 459. The companion revised guidelines for increased vulnerable adult financial exploitation penalties. Supported increased prison penalties for financial exploitation and embezzlement of vulnerable adults, reaching 20 years for serious offenses. The companion established sentencing guidelines for the increased exploitation penalties.
May 29, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring imminent or substantial harm and necessary immediate removal for police protective custody without a court order, followed by prompt judicial placement review. The law required written findings, reasonable prevention efforts and no available safer remedy for ex parte protective custody orders.
May 22, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 House Bill 4393. Forlini introduced and supported alcohol possession immunity for minors who sought medical treatment, accompanied a patient or contacted authorities. Introduced 2011 House Bill 4393.
April 24, 2012Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 House Bill 5050. The companion supplied sentencing guidelines for false information in criminal investigations. Supported penalties for knowingly concealing material facts or giving false information to criminal investigators while preserving the right to remain silent, self incrimination rights and victim or duress exceptions. The March 29 concurrence adds a four year felony tier for investigations of specified serious crimes, beyond the earlier two year maximum. The actual final text does not establish a special missing child provision.
March 29, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported allowing stops of inspection decal bearing vessels on reasonable suspicion of marine law violations or other criminal activity, and permitting warrantless arrests for observed marine violations or crimes. The final Senate passed text retains reasonable suspicion. It does not establish a general removal of the suspicion requirement.
March 6, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported increased penalties and a five year boating suspension for fleeing police in a no wake zone.
March 6, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported restrictions on demonstrations and obstruction at funeral services. The companion supplied guidelines for funeral disruption offenses.
February 2, 2012Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 House Bill 4074. The companion gave incoming prisoners information and document requests for postrelease identification. The companion recognized prison identification for driver licenses and enabled biography database access. The companion recognized prison identification for state identification cards. Supported helping prisoners obtain release identification and documents for state licenses and identification cards.
October 27, 2011Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 House Bill 4920. The companion increased village drunk driving ordinance sentence limits to 180 days. The companion increased township drunk driving ordinance sentence limits to 180 days. Supported increasing local drunk driving jail sentence limits from 93 days to 180 days.
October 11, 2011Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported extending prisoners' access to conviction appeals based on new DNA testing through 2016.
October 11, 2011Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to create residential mortgage fraud offenses, increase false pretenses and notary penalties, extend prosecution limits and strengthen forged property document protections. The package included forfeiture, victim requested invalidation safeguards and a compliance policy defense.
October 5, 2011Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported easing county jail multiple occupancy limits, reducing required cell area from 52 to 25 square feet per inmate or 35 square feet when confined at least ten hours daily. The bill removed the 75 percent double occupancy ceiling, specified offense exclusions, the prior conviction housing restriction and the ban on multiple occupancy high security or segregation cells. It also removed unrestricted dayroom access and the fourteen hour minimum while keeping dayroom area and classification provisions.
September 20, 2011Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported obtaining DNA samples from all prisoners, including those in alternative incarceration programs.
June 30, 2011Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported a fair and equitable sampling process for environmental inspections, reasons and rights explained before inspection, and an opportunity to comment afterward. Exceptions preserve complaint, evidenced violation, follow up, permit issuance and legally required inspections.
June 16, 2011Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring an environmental permitting department to offer a meeting before civil enforcement against a permit holder and to wait for an accepted meeting unless delayed unreasonably. The actual House and Senate versions exempt civil infractions and imminent substantial threats to health, safety, welfare or the environment. This procedural protection governs substantive enforcement and is retained.
June 16, 2011Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported allowing an otherwise eligible person to seek expungement of one felony or misdemeanor despite two additional minor offenses committed at age 21 or younger, with maximum imprisonment no more than 90 days and fine no more than 1000 dollars. This is expanded eligibility, not automatic expungement.
June 8, 2011Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed the sex offender registration overhaul imposing fifteen year, twenty five year and lifetime tiers, expanded reporting and higher fees. The package narrowed specified consensual youthful and juvenile registration while applying revised duties to existing registrants.
March 24, 2011Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported higher school bus zone moving violation penalties, including a 15 year maximum for causing a death.
March 3, 2011Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored the February 22, 2011 introduced immigration enforcement bill. Its text required lawful presence checks for adult public benefits with emergency exceptions, restricted local limits on federal immigration enforcement, and required status checks after lawful stops when reasonable suspicion existed. It also added alien registration penalties and civil actions against jurisdictions that limited enforcement. The introduced sponsor header names him.
February 22, 2011Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: legislature.mi.gov
His supervisor office obtained approval for meeting rules limiting agenda comments, requiring advance consent agenda objections and ending speaking time for disrespectful conduct.
November 24, 2008Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties
Source: harrisontownshipmi.api.civicclerk.com

Election Integrity · 30 support

Forlini implemented election security measures including modem removal, ballot image retention, server access controls, hash validation training and watermarked ballots.
September 3, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Launched a public online tool for viewing and comparing Macomb County ballot images and vote records.
February 23, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: wxyz.com
Forlini crosschecked jury qualification responses against voter records and referred possible citizenship discrepancies for state review.
January 12, 2026Supports Election Integrity
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Introduced a public historical Macomb County election results website.
November 25, 2025Supports Election Integrity
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini's office tested secure electronic transmission of unofficial election results with eleven communities in the November election.
November 4, 2025Supports Election Integrity
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Forlini publicly rejected claims that Michigan election tabulators had been compromised.
August 23, 2024Supports Election Integrity
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini established countywide election inspector recruitment and training to support local clerks.
February 6, 2023Supports Election Integrity
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Voted for the House election package requiring voters without photo identification to confirm identity within ten days and funding identification access and education.
December 7, 2016Supports Election Integrity
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5219. The bill reverses the prior sixty day local government ballot communication restriction and permits factual neutral information under specified review and sanction rules.
February 23, 2016Supports Election Integrity
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4724. The House passed bill removes required reasons for absentee ballots while requiring identification for in person applications.
December 9, 2015Supports Election Integrity
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored a proposal recognizing a concealed pistol license as voter identification.
August 18, 2015Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported restoring ballot access for Flint mayoral candidates affected by an incorrect deadline published by the clerk.
June 3, 2015Supports Election Integrity
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported confidentiality for voter Social Security numbers, petition signature date and address requirements, and vacancy filing rules. At March 27 concurrence, accepted out-of-state petition circulators subject to consent to Michigan jurisdiction. His February 20 passage and March 27 concurrence votes were affirmative.
March 27, 2014Supports Election Integrity
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported disabled voters' signature stamps and elections bureau and canvasser authorship of legislature referred ballot language. June 13,2013 passage and March 27,2014 later passage were affirmative. The latter added ballot wording authority; no ballot result is inferred.
March 27, 2014Supports Election Integrity
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported moving village elections to November, letting cities use even year elections, requiring picture identification or an affidavit for in person registration and absentee ballot pickup, adding citizenship statements to voting documents, and extending overseas ballot deadlines after late transmission.
December 14, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported applying the Michigan Election Law to metropolitan district elections, with county election coordination, regular election administration, canvassing and recount procedures, and district payment of election costs. His February and December yeas remain one arc with House Bill 4122.
December 14, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Introduced and voted for recall election reforms requiring clear and factual reasons, shorter signature collection periods, term restrictions and candidate recall contests for most offices. He also supported limiting recalls to May and November elections and delaying signatures during clarity appeals.
December 14, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported bond ballot language disclosing that falling property values could require a higher debt repayment millage.
December 6, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to move local ballot question filing to the twelfth Tuesday before an election, then supported earlier incumbent filing deadlines, replacement candidate procedures and deadline extensions for late military and overseas ballots. The House bill did not become law.
August 15, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported federal absentee ballot use for state and local elections by active military personnel, with electronic ballot and election information.
June 14, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 House Bill 5062. Forlini introduced and supported requiring election clerk continuing education at least every two years, bipartisan ballot receiving boards and a state precinct audit program. The enacted law authorized audits and training of county staff rather than requiring every precinct to be audited after every election. Introduced 2011 House Bill 5062.
June 14, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported photo identification or a no-identification affidavit for absentee ballots obtained in person, with affidavit ballots treated as challenged ballots. The final House version also required written answers to a citizenship question before an absentee ballot was counted and ballot coaching notices at residential care facilities.
June 14, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported an inactive voter file after six years without voting or a residence confirmation notice, residence confirmation procedures, and absentee ballot tracking. Inactive voters remained eligible. Only ballots from voters flagged for residence confirmation were marked as challenged in the final bill. The earlier photo identification provisions were removed from this bill before enactment.
June 12, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported advance public notice of minor party nomination conventions and revised absentee counting procedures. This is a legislative action, not his own nomination filing.
June 12, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 823. The bill supplied sentencing guidelines for the related election offense package. Supported requiring ballot initiative filing before signature gathering, prohibiting voter registration bonuses and making polling place election official impersonation a felony.
June 12, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring voter and absentee applicant citizenship affirmations.
June 12, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported registering and training third-party voter registration organizations, identification for in-person registration, and delivery deadlines. The final House text required delivery within fifteen days, or two business days near the registration deadline, and treated registration without identification as mail registration with a license transaction exception. The proposal was vetoed, so no enacted restriction is asserted.
June 12, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported providing ballot marking instructions in voting booths and with absentee ballots.
May 10, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring canvasser approval of constitutional initiative clarity and form before signature collection.
March 14, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported applying standard election law to metropolitan district officer elections.
February 7, 2012Supports Election Integrity
Source: legislature.mi.gov

Data Privacy · 32 support · 33 oppose

Forlini crosschecked jury qualification responses against voter records and referred possible citizenship discrepancies for state review.
January 12, 2026Opposes Data Privacy
Source: macombgovdocs.org
As county clerk, Forlini defended the temporary restriction on public access to unserved divorce complaints. The federal court denied a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the restriction.
April 26, 2023Supports Data Privacy
Source: govinfo.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5782. The final mental health confidentiality exception covers treatment, coordination of care and payment.
December 15, 2016Opposes Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1044. The package permits designated government audit and review access to confidential child protection and adult care records.
December 15, 2016Opposes Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1021. The bill permits qualifying accredited child advocacy centers access to confidential child abuse and neglect records.
December 13, 2016Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 510. The bill restricts commercial use, sale and disclosure of student information by school technology services.
December 7, 2016Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 207. The package authorizes trained police oral fluid drug testing and a county pilot.
June 9, 2016Opposes Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 251. The bill creates a less formal confidential juvenile consent calendar with parental and prosecutor agreement.
June 9, 2016Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Joint Resolution N. Supported a proposed constitutional warrant requirement for government access to electronic data and communications.
June 2, 2016Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Also on this bill
- July 13, 2016 · Introduced 2016 House Joint Resolution OO. Forlini introduced an Article V convention application to restrict independent political spending. (Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties)
- December 19, 2014 · Voted for 2014 House Joint Resolution UU. Supported placing the sales tax increase from six to seven percent before voters in May 2015, with school aid earmarks and a conditional road tax package. Passage of the resolution is not voter approval of the package. (General)
- May 14, 2014 · Voted for 2013 House Joint Resolution N. Supported a proposed constitutional requirement for in-state university tuition for all honorably discharged veterans. House passage does not establish ballot placement or amendment approval. (General)
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5544. The trafficking package raises penalties for commercial sexual activity involving minors and expands adult and juvenile victim expungement eligibility to qualifying local offenses.
May 17, 2016Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 508. The bill criminalizes nonconsensual disclosure of private sexually explicit images with qualifying intent and exceptions.
April 13, 2016Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported written notice provisions for rental and reading record disclosure, removal of sanctions for incidental disclosure and actual damages in place of the former 5000 dollar damages provision.
March 24, 2016Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 444. The bill establishes confidentiality and liability protections for emergency responder critical incident counseling.
March 1, 2016Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4793. The bill makes mental health commitment petitions and clinical certificates confidential court records.
February 23, 2016Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4459. The final package requires optional emergency contact data embedding in state identification and driver licenses beginning in 2017, with access limited to law enforcement.
January 20, 2016Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4022. The final foster child credit report requirement covers ages fourteen through seventeen and requires fraud follow up, court reporting and discussion.
October 28, 2015Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4477. The bill permits protected address legal notice procedures in appeal cases.
October 15, 2015Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported anonymity for winners of multistate lottery games.
May 26, 2015Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported limited access to confidential child abuse records for union representatives and disciplinary hearing officials concerning the employee's own proceeding. It is not general public disclosure of child records.
December 19, 2014Opposes Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to expand criminal record set aside eligibility to one felony and up to two misdemeanors, or up to two misdemeanors, with offense exclusions and waiting rules.
December 18, 2014Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported four more years of insurer vehicle policy and identity information sharing to help government health programs obtain reimbursement for covered services.
December 17, 2014Opposes Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for a one year reasonable suspicion welfare drug testing pilot in at least three counties, with 500,000 dollars in funding and six month benefit sanctions for positive results or refusal. The House proposal protected children's benefits through a protective payee and exempted medical marijuana.
December 3, 2014Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported restricting public access to outside agency documents in welfare applicant records, with statutory and court order exceptions.
September 16, 2014Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported excluding outside agency documents from access to the serious child abuse central registry. This is a distinct restricted official access context, not automatically the same as public welfare applicant records.
September 16, 2014Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for methamphetamine precursor controls, including reporting offenders to a national database and blocking their ephedrine or pseudoephedrine purchases. He also supported penalties of up to ten years and a $10,000 fine for knowingly buying precursors for methamphetamine production, and adding those offenses to racketeering law.
June 12, 2014Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported making state pistol ownership, purchase, possession and carry licensing databases confidential under public records law, with logged access and related record definition companions.
June 5, 2014Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported confidentiality for voter Social Security numbers, petition signature date and address requirements, and vacancy filing rules. At March 27 concurrence, accepted out-of-state petition circulators subject to consent to Michigan jurisdiction. His February 20 passage and March 27 concurrence votes were affirmative.
March 27, 2014Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported extending scrap dealer rules to ferrous metals, prohibiting cash payments for specified commonly stolen items and mailing payments over $25, with seller and item records. October 31,2013 passage and March 19,2014 concurrence were affirmative. The final summary makes the real time industry database an optional route to less restrictive payments rather than a universal mandatory database; earlier three day, mandatory database and other proposed restrictions are not treated as final.
March 19, 2014Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to establish a standard confidential release form for mental health and substance use treatment information shared by public and private providers.
March 5, 2014Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to expand Department of Corrections access to nonpublic criminal information from employee screening to performance of its duties.
December 12, 2013Opposes Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to expand access to confidential deferred sentence records for health professionals practicing while impaired. The final proposal drops the introduced fine changes.
December 12, 2013Opposes Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to restrict acquisition and use of accident reports for commercial solicitation within 30 days. The final framework removes the proposed journalist classification and changes penalties.
December 12, 2013Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to criminalize skimmer possession or use and revise related identity theft and jurisdiction laws. The final skimmer proposal carries up to five years and a $100,000 fine, differing from the introduced escalating penalty scheme.
December 12, 2013Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to make veterans treatment court records public when a defendant fails the court's conditions.
December 12, 2013Opposes Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to require credit reporting agencies to honor security freezes for all consumers, including protected minors and incapacitated people, with fee controls. The final scope extends beyond the introduced protected consumers.
December 10, 2013Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to revise central child abuse registry notice, hearing, evidentiary, and removal rules. The revised hearing request period is 180 days rather than the introduced 90, with ten year removal except for specified serious cases.
November 13, 2013Supports Data Privacy
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to restrict disclosure of juvenile criminal history to fingerprint based searches.
October 23, 2013Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to disqualify unemployment claimants who fail or refuse a prospective employer's required drug test.
October 22, 2013Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to authorize discretionary GPS monitoring on bail for assaultive offenses.
May 28, 2013Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2013 Senate Bill 44. Voted against making expanded sex offender registration prospective only, then voted for the retroactive expansion covering specified offenses involving minors.
February 19, 2013Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring transported medical marijuana to be enclosed in a case or inaccessible vehicle trunk. Supported sentencing guidelines for illegal provision of medical marijuana. Supported requiring a bona fide physician-patient relationship for medical marijuana authorization. Supported photographs and two-year validity on medical marijuana cards, registry process privatization and expanded law-enforcement access for specific inquiries.
December 14, 2012Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported expungement for juveniles with at most three offenses, including at most one felony, subject to exclusions.
December 14, 2012Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported prohibiting employers and educational institutions from demanding private social network passwords, with criminal penalties and civil remedies.
December 13, 2012Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported government custody of child sexual abuse images used as evidence, with defense inspection at government premises rather than unrestricted copies.
December 13, 2012Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported related nonpublic permanent drug court disposition records for repeat program eligibility and law enforcement or corrections background checks. Supported retaining nonpublic drug court discharge and dismissal records for determining repeat participation and for law enforcement or corrections job background checks.
December 12, 2012Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported certified notice, a ninety day hearing request period and a ten year retention limit for most child abuse registry findings, while retaining lifetime records for specified severe abuse. The House text allowed a further sixty days for late hearing requests when the department found good cause. No retroactive application is asserted.
December 6, 2012Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported making driver's license emergency contact information voluntary and limiting disclosure to law enforcement.
November 29, 2012Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported biometric collection beyond fingerprints for covered arrests where agencies had the capability, including palm prints, facial photographs and identifying marks.
November 29, 2012Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported criminal records database access for authorized county road commission agents.
November 28, 2012Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported waiver of unemployment agency confidentiality when individuals voluntarily testified elsewhere about their statements to that agency.
November 28, 2012Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported removing the separate parental-rights termination ground for a voluntary surrender under the Safe Delivery of Newborns Law. Supported the companion privacy protections for parents who used the Safe Delivery of Newborns Law, including withholding identifying adoption records unless the former parent consented.
November 27, 2012Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported protecting personally identifying information about minors who were victims of sexual or related abuse crimes from government disclosure.
September 12, 2012Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported phased suspicion-based drug screening and testing for adult cash assistance applicants and recipients, with temporary benefit exclusions after positive tests or refusals. The House-passed version allowed treatment and retesting after ninety days and deducted negative test costs from assistance payments.
June 7, 2012Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported security cameras in psychiatric hospital common areas with notice and access protocols.
May 31, 2012Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported sharing controlled substance prescription monitoring information with insurers for patient safety and fraud investigations.
February 21, 2012Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored the February 16, 2012 bill treating failure or refusal to take a drug test required in an employment application as unemployment benefit unavailability unless good cause existed. Its new provision does not independently disqualify a claimant merely for a positive result.
February 16, 2012Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to require written presidential primary party ballot selection, separate public voter and ballot choice records and retention followed by destruction after twenty two months. He opposed an amendment removing public party ballot declarations.
September 20, 2011Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 House Bill 4721. The companion allowed access to law enforcement records for the warrant based benefit restriction. Supported welfare agency arrest warrant checks and revoking benefit cards of recipients with outstanding warrants.
September 7, 2011Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported obtaining DNA samples from all prisoners, including those in alternative incarceration programs.
June 30, 2011Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported sharing vehicle insurance information with the health department to recover Medicaid costs from liable auto insurers. The companion enabled the same insurance data sharing and Medicaid recovery process.
June 30, 2011Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 333. The House refile imposed the same false identity restriction on precursor purchases. The companion criminalized false identity purchases of methamphetamine precursor medications. Supported instant purchase checks for pseudoephedrine medication through the national precursor tracking system, with retailer liability protections. The companion supplied guidelines for methamphetamine precursor transaction offenses. The companion limited ephedrine and pseudoephedrine purchases to 3.6 grams daily and nine grams monthly.
June 29, 2011Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored the June 9, 2011 bill that required recipient photographs and signatures on food and cash assistance cards, including both authorized users where applicable.
June 9, 2011Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported allowing an otherwise eligible person to seek expungement of one felony or misdemeanor despite two additional minor offenses committed at age 21 or younger, with maximum imprisonment no more than 90 days and fine no more than 1000 dollars. This is expanded eligibility, not automatic expungement.
June 8, 2011Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to give doctors access to prescription monitoring information to confirm whether prescriptions were dispensed.
April 12, 2011Opposes Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed the sex offender registration overhaul imposing fifteen year, twenty five year and lifetime tiers, expanded reporting and higher fees. The package narrowed specified consensual youthful and juvenile registration while applying revised duties to existing registrants.
March 24, 2011Supports Data Privacy
Source: legislature.mi.gov

Civil Rights · 25 support · 3 oppose

Voted for 2016 House Bill 5380. The bill removes outdated life insurance terminology and increases racial discrimination penalties.
May 24, 2016Supports Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4724. The House passed bill removes required reasons for absentee ballots while requiring identification for in person applications.
December 9, 2015Supports Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4239. The bill permits qualifying disabled small game hunters to use mobility devices and narrows the occupied building distance restriction to firearm hunting.
October 28, 2015Supports Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 298. The package expands service dog and miniature horse access for qualifying physical and mental impairments and adds identification, complaint and false representation provisions.
October 7, 2015Supports Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored a proposal recognizing a concealed pistol license as voter identification.
August 18, 2015Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted in 2014 and 2015 to protect child placing agencies that declined participation contrary to written religious or moral convictions and to restrict adverse government action against them.
June 10, 2015Supports Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported restoring ballot access for Flint mayoral candidates affected by an incorrect deadline published by the clerk.
June 3, 2015Supports Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported a proposed religious exercise protection requiring compelling governmental interest and the least restrictive means before substantial governmental burdens.
December 4, 2014Supports Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Opposed exempting recognized religious holiday absences from public school attendance records.
December 4, 2014Opposes Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported extending breastfeeding public nudity exemptions to expressing milk by pump or hand across local government statutes.
November 13, 2014Supports Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported equal breastfeeding access in public accommodations and facilities, with actual damages or up to $200 presumed damages for denial. This is distinct from the later milk expression nudity exemptions.
June 12, 2014Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported disabled hunters' use of electric assistive mobility devices for small game under specified conditions.
May 27, 2014Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported disabled voters' signature stamps and elections bureau and canvasser authorship of legislature referred ballot language. June 13,2013 passage and March 27,2014 later passage were affirmative. The latter added ballot wording authority; no ballot result is inferred.
March 27, 2014Supports Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to make blind taxpayers eligible under disability rules for the homestead property tax credit.
November 14, 2013Supports Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to give disabled public housing tenants first refusal for available lower floor units in the same project.
November 14, 2013Supports Civil Rights
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored a proposal for absentee voting without a required excuse.
February 13, 2013Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported the Michigan Indian Family Preservation Act, including active culturally appropriate services, placement preferences and tribal jurisdiction for children living on reservations. No categorical prohibition on all non-Native adoptions is inferred.
December 12, 2012Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to exclude loans used primarily for business from consumer mortgage licensing, regulation and redlining protections.
December 12, 2012Opposes Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported federal absentee ballot use for state and local elections by active military personnel, with electronic ballot and election information.
June 14, 2012Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported the related counseling student religious conscience resolution. This accompanies his vote for the substantive bill. Supported protection from discipline for counseling, psychology and social work students at public colleges who refused services conflicting with sincere religious beliefs and referred clients elsewhere. The passed House text allowed civil remedies and contained no accreditation exception.
June 12, 2012Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported allowing eligible disabled hunters to carry unloaded firearms in off road vehicles and shoot from vehicles in licensed bird preserves, with a low speed helmet exception.
June 6, 2012Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 415. The companion authorized insurer reimbursements for the new autism coverage mandate, subject to appropriations. Supported mandatory autism treatment coverage without higher deductibles or copayments than other covered care, with a state insurer reimbursement program. The Blue Cross companion imposed the same autism coverage mandate.
March 29, 2012Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported excusing nursing mothers from jury service with certification from a physician, nurse midwife or lactation consultant.
March 22, 2012Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for the House abortion coercion package criminalizing violence, stalking and specified threats to withdraw support, breach contracts or discharge a pregnant woman. The package included sentencing provisions and civil remedies for emotional distress and other damages.
March 13, 2012Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2011 House Bill 4030. The companion allowed county road commissioner elections by geographic district. Supported allowing road commissioner elections by equal population geographic districts. The companion supplied district apportionment procedures for those road commissioner elections.
November 30, 2011Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored the July 27, 2011 bill that prohibited public accommodations and public services from denying women access or displaying exclusionary notices because they were breastfeeding.
July 27, 2011Supports Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to replace individual item price tags with shelf signs, electronic readers and other clear price methods while preserving overcharge remedies. He opposed an amendment adding discriminatory real estate advertising prohibitions.
March 17, 2011Opposes Civil Rights
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to mail absentee ballot applications to registered residents aged sixty and older and postcards explaining voting rights to younger residents. He also supported an unsuccessful request to stop duplicate county mailings.
February 25, 2008Supports Civil Rights
Source: harrisontownshipmi.api.civicclerk.com

General · 1441 records

Forlini taught election procedures at student summits and community classes and held public forums with clerks, sheriffs and residents.
September 30, 2026
Source: michiganadvance.com
Received The Detroit News endorsement for Michigan secretary of state.
September 25, 2026
Source: michiganadvance.com
Received secretary of state endorsements from Paul Wojno, Harold Haugh, Richard LeBlanc, Marilyn Lane and Anthony Wickersham.
September 25, 2026
Source: goodgoosegazette.com
Received the Citizens for Traditional Values political action committee's endorsement for secretary of state in the 2026 election.
September 15, 2026
Source: ctvmichigan.org
Received the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association political action committee's endorsement for secretary of state.
September 11, 2026
Source: michiganadvance.com
Received the Eastside Republican Club political action committee's endorsement for secretary of state in the 2026 general election.
September 6, 2026
Source: eastside-republican-club.com
Forlini expanded property fraud notification outreach and enrollment through community presentations and direct registration assistance.
September 3, 2026
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini opposed recall language targeting five Lenox Township officials. Some June petitions passed over his opposition; all July refiles failed.
July 14, 2026
Source: macombcomi.api.civicclerk.com
Forlini read to elementary and Head Start students and sponsored the Harrison Township Public Library summer reading program.
July 2, 2026
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Received the Southeast Michigan Chamber of Commerce endorsement for Michigan secretary of state.
June 25, 2026
Source: semchamber.org
Forlini received the Michigan Chamber political action committee’s endorsement for Michigan secretary of state.
June 12, 2026
Source: michamber.com
As Macomb County Clerk, Forlini reported completing jury room audio and video improvements, including ten monitors and controls for split room use.
December 8, 2025
Source: macombcomi.api.civicclerk.com
His clerk office received the Tyler Technologies Civic Interaction and Public Trust award for record service improvements.
May 12, 2025
Source: investors.tylertech.com
Forlini voted against Lori Stone recall wording in November and December 2024. The commission rejected the first version and approved the revision over his opposition.
December 30, 2024
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Forlini administered the statutory drawing that resolved a tied Mount Clemens school board election.
November 20, 2024
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Won election as Macomb County clerk and register of deeds in 2020 and reelection in 2024.
November 5, 2024
Source: pastelections.macombgov.org
Forlini helped establish a Perugia and Lake Shore sister school program and signed a Cassino and L'Anse Creuse school partnership.
October 25, 2024
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini received the Detroit Area Columbus Day Celebration Committees Man of the Year award.
October 13, 2024
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini referred possible double voting in St. Clair Shores to election and law enforcement authorities.
August 16, 2024
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini voted against Cardi DeMonaco recall wording and five revised submissions from April through July 2024. The commission rejected all six submissions.
July 22, 2024
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Forlini, as Macomb County clerk, successfully defended a federal constitutional challenge to Warren mayoral term limits when the Sixth Circuit affirmed dismissal.
April 2, 2024
Source: opn.ca6.uscourts.gov
Forlini partnered with Mount Clemens to launch free municipal parking for circuit court jurors.
August 15, 2023
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Voted against both recall submissions for Armada Township supervisor John Paterek and trustee Sara Murray. The commission rejected all four submissions.
July 28, 2023
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Forlini hosted local clerk and legislative roundtables on implementing nine days of early voting.
June 16, 2023
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini coordinated an election building security review after a vehicle struck the building. The review found no election system compromise.
June 9, 2023
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Forlini moved the unanimously approved consolidation of St. Clair Shores Precinct 3 and Grosse Pointe Shores Precinct 3 for the August 2023 election.
May 25, 2023
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Forlini initiated a court department internship program that hired two Mount Clemens High School students.
May 16, 2023
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Served as a trustee of the Nuovi Orizzonti Italiani Foundation supporting Italian language education.
April 11, 2023
Source: iacsmi.com
Voted against recall wording for Washington Township trustees Daniel Detkowski and Cindy Olsen. The commission approved both by two to one votes.
July 29, 2022
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Forlini voted against three Mike Fillbrook recall submissions after seconding rejection of a prior version in December 2021. The commission rejected all four versions.
January 11, 2022
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Publicly endorsed the proposed Warren Towne Center development.
January 5, 2022
Source: cityofwarren.org
As a Macomb County Plat Board member, Forlini moved and voted to approve the sixteen-lot Wexford Meadows subdivision in Macomb Township.
December 21, 2021
Source: macombcomi.api.civicclerk.com
Forlini voted to adopt the Lucido thirteen district county commission map by a four to one vote, after opposing the amended Forton map on November 3.
November 10, 2021
Source: macombgov.org
As a Macomb County Plat Board member, Forlini voted to approve the forty-three-lot Harmony Acres subdivision in Macomb Township, subject to county clerk review.
October 13, 2021
Source: macombcomi.api.civicclerk.com
Forlini was unanimously elected chair of the Macomb County Apportionment Commission.
July 28, 2021
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Joined other county clerks in filing motions to quash broad subpoenas for election records and voting machines in the Bailey election lawsuit.
March 30, 2021
Source: electionline.org
Voted against recall wording for Chippewa Valley school board members Denise Aquino, Frank Bednard, Elizabeth Pyden and George Sobah. The commission approved each by two to one votes.
January 20, 2021
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Forlini voted against Edward Kabacinski recall wording on January 8 and against its revised submission on January 20, 2021. The commission approved the first version and rejected the revision.
January 20, 2021
Source: macombgovdocs.org
Was elected to the Families Against Narcotics board of directors, supporting the nonprofit addiction recovery organization.
April 4, 2019
Source: michigansthumb.com
Forlini served as district director for Congressman Paul Mitchell.
February 12, 2019
Source: gophouse.org
Served as operations manager for Macomb County Public Works during the response to the Fraser sewer collapse.
April 5, 2017
Source: macdc.us
Helped negotiate an agreement that opened temporary teaching permits to qualified Italian university graduates teaching Italian in Michigan schools.
January 20, 2017
Source: dantemichigan.org
Supported expanding the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules review delay to nine months.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5774. The final adult foster care bill requires local notice of emergency license suspensions and closures.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4598. The bill establishes licensed midwifery, scope of practice and informed consent rules.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported revised billboard regulation permitting public school participation through signs on school property.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 746. The package increases criminal liability for fatal child care licensing violations.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 982. The Uniform Voidable Transactions Act changes creditor remedies, burdens of proof and governing jurisdiction for asset transfers.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 624. The library tax capture package exempts eligible future library millages while allowing library board participation.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5626. The adoption package regulates advertising and unauthorized parental responsibility transfers.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1117. The bill changes executive appointments to county drain boards in Oakland and Macomb counties.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported the final energy package establishing utility resource plans, capacity requirements, electricity choice limits, a 15 percent renewable portfolio by 2021, energy waste reduction rules and distributed generation.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported adding naturalization civics content to the high school curriculum and existing social studies assessment.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1093. The bill delays the permitted aquatic species lists and risk assessments from April 2017 to April 2019.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1175. The package extends marijuana manufacture and delivery penalties to synthetic equivalents.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1068. The final bill removes local cost sharing for limited access state highways.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported motor carrier exemptions for events of statewide significance, emergency fee and requirement waivers without a ninety day cap, and specified public streetcar and light rail exemptions.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 833. The bill changes the distribution of fireworks safety fee revenue for fire service training.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5664. The bill permits qualifying retired psychiatrists to work in state psychiatric hospitals without pension reductions.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5421. The bill authorizes public retiree health benefit trust arrangements relevant to Detroit city and school bankruptcy and changes trust governance.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 289. The bill creates remedies and enforcement against bad faith patent infringement claims.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 991. The package excludes specified automotive recycling and disposal fees from sales and use taxes.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for mandatory animal-abuse background checks and adoption restrictions in 2014 and the initial 2016 House package. He later supported the version permitting shelters to check criminal history and refuse adoption rather than requiring it. The final package also added large-scale dog breeding kennel rules.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5400. The bill expands advanced practice registered nurse authority.
December 15, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported reenacting wolf game designation and the Natural Resources Commission's scientific management authority after the initiated law was invalidated, with one million dollars for aquatic invasive species management.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 647. The bill requires CPR instruction and defibrillator awareness in middle and high schools.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 806. The package permits trained school personnel to administer opioid antagonists and permits prescriptions and dispensing to schools.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 316. The bill changes the Open Meetings Act treatment of workers compensation appeals hearings.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1053. The enacted package raises the refined petroleum regulatory fee from seven eighths of a cent to one cent per gallon, removes specified tank and retail license fees, and permits capped inspection and storage program uses.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1049. The bill expands eligible transportation economic development projects and revises county funding procedures.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5890. The bill exempts qualifying agricultural drainage tile, grain bins and grain handling equipment from use tax, including agricultural installation machinery.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 72. The bill permits landlords to prohibit medical marijuana use or cultivation on rental property.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 270. The bill permits guardianship or conservatorship jurisdiction for qualifying nonresidents connected to Michigan.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 950. The bill requires alternative water supplies for qualifying private wells contaminated by military bases.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1015. The package requires applied behavior analyst licensing and establishes fees and professional oversight.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 564. The bill criminalizes specified compensated transfers of embryos, fetuses and neonatal material obtained from elective abortion.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5618. The package requires schools to consider individual circumstances before suspension or expulsion, consider restorative justice and report specified serious offenses.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1088. The bill regulates third party alcohol delivery and out of state shipment.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 541. The bill requires an express organ donor registry question during driver license applications and renewals.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 908. The package expands eligible brownfield redevelopment properties and activities and changes grant, loan and captured tax rules.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 973. The bill permits licensed retailers to fill labeled beer growlers for off premises consumption.
December 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 106. The bill expands the veterans organization fundraising sales tax exemption to qualifying events.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5599. The bill changes leaking underground tank cleanup reimbursement and deductibles.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4423. The final package permits qualifying rural freeway limits of 75 miles per hour rather than the original 80, changes other road limits and revises penalty points and insurance eligibility.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 708. The road access package limits additional county permits for activities already authorized by state law and preserves grandfathered driveways during maintenance.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed the requirement to report qualifying suspected arson insurance claims to police before payment.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1172. The bill changes the use tax treatment of medical services and related Medicaid financing.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5001. The bill increases required massage therapist education from 500 to 625 hours.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 884. The bill freezes county medical care facility Medicaid maintenance of effort rates through 2022.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported revised real estate licensing, distance education, equivalency credits, annual continuing education, broker supervision and advertising disclosure rules.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 558. The package abolishes statutory dower rights while preserving other contractual and legal rights.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 591. The bill creates a distinct regulatory framework for qualifying small native copper mines.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 706. The bill bars local logging truck restrictions beyond state law.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 992. The drone law permits federally authorized use, limits local restrictions, prohibits specified misuse and creates a state commission.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1089. The bill creates a shoulder harness exception for road construction crew drivers in work zones.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4850. The bill creates a state purchasing preference for qualifying biobased products.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1008. The bill transfers 10 million dollars from employer unemployment penalty and interest revenues to the general fund.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1079. The bill extends qualifying landfill research and demonstration permits from 12 to 21 years.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1090. The foster care package defines reasonable and prudent parenting standards and changes permanency placement procedures.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 595. The bill removes the public employee exception from commercial driver medical fitness review.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4265. The bill permits qualifying noncontiguous annexation into community college taxing districts and changes election procedures.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1009. The bill extends delinquent property tax payment plans for financially distressed homeowners for three years.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1104. The bill limits past medical care and rehabilitation damages in medical malpractice claims to actual expenses.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4677. The bill permits agricultural land subdivision while preserving qualifying tax treatment for remaining agricultural parcels.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 881. The final bill authorizes disposition of seven former police posts and additional corrections and health department property.
December 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5561. The final bill lengthens qualifying problem free rental property inspection intervals from four to six years.
December 8, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 6036. The bill extends energy performance contracting to local governments.
December 8, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4520. The bill allocates landlord and tenant duties, treatment costs and liability for bedbug infestations.
December 8, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5791. The bill prevents additional driver license suspension for specified nonmoving infractions.
December 8, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 954. The bill changes architect, engineer and surveyor licensing and the allocation of fire alarm drawing work.
December 8, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 929. The final liquor license exception applies to qualifying gas stations without the existing inventory requirement.
December 8, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5821. The final state contracting prohibition concerns discriminatory boycotts of strategic partners, with a bona fide business or economic reasons exception.
December 8, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4637. The final package regulates ride sharing, taxis and limousines, preempts local restrictions, requires insurance, permits and safety checks, and retains specified airport authority.
December 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 717. The bill changes underground tank cleanup alternatives and notification.
December 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4630. The bill repeals the requirement that replacement worker recruitment disclose a strike.
December 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 6047. The bill authorizes the Capitol Commission to finance and build new structures using Strategic Fund borrowing.
December 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1087. The bill permits utility assessments to fund administration of the video service law.
December 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 392. The final bill regulates commercial bus services with nine or more passengers rather than the original 15 passenger threshold.
December 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5215. The bill criminalizes removing another person's hunting dog collar or identification, with final microchip provisions.
December 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5128. The bill allows qualifying natural resources retirees to provide wildfire services while keeping pensions.
December 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported reducing the monthly ephedrine and pseudoephedrine purchase limit from nine to 4.8 grams.
December 7, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 1109. The bill exempts indigent defense minimum standard adoption from specified administrative rule procedures.
December 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4142. The bill increases mandatory fines for overweight and oversized vehicles and limits judicial discretion.
December 6, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported telehealth services under patient consent, applicable standards of care, referral and prescribing requirements.
December 1, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported adding microbrewer representation to the grape and wine industry council and changing its responsibilities and funding sources.
December 1, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Opposed repealing hiring preference for displaced intermediate school district special education employees.
December 1, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 853. The bill preempts local packaging and shopping bag taxes, bans and restrictions.
December 1, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5987. The final House proposal replaces scheduled livestock care rules with a standards board and a 1.25 million dollar appropriation.
December 1, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4924. The package increases allowable process server and sheriff travel, mileage and service fees.
December 1, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported codifying vehicle repair consumer protections, mechanic training and registration rules.
December 1, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5824. The package extends construction material sales and use tax exemptions to qualifying county long term care facility additions.
November 30, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5282. The bill changes municipal sewer backup lawsuit immunity and defect standards.
November 30, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5720. The bill allows qualifying farmland preservation tax credits after a prior owner's death under the Michigan Business Tax.
November 30, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5533. The bill replaces physician assistant supervision and delegation definitions with regulated practice agreements.
November 30, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported extending retired teacher shortage hiring.
November 30, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted in committee on November 30, 2016 to recommend objective recurring balance assessments and fall risk reporting in senior living community safety programs, with recommendations sent to state licensing officials and health facility accreditation bodies. This is a nonbinding prevention recommendation rather than proof of an implemented clinical program.
November 30, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5702. The bill removes hunting license requirements for qualifying crop damage and special permit takings.
November 30, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5877. The bill authorizes hospital affiliated automated drug dispensing without continuous physical pharmacist presence.
November 30, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5876. The bill transfers veterans home regulatory oversight and applies nursing home standards.
November 29, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5847. The bill changes rainy day fund deposit, withdrawal and balance limits.
November 29, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini served as senior vice president of the Italian American Cultural Center.
November 22, 2016
Source: michigantownships.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 995. The package expands autonomous vehicle operations, platooning, regulation and research authority.
November 10, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5181. The bill expands airport police and qualifying authority security officers' powers outside their facilities.
November 10, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4674. The bill changes court petition eligibility, timeframes and protocols for assisted outpatient mental health treatment.
November 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 597. The bill creates qualifying self settled asset protection trusts with creditor exceptions.
November 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4588. The bill expands qualified private college security police powers off campus, with final staffing safeguards.
November 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4911. The bill changes parental rights relinquishment procedures in adoption, including qualifying cases without a court appearance.
November 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored an examination exemption for specified experienced master's level psychologists licensed by June 2010.
October 19, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored extending concealed pistol restrictions exemptions to specified firefighters and first responders.
October 19, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5288. The package permits qualifying military spouses to practice law without the Michigan bar examination.
September 22, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported adding a route to approve mineral unit operations through approval by owners of 65 percent of production.
September 22, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5790. The bill permits trained peace officers to administer opioid antagonists and grants specified immunity.
September 22, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4282. The final contractor exemption covers repair and rehabilitation jobs below 4000 dollars, rather than the original broad repeal of specific trades licensing.
September 22, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5730. The bill gives military veterans an employment preference at veterans facilities.
September 22, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 987. The House passed package replaces the 0.75 percent health insurance claims tax with Medicaid health maintenance organization use tax revenue and changes earmarks.
September 22, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5651. The final port authority package permits private partnerships, retained profits and single government formation.
September 22, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5842. The package transfers the Indigent Defense Commission from the judicial to executive branch and changes its standards and data duties.
September 22, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5753. The bill changes school district transportation duties for qualifying nondistrict students.
September 21, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Introduced 2016 House Bill 5923. Introduced payments for sewer discharges equal to discharge volume times five times the entity's highest treatment fee, with a cleanup grant fund. The payment would be additional to existing fines.
September 21, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 218. The final survivor health insurance benefit is limited to five years and qualifying circumstances rather than the original indefinite coverage.
September 21, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5591. The final restrictive covenant electronic signature procedure covers developments with at least 250 lots.
September 21, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4822. The reading retention bill includes Forlini's October 2015 passage support, March 2016 opposition to Senate concurrence and September final support.
September 21, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5838. The bill criminalizes knowingly arranging travel for prostitution or human trafficking.
September 21, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported revising the compressed natural gas motor fuel tax conversion factor.
September 21, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 956. The bill creates a three million dollar floor for the Capitol maintenance tobacco tax earmark.
September 20, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5275. The bill requires a forest road inventory and allows qualifying game retrieval using pack horses and off road vehicles.
September 20, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported permitting state sale of unclaimed property information to locator services with an annual 300 dollar fee.
September 20, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4209. The package creates medical marijuana facility licensing, local participation, a final three percent retail tax, infused products and confidential seed to sale tracking.
September 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Introduced 2016 House Bill 5767. Introduced lease late fees in possession judgments and related damages, capped at the greater of 50 dollars or 10 percent of rent per month unless a higher lease fee is shown reasonable.
July 13, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5442. The final alert package covers defined ongoing public safety threats, broadcast and text dissemination, false report penalties and response costs.
June 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 105. The bill creates movable bridge and wetland mitigation funds using transportation revenues and state oversight.
June 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4440. The final transportation funding bill redirects specified economic development earmarks to general road, bridge and airport projects.
June 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported the May Detroit school governance proposal, including elected control, teacher merit pay and central office cost limits. Opposed the June version and final concurrence, which allowed uncertified teachers and required merit pay for administrators and principals rather than necessarily for teachers.
June 9, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 899. The package establishes producer liens and payment priorities after grain dealer failure and raises the fund balance assessment trigger from five to ten million dollars.
June 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported directing tobacco settlement revenue to Detroit school financing, including $467 million in debt and $150 million in transition funding, with no more than $25 million of the transition funding for deferred maintenance. The final concurrence kept the financing outside the state School Aid Fund. Earlier May proposals included a $33 million emergency loan and funding for $500 million in debt.
June 9, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 774. The bill changes vending machine food inspection requirements and replaces local license fees with a graduated state fee schedule.
June 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 957. The bill changes health care provider tax allocation and Medicaid financing.
June 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5562. The final bill extends state payment of qualifying private foster care costs for one year rather than the original indefinite extension.
June 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5189. The package permits current year farmland preservation credit refunds and changes related notice procedures.
June 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4933. The package changes independent health insurance benefit review, evidence standards, experimental treatment rules and coordination of benefits.
June 9, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 878. The bill extends the multiline emergency call location equipment deadline through 2019.
June 8, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 914. The bill increases the disaster emergency fund cap from 4.5 million to ten million dollars.
June 8, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5392. The bill removes the requirement for a state operated agricultural seed testing facility.
June 8, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5422. The bill expands fourth degree vulnerable adult abuse to conduct creating an unreasonable risk even without completed injury.
June 8, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5457. The package ends the insurer high risk pool contribution tax credit beginning in 2017.
June 8, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for annual education and operating budgets and Natural Resources Trust Fund capital appropriations, with several opposed negotiation vehicles and amendments. He opposed the 2011 trust fund appropriation and separate 2012 health insurance exchange and Detroit assistance amendments, and offered an adopted 2014 firefighter training and fireworks inspection amendment.
June 8, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 651. The package creates transitional qualified forest property tax treatment and changes transfer between forest tax programs.
June 8, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4388. The bill expands school sinking fund uses to technology and security while changing allowable millage and duration.
June 8, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5578. The bill changes big box property assessment toward highest and best use and limits restrictive deed effects.
June 8, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 883. The bill creates a permanent infrastructure account.
June 8, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported revised simulcast horse race wagering and racing commissioner discretion over additional dates.
June 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 673. The bill extends obsolete property rehabilitation tax abatements through 2026.
June 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5613. The bill limits agency rules exceeding federal standards unless statute requires them or a director finds a clear and convincing need.
June 7, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Received the Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy through an official Italian presidential decree.
June 3, 2016
Source: gazzettaufficiale.it
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5631. The final bill redirects three million dollars from the forest development fund to qualifying firefighter cancer compensation rather than merely widening forest uses.
June 2, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5641. The package permits court ordered transfer of telephone number control to a person protected by a personal protection order.
June 2, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 632. The bill gives the Court of Appeals qualifying probate appeal jurisdiction.
June 2, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 523. The bill creates a Native American history recognition and preservation program, including assistance obtaining grants.
June 2, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported a flat thirty dollar register of deeds recording fee regardless of document length, without automatic inflation indexing.
June 2, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4235. The bill requires reporting deaths during pregnancy and within a year after pregnancy for maternal mortality review.
June 2, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5577. The bill licenses and regulates mobility vehicle dealers serving disabled customers.
June 2, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5656. The package recognizes qualifying out of state learner permits and creates a commercial driver training pilot.
June 2, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported stronger sanctions and procedures for illegal public school employee strikes statewide. He also supported the May House version’s prohibition on transferring existing Detroit school collective bargaining agreements to the new district.
June 2, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported allowing Detroit school officials to serve on the financial oversight commission and allowing the emergency manager to serve as transition manager before election of the new board. He also supported the earlier House proposal allowing the district superintendent to direct the school receivership entity.
June 2, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 483. The bill requires reasonable efforts for sibling foster or adoptive placements and visitation subject to safety and welfare limits.
June 2, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 672. The bill permits advance liability releases for minors' camping activities.
June 1, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 610. The bill changes condominium developers' duties and deadlines for unfinished required improvements.
June 1, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed the June 1, 2016 committee recommendation for child car seat rules based on age, weight and height. It required rear facing seats below age two or at thirty pounds or less, forward facing seats within specified age and weight ranges, and booster seats for older children. The House substitute also removed annual studies of police harassment in seat belt enforcement, replacing that term with inappropriate enforcement. It conditioned fine waivers on safety technician education. The proposal did not become law.
June 1, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 481. The bill permits school districts to join recreational taxing authorities while retaining voter approval and public access requirements.
May 31, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5532. The bill exempts qualifying morel mushrooms from an existing food certification requirement.
May 31, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5017. Forlini introduced House Bill 5017 and supported the credit union modernization package through passage and concurrence. Introduced 2015 House Bill 5017.
May 31, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5463. The bill permits computer software coursework to replace the high school foreign language requirement.
May 31, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5395. The bill permits larger sewer project grants where treatment failure creates substantial public health risks.
May 31, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 858. The bill permits qualifying rape related custody and paternity restrictions based on clear and convincing findings without requiring a criminal conviction.
May 25, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5230. The final snow removal contract bill bans indemnity for the customer's sole negligence rather than all contractor indemnity promises.
May 25, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4493. The bill requires genocide and Holocaust instruction and creates an education commission.
May 25, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5113. The bill extends municipal water and sewer lien enforcement from three to ten years.
May 24, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted in 2013 and 2016 to increase the local rainy day fund ceiling from fifteen to twenty percent of the prior general fund budget.
May 24, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Introduced 2016 House Bill 5685. Introduced income tax reimbursement of local disabled veteran homestead exemption revenue losses, subject to appropriations and prorating if funding is insufficient. Existing income tax rates and road earmarks are background.
May 24, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5251. The bill permits qualifying bank loan promotion raffles outside the gambling prohibition. Introduced 2015 House Bill 5147.
May 19, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 656. The package exempts qualifying creditor referrals to licensed repossession agencies from the licensing rules governing actual repossession work.
May 19, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Introduced and supported allowing school districts to select investment managers for the defined contribution component of the school employee hybrid retirement plan.
May 18, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5401. The bill replaces state certification of qualifying industrial pollution control tax exemptions with engineer affidavits.
May 18, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported higher bank supervisory fee ceilings, regulation of outsourced services, confidential examination records with judicial review, removal authority for fraud related misdemeanors and revised investment powers.
May 18, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5146. The bill increases sanctions for importing deer or elk carcasses from chronic wasting disease areas.
May 17, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 458. The bill changes parental rights termination procedures for qualifying stepparent adoptions after prolonged support and contact failures.
May 17, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 818. The bill exempts yoga teacher training programs from proprietary school licensing.
May 17, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Introduced 2016 House Bill 5666. Introduced financial institution tax base changes using current total equity capital rather than the prior five year average and a 20 million dollar deduction, with government obligation and insurance affiliate adjustments.
May 17, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 363. The bill caps state lease charges for qualifying noncommercial private harbors providing storm refuge.
May 17, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a constitutional spending limit based on inflation and population growth, with excess revenue returned to taxpayers.
May 17, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted in committee on May 17, 2016 to recommend a resolution opposing Environmental Protection Agency funding of studies that could lead to regulation of residential grills and barbecues. The action expresses opposition to the study and potential regulation; it does not establish that the agency adopted a barbecue regulation.
May 17, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 344. The bill changes packaged beer and wine licensing eligibility, including qualifying retailers without another liquor license.
May 12, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5326. Forlini introduced the opioid antagonist prescribing exception and offered amendments removing an appropriation and changing prescription reporting disclosure duration. Introduced 2016 House Bill 5326.
May 12, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported the foster care quality assurance package.
May 12, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 606. The bill preserves qualifying military personnel home property tax exemptions during deployment.
May 12, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported expanding payday loan repayment to debit cards and telephone authorized debits.
May 12, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5314. The bill requires periodic concussion material updates and at least three year training refreshers for school athletic personnel.
May 12, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 637. The bill requires lawn and turf seed sell by labels and limits sales after qualifying germination tests expire.
May 12, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported foreign driver license and legal presence documentation requirements and publication of reciprocal recognition countries.
May 12, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5512. The final law extends the home heating credit for three years rather than removing its sunset indefinitely.
May 12, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 343. The bill caps state university pension catch up contributions and shifts qualifying excess obligations to the state.
May 12, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 409. The bill criminalizes unsuccessful attempts to recruit purchases of methamphetamine ingredients, extending existing completed solicitation liability.
May 10, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5332. The package revises the statutory veteran definition across assistance, employment, licensing and service programs.
April 26, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5024. The bill creates a commission to review marijuana impairment research and recommend driving standards.
April 26, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored insurance coverage requirements for abuse deterrent opioid formulations.
April 26, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed the ban on cash purchases of used tires, wheels and rims by licensed parts dealers.
April 21, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to phase out eligible manufacturing equipment property taxes and exempt smaller business holdings, with replacement local revenue and service assessments. He supported later exemption, reporting and replacement financing revisions, including equipment not yet in use.
April 20, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4478. The bill permits personal protection orders covering threatened or taken companion animals and interference with their removal.
April 19, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4480. The bill protects a parent's self defense and child protection actions from negative treatment in custody and visitation decisions.
April 19, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4656. The bill requires advance property owner notice before drain maintenance crews enter land.
April 19, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5439. The bill exempts qualifying renaissance zone businesses from alternative tax payments.
April 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4695. The bill exempts qualifying drinking water trucks from seasonal road weight limits.
April 14, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4984. The bill applies delinquency, interest, penalty and foreclosure rules to qualifying land bank specific taxes.
April 12, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 352. The bill requires hospitals to offer a designated caregiver and coordinate discharge notice, planning and instructions.
March 24, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported $48.7 million in emergency assistance to keep Detroit schools operating through the school year, using a state scholarship account and requiring Financial Review Commission oversight.
March 24, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4813. The bill changes electrician apprentice supervision ratios.
March 24, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5107. The bill requires human trafficking hotline notices at specified transportation facilities and adult entertainment venues.
March 24, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 582. The package changes county borrowing against future delinquent tax collections.
March 24, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 171. The bill changes elderly and disabled housing property tax exemption procedures and permits qualifying retroactive relief.
March 24, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Introduced 2016 House Bill 5523. Introduced a rebuttable registered owner presumption for leaving a crash scene and a community service option of up to 100 hours in addition to existing jail and fine options.
March 24, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 476. The final bill extends the fifty cent cigar tax cap through 2021 rather than indefinitely removing the sunset.
March 24, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5121. The bill requires signs identifying qualifying lightweight truss building construction for firefighter safety.
March 24, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 Senate Bill 729. The bill permits ten year county road project loans to townships.
March 23, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5034. Forlini introduced the fiduciary digital assets access act and supported passage and concurrence. Introduced 2015 House Bill 4072, 2015 House Bill 5034.
March 22, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 502. The final bill permits qualifying multiple sclerosis drug rebates through third parties on patients' behalf.
March 17, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Opposed allowing qualifying retailers to use a liquor license at a subsidiary gas station under the 250000 dollar inventory requirement.
March 17, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 366. The bill regulates paid solicitations for government record copies through disclosures and pricing rules, with institutional exceptions.
March 16, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 507. The bill requires qualifying high volume recycling facilities to register and report, subject to exceptions.
March 16, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 216. The bill permits approval of high school equivalency tests beyond the named GED test and changes qualification standards.
March 16, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4747. The bill shields local government property from adverse possession claims.
March 16, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4869. The bill exempts qualifying physicians from jury duty for immediate life threatening patient needs.
March 16, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 551. The bill authorizes advance designation of a funeral representative controlling arrangements and remains.
March 16, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored ending Common Core implementation and using Massachusetts's 2008 standards during the development of Michigan standards.
March 9, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Introduced 2016 House Bill 5431. Forlini introduced mandatory private contracting for new impounded vehicle storage facilities while grandfathering existing public facilities.
March 8, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2016 House Bill 5278. The bill changes debt service allocation for delayed multicounty drain projects.
March 8, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported expanding teacher and administrator professional development requirements and related funding penalties.
March 3, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 592. The bill authorizes organ removal at qualifying federally designated procurement facilities.
March 3, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 644. The bill changes municipal health facility conversion to nonprofit corporation procedures.
March 2, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 150. The bill requires qualifying prescription insurance coverage to include maintenance drug synchronization services.
March 1, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4314. The final traffic injury and death penalty extension includes public access private property and frozen lakes and rivers.
February 24, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5105. The final law extends the health insurance claims tax through 2020 rather than the longer introductory extension.
February 24, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored firefighter naloxone administration authority conditioned on a written policy.
February 18, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported changing sales and use tax collection responsibility for qualifying promotional materials sold to out of state buyers.
February 18, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 588. The bill gives qualifying uniformed tribal conservation officers hunting, fishing and trapping license inspection authority.
February 17, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Opposed new certification, regulation and fees for vehicle alcohol interlock installers.
February 17, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 56. The bill links judicial salary changes to executive state civil service salary changes prospectively.
February 16, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4418. The bill exempts qualifying maple sap trucks from seasonal road weight restrictions.
February 16, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Offered 2016 House Resolution 223. Forlini offered a resolution urging federal legislation restricting fiduciary regulation of retirement brokers.
February 11, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5163. The bill repeals the tax reverted property assembly loan fund and transfers its balance to the state land bank authority.
February 10, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5131. The bill removes qualifying flow through business individual income tax withholding requirements.
February 4, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4537. The bill protects employee jobs during qualifying emergency Civil Air Patrol service.
February 3, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 615. The bill prohibits tax increment authority capture of property taxes imposed to pay judgments.
February 3, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4583. The bill authorizes participation in an interstate physician licensing compact without eliminating separate state licenses.
February 2, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4783. The bill raises civil landfill violation fines, including higher repeat offense daily penalties.
January 28, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 539. The final promise zone bill adds reporting and dissolution provisions rather than the original expansion from ten to fifteen authorities.
January 27, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4792. The bill permits qualifying out of state team physicians to treat visiting athletes.
January 27, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 394. The bill makes qualifying local rental registration discretionary and changes inspection duties toward complaints.
January 26, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4535. The bill exempts qualifying police officers from pistol purchase permit requirements for private purchases.
January 26, 2016
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4187. The bill creates criminal penalties for traffic control device vandalism and removal.
January 20, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 233. The package extends qualifying vehicle, boat and recreational vehicle trade in sales and use tax exemptions to out of state dealer purchases.
January 20, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4604. The bill exempts qualifying agricultural work from erosion permits where it will not erode into protected water.
January 13, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Opposed the final fifty hour career and college counseling training requirement within existing professional development.
January 13, 2016
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored replacing the disabled veteran property tax exemption with an income tax credit and changing the credit cap.
December 17, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4930. The bill protects qualifying family life estate transfers from property taxable value uncapping.
December 16, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported removing the sunset on state authority to prohibit deer and elk feeding.
December 16, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported removing straight party voting at passage and final concurrence.
December 16, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 492. The package treats qualifying franchise owners as sole employers under specified state labor and benefit laws, subject to actual contractual and legal exceptions.
December 16, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4742. The package replaces the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act with updated interstate and foreign support enforcement provisions.
December 16, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4658. The bill offsets successful monetary claims against the state against qualifying unpaid taxes, support and other obligations.
December 16, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 571. The final campaign finance law removes annual payroll contribution renewal and adds local ballot communication restrictions and other provisions.
December 16, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 425. The final airport package allocates aviation tax revenues to airport improvements based on collections.
December 15, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported full sales and use tax exemptions for qualifying data centers.
December 15, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4292. The bill raises the county crime information reward cap from two thousand to twenty thousand dollars.
December 10, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 552. The bill increases groundwater discharge permit fees and creates qualifying small facility categories.
December 10, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed expanded municipal sidewalk lawsuit defenses, including open and obvious conditions.
December 10, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 500. The bill changes unemployment employer assessment reserve formulas from a fixed amount toward adequacy calculations.
December 10, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 178. The insurance risk package requires qualifying insurers' own risk and solvency assessments and regulates controlling interest divestment and enterprise risk reporting.
December 10, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4790. The bill permits qualifying shared time kindergarten offerings to private and home school students with state aid eligibility.
December 10, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 400. The package regulates liquid industrial byproducts and permits qualifying field spreading under state approval and restrictions.
December 8, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 530. The foster care package expands relative and sibling definitions and permits successor guardians.
December 8, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4408. The veterinary package imposes continuing education, changes fees and recognizes qualifying out of state prescriptions.
December 3, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported four college and university capital project planning authorizations of 100 dollars each and 150,000 dollars for State Police planning.
December 3, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 556. The final commercial rehabilitation tax abatement extension is five years rather than indefinite.
December 2, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4645. The bill protects qualifying family residential transfers through closely held corporations from taxable value uncapping.
December 2, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4887. Forlini introduced and supported removal of investment strategy change restrictions on Michigan education savings account owners. Introduced 2015 House Bill 4887.
December 2, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4173. The bill broadens and retroactively applies qualifying transfer tax relief for homes sold below acquisition value.
December 1, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 372. The bill recognizes qualifying out of state firefighter certification based on matching national standards.
November 10, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4159. The package exempts qualifying active and retired corrections, probation, parole and jail officers from concealed carry gun free zone restrictions.
November 10, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4904. The bill treats an early presidential primary as an official election day and changes canvassing of qualifying multicounty transit tax proposals.
November 10, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4854. The motorcycle training package permits safety course testing equivalence and increases the public course fee cap.
November 10, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 427. The bill extends emergency responder good Samaritan liability protection while excluding gross negligence.
November 10, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4812. The bill permits pharmacist dispensing of FDA designated interchangeable biological drugs.
November 10, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 5023. The bill imposes dark sky outdoor lighting restrictions at three specified state parks and recreation areas.
November 10, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 370. The package exempts qualifying brewing, wine and distilling production equipment from sales and use taxes when products are sold directly at the producer's premises.
November 4, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 213. The bill removes specified state workplace fatality and hospitalization reporting requirements while leaving federal obligations in place.
November 4, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4362. The bill recognizes employer shares in surplus group workers compensation self insurance assets and requires distribution procedures.
November 4, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4195. The package prohibits new state tax revenue guarantees under the specified early stage venture investment program and advances its expiration to 2030.
November 4, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4134. The bill recognizes qualifying recent military training for boiler installer, repair and inspection licensing.
November 3, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4738. The final road funding package raises gasoline and diesel tax to 26.3 cents in 2017, increases vehicle registration by twenty percent, creates alternative vehicle surcharges and redirects future income tax revenue while changing homestead credits.
November 3, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4680. The bill extends qualifying prison textile sales for five years subject to in state competition limits.
October 29, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 225. The final inherited pistol bill permits thirty days after possession to obtain qualifying private transfer permits.
October 29, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4727. The bill regulates wind measurement tower registration, visibility and local zoning compliance for aviation safety.
October 28, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 244. The package raises restitution and hunting suspensions for qualifying protected wildlife violations.
October 28, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted in committee on October 27, 2015 to remove the January 2016 sunset on Natural Resources Commission authority to regulate deer and elk feeding. The proposal preserved exclusions for ordinary agricultural and logging practices and was reported without amendment. The history shows no enactment; this is a committee recommendation.
October 27, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Served on Michigan's prescription drug and opioid task force and its treatment, prevention and outcomes subcommittee when the task force issued its report.
October 26, 2015
Source: content.govdelivery.com
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 152. The package changes boxing and mixed martial arts licensing, fees, safety oversight and sanctions for professional entrants in amateur contests.
October 21, 2015
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Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 336. The bill creates blue alerts for dangerous suspects in police officer killings or serious injuries.
October 20, 2015
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Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 22. The bill raises qualifying older state police retirees' annual pension floor to sixteen thousand dollars.
October 20, 2015
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Voted for 2015 House Bill 4796. The bill extends National Guard active duty employment protection to members of another state's Guard.
October 20, 2015
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Voted for teacher tenure, staffing, evaluation and bargaining changes emphasizing effectiveness over seniority, increasing probation and shortening dismissal deadlines. He opposed amendments removing bargaining restrictions and supported later evaluation revisions using twenty five percent student growth through 2017–2018 and forty percent afterward.
October 15, 2015
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Voted for 2015 House Bill 4102. The bill changed from an annual budget vehicle to a Flint reconnection and lawsuit settlement appropriation.
October 14, 2015
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Voted for 2015 House Bill 4758. The bill permits drain commission term bond borrowing with mandatory redemption.
October 14, 2015
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Voted for 2015 House Bill 4836. The bill changes long term care partnership insurance provisions affecting Medicaid eligibility for qualifying policyholders.
October 14, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 240. The bill bans powdered alcohol sale, possession and use.
October 13, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4581. The bill raises state liquor distribution reimbursement.
October 8, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4461. The package changes interest owed on overdue state and city income tax refunds.
October 7, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported changing probation eligibility, intensive supervision and financing.
October 1, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4542. Forlini introduced the ABLE disability savings authorization and offered a substitute. Introduced 2015 House Bill 4541, 2015 House Bill 4542, 2015 House Bill 4543.
October 1, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4354. The bill allows qualifying prospective insurer filing trade secrets to be exempt from public disclosure after commissioner review, while preserving prior public records.
October 1, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a resolution urging a permanent federal prohibition on state and local internet access taxation.
September 30, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 64. The bill changes nursing home care regulation toward nationally recognized guidelines, with federal Medicare and Medicaid rules controlling conflicts.
September 29, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 134. The final bill adds 4.35 million dollars for preschool, replacing the original annual education budget vehicle.
September 29, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored overdose response education requirements for first responders.
September 29, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed successive proposals exempting qualifying self service storage insurance sellers from insurance agent licensing.
September 29, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4463. The bill changes aggravated abuse sentencing wording following Supreme Court cases.
September 29, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4668. The package removes qualifying liquor liability insurance proof waivers and related availability reporting.
September 24, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a resolution urging an updated economic evaluation of the Soo Locks project to facilitate federal funding.
September 24, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported allowing pharmacy technicians to work at multiple stores of their employer.
September 24, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 358. The final teacher certification bill removes test fee caps and changes professional learning or fee notification rules.
September 22, 2015
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Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 65. The package permits for profit nursing homes to directly employ qualifying medical professionals rather than only contract with them.
September 22, 2015
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Voted for 2015 House Bill 4563. The bill authorizes township contracts with nonprofit domestic violence service providers.
September 16, 2015
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Voted for 2015 House Bill 4438. The bill extends epinephrine prescribing and trained administration beyond schools to qualifying public venues with liability protections.
September 16, 2015
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Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 281. The bill allows qualifying Detroit court bailiff dismissal for inability to perform rather than permanent retention absent misconduct.
September 16, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Resolution 141. Voted to expel Cindy Gamrat after Courser resigned before the final vote.
September 11, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored a proposal reducing the permitted child custody relocation distance from one hundred miles to fifty miles measured by driving distance.
August 20, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a prohibition on different gasoline prices for cash and credit purchases.
July 14, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for 2015 Senate Bill 165. Voted for commercial pedal bars with passenger beer and wine and related traffic rules.
June 18, 2015
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Supported bond refinancing for consolidated school districts.
June 18, 2015
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Forlini cosponsored disclosure of actuarial calculations behind Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association rates.
June 18, 2015
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Voted to extend community college job training subsidies through 2023.
June 18, 2015
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Supported revising services and rules for children and youth with special health care needs, including community based care, family consultation, cost sharing assessments and provider reporting.
June 18, 2015
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Voted to end film production subsidies.
June 18, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported higher pesticide and fertilizer fees and revised registration and records requirements.
June 18, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored coverage of cranial hair prostheses for insured children under nineteen.
June 16, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported continuing school district public libraries by removing their sunset.
June 16, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported state preemption of local employment requirements, including pay and benefits.
June 16, 2015
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Voted for 2015 House Bill 4245. Forlini introduced and voted to permit building code inspector registration without employment by an enforcing agency. Introduced 2015 House Bill 4245.
June 11, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4495. Forlini introduced and voted for a statutory first lien protecting holders of local government bonds backed by unlimited tax pledges. Introduced 2015 House Bill 4495.
June 11, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported a $45 million buyback of state investor return guarantees under the early stage venture capital program.
June 11, 2015
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Supported health facility license fees and continued nursing home quality assurance taxes.
June 11, 2015
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Supported successive proposals narrowing ordinary negligence liability under the Equine Activity Liability Act. His 2012 vote supported a willful or wanton disregard standard for sponsors, professionals and other people. He supported the related 2013 proposal and the 2015 version applying that higher standard only to sponsors and professionals, while retaining ordinary negligence for other people and the existing equipment, matching and dangerous land exceptions.
June 11, 2015
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Supported extending foster care provider fee reimbursements through September 2016, rather than permanently removing the sunset.
June 9, 2015
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Supported higher commercial animal feed license fees and revised inspections.
June 9, 2015
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Supported extending environmental permit fees through October 2016, rather than the original 2019 proposal.
June 9, 2015
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Supported expanding the number of technology park satellite tax capture areas from three to nine.
June 3, 2015
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Supported ending welfare benefits for households with chronically truant children and opposed an amendment to remove those sanctions.
June 2, 2015
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Supported narrowing the scrap metal cash payment prohibition to the covered items in a mixed purchase.
May 27, 2015
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Supported defibrillator training for athletic trainers and lower license fees.
May 26, 2015
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Supported higher food establishment license fees, graduated by establishment size.
May 21, 2015
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Supported risk based biennial highway bridge inspections.
May 21, 2015
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Supported higher psychiatric hospital license fees, removal of the fee cap and longer intervals between inspections.
May 21, 2015
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Supported easing school bond loan refinancing restrictions and removing mandatory final repayment dates.
May 21, 2015
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Supported extending and increasing industrial air pollution permit fees.
May 21, 2015
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Supported prohibiting unlimited drink and two for one alcohol promotions.
May 21, 2015
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Supported interstate distance education reciprocity, student protections and annual participating institution fees.
May 20, 2015
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Voted to let qualifying local governments borrow for unfunded pension and retiree health liabilities without an elector vote, subject to Treasury approval and pension closure conditions. He supported extending that authority through 2015 and then 2018.
May 20, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported mobile home park safety oversight, distressed park bonds and liens, local notice and higher penalties.
May 19, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported exemptions allowing school fundraising food sales that do not meet nutrition standards. Opposed an amendment restricting the exemption to immediate consumption and requiring posted ingredient and allergen information.
May 13, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported voter approval and five year renewals for county tourism and exposition property taxes.
May 12, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported successive sales and use tax exemptions for over the counter medicines obtained by prescription.
May 12, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported allowing a private prison to house more serious adult offenders.
May 7, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported regional airport authorities to manage local airport operations.
May 7, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported using financial literacy or personal economics courses for the required high school economics credit.
May 5, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored a resolution asserting limits on the Supreme Court's federal role and urging state action against federal overreach.
April 30, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported excluding pneumatic guns from firearm definitions and preempting local restrictions with specified safety exceptions.
April 29, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported limiting part time independent student grants to community college students while raising the annual maximum to $1,250 and extending eligibility to three years.
April 29, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported extending temporary license and permit fee increases across regulated businesses and occupations.
April 29, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported higher emergency loan caps for schools and local governments, repayment enforcement and interest requirements.
April 23, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted in 2014 and 2015 to extend recreational landowner liability protections to unpaid noncommercial aviation activities.
April 21, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported eliminating the February regular election date.
April 16, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported allowing retired state employees to receive pensions while working as Attorney General consultants or expert witnesses, subject to an hours cap.
April 16, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported strengthening lender claims on Detroit revenues held in trust for deficit financing.
April 15, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored a resolution opposing the Obama administration's immigration enforcement actions.
April 14, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a resolution urging a flexible Veterans Choice Card pilot in Michigan.
April 14, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported university recognition and notice of military training credits.
March 26, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to extend wage garnishment writs to 182 days in 2012. In 2014 he supported continuous garnishment and a proposed fifteen-percent gross-wage cap with minimum income protection. In 2015 he supported revised notices, employer default procedures and creditor fees.
March 26, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported concealed carry gun free zone exemptions for retired federal law enforcement officers.
March 25, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported prohibiting drone hunting and drone harassment of hunters.
March 25, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted in 2013 and 2015 to repeal the prohibition on reselling event tickets above face value.
March 25, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2015 House Bill 4038. Forlini introduced and voted for allowing electronic eviction notices with the tenant's prior contractual agreement. Introduced 2015 House Bill 4038.
March 18, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a resolution urging federal funding for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
March 17, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported redirecting up to $4.8 million from crime victim funds to the statewide trauma system.
March 12, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported transferring $3 million from insurance reimbursement reserves to university autism programs.
March 12, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported stair lift installation by certified residential builders with liability insurance instead of full elevator contractor licensing.
March 11, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a resolution opposing fast track trade authorization for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
March 5, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for a 2014 mining dredging permit exemption proposal and cosponsored its later refile, covering excavation that did not create an inland lake of at least five acres.
March 5, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a resolution urging replacement aircraft at Selfridge after the planned removal of the A-10.
March 5, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a proposal reducing Michigan's maximum truck weight from 164000 pounds to 80000 pounds.
February 26, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Cosponsored successive proposals barring automobile insurance premium increases based on pothole damage claims.
February 26, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported moving the presidential primary to the second Tuesday in March.
February 18, 2015
Source: michiganvotes.org
Introduced 2015 House Bill 4036. Introduced monthly liquor distribution and sample reports and taxes on samples. The introduced text also deletes the former state employee employment priority and complaint provisions after distribution privatization.
January 21, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Served as chair of the House Financial Services committee for the 2015–2016 legislative session, as appointed on January 20, 2015.
January 20, 2015
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported banning the use of drones to hunt animals.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Opposed restricting Detroit pension fund investment in its hazardous waste disposal well. The final proposal allowed spending to prepare the facility for sale for another use, rather than an unconditional ban on every additional payment.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted against requiring the state budget agency to commission a study of the per-pupil spending needed for public schools to meet graduation requirements.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported substituting a specific tax equal to twenty five percent of ordinary property tax for aquaculture and hydroponic production facilities.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported a fifteen member Criminal Justice Policy Commission to collect and analyze sentencing, incarceration and release data. The related corrections plan bill preserves judicial discretion rather than imposing automatic parole standards.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported court ordered child abduction prevention measures based on credible custody or visitation risk, including emergency physical custody to prevent imminent abduction.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for 2014 House Joint Resolution UU. Supported placing the sales tax increase from six to seven percent before voters in May 2015, with school aid earmarks and a conditional road tax package. Passage of the resolution is not voter approval of the package.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Also on this bill
- July 13, 2016 · Introduced 2016 House Joint Resolution OO. Forlini introduced an Article V convention application to restrict independent political spending. (Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties)
- June 2, 2016 · Voted for 2015 House Joint Resolution N. Supported a proposed constitutional warrant requirement for government access to electronic data and communications. (Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Supports Data Privacy)
- May 14, 2014 · Voted for 2013 House Joint Resolution N. Supported a proposed constitutional requirement for in-state university tuition for all honorably discharged veterans. House passage does not establish ballot placement or amendment approval. (General)
Supported transferring the former western Wayne correctional facility to a land bank for sale. The final version also requires continued corrections maintenance payments and hazard warning signs until sale; the vote does not prove a sale occurred.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported requiring out of state sellers with specified Michigan affiliates to collect use tax, with the final collection date of October 1, 2015. This is a collection duty for an existing tax, rather than a newly enacted use tax rate.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported trained feeding assistants for nursing home residents without complicated feeding problems, under nurse supervision and resident or representative consent.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported expanding Strategic Fund authority for port facility assistance and harbor dredging, including bridges in the final port definition. The authority remains subject to future appropriations and is not proof that facilities were funded or built.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Opposed requiring school bullying policies to cover cyberbullying and annual reporting of bullying incidents.
December 19, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported denying no fault personal protection benefits to occupants who knew or should have known a vehicle was unlawfully taken by an excluded driver. The final concurrence removed the transportation network company exception from the earlier House version.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Opposed exempting the Detroit nonprofit street railway operator from state and local taxation and Detroit transportation legacy costs. The package also broadens eligible nonprofit operators and changes regional authority agreements.
December 19, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported expedited partner therapy for gonorrhea and chlamydia without an examination of the partner and limited clinician immunity except gross negligence. October 30, 2013 passage and December 18, 2014 concurrence were affirmative.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported restricting Department of Natural Resources designation of state lands solely for biodiversity purposes and changing restoration duties.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to authorize agreed parenting time coordinators to implement child custody orders with qualification and training standards.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported expanding technology park capture of school taxes from three to nine areas in the final House proposal, rather than the original six area proposal.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported minimum college and university fire drill standards and state certification of adopted practices.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for permanent health license revocation standards addressing intentional fraud that harmed patients and serious assault crimes committed in professional practice. He also supported the package’s later provisions on pharmacy compliance leadership and staffing relief for advanced life support operations in small rural communities.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported leasing state public safety communications tower space to telecommunications providers and applying revenue to tower construction debt. December 9 passage and December 18 concurrence were affirmative.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported treating fixed fee routine medical retainer agreements as outside insurance regulation. The record concerns direct care contracting, rather than exemption of conventional health insurance.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported earmarking at least $6 million and at most 15 percent of federal low income energy aid for weatherization for two additional years, with required rental owner contributions except nonprofit owners. This replaced the introduced indefinite minimum 15 percent earmark. December 10 passage and December 18 concurrence were affirmative.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to reduce mandatory backflow inspections for residential lawn sprinklers.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed permitting community colleges to invest public funds in qualifying investment grade Michigan municipal bonds.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring community colleges to notify military applicants about credit eligibility and accept joint services transcripts. October 6 passage and December 18 concurrence were affirmative.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported mandatory property tax exemption for charitable nonprofit housing for up to five years or transfer to a low income purchaser, replacing local discretion. October 2 passage and December 18 concurrence were affirmative.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported county drain removal of obstructed watercourses outside existing drains after inspection and landowner approval, to address specified flooding and erosion problems.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported ending the Michigan printer requirement for state funded printing while retaining the existing prevailing wage requirement.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported removing mandatory biennial collection agency audits while preserving regulation and records duties. Two passage votes on December 18 were affirmative.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported extending abandoned vehicle rules and penalties to abandoned boats and vessels. October 2 passage and December 18 concurrence were both affirmative.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to expand felony arrest DNA sampling while limiting state database retention to convicted individuals.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring mammography reports to warn patients with heterogeneously or extremely dense breast tissue about breast density.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported limiting local mandates directing septic waste to a local receiving facility and local septage application rules. The final version exempts the identified Grand Traverse County facility, changing the original statewide proposal. June 10 passage and December 18 concurrence were affirmative.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported excluding qualifying golf carts and personal mobility devices from motor vehicle registration and mandatory no-fault insurance requirements. The commercial quadricycle amendment was not retained in the final passage summary. Both October 2 passage and December 18 concurrence were affirmative.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported increasing municipal withholding from fire insurance settlements to $12,000 pending property repair, replacement or removal and adding procedures for using escrowed funds for demolition. Both December 10 passage and December 18 concurrence were affirmative.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed authorizing a seventh Next Michigan Development Corporation in Detroit to award development tax benefits and subsidies. The House version differs from the originally proposed sixth entity.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to authorize delinquent property tax installment plans for financially distressed owners and conditional interest waivers.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported state payment of the entire three dollar daily foster care rate increase in Kent County through May 2018. The original proposal was indefinite; the final House stage added the end date.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported juvenile courts issuing necessary orders affecting the enumerated parties in delinquency and child protection proceedings.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported barring tax foreclosure auction bids from people with outstanding blight fines or delinquent property taxes.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring local rules to reasonably accommodate amateur radio antennas and use minimum practicable regulation. The final House policy uses sufficient antenna height and dimensions, replacing the introduced 90 foot formulation.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported extending the annual $75 million tobacco settlement earmark for the 21st Century Jobs Fund through 2019 and changing related development assistance rules.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to revise the timing of large retailers’ advance sales and use tax payments. He supported the 2013 House bills and concurred with their revised Senate versions in December 2014.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to increase employer job training debt authority through community colleges from $50 million to $75 million and remove its 2018 sunset.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to let trained peace officers administer overdose reversal drugs with legal immunity.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Opposed requiring a trained restaurant manager and a staff food allergy notice. The House passage summary removed the proposed customer menu notice. Ingredient disclosure and civil rights tie-bar were other members' amendments, not verified adopted provisions or separate Forlini votes.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported revising nonprofit corporation rules on governance, procedures, mergers and dissolution. Also supported related bills on charitable purposes and changing an organization's legal form.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported exempting municipalities from environmental sanctions for specified limited untreated sewage discharges from at least three septic tank systems.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported allowing counties to waive additional delinquent property tax interest when owners redeem foreclosed residential property. June 5 passage and December 18 concurrence were both affirmative.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported applying the September 1 kindergarten age requirement to schools of choice students under the existing phased age rule.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to establish a state human trafficking board supporting information sharing and victim services.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported an occupational cancer compensation presumption for covered nonvolunteer firefighters, rebuttable by employer evidence of smoking or nonwork causes and contingent on legislative funding.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to add interest on delayed Michigan Business Tax refunds after overpayment claims.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported conforming the disabled worker Medicaid buy-in program to Medicaid expansion and capping aggregate annual premiums at $3 million.
December 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported certification, background checks and training for health insurance exchange navigators and application counselors, including limits on steering consumers to a particular policy. The final arc uses certification rather than the original full insurance licensing regime. December 12, 2013 passage and December 17, 2014 concurrence were affirmative.
December 17, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported crop and feed damage bear hunting permits, excluding a mother bear with cub. June 5 passage and December 17 concurrence were affirmative.
December 17, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported replacing long term residential care life estate and lease regulation with continuing care agreement and community rules, including registration, disclosures and regulated terms.
December 17, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported permanently extending the seven eighths cent per gallon refined petroleum charge and reserving $20 million annually for underground fuel tank cleanups, with additional limits on unrelated spending.
December 17, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported exempting people helping delinquent home loan borrowers renegotiate loans from mortgage originator licensing.
December 16, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for hazardous waste cleanup revisions allowing uncontaminated parcels created by subdivision to leave restrictions on the original contaminated property. The House passed the bill 56–52 on December 16, 2014.
December 16, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported prohibiting the state environmental agency from imposing new woodstove emission restrictions or enforcing the related federal restrictions.
December 16, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported revising definitions for guns powered by compressed air. Retained malicious-intent and loaded-vehicle offenses for guns designed to cause death or serious injury. The measure replaced a broader exclusion based on barrel size.
December 11, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to preempt local pneumatic gun restrictions with exceptions for minors, threatening brandishing and populated areas.
December 11, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported conditions for deeming burial plot rights abandoned and reselling plots, including notice and long term ownership confirmation methods. June 5 passage and December 11 later passage were affirmative.
December 11, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported supplemental foreclosure notices on county websites and reducing posting duration from three weeks to two while retaining direct owner notice methods. The read history establishes passage only.
December 10, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported permitting Treasury disclosure of addresses and service charge status of tax exempt housing project units.
December 10, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported treating commercial quadricycles as regulated low speed or sidewalk mobility vehicles rather than ordinary motor vehicles, and allowing passenger beer or wine while requiring a sober driver. This remained a proposal in the read history.
December 10, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported excluding state university intercollegiate athletes from public employee collective bargaining and requiring unions to report actual worker representation expenses for public posting.
December 9, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported principal based calculation of life insurance reserves for future benefit obligations.
December 9, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported automatic adoption of national appraisal qualification changes unless the state director rejects them and removal of a broker market analysis disclaimer penalty.
December 9, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported quarterly proration of liquor license fees and allowing one beer and wine license to cover an owner's second gas station. June 10 passage and December 9 concurrence were affirmative. The read history does not establish enactment.
December 9, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Opposed extending film production subsidies to 2022 and altering allocation formulas to permit larger awards to individual productions. The final version differs from the introduced permanent sunset repeal and includes Michigan taxation of residual income. The annual $50 million budget is context rather than a new appropriation by this vote.
December 5, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported limiting commercial breeding operations to 50 female dogs older than four months and adding breeder, shelter and pet shop rules. The House version requires four day holding for both untraceable dogs and cats, replacing the introduced two day cat period. This is a passed proposal, not established enactment.
December 4, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported preserving district library governance and tax rates after municipal consolidation, with voter approval for a receiving district tax when library districts merge.
December 4, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported an operating impairment package for off road vehicles, snowmobiles and motorboats, including controlled substances and alcohol restrictions for operators under 21. He jointly offered an adopted December 3, 2014 amendment replacing vessel with motorboat in House Bill 4441.
December 4, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported permitted veterans hiring and promotion preferences and a state registry of participating employers.
December 4, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Opposed classifying qualifying municipal solid waste and pyrolysis energy recovery as renewable energy and streamlining the associated state regulation.
December 4, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported withholding applicable city income tax from lottery winnings and remitting it to the city.
December 4, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported retaining capped taxable property value for heirs when a will donates a conservation easement, avoiding the transfer assessment reset.
December 4, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported directing child support payments to the person actually caring for the children, with allocation, fee and enforcement companions.
December 3, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported changes to debt management service regulation, including an increased permitted customer fee.
December 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to revise adoption consent procedures when an identified natural father could not provide a release.
November 13, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported allowing drainage districts to acquire property by gift, purchase or eminent domain, with multi-county drainage petition and cost allocation companions.
November 13, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported mobile home park licensing safeguards, complaint notice to local governments, performance bonds, annual inspections and receivership when resident health or safety is threatened. The read history establishes a passed proposal.
November 13, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported extending community college energy improvement borrowing terms to 25 years and removing the requirement that savings cover improvement costs. The House voted version differs from the introduced 15 year term.
November 13, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Forlini cosponsored a resolution seeking reversal of a federal electricity reliability cost allocation disproportionately assigned to Upper Peninsula customers.
November 6, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to require foreclosed borrowers to record their property interest with the register of deeds to exercise post-auction redemption rights.
November 6, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported accepting recent relevant military training toward boiler installer, repairer and inspector licensing.
November 6, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Served three terms as Michigan House District 24 representative after election in 2010 and reelection in 2012 and 2014.
November 4, 2014
Source: mdoe.state.mi.us
Forlini received the Michigan Doctors’ Political Action Committee’s endorsement in the 2014 House general election.
October 30, 2014
Source: msms.org
Supported court release procedures after a preliminary roadside drug test as part of extending impaired driving procedures to drugs.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported a validity presumption for qualifying recorded conveyances and lien perfection on the affidavit recording date where a valid lien was created. February 26 passage and October 2 concurrence were affirmative.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported conditional access to investigational drugs and therapies for terminally ill patients, protections against state interference and provider license sanctions, and specified manufacturer immunity without mandated insurer coverage.
October 2, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported adoption assistance agreements allowing increased subsidies for extraordinary child care needs and expenses.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported prohibiting unsolicited tow operator travel to crash scenes and local response fees when police or motorists request service. His June 12 passage and October 2 concurrence votes were affirmative.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported driver education instruction on bicycle and motorcycle road laws and awareness.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported annual confidential insurer own risk and solvency assessments covering material business risks and capital sufficiency.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Introduced House Bills 5405, 5406 and 5407 on opioid overdose response and supported companion legislation. The package allowed doctors and pharmacists to provide opioid antagonists to an at-risk person’s friends or family and protected medical professionals acting in good faith during an overdose.
October 2, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to increase annual Children's Trust Fund spending for child abuse and neglect prevention.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to authorize criminal court assessments covering personnel, goods, services and facilities without calculating costs for each individual case. He supported the initial twenty-seven-month authorization and concurred with the Senate version extending it to thirty-six months.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported prohibiting manufacturers from barring dealer document preparation fees and adding franchised dealer requirements for vehicle sales at October 2 concurrence. His September 18 passage and October 2 concurrence votes were affirmative.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to extend county foster care reimbursement and provide full state coverage for new foster cases in the 2014 and 2015 fiscal years.
October 2, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to exempt residential family trust transfers from property taxable value resets when the property use remained unchanged.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported a regulated intrastate Michigan securities exchange framework.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to condition local road funding on employee benefit reforms and financial disclosures, then supported delaying county road commission disclosures until October 2015 and narrowing certification requirements.
October 2, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported eliminating the $7.50 per case fee cap for authorized liquor distribution agents. No enacted outcome is established in the read history.
October 2, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini received the Police Officers Association of Michigan’s endorsement for House District 24.
October 1, 2014
Source: poam.net
Forlini cosponsored a proposal allocating local road funds primarily by population instead of road mileage.
September 30, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported changed brewpub rules and specified alcohol industry promotional items and keg coupler loans to retailers. The powder alcohol misdemeanor ban was removed before final House passage, so this vote is not described as supporting that ban.
September 24, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to require automated external defibrillator training for athletic trainer licensing and reduce trainer license fees.
September 24, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported state chartered bank savings promotion raffles entered through qualifying deposits.
September 24, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported counting approved nonpublic school teacher professional development toward certificates and subject endorsements equally with public school training.
September 24, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to allow binding arbitration awards for police and firefighters to provide pay increases despite the general ban on automatic step increases after public employee contracts expire.
September 24, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported capped administration expenses and Treasury management of a foster youth education trust with college collaboration for unmet education needs.
September 24, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Supported extending crime victim fund surplus use for specified law enforcement and victim related activities through October 2018. This is an earmark authorization rather than evidence of actual spending.
September 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported exceptions from income tax withholding duties where these would conflict with government housing program terms.
September 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported extending career and technical education or arts alternatives to the foreign language graduation requirement through 2021 and clarifying the affected student cohort.
September 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported revocation of genetic testing paternity determinations for inaccurate tests, unavailable genetic material or an identical DNA alternative father, with related parentage procedures when verified.
September 18, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a proposed income tax credit up to $250 for public school teacher classroom purchases.
September 17, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported government and land bank land exchanges to assemble marketable parcels with tax foreclosed property.
September 9, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored resolutions seeking federal beach monitoring funding and real time monitoring without added requirements.
September 9, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported three more years of hazardous waste generator and handler fees from the October 2014 sunset.
September 9, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported Michigan Business Tax revisions reversing the effect of the IBM multistate tax compact ruling and changing specified future tax liabilities.
September 9, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported property tax style forfeiture and foreclosure enforcement for delinquent county hotel and motel taxes.
September 9, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted for the Scientific Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act initiative described in the official journal as requiring sound scientific wildlife management, providing free hunting, fishing and trapping licenses to active military members, and funding aquatic invasive species management.
August 27, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported new pharmacy technician licensing, fees, continuing education and examination requirements.
August 27, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini received the Michigan Chamber’s earned House endorsement and Champion of Free Enterprise recognition for his perfect score on its 2013–2014 legislative voting record.
July 16, 2014
Source: prnewswire.com
Supported annual National Guard tuition assistance subject to funds available as determined by the Adjutant General. May 14 passage and June 12 concurrence were affirmative.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported repealing forester registration requirements and eliminating the state forester board.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported health coverage for survivors of public safety personnel killed on duty on terms comparable to the State Police plan. The House version replaced coverage based on the deceased person's prior insurer.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported prohibiting insurance certificates that change policy coverage or contain false or misleading terms and limiting cancellation notice rights to actual policy terms.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported exempting qualifying family vehicle transfers from sales tax.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported strict discipline academy enrollment of students from privately operated juvenile secure, mental health and child caring facilities.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to earmark three million dollars in annual tobacco revenue for state Capitol upkeep.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported municipal utility homeowner energy efficiency loans repaid on utility bills.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported extra development district liquor licenses in villages and townships, extending an existing city based exception to quotas.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to require pharmacies, manufacturers and wholesale distributors to designate a pharmacist in charge, with related penalties.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported Treasury compromise of disputed tax matters under stated conditions, with disclosures and records.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported limiting stamp sand property environmental restrictions to deposits exceeding hazardous substance thresholds for unrestricted residential use.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to repeal driver responsibility fees for expired licenses and missing insurance, allow additional license reinstatements, and gradually abolish most remaining fees by October 2019.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to impose criminal penalties for unlawful residential squatting, with exceptions for consensual occupants, guests and family.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Forlini cosponsored a resolution supporting federal assistance to recover kidnapped Nigerian women and girls and prevent further attacks.
June 12, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported disclosure of past environmental criminal convictions by hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal license applicants.
June 11, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported requiring delinquent regional tourism room assessment payers to cover collection attorney and court costs. Another member's proposed hotel opt out is not asserted as adopted.
June 11, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported changing chemical treatment permit fees, expiration, duration and transferability for aquatic nuisance species.
June 11, 2014
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Supported prohibiting automated eye exam prescription devices and reserving glasses and contact lens prescriptions to licensed eye care physicians and optometrists.
June 11, 2014
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Supported prohibiting minors' electronic cigarette use with misdemeanor penalties and related sales restrictions.
June 11, 2014
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Supported allowing a parent authorized adult aged 21 or older with qualifying pistol safety training to supervise a minor's pistol use. March 13 passage and June 11 concurrence were affirmative.
June 11, 2014
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Supported a statewide Pure Michigan trail, water trail and trail town designation network with volunteer and advisory companions.
June 11, 2014
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Forlini cosponsored a resolution seeking free family telephone calls for overseas military personnel.
June 11, 2014
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Voted to permit direct access to licensed physical therapy within specified limits while retaining insurers' prescription conditions for payment.
June 11, 2014
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Supported discretionary compensation claims after statutory deadlines as part of relief for former Delphi employees affected by bankruptcy.
June 11, 2014
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Supported automatic eligible public employee defined contribution retirement enrollment with an opt out. March 12 passage and June 10 concurrence were affirmative.
June 10, 2014
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Supported community mental health authorities partnering with directly related health and rehabilitation service entities.
June 10, 2014
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Supported local and state approved nonprofit real estate development property tax exemptions for five to seven years.
June 10, 2014
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Voted to remove financial stability evidence requirements for builders and renovation contractors, with qualification discretion and reinstatement procedures.
June 10, 2014
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Voted to reduce regulation of qualifying industrial byproducts used as fertilizer, road or fill materials and expand inert material categories.
June 10, 2014
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Voted to exclude specified nonagricultural work visa employment from unemployment benefit coverage and related employer assessments.
June 10, 2014
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Supported applying the insurer Consumer Protection Act lawsuit exclusion retroactively to pre 2001 conduct while allowing already filed cases to proceed.
June 5, 2014
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Supported repealing the government interior designer registry. March 21,2013 passage and June 5,2014 concurrence were affirmative. Final text retains existing design service permission language rather than the earlier proposed deletion.
June 5, 2014
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Voted to revise electric utility production and transmission cost allocation for commercial customers.
June 5, 2014
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Supported utility consumer representation funding for cost allocation and rate design proceedings, in addition to rate hike contests.
June 5, 2014
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Supported Detroit regional transit authority streetcar operating agreements without the usual unanimous rail approval requirement, assigning operating deficits to Detroit and Wayne County.
June 5, 2014
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Supported repealing ocularist and apprentice registration for artificial eye work. March 21,2013 passage and June 3,2014 concurrence were affirmative.
June 3, 2014
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Supported repealing professional community planner registration. March 21,2013 passage and June 3,2014 concurrence were affirmative.
June 3, 2014
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Supported exempting automaker test vehicles from the regional transit vehicle registration tax.
June 3, 2014
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Forlini cosponsored a proposed constitutional amendment electing state education board members by geographic district.
May 28, 2014
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Voted to restore the six percent Medicaid managed care use tax with a related health claims tax reduction.
May 27, 2014
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Opposed exempting incidental travel insurance sellers from insurance agent licensing.
May 27, 2014
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Opposed the voted minimum wage law raising the regular rate to $9.25 in 2018 and the tipped rate to 38 percent, with 3.5 percent capped inflation indexing and an 8.5 percent unemployment suspension trigger in the final summary.
May 27, 2014
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Supported removing rental occupancy changes from taxable value adjustments under the property tax cap.
May 27, 2014
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Introduced 2014 House Bill 5602. The history names Forlini as introducing additional liquor warehouse reporting and tax on vendor and salesperson samples.
May 27, 2014
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Voted to replace insolvent employer workers compensation security arrangements with a private employer group fund, member assessments and Delphi claimant coverage. He offered adopted amendments changing the principal start year from 2019 to 2020.
May 27, 2014
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Voted to allow eligible smaller commercial forest parcels to transfer into the qualified forest management tax benefit program.
May 22, 2014
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Supported agriculture department and university industrial hemp research cultivation and authority for a segregated research grant fund.
May 22, 2014
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Supported an off road vehicle helmet requirement exception for operation on the owner's property. February 18 passage and May 22 concurrence were affirmative.
May 22, 2014
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Supported a 13 to 35 commissioner range for counties with at least 600,000 residents, replacing the 25 member minimum.
May 22, 2014
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Voted to establish a uniform collaborative family law dispute resolution process outside litigation.
May 22, 2014
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Supported $194.8 million in state grants toward the Detroit bankruptcy settlement with financial oversight and pension reform conditions.
May 22, 2014
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Supported repealing state auctioneer registration and its associated fees and statutory references.
May 22, 2014
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Voted to extend underserved area clinician loan assistance to dentists and raise the maximum benefit to 200,000 dollars.
May 21, 2014
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Voted to clarify that a hospital’s long-term care beds must be available when a patient needs admission before that availability bars use of a swing bed for extended care.
May 21, 2014
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Supported up to one year of temporary Michigan occupational licensing for military spouses holding equivalent out of state licenses and completing fingerprint background checks.
May 21, 2014
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Supported changes to pharmacy maximum allowable cost reimbursement formulas and procedures.
May 21, 2014
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Voted to limit closed government litigation discussions to matters already in litigation. He opposed the companion retaining penalties after a compliant reenactment.
May 21, 2014
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Supported reducing barber training requirements from 250 to 225 classroom hours and 1,750 to 1,575 practical hours. March 20 passage and May 15 later passage were affirmative.
May 15, 2014
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Supported allowing for-profit as well as nonprofit nursing homes to employ physicians for ongoing resident medical and nursing care.
May 14, 2014
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Voted for 2013 House Joint Resolution N. Supported a proposed constitutional requirement for in-state university tuition for all honorably discharged veterans. House passage does not establish ballot placement or amendment approval.
May 14, 2014
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Also on this bill
- July 13, 2016 · Introduced 2016 House Joint Resolution OO. Forlini introduced an Article V convention application to restrict independent political spending. (Opposes Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties)
- June 2, 2016 · Voted for 2015 House Joint Resolution N. Supported a proposed constitutional warrant requirement for government access to electronic data and communications. (Supports Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Supports Data Privacy)
- December 19, 2014 · Voted for 2014 House Joint Resolution UU. Supported placing the sales tax increase from six to seven percent before voters in May 2015, with school aid earmarks and a conditional road tax package. Passage of the resolution is not voter approval of the package. (General)
Supported a pre-examination criminal probable cause conference framework addressing pleas, bail and case procedures, waivable by agreement. February 20 and May 13 passage votes were affirmative.
May 13, 2014
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Supported statutory landowner liability limits for trespasser injuries with willful misconduct, active negligence and child attractive nuisance exceptions.
May 8, 2014
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Forlini cosponsored a resolution calling for legal protection of unborn children with heartbeats.
May 6, 2014
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Supported occupational license fee waivers for honorably discharged veterans, with the security service companion.
May 6, 2014
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Supported allowing the state to designate any accredited Michigan medical school to receive donated bodies for research, expanding the three university limitation.
April 29, 2014
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Supported allowing non-CPA officers and directors in public accounting firms providing broader business services.
April 29, 2014
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Supported preferred class mortality tables for life insurance reserve calculations under specified restrictions.
April 17, 2014
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Supported procedures for awarding custody to a putative father when the mother's rights remain unterminated and the court finds this in the child's best interests.
March 27, 2014
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Voted to make the use tax exemption for qualifying property affixed to real estate in another state retroactive to January 1, 2005 rather than January 1, 2006.
March 27, 2014
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Supported qualifying lender retention of principal residence exemptions on foreclosed homes with equivalent school tax payments. He later opposed granting foreclosing financial institutions up to three years of exemption while the home remained for sale and not rented.
March 27, 2014
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Supported state permitted and regulated mobile dental services. His December 11, 2013 passage and March 27, 2014 concurrence votes were affirmative.
March 27, 2014
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Supported secured credit commercial code limits on debtor loss recovery.
March 26, 2014
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Voted to set a four percent enhanced recovery hydrocarbon severance tax and regulate carbon dioxide pipelines with eminent domain powers.
March 20, 2014
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Voted for a proposed state school reform authority for persistently low performing schools, with alternative intermediate district management.
March 20, 2014
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Supported inactive real estate license renewal within three years and eighteen continuing education hours spread over three years instead of six yearly hours.
March 20, 2014
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Supported renegotiating distressed local government Clean Michigan Initiative environmental and recreation loans while prohibiting reduction of outstanding principal.
March 20, 2014
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Supported mandatory uniform credentials for unlicensed substance use disorder service workers in state agency programs.
March 20, 2014
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Voted for Michigan’s application for an Article V convention limited to a federal balanced budget amendment.
March 20, 2014
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Supported statewide circuit and district judgeship increases and reductions, including reducing Detroit's 36th district from thirty-one to thirty judges in final concurrence. Supported December 2013 passage and March 2014 concurrence.
March 20, 2014
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Offered 2014 House Resolution 319. The history names Forlini as offering a resolution opposing military commissary closures and seeking replacement aircraft at Selfridge after proposed A-10 removal.
March 18, 2014
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Voted to require investigations of health professional disciplinary grounds, explicitly prohibit patient sexual conduct and increase sanctions.
March 18, 2014
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Supported expanded military family relief eligibility and up to $50,000 annual program marketing. October 3,2013 and March 18,2014 passage votes were affirmative. This authorizes assistance conditions rather than proof of individual awards.
March 18, 2014
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Introduced 2014 House Bill 5415. The history names Forlini as introducing lease authorized electronic eviction notices.
March 18, 2014
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Supported two on-premises retail brewery locations and three for specified 30,000 to 60,000 barrel microbrewers. November 14,2013 passage and March 13,2014 concurrence were affirmative.
March 13, 2014
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Supported aligning short barrel rifle and shotgun restrictions with federal law and requiring owners to retain federal registration and show it on officer request during transport.
March 13, 2014
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Supported direct retail sales by qualifying microbrewers producing under 1,000 barrels yearly instead of mandatory wholesale distribution.
March 12, 2014
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Voted to require welfare community service for people outside work or training programs, with exceptions.
March 11, 2014
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Supported landline service transition and discontinuation after 2016 with customer appeals and state investigation when equivalent alternatives are disputed.
March 11, 2014
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Supported extending the Cobo Hall renovation contractor equipment use tax exemption for two years beyond 2014. This is a capital project tax policy, not evidence of completed renovations.
March 6, 2014
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Voted to require interlocal agreements collecting and spending revenue to establish separate legal entities.
March 5, 2014
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Forlini cosponsored a proposal allowing simultaneous service of eviction and damage money judgments.
March 4, 2014
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Voted to deduct outstanding welfare debts from lottery prizes of at least $1,000. This is distinct from the city income tax lottery collection provision.
February 27, 2014
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Voted to allow Lansing to refinance tax increment financing debt for its parking garage beyond the ordinary maturity restriction.
February 26, 2014
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Voted to exempt specified hazardous household, medical, pharmaceutical, and electronic waste diversion centers from landfill regulation.
February 19, 2014
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Forlini cosponsored a revised insurer repair steering and nonoriginal part proposal with notice and triple damages.
February 19, 2014
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Voted to remove restrictions on buyers' use of unused state railroad rights of way.
February 18, 2014
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Voted to allow an additional eight years for a Saginaw renaissance zone tax exemption, following a prior seven year extension.
February 18, 2014
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Voted to limit motorcycle learner permits to two in a ten year period.
February 18, 2014
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Voted against 2013 House Bill 4487. Voted against allowing downtown development authorities to borrow for local agricultural marketing, infrastructure, and farmers' markets through tax increment financing.
February 18, 2014
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Voted to require safe sleep information for mothers at hospitals and for births or newborn care outside hospitals. The final proposal removes the introduced requirement that parents sign an acknowledgment.
February 18, 2014
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Voted to revise unitary business group definitions for business income taxes.
February 18, 2014
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Voted to remove gender references from prostitution offenses and increase the maximum fine for operating a prostitution location to five thousand dollars.
February 12, 2014
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Voted to protect property assessment limits when damaged structures are rebuilt with substantially similar materials and area, including value increases required by current building and safety codes.
February 11, 2014
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Voted to revise school safety drills, requiring five fire drills, two tornado drills and three lockdown drills each school year. The final act required posting completed drills within 30 school days, retention for three years, and a cardiac emergency response plan. Earlier posting proposals are preserved separately.
February 5, 2014
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Voted to require school employees, including specified contractors, to report suspected child abuse. The adopted House proposal excludes the introduced expansion of clergy coverage.
February 4, 2014
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Voted to establish trampoline court safety standards and limited operator immunity when the standards are followed.
February 4, 2014
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Voted to revise aggravated physical abuse criteria used in sentencing.
February 4, 2014
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Voted for 2013 House Bill 4629. Voted for digital billboard regulations, including surrendering three ordinary sign permits for one digital permit with exceptions, vegetation restrictions, and revised fees.
January 29, 2014
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Voted to recognize a trustee's insurable interest in a person covered by a trust owned life insurance policy, subject to specified conditions.
January 28, 2014
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Voted to make state building code standards govern permanent fireworks sales buildings instead of the cited national fire protection standard.
January 28, 2014
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Voted to extend the firearm possession prohibition for specified convicted felons to ammunition.
January 28, 2014
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Voted to deem federally approved variable life and annuity products compliant with the corresponding Michigan product law.
January 23, 2014
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Voted to allow preferred stock in Canadian companies among insurer reserve assets. This is distinct from preferred mortality tables and reserve calculation reform.
January 23, 2014
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to broaden group life insurance coverage to affiliated company employees and associations through revisions based on a national model.
January 23, 2014
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Voted to exclude long term care benefits from accelerated life insurance benefit regulation.
January 23, 2014
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Voted to permit electronic life insurance applications and revise variable annuity refund rules.
January 23, 2014
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Voted to expand promise zone tuition assistance to vocational education, books, and supplies, permit academic eligibility standards, and reset tax increment capture formulas.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to make the sobriety court interlock pilot permanent after a one year sunset extension.
December 12, 2013
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to permit less restrictive authorization for repairing or replacing failed seawalls than for constructing new ones.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to permit automated vehicle highway testing under specified conditions with a human monitor able to intervene.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to direct $1 of hunting and fishing license fees to a wildlife education and advertising council.
December 12, 2013
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Voted for 2013 Senate Bill 660. Voted for a pharmacy cannabis regulatory framework contingent on federal rescheduling.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to relax package liquor store quota and transfer rules. The final transfer scope is within the same county rather than the introduced neighboring county option, with additional resort area quota provisions.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to authorize a sixth Next Michigan Development Corporation in the Upper Peninsula.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to revise affiliated group definitions for business profits taxation.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to authorize nonsmoked medical marijuana products, including edible, topical, and beverage forms.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to restrict mandatory school property tax increases for collective bargaining and operating judgments, with exceptions.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to preserve the principal residence property tax exemption after a homeowner moved to assisted living, including while the home remained listed for sale.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to allow school epinephrine prescriptions and provide physician and pharmacist immunity except for gross negligence.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to require health insurer bills to estimate how much a price increase resulted from federal health care mandates and regulations.
December 12, 2013
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Voted to prohibit a future state health insurance exchange from requiring all policies to be sold through it.
December 12, 2013
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted for the abortion insurance initiative requiring elective abortion coverage outside Medicaid to be offered through a separate paid rider, with employer notices and specified medical exceptions. The subsequent immediate effect motion failed to obtain two thirds despite his affirmative vote.
December 11, 2013
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Voted to revise public employee health benefit caps. The final individual plus spouse cap is $12,250 rather than the introduced $13,455.
December 11, 2013
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Voted to double campaign contribution limits, index them to inflation, revise reporting, and exempt specified issue ad donors from identification while retaining sponsor disclosure. He personally offered a robocall sponsor disclosure amendment.
December 11, 2013
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Voted to allow counties to charge less than the ordinary one percent monthly interest on delinquent tax revolving fund amounts.
December 11, 2013
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Voted to create a Capitol commission and architect with responsibility for preservation and facilities management.
December 11, 2013
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Voted to exempt legal process servers from trespass prohibitions.
December 11, 2013
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Voted to exclude vehicle, watercraft, and recreational vehicle trade in value from taxable purchases through a phased exemption. The final phase spans 24 years and includes used dealers and a Medicaid expansion condition, rather than the earlier 2019 or 2021 schedules.
December 11, 2013
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to establish a regulated recreational off highway vehicle category covering wider vehicles and specified motors.
December 11, 2013
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Voted to establish a continuous anonymous school safety reporting hotline.
December 11, 2013
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Offered 2013 House Resolution 276. Forlini offered a resolution urging the Italian government to maintain its consulate in Detroit. The full December 10, 2013 offering block names him and describes the economic, cultural and consular services supporting that request.
December 10, 2013
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Voted for aviation fuel tax restructuring and airport funding. The House package replaced the three-cent-per-gallon excise tax with a two percent wholesale tax, reduced the effective fuel sales tax from six to four percent, and earmarked another $17 million for schools.
December 5, 2013
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Voted to revise financial assurance instruments for perpetual landfill care.
December 5, 2013
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Voted to enroll local governments automatically in an intrastate emergency mutual aid agreement unless they opt out.
December 5, 2013
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Voted to restrict cash welfare withdrawals at liquor stores and adult entertainment establishments through ATM coordination.
December 5, 2013
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Voted against 2013 House Bill 4467. Voted against excluding maintenance, repair, and replacement service contracts from insurance licensing and regulation.
December 5, 2013
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Voted to allow the pharmacy board to approve up to ten pilot projects to improve products or services. The final option is discretionary and covers ten projects rather than the earlier mandatory 25.
December 4, 2013
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Voted to repeal the requirement that employers disclose an ongoing strike when advertising or soliciting replacement workers.
November 14, 2013
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Voted to increase permissible potato marketing assessments and revise commission representation.
November 14, 2013
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Voted to prohibit bounty payments to volunteer parking enforcement participants.
November 14, 2013
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Voted to protect firefighters' nonconflicting work for another department and remove that subject from collective bargaining.
November 14, 2013
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Voted to allow customers to bring wine to licensed restaurants with a restaurant set fee. The final version removes the introduced mandatory $25 charge.
November 14, 2013
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Voted to expand the school operating tax exemption for unoccupied residential development offered for sale. The final act covered qualifying new structures and their land for up to three years, with temporary provisions for previously exempt construction.
November 13, 2013
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Introduced 2013 House Bill 5145. The history names Forlini as introducing a one year delay in unemployment assessment changes for professional employer organizations.
November 13, 2013
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Voted to increase minimum restitution for hunting trespass from $250 to $750, or actual damage if greater.
November 13, 2013
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to repeal the dietitian and nutritionist licensing requirement, which the reviewed source says had not been implemented.
November 13, 2013
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Voted to restrict environmental regulation of sodium discharges while retaining limits above a statutory level.
November 13, 2013
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Voted to extend the free clinic limited liability protection to nurses.
November 12, 2013
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Voted to exempt retired county and state corrections officers from concealed pistol restricted locations.
November 12, 2013
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Voted to waive specified concealed pistol training for military members and peace officers and exempt eligible retired federal officers from restricted locations.
November 12, 2013
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Voted to exempt specified prosecutors and former auxiliary or reserve officers from concealed pistol restricted locations.
November 12, 2013
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Voted against 2013 House Bill 4941. Voted against extending Canadian nursing license reciprocity.
November 12, 2013
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Voted to revise interstate income apportionment and acquisition loss deductions.
November 7, 2013
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Voted to exempt domestic international sales corporations from corporate income tax.
November 7, 2013
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Voted to cap self storage late fees and revise default property disposal and document liability.
November 7, 2013
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Voted to revise legacy Michigan Business Tax credit application to flow through entities and unitary business groups.
November 7, 2013
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Voted to update underground excavation notification and safety procedures.
November 7, 2013
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Voted to revise asset sale clawbacks for legacy business tax credits.
November 7, 2013
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Voted to restrict challenges to county budget appropriations to eligible elected branch heads and chief judges, assign Court of Appeals jurisdiction, and presume appropriation sufficiency. The final plaintiff class differs from the introduced chief administrative officer language.
November 6, 2013
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Voted to recognize recent relevant military experience for construction occupation licensing.
November 5, 2013
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to exclude agricultural property purchased for nonagricultural use from sales ratio studies used to assess other farm property.
October 31, 2013
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Voted to establish a separate residential lift installation credential for eligible repair contractors with manufacturer certification.
October 30, 2013
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Voted to defer jury duty for full time students when it conflicts with their class schedules. The final proposal covers educational institutions beyond colleges.
October 30, 2013
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Voted to allow autocycle operation without a motorcycle endorsement.
October 30, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored a resolution seeking continuation of Northern Michigan University's Army officer training program.
October 29, 2013
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Voted to allow guardians to sign do not resuscitate orders for incapacitated people under specified safeguards, including court review for objections and notice of this authority.
October 29, 2013
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Voted to allow corridor improvement authorities to reset the base year for tax increment capture after declining assessments.
October 23, 2013
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Voted to revise Detroit arson investigator authority, automatic police chief certification, and reciprocity for eligible recently employed out of state officers.
October 23, 2013
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Voted to expand the principal residence property tax exemption for totally disabled veterans.
October 23, 2013
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Voted to exempt natural fertilizer from the phosphorus application restrictions on lawns, golf courses, and other grass.
October 23, 2013
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Voted to establish standards for unclaimed property audits and indirect audits, including federal government audit standards. This statute is distinct from the later tax audit standards developed by Treasury.
October 22, 2013
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Voted to revise unemployment benefit sanctions while requiring equitable recovery waivers for no fault overpayments.
October 22, 2013
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Voted to increase potential unemployment payroll tax consequences for employers failing to provide timely separation information.
October 22, 2013
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Voted to change the sex offender registry fee from a one time $50 payment to $50 annually.
October 22, 2013
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Voted to recognize specified national certifications for state fire safety inspectors and plan reviewers.
October 16, 2013
Source: michiganvotes.org
Introduced and voted for House Bill 4866 authorizing updated bicycle hand signals, including right arm signals.
October 15, 2013
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to give buyers of former public school property a five year property tax exemption, with local taxing units able to opt out.
October 15, 2013
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Voted to revise drainage district boundary changes, property assessments, notice, and challenges.
October 15, 2013
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Voted to revise motor carrier safety requirements for buses.
October 15, 2013
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Voted to exempt 16 and 17 year olds with a high school equivalency certificate from the school related minor work hour limits.
October 9, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored a proposal requiring fiscal notes and financing for local mandates, with nonimplementation if conditions fail.
October 8, 2013
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Voted to require replacement of license plates after ten years.
October 3, 2013
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to exclude qualifying agricultural fertilizer use before 1981 from hazardous substance release rules when it followed accepted practices at the time.
October 3, 2013
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted against authorizing spending to implement Common Core standards under local curriculum protections. The authorization excluded the associated testing system.
September 26, 2013
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to repeal utility transfers from uncollectible allowance recovery accounts to an air pollution grant fund.
September 25, 2013
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to increase election recount deposits from $10 to $25 per precinct, with a $125 deposit for elections outside specified close margins.
September 19, 2013
Source: legislature.mi.gov
Voted to exempt qualifying roadside farm stands from building code and permit requirements, including plumbing and electricity requirements.
September 19, 2013
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Voted to clarify restitution after a victim's death to include people entitled to inherit.
September 19, 2013
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Voted to allow prosecution of felonies committed in another county as part of a criminal scheme involving the prosecution venue.
September 19, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored a proposal requiring insurers to rebate excess premiums once traffic points expire.
September 17, 2013
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Voted to prohibit permits solely for specified organized off road riding and frozen lake events and require two free riding days annually.
September 12, 2013
Source: michiganvotes.org
Voted to move specified school vaccination requirements from sixth to seventh grade.
September 12, 2013
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Voted to revise beneficial share ownership and corporate voting rules affecting mergers and other transactions.
September 12, 2013
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Voted to expand business improvement zone spending and extend operation from seven to ten years, with revised voting, dissolution, notice, assessment, and service rules.
September 12, 2013
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Voted to increase vital record copy fees and authorize expedited service fees.
September 12, 2013
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Voted to extend local off road vehicle road use options statewide and allow designated highway shoulder riding.
September 12, 2013
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Voted to increase certificate of need application fees, including the base fee from $1,500 to $3,000, additional project fees, and inflation indexing.
September 12, 2013
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Voted to expand housing authority investment powers to ownership interests in multifamily housing entities.
September 12, 2013
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Voted to revise and raise hunting and fishing license fees.
September 10, 2013
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Voted to extend the ability of retired prison employees to collect pensions while rehired by two years. The final version extends the sunset rather than repealing it permanently.
September 10, 2013
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Voted to increase disaster contingency funding and local assistance limits. The final package set annual appropriations of $2 million to $4.5 million, a fund balance range of $1 million to $4.5 million, and a local grant maximum of $100,000 or ten percent of the local operating budget, whichever was less.
September 10, 2013
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Voted for 2013 House Bill 4714. Voted for Medicaid expansion to adults up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level and concurred in the final Senate version.
September 3, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored a resolution seeking changes to military sexual assault reporting.
September 3, 2013
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Voted to revise foreclosure by advertisement and the prior loan modification negotiation rules.
June 20, 2013
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Voted to waive state park and campground admission charges for eligible disabled veterans, former prisoners of war, and Medal of Honor recipients through registration changes.
June 20, 2013
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Voted to require disclosure of cost comparison formulas for privatization bids while withholding actual state costs until contract award.
June 20, 2013
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Voted to increase the agricultural preservation fund administration ceiling from $900,000 to $1.4 million and index it to inflation.
June 20, 2013
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Voted to establish dissolution and reassignment procedures for fiscally failed school districts. He jointly offered an adopted June 13, 2013 amendment requiring an enrollment decline of at least ten percent as a dissolution condition. The final property, debt, teacher and receiving district provisions are preserved as separate version evidence.
June 20, 2013
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Voted to recognize equivalent funeral directing licenses from Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin for up to two years.
June 20, 2013
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Voted to require funeral establishment buyers to assume existing prepaid funeral commitments.
June 20, 2013
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Voted to eliminate required special elections for county commission vacancies occurring in odd numbered years.
June 20, 2013
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Voted to require school cardiac emergency plans and drills where defibrillators are present.
June 19, 2013
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Introduced 2013 House Bill 4842. The history names Forlini as introducing a $2 million municipal transit credit appropriation.
June 13, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored a resolution seeking review of the Ontario nuclear waste repository and federal attention to Michigan concerns.
June 13, 2013
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Voted to prevent tax increment financing authorities from capturing regional Detroit Zoo and art institute property taxes.
June 13, 2013
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Voted to authorize an electricity surcharge of up to $1 per month to finance up to $50 million in low income heating assistance. The final proposal differs from the introduced $60 million redistribution.
June 13, 2013
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Voted to revise wetlands permit exemptions, fees, denial documentation, mitigation bank grants, drain activities, and the relationship to federal requirements.
June 12, 2013
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Voted to exempt eligible security providers installing home monitoring systems from electrician credentials and restrict local licensing or permit requirements.
June 12, 2013
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Voted to revise sentencing guidelines for arson and other specified offenses.
June 12, 2013
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Voted to restore local authority to restrict holiday consumer fireworks during specified overnight hours.
June 12, 2013
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Voted to move the supply chain development commission into the Strategic Fund and permit state tax and fee financing.
June 11, 2013
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Voted to permit small winemakers to sell and offer tastings at farmers' markets with a $25 daily license.
June 11, 2013
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Voted for a groundwater dispute process addressing household wells harmed by high-capacity withdrawals, with drinking water, compensation and withdrawal remedies. The initial process suspended investigation when the high-capacity well owner declined participation. He later supported administrative appeals for well owners ordered to pay compensation.
June 6, 2013
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Voted to restore defined benefit pension eligibility for specified National Guard commanders and assistants, with revised limits and exceptions, and reorganize Guard law.
June 6, 2013
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Voted to extend temporary environmental permit fee increases.
June 5, 2013
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Voted to raise off road vehicle annual license charges from $16.25 to $26.25, or $36.25 with state trail access.
June 5, 2013
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Opposed raising the landfill tipping fee from seven to twelve cents per cubic yard in 2011, then supported extending that higher fee through September 2015.
June 5, 2013
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Voted to allow small condominium associations to choose an accountant review instead of an annual audit by majority vote. The final revenue threshold is $20,000 rather than the introduced $100,000.
June 5, 2013
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Voted to create a responsible father registry requiring registration before or within 48 hours of birth for notice rights.
June 4, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored a resolution seeking termination of the federal flood insurance program.
June 4, 2013
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Voted to return property tax mistakenly collected for retired Stephenson school bonds through a state education tax reduction.
May 29, 2013
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Voted to add specified plants to prohibited nonnative species rules.
May 23, 2013
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Voted to require the natural resources and agriculture departments to promote forestry and forest products development.
May 23, 2013
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Voted to permit accounting practices through professional limited liability companies with licensed accountants holding more than half of equity and voting rights.
May 23, 2013
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Voted to repeal separation by partitions and doors between cosmetology premises, dwellings, and schools.
May 22, 2013
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Voted to require disclosure on request of medical futility treatment policies, extending beyond the introduced focus on minors.
May 22, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored a proposal revising rail crossing improvement funding priorities.
May 22, 2013
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Voted to repeal the requirement that sheriffs kill unlicensed dogs and the associated nonfeasance rule.
May 16, 2013
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Voted to establish landlord entry and notice procedures after a tenant's apparent death.
May 16, 2013
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Voted to expand firearms permitted for deer hunting in the southern Lower Peninsula to specified pistols and straight wall cartridge rifles.
May 16, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored a package proposing $3 million in school mascot replacement reimbursement from civil rights funds.
May 15, 2013
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Voted to revise business tax return review obligations for formerly exempt entities required to begin filing.
May 14, 2013
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Voted to waive instructional time requirements for specified 2012–2013 school closures.
May 14, 2013
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Voted to implement reciprocal hunting and fishing suspensions under the interstate wildlife violator compact, with citation treatment and participation procedures.
May 14, 2013
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Voted to prohibit handheld telephone use while operating commercial vehicles and school buses and exempt electric carriages from specified vehicle rules and taxes.
May 14, 2013
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Voted to establish a statutory right to hunt, fish, and take game subject to regulation.
May 2, 2013
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Voted to condition family welfare on children's school attendance.
May 1, 2013
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Voted to revise immigration clerical assistant regulation, eliminate the state listing duty, and authorize triple damages.
May 1, 2013
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Voted to make a court's car seat penalty waiver discretionary when a driver purchases a seat, replacing mandatory waiver.
April 30, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored proposals to restrict insurer ownership of repair shops, required repair facilities, preferred lists, and nonoriginal parts.
April 30, 2013
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Voted to require standardized prior authorization forms for prescription drug reimbursement.
April 25, 2013
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Voted to suspend or revoke lottery seller licenses for accepting welfare benefit cards to purchase lottery tickets.
April 25, 2013
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Voted to expand Grand Rapids and Kent County convention authority borrowing for additional facilities, including markets or sports facilities, and remove board term limits.
April 23, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored a resolution encouraging school gun safety curricula.
April 23, 2013
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Voted to permit flat per parcel police and fire special assessments instead of assessments based on property value.
April 18, 2013
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Voted to eliminate the sunset on new water resource improvement authorities and expand their activities and geography, including dredging borrowing.
April 18, 2013
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Voted to establish licensing, insurance, promoter, participant, and criminal enforcement rules for amateur mixed martial arts.
April 10, 2013
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Voted to revise concealed edged weapon prohibitions and secure transport exceptions.
April 9, 2013
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Voted to repeal permit requirements for proprietary school student recruiters.
March 21, 2013
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Offered 2013 House Resolution 75. The history names Forlini as offering a resolution seeking restoration of military tuition assistance.
March 21, 2013
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Voted to authorize up to $1 million in state subsidies for private marina dredging loans. The program covered five percent of qualifying loans of up to $500,000 per marina, with unused funds returning to the treasury.
March 20, 2013
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Voted to revise flow through entity income tax withholding rules.
March 20, 2013
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Voted to preserve the 0.08 blood alcohol threshold for drunk driving instead of reverting to 0.10.
March 20, 2013
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Supported a 2012 bear cub exemption proposal, then voted in 2013 to grandfather existing public contact operations for cubs below thirty-six weeks and ninety pounds while barring new operations.
March 7, 2013
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Voted for a resolution urging increased development and importation of North American oil and federal approval of TransCanada’s newly routed Keystone XL pipeline application.
March 5, 2013
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Voted to protect propane companies and employees from liability when customers misused, modified or repaired equipment, excluding equipment manufacturers.
March 5, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored a resolution seeking Michigan workers and materials for the international bridge.
March 5, 2013
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Supported the vetoed 2012 Blue Cross mutualization package with separate abortion coverage restrictions, then voted for the 2013 conversion to a nonprofit mutual insurer under regular insurance regulation with health fund payments.
February 28, 2013
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Voted to place nonmotorized recreational trailer financing under motor vehicle finance law instead of general product financing law.
February 28, 2013
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Voted to revise electrician and fire alarm apprenticeship rules, including removal of the required equivalence to federal standards.
February 13, 2013
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Cosponsored successive proposals exempting materials used to build county operated jails from sales tax.
January 30, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored proposals to eliminate the annual four percent legislative pension increase, raise retiree health cost sharing, and require five percent prefunding contributions from eligible current legislators.
January 29, 2013
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Served as majority vice chair of the House Appropriations Environmental Quality subcommittee in the 2013–2014 session, with additional assignments identified in the January 24 appointment letter.
January 24, 2013
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Forlini cosponsored a bill allowing natural resources trust money to finance Great Lakes harbor dredging.
January 24, 2013
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Voted to transfer specified state properties to local governments, schools and state agencies, with conditional sale or land bank alternatives.
December 14, 2012
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Supported extending business improvement district property tax authority to townships.
December 14, 2012
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Introduced medication abortion examination and physician presence requirements and supported related provider licensing, coercion screening, in person dispensing and fetal remains disposal rules. The final clinic licensing threshold was 120 surgical abortions annually with public advertising.
December 14, 2012
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Supported ending county treasurer commissions for collecting delinquent property taxes.
December 14, 2012
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Supported preventing taxable-value uncapping on residential property transfers between parents and children. The initial broader family definition was narrowed before the House votes.
December 14, 2012
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Supported regulating portable electronic device warranty and service plans as insurance.
December 14, 2012
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Supported extending prepaid retail fuel sales tax requirements to diesel fuel.
December 14, 2012
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Supported supplemental appropriations for indigent burials and payments to local governments for state-owned land.
December 14, 2012
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Supported a low income home energy assistance and self sufficiency program, subject to appropriation. The final text omitted the earlier proposed customer surcharge and sixty million dollar funding mechanism.
December 14, 2012
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Voted to replace specified nonferrous mining property, income, sales and use taxes with a 2.75 percent severance tax. The package allocated thirty five percent to a rural development fund and sixty five percent to schools, the state and local governments, with mine startup credits and local distribution safeguards.
December 14, 2012
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Supported the actual sentencing companion for organized retail crime. Supported criminal penalties for planned organized retail theft for resale and the related sentencing guidelines.
December 14, 2012
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Supported appraisal management registration fees. The final annual fee was five hundred dollars, compared with two hundred fifty dollars in the initial proposal.
December 14, 2012
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Supported limited substitute teaching, coaching and school improvement work by pension recipients, subject to employer contributions and eligibility restrictions.
December 14, 2012
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Supported the broader pension exemption in June and its final limited version in December. The final law increased deductions for retirement from government employment not covered by Social Security and exempted Michigan National Guard retirement benefits. The two personal votes were June 14 and December 14, 2012.
December 14, 2012
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Supported expanding medical services delegated to physician assistants.
December 14, 2012
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Supported parents reviewing and opting children out of the child sexual abuse prevention classes. This is an actual companion to Senate Bill 1113. Supported allowing school districts to adopt child sexual abuse prevention policies and offer related instruction. The final policy made this voluntary rather than required. Supported a child sexual abuse prevention task force as the actual companion to the school prevention legislation.
December 14, 2012
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Opposed prohibiting drivers with temporary permits or early graduated licenses from using handheld cell phones while driving.
December 14, 2012
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Supported inventory lender title retention with buyer disclosures, timely release rules and penalties in July. His December concurrence also supported wholesaler premises, advertising and minimum annual sales requirements and restrictions on handheld phone use by commercial drivers.
December 14, 2012
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Supported emergency residential propane deliveries on seasonally restricted roads, with load and speed limits, and the final increase in agricultural commodity and raw timber axle load limits. His December 12 passage and December 14 concurrence votes supported the same bill arc.
December 14, 2012
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Supported community colleges providing the required training for prison guards.
December 14, 2012
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Supported allowing landlords to recover rental property after a tenant's death or a good-faith belief of death for at least thirty days, with mailed notice.
December 13, 2012
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Supported state school aid for qualifying dropout recovery programs. He also supported House Bill 5267's June 7, 2012 monthly funding proposal for dropout recovery pupils before a different December pension substitute.
December 13, 2012
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Supported raising the statutory process server fee schedule by one dollar annually for three years and authorizing written advance agreements for higher service fees. Recovery of taxed litigation costs remained limited to the statutory schedule.
December 13, 2012
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Supported dedicating twelve point five million dollars of annual Detroit utility tax revenue to lighting debt, with the related authority and income tax provisions. Supported creating a Detroit lighting authority and financing it with utility tax revenue. The package suspended scheduled city income tax reductions and preserved employee representation and bargaining procedures during transfers.
December 13, 2012
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Supported requiring private guards, private police and private college security forces to notify law enforcement about crime reports.
December 13, 2012
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Supported permits and microchip identification for importing large carnivores. This regulation is distinct from the bear cub exemption, despite a proposed tie-bar.
December 13, 2012
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Supported removing mandatory annual insurance notices in favor of notice that information was available on request, and removing the three hundred dollar personal injury protection deductible cap. Supported the earlier summary notice version and the final version.
December 13, 2012
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Supported restricting public construction and design contract clauses that shifted responsibility for another party's negligence to contractors or design professionals, including subcontractors.
December 13, 2012
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Supported redirecting twelve million dollars from the Transportation Economic Development Fund for road projects in the 2012–2013 fiscal year. Supported the earlier House refile redirecting twelve million dollars of transportation development funds to road work in fiscal 2012–2013.
December 13, 2012
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Supported recognizing military police experience for private security licensing and reducing the minimum license age from twenty-five to twenty-one.
December 13, 2012
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Supported the sixty-month lifetime cash assistance limit and classification of cash assistance as temporary rather than an entitlement.
December 13, 2012
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Supported state compensation for livestock or pets killed by wolves, coyotes or cougars, at fair market value with a four thousand dollar per-animal cap.
December 13, 2012
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Supported defining intoxicated driving to include any intoxicant, whether specifically named in the law or not.
December 13, 2012
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Voted for 2011 House Bill 4496. Forlini cosponsored and supported community college bachelor degrees. His initial vote included nursing with state nursing board approval; the final bill limited degrees to cement, maritime and energy production technology and culinary arts.
December 13, 2012
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Supported transferring concealed pistol licensing from county boards to sheriffs and allowing licensees with eight hours of additional training to carry in restricted places, including schools and hospitals. The final bill preserved private property restrictions and autonomous university ordinances, and restricted open carry in those places.
December 13, 2012
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Supported a six-year statute of repose for legal malpractice claims measured from the lawyer's act or omission.
December 13, 2012
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Supported restricting foreign parenting time to Hague Convention countries unless both parents consented.
December 13, 2012
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Supported protecting educational trusts and savings accounts from debt judgment seizure or garnishment.
December 13, 2012
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Supported treating loss of society, companionship and consortium as noneconomic medical malpractice damages subject to statutory caps and prescribing judgment reductions and present value calculations. The final House text removed household or other services from that definition and confined the changes to causes of action arising after the effective date.
December 13, 2012
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Supported repeal of pistol purchase permits in June and the narrower final December exemption for purchases from federally licensed dealers, retaining permits for private sales. Supported the related handgun purchase permit repeal penalty bill at its June stage. Supported the related handgun purchase permit repeal sentencing guideline bill at its June stage.
December 13, 2012
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Voted to expand sewage, stormwater and wetland mitigation grants and loans, prioritize disadvantaged communities and shift 420 million dollars of water quality bond authorization to the Strategic Water Quality Initiatives Fund.
December 13, 2012
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Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 770. The bill belonged to the related school bond loan debt package. Opposed the school bond restrictions in committee, then supported passage. The package imposed a temporary statewide school loan cap of 1.8 billion dollars, repayment deadlines and annual millage calculations. His proposed exception for refunding that accelerated repayment beyond the deadline failed. Forlini offered the failed amendment allowing accelerated school loan repayment after the final deadline.
December 13, 2012
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Supported extending building code updates from three to six years. His December 2011 votes and December 2012 final support are preserved; the final bill removed the proposed ban on incorporating other codes by reference.
December 13, 2012
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Supported a school operating property tax exemption for unoccupied speculative residential construction, with the final exemption limited to three years or occupancy.
December 13, 2012
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Supported increasing the annual contributions road authorities paid railroads for crossing signal and gate maintenance.
December 13, 2012
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Voted for 2012 Senate Bill 1141. The bill directed Court of Appeals fee proceeds to the related swift and sure probation sanctions program. Supported county swift and sure probation sanctions programs, including drug testing, state grants and uniform standards.
December 13, 2012
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Supported licensing appraisal management companies, protecting independent appraisers from coercion, requiring payment within sixty days, and establishing complaint and enforcement procedures.
December 13, 2012
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Supported downtown development authority tax exemptions in May and the expanded December measure authorizing captured tax financing for the Detroit Red Wings stadium.
December 13, 2012
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Supported the December 2012 substitute capping school district retirement system contributions at their 2011–2012 amount.
December 13, 2012
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Supported surplus state land sales promoting forest products or mineral extraction and raising the land exchange fund cap from 2.5 million to 25 million dollars. The broader natural resources commission governance and term limit provisions in earlier proposals were removed before his passage vote.
December 13, 2012
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Supported barring state and local purchase and service contracts with Iran-linked businesses.
December 13, 2012
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Supported excluding up to ten thousand dollars of volunteer firefighter compensation from unemployment benefit calculations in September 2011 and December 2012.
December 13, 2012
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Supported retaining Detroit's existing income tax rates until streetlight debt was repaid.
December 13, 2012
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Supported allowing Michigan residents to buy rifles and shotguns in states that do not border Michigan.
December 13, 2012
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Supported measuring the two-year deceased-person medical malpractice period from appointment of the estate representative, with interest on fees and costs accruing from judgment.
December 13, 2012
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Supported restrictions on prisoners possessing victims' property or images, subject to specific corrections department permission.
December 12, 2012
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Supported additional property and casualty insurance rating factors when they reasonably reflected expected losses or expenses.
December 12, 2012
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Supported retroactively allowing construction firms to deduct subcontractor and material purchases from Michigan Business Tax receipts when they did not claim the small business credit.
December 12, 2012
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Supported deducting mortgage debt from estate value when calculating state probate fees.
December 12, 2012
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Supported liability immunity for contracted child welfare agencies and their personnel. The bill excepted gross negligence, intentional harm and crimes punishable by imprisonment, and presumed personnel acted within their authority.
December 12, 2012
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Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 231. The bill supplied sentencing guidelines for failure to report discovery of a dead body. Supported criminal penalties for failing to report a discovered dead body, including a five year felony for concealing the fact or cause of death.
December 12, 2012
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Supported excluding medical marijuana from required workers' compensation insurance coverage.
December 12, 2012
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Supported a state brownfield grant and loan fund financed by three mills of captured education taxes, removal of the plan approval sunset, and combined plan approval. The final law expanded eligibility to historic resources, designated redevelopment areas and privately owned parking structures, and permitted specified costs before final plan approval.
December 12, 2012
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Supported recodifying professional corporation rules, allowing contractual shareholder votes despite later board opposition, expanding legal expense advances and protecting established indemnification rights against later impairment. The reference changes in Senate Bills 1316 through 1319 are actual companions. Supported this actual companion reference change in the professional corporation recodification package.
December 12, 2012
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Supported conditional sale or donation of mature, stable and exceptional-quality sewage residue for landscaping, subject to nuisance and compliance requirements.
December 12, 2012
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Supported removing the five-year sunset on unemployment work-sharing benefits. This extends the original work-sharing policy arc.
December 12, 2012
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Supported excluding medical marijuana from required no-fault personal injury insurance reimbursement. This affects a separate insurance system from the workers' compensation bill.
December 12, 2012
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Supported the replacement emergency manager law after voters repealed the earlier law. The measure required financially distressed local governments to choose consent agreements, emergency management, neutral evaluation or approved bankruptcy. It authorized emergency managers to alter collective bargaining agreements subject to conditions and suspended bargaining duties during receivership for up to five years. The law appropriated 5.78 million dollars for administration, salaries and assistance.
December 12, 2012
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Supported this actual companion in the Civilian Conservation Corps restructuring package. Supported allowing a nonprofit to operate the Civilian Conservation Corps, requiring at least eighty-five percent of endowment earnings for its programs, and applying participation, pay and educational credit rules. The package removed the job placement duty and contract impairment prohibition while retaining protections against displacement of current workers.
December 12, 2012
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Supported allowing strict discipline charter academies to issue long-term building debt.
December 12, 2012
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Supported reducing mixed martial arts event fees, capping promoter bonds, revising drug testing enforcement and protecting qualifying proprietary licensing information from public disclosure.
December 12, 2012
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Supported equal requirements for elected and appointed members of local pension boards.
December 12, 2012
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Supported annuity replacement suitability rules, documented consumer disclosures and insurer supervision, plus a four hour producer training requirement. The law also prohibited discouraging complaints or truthful responses to suitability checks.
December 12, 2012
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Supported authorizing gray wolf hunting and creating a wolf management advisory council.
December 12, 2012
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Supported retroactive Michigan Business Tax changes to self employment deductions, acquired corporation losses and the sixty day destination rule for stored goods and dock sales. The final law also extended assignment of certain historic preservation credits; the earlier proposed debt discharge and expanded materials deductions were removed before his House vote.
December 12, 2012
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Supported extending the residential mortgage loan modification and foreclosure negotiation program by six months, through June 30, 2013. The final law did not include the proposed separate extension for older widowed borrowers.
December 12, 2012
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Supported exempting adapted agricultural vehicles from registration taxes and allowing multiple moped riders. The autocycle endorsement exemption was removed before the final House vote.
December 12, 2012
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Supported Michigan court recognition of guardians and conservators appointed in other states.
December 12, 2012
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Voted to shift 12.5 million dollars from cleanup bond loans to brownfield grants, add cleanup completion approval deadlines, revise contaminated soil relocation and repeal state polychlorinated biphenyl provisions. The package also exempted qualifying washed sugar beet soil from solid waste regulation.
December 12, 2012
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Supported adult adoption by one married person with consent of the parties or court permission despite a spouse's objection.
December 12, 2012
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Voted for 2012 Senate Bill 978. The bill belonged to the related trust decanting package. Supported allowing assets in irrevocable trusts to be transferred into different trusts through the related three-bill package.
December 12, 2012
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Supported requiring factual findings and broad employer and employee consensus for workplace safety rules exceeding federal standards.
December 12, 2012
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Supported eliminating the state occupational health standards commission and updating hazard communication standards to federal requirements. Supported abolishing the general industry safety standards commission as part of the related occupational safety commission restructuring. Supported abolishing the construction safety standards commission as part of the related occupational safety commission restructuring.
December 12, 2012
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Opposed the December 2012 public employee right to work substitute barring compulsory union dues, with police and firefighter exceptions. He also opposed Tlaib's amendment taking the bill's one million dollar appropriation from Governor's office funding.
December 11, 2012
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Opposed the final private-sector right-to-work law on December 11, 2012. Opposed the December 6 private-sector right-to-work bill.
December 11, 2012
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Supported barring trucking contracts that transferred a shipper's own negligence or intentional misconduct liability to the carrier.
December 6, 2012
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Voted to establish the four county regional transit authority with coordinated rapid bus service, voter approved assessments and vehicle registration fees. The package required supermajority ballot approval and preserved eighty five percent of locally raised revenue for service routes in that jurisdiction.
December 6, 2012
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Voted for 2012 Senate Bill 939. The bill extended the environmental leader designation's benefits to drinking water regulation. The bill extended the environmental leader designation's benefits to medical waste and radiation regulation. The bill supplied state procurement preferences for the environmental leader designation package. Supported environmental leader designation benefits in state procurement and environmental permits or inspections, conditioned on compliance, voluntary practices and reporting.
December 6, 2012
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Supported authorizing municipal forest preserves for recreation as well as forestry.
December 6, 2012
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Supported replacing knife blade length language with weapons designed or intended to cause injury in the unlawful intent carrying law, while preserving home, workplace and hunting transport exceptions.
December 6, 2012
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Supported removing federal-equivalent apprenticeship requirements for fire alarm installer licensing. The broader electrician scope was removed before his recorded vote.
December 6, 2012
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Supported waiving commercial driver road tests for recent veterans with relevant experience and retesting applicants when fraud was suspected.
December 6, 2012
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Opposed requiring written parental consent before assigning pupils to a teacher rated ineffective on two consecutive annual evaluations, with reassignment if consent was absent. The December 5 Geiss amendment replacing consent with a reassignment request failed; it did not describe the bill he opposed.
December 6, 2012
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Voted for 2011 House Bill 4710. The bill placed nonmotorized recreational travel trailer financing under motor vehicle sales finance laws, with the related companion. Supported regulating nonmotorized recreational travel trailer financing under motor vehicle financing laws.
December 5, 2012
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Supported allowing historical rehabilitation tax credit recipients to sell all or part of their credits to other firms.
December 5, 2012
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Supported requiring full gasoline price disclosure and prominent disclosure of conditional prices. Proprietary fuel names were also permitted. Supported the gas station price disclosure refile. The sales tax trade-in provisions were removed before his vote, so no trade-in tax stance is attributed from this bill.
December 5, 2012
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Supported shifting net fishing restrictions from detailed statutes to Natural Resources Department rules.
December 5, 2012
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Supported extending enhanced computer-assisted crime penalties to cell phones and other internet-capable handheld devices in May and December.
December 4, 2012
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Supported licensing decisions based on voluntary physician reports of driving safety as part of the related reporting package. Supported voluntary physician reports of driving safety concerns, licensing action based on those reports and physician liability protection for reporting or declining to report.
November 29, 2012
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Supported expanding the Medicaid employment program for disabled people to an initial countable income limit of two hundred fifty percent of poverty, revised asset rules and premiums, and protection for accumulated retirement assets. The final law retained a seven point five percent income premium above one hundred thirty-eight percent of poverty through the specified income ceiling.
November 29, 2012
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Opposed allowing retired prison workers to receive pensions while returning to limited per-diem prison work.
November 29, 2012
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Supported paying community revitalization grants and loans at approved project milestones before completion, allowing multiple applicants and permitting assignment with Michigan Strategic Fund approval. The final agreement required secured loan status, repayment and penalties for noncompliance.
November 29, 2012
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Supported use tax exemptions for materials incorporated into real estate outside Michigan regardless of taxes paid in the other state.
November 29, 2012
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Supported allowing employers to charge support payment withholding fees of one dollar per electronic withholding, up to two dollars monthly, or two dollars per other withholding, up to four dollars monthly. The final law retained the fees despite the inconsistent amendment summary.
November 29, 2012
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Supported a new licensed business development enterprise category with at least twenty-five million dollars in net worth and financing commitments, Michigan Strategic Fund designation and board representation, and public benefit reporting for businesses with no more than seven hundred fifty employees.
November 29, 2012
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Supported converting the Wayne County mental health program into a more independent mental health authority, with county and Detroit roles in board selection. The bill revised Medicaid administration within the related Wayne County mental health authority restructuring.
November 29, 2012
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Supported extending perjury penalties to required electronic signatures.
November 29, 2012
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Supported adoption of the Uniform Arbitration Act, including arbitration procedures and court confirmation or invalidation standards. The bill conformed the judicature law to the related Uniform Arbitration Act. The bill conformed condominium arbitration provisions to the related Uniform Arbitration Act.
November 29, 2012
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Supported recognizing qualifying unsworn declarations made outside the United States under penalty of perjury, with exceptions for depositions, deeds, probate documents and specified oaths. The actual companion extended perjury penalties to false signed declarations.
November 29, 2012
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Supported criminalizing sexual contact between foster or group home staff and residents regardless of resident age or purported consent.
November 29, 2012
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Supported starting the ten-year kidnapping, attempted murder and manslaughter limitation period when the offender was identified by legal name, replacing the original twenty-year proposal.
November 29, 2012
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Voted for 2012 House Concurrent Resolution 67. Supported bond financing and the state lease for Ferris State University's eight point eight million dollar College of Pharmacy facility, including a six point six million dollar state share.
November 29, 2012
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Supported the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act for out-of-state discovery in civil cases.
November 29, 2012
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Supported agricultural tax classification for the same owner's adjacent vacant or wooded parcels and parcels whose agricultural outbuildings exceeded half their building taxable value. The final law did not grant that classification to every adjoining parcel regardless of use.
November 29, 2012
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Supported a sixty day correction window for a timely filed divorce pension division order that failed to qualify, delaying the participant's retirement effective date so the parties could submit a qualifying order.
November 28, 2012
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Supported allowing Wayne's intermediate school district to seek regional millages at additional school election dates, consistent with other intermediate districts.
November 28, 2012
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Supported exempting qualifying waste diversion centers from ordinary solid waste disposal regulation while requiring safe storage, transport within one year and three year records. The centers handled separated pharmaceuticals, household hazardous materials and other wastes lawfully disposable at licensed facilities, with at least ninety percent diverted waste and no residential zoning.
November 28, 2012
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Supported replacing rent-to-own reinstatement rules with seven-day reinstatement and a ninety-day period after timely voluntary return. The final law allowed late fees up to the greater of ten dollars or five percent, after specified grace periods, and prohibited charges for rental periods after property was returned.
November 28, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the November 28, 2012 bill replacing the probate judge with the county prosecutor as election commission member and chair.
November 28, 2012
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Supported limiting local budget enforcement lawsuits to specified administrative and legislative bodies, with court funding disputes considering municipal ability to pay.
November 28, 2012
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Supported rent recovery through the end of a rental period rather than proration to an eviction trial date, with revised service procedures.
November 28, 2012
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Supported Michigan joining a mutual disaster assistance compact with neighboring states and Canadian provinces.
November 28, 2012
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Supported removing Michigan Business Tax revenue earmarking to the School Aid Fund.
November 27, 2012
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Supported exempting qualifying health care sharing ministries from state insurance regulation.
November 27, 2012
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Supported the House horse racing gambling bill. Its adopted definition limited wagering to horse race results and excluded banked games and video lottery. It authorized new technology, limited racetrack licenses to five, increased permitted commissions and imposed a 15 percent tax on commissions from the additional authorized activities. The initial broad gambling description is narrowed. The proposal did not become law.
November 8, 2012
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Supported expanding redevelopment area liquor licensing beyond cities to counties, villages and townships.
September 27, 2012
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Supported concussion education and removal of young athletes from play until health professional clearance. The final bill explicitly exempted the high school athletic association's separate program. The bill supplied concussion education material requirements within the related youth sports protection package.
September 27, 2012
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Supported fingerprint and criminal history checks of prospective transit and commercial bus drivers in September 2012.
September 27, 2012
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Voted for 2012 House Concurrent Resolution 64. Supported bond financing and the state lease for Monroe County Community College's seventeen million dollar Technology Center, including an eight point five million dollar state share.
September 27, 2012
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Voted to preserve principal residence tax exemptions for land contiguous to a homestead even when the land lies in another taxing jurisdiction.
September 27, 2012
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Voted to extend occupational, corporate and securities licensing and reporting fees through September 2015 and establish a licensing fund. He supported veteran waivers in related House proposals and final occupational provisions, while the final securities measures omitted those waivers.
September 27, 2012
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Supported specified larger pistols and straight-walled rifle cartridges for deer hunting south of the Lower Peninsula rifle line.
September 27, 2012
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Supported stricter sentencing guidelines for fleeing and eluding police. The proposed mandatory minimum was removed before his vote.
September 27, 2012
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Supported revising nursing home inspections through surveyor background checks and training, provider and ombudsman participation, correction deadlines and limited acceptance of documented compliance instead of an on-site revisit.
September 27, 2012
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Voted for 2012 Senate Concurrent Resolution 33. Supported waiving the legislative notice requirement for compensation increases in the state police troopers' collective bargaining agreement effective October 2012.
September 27, 2012
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Supported revised livestock licensing and welfare standards. Final fees lasted through September 2015 rather than becoming permanent, with veteran waivers for dealer and trucker fees. The act required humane handling and veterinary care for nonambulatory animals, animal tracking and inspection records, and revised civil and criminal enforcement. This substantive livestock policy stays separate from the occupational fee package.
September 27, 2012
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Supported continuing the thirty-dollar State Police employment and licensing fingerprint fee through 2015. It was an extension of an existing temporary fee rather than a new increase.
September 27, 2012
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Supported free hunting and fishing licenses for disabled veterans in June and September 2012.
September 27, 2012
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Supported sobriety court license changes requiring at least one year with an ignition interlock before unrestricted licensing, longer sanctions for violations and proof of permitted travel. The final bill also expanded permitted trips to treatment, court duties and urgent medical care, and revised commercial license suspensions and open-container rules.
September 27, 2012
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Voted for 2012 House Bill 5431. The bill supplied sentencing guidelines for false medical emergency reports in the related penalty and cost recovery package. The bill required repayment of response expenses for false medical emergency reports within the related penalty package. Supported criminal penalties and response cost liability for false medical emergency reports. Final penalties ranged with resulting injury or death rather than the initial four-year maximum alone.
September 27, 2012
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Voted for 2012 House Concurrent Resolution 65. Supported bond financing and the state lease for Montcalm Community College's five point four million dollar Advanced Technology Center, including a two point seven million dollar state share.
September 27, 2012
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Supported allowing promise zone scholarship authorities to revise student academic eligibility standards, with related budgeting changes.
September 27, 2012
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Supported capping cigar taxes at fifty cents each and retailer notices about taxes due on remote purchases.
September 27, 2012
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Supported insurance adjuster licensing exemptions for insurance employees, agents, lawyers and specified professionals.
September 27, 2012
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Supported an initial sporting clays vehicle transport exemption and its narrower final unloaded shotgun version.
September 27, 2012
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Voted to raise the housing development authority's debt cap from three billion to 4.2 billion dollars and expand housing loan and escrow investment authority with income, occupancy, repayment and reserve safeguards.
September 19, 2012
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Supported extending housing authority multifamily loan guarantees beyond distressed areas while retaining the low and moderate income unit requirement.
September 19, 2012
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Introduced and voted to raise the first application age limit from twenty one to twenty six for tuition grants to children of police officers and firefighters killed in duty and transfer administration to Treasury. Children still had to be under twenty one when the parent died.
September 19, 2012
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Supported raising eligibility income for housing authority federal home loans to one hundred seventy-five percent of statewide median gross income. Supported the related home improvement loan income expansion and a thirty-year rather than twenty-year repayment period.
September 19, 2012
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Cosponsored the September 13, 2012 bill requiring school and higher education coaches and volunteers to report suspected child abuse and neglect.
September 13, 2012
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Supported recognizing relevant military experience for journeyman plumber licensing. Supported recognizing relevant military experience for electrician licensing within the related veterans licensing package.
September 12, 2012
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Forlini received the Michigan Association of Realtors’ endorsement in the 2012 House primary election.
September 7, 2012
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Voted for school pension reforms offering higher contributions, reduced future pension accrual or a transition to defined contributions. The package replaced new hires' retiree health premiums with matching savings contributions, increased existing retirees' premium shares with exceptions and extended the choice deadline.
August 15, 2012
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Introduced 2012 House Bill 5781. Forlini introduced a security deposit bill giving tenants sixty days to contest damage notices, extending landlords' claim and retention window from forty five days to two years, and limiting tenant recovery suits to two years.
July 18, 2012
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Opposed the July 2012 appropriation of 88.8311 million dollars, mostly from the national mortgage settlement, for restitution, foreclosure counseling, blight removal, housing programs and homebuyer assistance, with an Education Achievement Authority funding substitution.
July 18, 2012
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Supported state approval of stricter local critical dune rules and a higher factual burden for denying land use permits.
July 18, 2012
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Supported a national mortgage settlement fund for restitution and other authorized public spending.
July 18, 2012
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Supported limiting the state land ownership cap until adoption of a strategic land plan and extending nonmotorized rental boat inspection exemptions to larger canoes and kayaks.
July 18, 2012
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Supported state lottery advertising and sponsorship associated with Club Keno games.
July 18, 2012
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Voted to raise annual emergency lending to municipalities and schools from five million to eighty five million dollars through 2018 and individual loan caps from three million to twenty million dollars. The package permitted pledging future school aid and property taxes; he also supported the earlier broader House proposal.
July 18, 2012
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Opposed two additional certified technology parks using tax capture financing in June and July 2012.
July 18, 2012
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Supported removing statutory school accreditation requirements while retaining other state and federal accountability requirements. The original third-party accreditor proposal was superseded before his vote.
June 14, 2012
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Supported directing aviation fuel sales tax receipts to the aeronautics fund for fiscal 2013, capped at ten million dollars. Supported the companion one hundred million dollar fiscal 2013 motor fuel sales tax allocation for federal highway matching and local roads. The final House Bill 4025 text contains the same road allocation alongside the aviation allocation.
June 14, 2012
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Supported fingerprint-based criminal history checks for driver education instructors.
June 14, 2012
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Supported unemployment benefits for qualifying work-sharing arrangements that reduced employee hours.
June 14, 2012
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Supported higher weights and measures fraud fines, disclosure of fuel price conditions, updated equipment standards and revised testing requirements. The final package imposed five thousand, ten thousand and twenty-five thousand dollar civil fines for repeated intentional short fuel deliveries. Supported the actual companion weights and measures equipment bill, including approved special-use devices, annual device testing and four-year competency tests.
June 14, 2012
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Supported increasing the personal income tax exemption to three thousand nine hundred fifty dollars in October 2012 and four thousand dollars in 2014.
June 14, 2012
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Supported a ten percent axle weight allowance for crop-hauling trucks and agricultural registration exemptions. The actual registration refile overlaps Senate Bill 1121, but the new truck weight policy remains distinct.
June 14, 2012
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Supported personal liability for unpaid property taxes when delinquent owners transferred land to federally recognized tribes.
June 14, 2012
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Supported transferring the assigned auto claims plan to the insurer underwriting pool and allowing qualifying fleets of twenty-five or more vehicles to self-insure.
June 14, 2012
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Supported removing restrictions on unemployment benefits for family members employed by family-owned firms.
June 14, 2012
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Supported matching prison population records against benefit card recipients and revoking prisoners' cards.
June 14, 2012
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Supported prompt insurance repricing when credit information was corrected through the federal dispute process, within the related credit scoring protection package. Supported reasonable insurance credit scoring exceptions after personal or natural catastrophes and repricing following corrected credit information.
June 14, 2012
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Supported removing the apparent school bus stopping exception at traffic lights, requiring motorists to stop for flashing red bus lights.
June 14, 2012
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Supported discounted historic vehicle registration for qualifying collectors' vehicles during August.
June 14, 2012
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Supported lottery prize reporting and withholding for unemployment benefit overpayments when winnings reached one thousand dollars.
June 14, 2012
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Supported joint corridor improvement authorities in February and the narrower final June measure limited to Ann Arbor and neighboring communities.
June 14, 2012
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Supported removing beach grooming permit requirements, with an exception for the Saint Clair Flats.
June 14, 2012
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Supported lower liability insurance requirements for aircraft transporting medical patients fewer than forty-five times yearly.
June 14, 2012
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Supported additional Lower Peninsula dark sky preserves while preserving recreational use and prohibiting such designation in the Upper Peninsula. His earlier version support and final narrower measure are preserved.
June 14, 2012
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Supported gradual individual income tax reduction to three point nine percent by 2018. This proposal is distinct from the smaller enacted 2012 tax changes.
June 14, 2012
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Supported an agricultural disaster low-interest loan program with fifteen million dollars of authorized aid.
June 14, 2012
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Supported temporarily shortening the unemployment tax experience look back for professional employer organization clients from twelve to eight calendar quarters through 2013, with twelve quarters restored in 2014.
June 14, 2012
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Supported a program matching farmers experiencing deer crop damage with antlerless deer hunters.
June 14, 2012
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Supported changing Tax Tribunal interest calculations to one percentage point above prime in the final bill, narrowing his earlier two-point version.
June 14, 2012
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Supported limiting accountant liability to clients rather than nonclients acquiring or assigned claims.
June 14, 2012
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Opposed increasing sanctions for unlicensed fireworks sales and unpaid safety fees, adding repeat-offense fines up to forty thousand dollars, license suspensions and Fire Marshal citations. This vote concerned the 2012 enforcement bill, rather than the original fireworks legalization law.
June 13, 2012
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Supported phasing the kindergarten age cutoff from December 1 to September 1 over three years, with a parental opt-in alternative for otherwise eligible children.
June 13, 2012
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Opposed the June 2012 addition exempting property used by charter schools from school operating property taxes.
June 13, 2012
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Supported increasing qualifying combinations hauling boats from manufacturers to seventy-five feet and removing the three axle limit on semitrailers longer than fifty feet on designated highways.
June 13, 2012
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Supported fair-market-value exchange of surplus state property with service contractors when essential to contracted services.
June 13, 2012
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Supported the related firearm length definition and grandfathered registrations package. Supported reducing the pistol definition cutoff from thirty to twenty-six inches and preserving existing legal registrations and carrying rights.
June 13, 2012
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Supported state Natural Resources land ownership caps and a strategic land plan in June 2012.
June 13, 2012
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Supported a one point nine two percent point-of-sale prepaid wireless emergency service levy replacing the prior prepaid tax arrangement.
June 13, 2012
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Supported allowing log-wall residential construction that met specified construction and energy standards.
June 13, 2012
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Supported the related county and local jail cell phone prohibition, with duty-related officer exceptions. Supported prohibiting prisoner cell phone possession and supply in prisons and local jails, with duty-related officer exceptions.
June 13, 2012
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Voted to prohibit welfare card cash withdrawals at casinos and purchases of lottery tickets, alcohol and tobacco.
June 13, 2012
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Supported exempting frozen bagged beverage containers from bottle deposits, narrowing the original wider container exemption.
June 12, 2012
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Supported permitting crossbow fishing subject to Natural Resources Department regulation.
June 12, 2012
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Supported excluding intrastate trucks below twenty-six thousand one pounds from motor carrier safety requirements.
June 12, 2012
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Supported increasing the Strategic Fund overhead cap from fifteen to twenty-five percent, public repayment conditions and microenterprise lender investment authority. The final cap replaced the original proposed repeal.
June 12, 2012
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Voted for 2011 House Concurrent Resolution 11. Supported a resolution asking Congress to submit a constitutional amendment protecting parental control of upbringing and education, requiring the highest-order governmental interest for interference and excluding treaty or international law overrides.
June 12, 2012
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Supported private prison labor contracts for products used within prisons, with exemptions from minimum and prevailing wage requirements.
June 7, 2012
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Supported temporary emergency scheduling of dangerous drugs by the health agency. The companion limited emergency drug scheduling to 12 months unless the Legislature confirmed the restriction. The bill formed part of the temporary emergency drug scheduling package.
June 7, 2012
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Supported increasing former legislators' contributions for lifetime health benefits from 10 percent to 20 percent. The broader benefit termination amendment lacked a personal recorded vote.
June 7, 2012
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Supported replacing the statutory special education goal of developing each student's maximum potential with meeting each student's individual needs. The bill also removed annual strict discipline academy reports.
June 7, 2012
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Supported prohibiting denial, cancellation and nonrenewal of insurance solely from credit information, with verification and disclosure requirements. His October 2011 and June 2012 votes concerned stages of the same policy. The companion bill protected agents from liability for insurer credit scoring violations. The Senate companion imposed the same insurance credit scoring restrictions and disclosure requirements.
June 7, 2012
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Supported requiring disclosure when a branded product removed a Schedule 1 ingredient. The original synthetic drug scheduling provisions had been removed before his vote.
June 7, 2012
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Supported criminal penalties for willfully disrupting or obstructing religious services.
June 7, 2012
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Supported repealing requirements for intermediate school district consolidation studies and multiyear school improvement plans.
June 7, 2012
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Opposed the final $613 million capital package for 18 public university projects. The earlier placeholder title does not describe his vote.
June 7, 2012
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Supported reenacting the public construction project labor agreement restrictions in May and June 2012. PA 98 barred public contract terms requiring, prohibiting, encouraging or discouraging collective bargaining agreements and discrimination based on agreement status. It covered construction related grants, credits and abatements, voided prohibited bid terms, grandfathered existing contracts and preserved voluntary agreements and protected federal labor activity.
June 7, 2012
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Supported extending the property tax exemption for nonprofit housing held for sale to low income buyers from two years to five years, without local approval.
June 6, 2012
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Supported advancing the scheduled income tax rate reduction from January 2013 to October 2012. The original deeper reduction was a distinct earlier proposal.
June 6, 2012
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Supported replacing the state auto theft authority with an industry-funded automobile insurance fraud and theft authority through 2017, supported by annual assessments up to twenty-one million dollars. The House-passed bill preserved at least six million dollars for theft programs and required public meetings and reports.
June 6, 2012
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Voted for 2011 House Bill 5089. The drug repository companion required participating facilities to accept and properly dispose of drugs unsuitable for redistribution. Supported an unused prescription drug repository serving low income Medicare and Medicaid recipients.
June 5, 2012
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Supported a voluntary online registry of advance health care and end of life directives.
June 5, 2012
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Supported allowing land bank parcels to leave their alternative tax regime for economic development, enabling regular property tax abatements.
June 5, 2012
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Supported additional ecological and modeling methods for groundwater cleanup compliance, natural attenuation and technical impracticability waivers. The final law barred cleanup beyond evaluation for no effect or minimal effect on surface water and applied the alternatives retroactively to prior cleanup agreements and orders.
June 5, 2012
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Opposed digital tobacco tax stamps and treating commercial cigarette rolling machine operators as taxable manufacturers, with a personal household exception.
June 5, 2012
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Supported removing the specified examples of lawful pistol transport purposes while retaining unloaded, cased and inaccessible storage requirements.
May 31, 2012
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Supported reducing the pistol length definition from 30 inches to 26 inches, removing certain folding stock rifles from pistol purchase restrictions.
May 31, 2012
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Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 721. The companion supplied sentencing guidelines for stolen plastic merchandise container offenses. Supported records and criminal restrictions for bulk plastic merchandise container transactions to address stolen containers.
May 31, 2012
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Supported moving the kindergarten eligibility cutoff from December to September through a three year phase in, with a parental opt in exception.
May 31, 2012
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Voted for 2011 House Bill 4632. The companion created the Special Olympics tax refund contribution mechanism. Supported voluntary tax refund donations to Special Olympics and criteria for other charitable checkoffs. Supported limiting charitable income tax checkoffs to ten, requiring removal after two years below $50,000, distributing donations within one year and excluding fund administration spending.
May 30, 2012
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Supported the food law update, including higher cottage food sales limits and revised food safety licensing. The final law set a twenty thousand dollar cottage food limit through 2017 and twenty-five thousand dollars thereafter, rather than the earlier twenty-four thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollar proposal.
May 30, 2012
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Supported increasing the moped engine displacement limit from 50 to 100 cubic centimeters while retaining the 30 mile per hour maximum.
May 30, 2012
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Supported charitable bingo eligibility for unaffiliated fraternal organizations and barring gambling regulations not authorized by statute.
May 30, 2012
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Supported rapid missing senior alerts shared among police agencies and broadcasters.
May 29, 2012
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Voted for 2011 House Bill 4243. The companion established the same Boy Scouts tax refund contribution fund. Supported voluntary tax refund donations to Michigan Boy Scouts.
May 24, 2012
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Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 557. The inheritance companion reflected the new procedures for revoking paternity acknowledgments. Supported procedures to revoke paternity acknowledgments based on mistake, newly discovered evidence, fraud, misconduct or duress. The companion aligned judicial paternity declarations with the new revocation procedures. The companion aligned voluntary paternity acknowledgments with the new revocation procedures.
May 24, 2012
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Voted for 2012 House Bill 5323. The companion established the same voluntary tax refund contribution program for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis care and research. Supported voluntary tax refund donations for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis treatment and research.
May 24, 2012
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Voted for 2011 House Bill 4518. The companion established the voluntary Alzheimer association tax refund donation program. Supported voluntary tax refund donations to the Michigan Alzheimer association.
May 24, 2012
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Supported voluntary tax refund contributions to the mid Michigan Red Cross chapter. The companion established the fund for those Red Cross donations.
May 24, 2012
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Supported higher penalties for failing to report commercial and industrial property transfers, capped at $1,000 or $20,000 for sales above $100 million.
May 23, 2012
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Supported protecting property owners from back taxes and penalties caused by government errors in granting principal residence exemptions.
May 23, 2012
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Supported raising the vehicle damage mini tort lawsuit limit from $500 to $1,000 under no fault insurance.
May 22, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the May 22, 2012 bill extending Medicaid nursing services provisions to licensed adult foster care facilities and county payment rules to county owned facilities. This benefit scope is separate from the processing deadline proposal.
May 22, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the May 22, 2012 bill allowing nursing home applicants up to three months of retroactive Medicaid eligibility when limited excess assets were used for an irrevocable funeral contract for the applicant or spouse.
May 22, 2012
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Supported concealed pistol training exemptions for military members and veterans, and gun free zone exemptions for retired federal officers.
May 17, 2012
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Voted for 2012 House Bill 5444. The use tax companion expanded the same interstate carrier equipment exemption. Supported expanding interstate motor carrier sales and use tax exemptions to equipment directly used in truck or trailer operation.
May 17, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the resolution urging continued federal funding of the Microbiological Data Program, which tested fresh produce for harmful bacteria.
May 15, 2012
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Voted for 2012 House Bill 5573. Forlini introduced and supported reducing the county population threshold for township library state aid from one million to 750,000. Introduced 2012 House Bill 5573.
May 10, 2012
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Supported removing inspection requirements for nonmotorized rental boats while increasing motorboat inspection fees.
May 10, 2012
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Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 768. The companion supplied sentencing guidelines for sales suppression device offenses. Supported criminal prohibitions on software that falsified cash register and sales records.
May 10, 2012
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Supported a new grain sale assessment funding the grain dealer protection program. The companion increased dealer license fees and replaced surety bond or asset ratio requirements.
May 10, 2012
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Introduced 2012 House Bill 5602. Forlini introduced department determined food benefit disqualification after a court or administrative finding of intentional bottle deposit conversion, subject to federal requirements. The text did not establish a permanent lifetime ban.
May 9, 2012
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Supported exempting business to business property from state unclaimed property seizure rules.
May 8, 2012
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Voted for 2012 House Concurrent Resolution 49. Supported bond financing for a $3.7 million Bay City State Police post replacing a 77 year old facility. The 12,250 square foot building accommodates 25 to 30 officers and support staff, holding cells and equipment storage. The authorization creates state rent obligations and does not establish completed construction.
May 8, 2012
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Voted for 2012 House Concurrent Resolution 54. Supported bond financing for Wayne County Community College Northwest Campus construction and renovation costing $42 million, divided equally between the state and college. The project adds 93,000 square feet to Health Sciences and 7,000 to General Arts, with instructional laboratories, student services and a replacement energy plant. The vote authorized the financing requirement; it does not establish completed construction.
May 8, 2012
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Supported limiting local zoning barriers for small expansions of equipment on existing wireless towers, with a variance procedure.
May 3, 2012
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Supported allowing dental hygienists to supervise dental assistants acting as a second pair of hands.
May 3, 2012
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Supported lowering Detroit's population threshold to preserve its higher borrowing authority without a public vote.
May 3, 2012
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Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 64. The companion allowed drug related eviction based on a police report filed by someone other than the landlord. Supported seven day eviction proceedings for tenants who threatened or injured others, with related drug eviction reporting changes.
May 2, 2012
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Supported telecommunications equipment on state rail trails with distance based provider fees.
May 2, 2012
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Voted to extend local authority permitting off road vehicles on road shoulders to additional counties and remove the program sunset, with safety rules and a one year delay for newly eligible townships.
May 2, 2012
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Supported requiring durable power of attorney agents to acknowledge duties protecting principals and their money.
May 1, 2012
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Supported gradually increasing the small claims limit from $3,000 to $7,000 through 2024, rather than the original immediate $10,000 proposal.
May 1, 2012
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Opposed the final phased expansion of online charter schools to 15 schools and two percent of public school enrollment, with additional operator and reporting rules.
April 26, 2012
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Supported counting online learning toward required school instruction hours and continuing approved waivers unless revoked.
April 26, 2012
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Voted to fund dual enrollment for students in state approved nonpublic schools, remove the grade eleven minimum and generally limit participation to ten courses, with tuition, repayment and credit conditions.
April 26, 2012
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Supported expanding public school reimbursement for courses taken by home and private school students to neighboring intermediate school districts.
April 26, 2012
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Supported allowing all local governments to seek reimbursement from jail inmates, extending a previously limited county program statewide.
April 26, 2012
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Supported the April 26, 2012 replacement version easing local revenue sharing eligibility through an alternative certification of intent to comply with the public employee health contribution law, or certification that no medical benefits are offered. It extends compensation compliance to June 1 and permits specified late consolidation plans.
April 26, 2012
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Supported allowing concealed pistol license holders to possess and carry tasers after training, under concealed pistol restrictions. The companion extended concealed weapon sentencing rules to tasers. The companion aligned concealed pistol licensing rules with legal taser possession.
April 25, 2012
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Voted to prohibit public contracts, construction agreements and business subsidies for businesses linked to Iran, with a qualifying social development company exception and local road and revenue sharing funding conditions.
April 25, 2012
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Supported additional sex offender and child sexual abuse grounds for terminating parental rights, with child development training for guardians representing children.
April 25, 2012
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Voted to change principal residence exemption filing deadlines from May 1 to June 1 for summer levies and November 1 for winter levies. He later supported another proposed deadline extension before that bill changed to a lender exemption policy.
April 25, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the April 24, 2012 bill preserving capped property assessments for transfers to limited liability companies with the same ownership as the property at the time of transfer.
April 24, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the April 19, 2012 bill ending the legislative retirement system's annual four percent pension increases after its effective date.
April 19, 2012
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Supported doubling the monthly hotel room tax delinquency charge from 1.5 percent to three percent, rather than the original ten percent proposal.
April 19, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the April 19, 2012 bill requiring a five percent salary contribution for legislative retirement health coverage from eligible members and participants who were not already making the specified health fund contributions.
April 19, 2012
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Voted for risk based underground tank cleanup rules with liability exemptions, agency burdens of proof, a natural resource damages cap and approval deadlines. The package limited new agency rules, extended reporting deadlines and established technical and judicial review and consultant requirements.
April 18, 2012
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Supported statutory household burning restrictions while preventing broader agency bans and limiting household violations to civil penalties.
April 18, 2012
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Supported mandatory boating safety certificates for operators born after July 1996, including recognition of approved Canadian training.
April 17, 2012
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Supported transferring the former Scott correctional facility to local government for $1 or selling it at market value. His earlier vote also allowed a discounted redevelopment sale, removed from the final bill.
March 29, 2012
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Supported statutory authority for a food assistance asset cap. The final bill removed its lottery provisions in favor of the Senate companion.
March 29, 2012
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Supported outsourcing building code enforcement to private contractors, with government approval and conflict of interest safeguards.
March 29, 2012
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Supported counting lottery and gambling winnings toward welfare income and food assistance assets. The companion required the lottery bureau to report winners of at least $1,000 to the welfare agency. The reporting refile notified welfare and unemployment agencies about lottery prizes above $1,000.
March 29, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the March 29, 2012 package prohibiting contingent fee audits or similar payment methods that impaired perceived auditor independence.
March 29, 2012
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Voted for 2011 House Bill 4803. The companion authorized state fairground sale or land bank transfer. Supported state fairground sale or transfer for redevelopment, barring racetrack, casino, prison and freight yard uses.
March 29, 2012
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Supported excluding privately employed people receiving government subsidies from public employee status, barring recognition of their bargaining units and invalidating units formed contrary to the exclusion. The bill makes the change retroactive and prevents interlocal agreements from overriding it.
March 28, 2012
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Supported reimbursement for appropriately provided covered telemedicine services, with insurer discretion on appropriateness. The Blue Cross companion imposed the same telemedicine reimbursement requirement.
March 27, 2012
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Supported gun free zone exemptions for retired state probation officers with concealed pistol licenses; the county jail officer exemption was removed.
March 21, 2012
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Supported barring post closing solvency covenants from creating personal recourse on qualifying commercial nonrecourse mortgage loans. The act applies to existing documents and pending claims subject to its final judgment exception.
March 20, 2012
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Voted against 2011 House Bill 4265. The companion relaxed yard waste restrictions for landfills with methane capture systems; he opposed both bills. Opposed allowing yard waste at landfills with methane capture systems, even with a local public hearing requirement.
March 15, 2012
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Offered 2012 House Resolution 211. Forlini offered a resolution opposing removal of Selfridge's A 10 force.
March 14, 2012
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Supported appropriating $250.9 million to prefund retired state employee health benefits.
March 13, 2012
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Supported fingerprint based background checks for driver education instructors. Later donor funding and digital identity details were separate narrow additions.
March 8, 2012
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Supported limiting liquefied petroleum gas company liability when customers improperly modified, repaired or used equipment.
March 7, 2012
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Supported excluding graduate student research assistants and equivalent positions from public employee collective bargaining rights in the March 7, 2012 version. The enacted text separately excludes other positions lacking the employment relationship under the 20 factor test; the graduate assistant exclusion is not conditional on failing that test. Supported the March 1 graduate research assistant exclusion in Senate Bill 971. The same exclusion and separate 20 factor provision were carried into the later House Bill 4246 version.
March 7, 2012
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Supported prohibiting school payroll deduction of union dues, including the later appropriated final version.
March 7, 2012
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Supported visible barge owner identification and updated night lighting requirements.
March 6, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the March 1, 2012 bill replacing fixed portions of the Michigan Merit Curriculum with additional academic or career and technical credits. It reduced specified mathematics, science, and social science credits, removed the fixed foreign language and arts requirements, and allowed extracurricular physical activity to satisfy physical education.
March 1, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the resolution urging Congress to dedicate Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund money solely to federally authorized port dredging, infrastructure, operation, and maintenance.
March 1, 2012
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Supported restricting overnight mooring, docks and lake access obstruction at public waterfront road ends unless the recorded dedication allowed those uses.
March 1, 2012
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Supported the February 29, 2012 House version allowing local road agencies to receive federal highway funds beyond the usual 27 percent ceiling when they can supply matching money that the state transportation department cannot supply. The federal money would be credited to the local jurisdiction supplying the match. This changes the allocation of road capital funding; it does not prove projects were completed.
February 29, 2012
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Supported extending the freeze on county nursing facility Medicaid reimbursement rates through 2017.
February 29, 2012
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Supported state workers compensation coverage for health professionals responding to public health emergencies. The proposed reversal of the earlier wage rule lacked a personal amendment vote.
February 29, 2012
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Supported extending the two inch sidewalk defect liability protection to all municipal, county and state roads.
February 29, 2012
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Supported federal criminal background checks for adult foster care owners, partners and directors. The nursing home companion required federal background checks for owners, partners and directors.
February 29, 2012
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Supported repealing annual wastewater report requirements for municipal sewer systems and industries.
February 28, 2012
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Supported reducing penalties for withdrawing commercial forestland from the public access tax incentive program.
February 22, 2012
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Voted for a forest management incentive proposal permitting transfers from commercial forest taxation, lower qualifying acreage and limited structures, with management plans, harvesting, audits, fees and fraud penalties. The proposal did not become law during that session.
February 22, 2012
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Supported prohibiting paid patient recruitment used to fraudulently obtain insurance benefits.
February 21, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the February 16, 2012 bill that gave electric customers the right to refuse or remove advanced meters without disincentives or service shutoffs.
February 16, 2012
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Supported the February 16 House version limiting cumulative successor asbestos liability for corporations that became successors before January 1, 1972. The limit uses the predecessor's adjusted gross asset value and applies to new cases and pending cases before trial. Exceptions preserve workers compensation, collective bargaining obligations, direct liability and successors that continued the specified asbestos business. This is a substantive restriction on civil remedies.
February 16, 2012
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Supported preserving Detroit neighborhood enterprise property tax incentives by lowering the city population threshold.
February 16, 2012
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Supported prohibiting public payroll deductions for union political action committees and allowing residents to sue over violations. The companion imposed the same public payroll political contribution restriction, including federal committees.
February 15, 2012
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Voted for 2012 House Resolution 185. Supported a resolution urging reversal of the federal contraceptive coverage regulation and enactment of conscience protections.
February 15, 2012
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Supported affidavits instead of tax returns for property tax poverty exemption applicants not required to file returns.
February 9, 2012
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Supported interstate local government emergency aid agreements recognizing responders' licenses and providing liability protections.
January 26, 2012
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Supported the municipal pension board amendment on December 7 and January 26. Where a qualifying municipal charter requires and specifies a retiree member, the final act excludes both inclusion and selection of that member from collective bargaining and makes conflicting agreement provisions void.
January 26, 2012
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Opposed blocking driver license renewal after three unpaid parking tickets instead of six, with a $45 clearance fee.
January 26, 2012
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Introduced and voted to remove the sales tax exemption for prison commissary purchases.
January 26, 2012
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Supported extending developers' control of undeveloped condominium areas from six years to ten years.
January 19, 2012
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Voted for 2011 House Bill 5194. The companion protected priority payments to school deficit financing bondholders, subject to later aid reductions. Supported direct state school aid payments to bondholders financing school district deficits, including emergency manager agreements.
January 19, 2012
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Forlini cosponsored the January 11, 2012 bill that recognized accounting and writing as pertinent fields for teacher certification and subject endorsements.
January 11, 2012
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Supported a $50 million Townsend Ventures battery manufacturing subsidy while reducing Johnson Controls' authorized subsidy by $25 million.
December 15, 2011
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Voted to replace film tax credits with direct production assistance based on qualifying production and personnel costs, with postproduction allocations, verification, disclosure and fraud penalties.
December 15, 2011
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Voted to end the old low income energy surcharge and refund escrowed receipts, then supported a temporary replacement surcharge capped at forty eight million dollars and ten million dollars in general funds for heating assistance.
December 15, 2011
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Voted for 2011 House Bill 5066. The companion eliminated turbine tax credits; final concurrence removed retroactivity. Supported ending turbine related business tax credits, first retroactively and then without retroactive application.
December 15, 2011
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Voted to extend foreclosure negotiation protections with lender contacts, borrower document deadlines and modification procedures. The package retained one year agricultural redemption, added property damage liability during redemption and regulated mortgage counseling.
December 15, 2011
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Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 509. The companion included commercial sources in the invasive species council's management planning. Supported an aquatic invasive species council to develop monitoring, control, eradication and rapid response plans. The companion required the council's recommendation on federal ballast water standards.
December 14, 2011
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Supported the employer unemployment obligation assessment companion to refinancing approximately $3.2 billion of federal unemployment debt through Michigan Finance Authority bonds. The assessment covers debt service and financing expenses, is collected quarterly from contributing employers and may use employer experience ratings. Borrowing could also finance unemployment benefits before January 2014. Supported refinancing $3.2 billion in federal unemployment debt through state bonds repaid by employer assessments.
December 14, 2011
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Supported preserving income tax exemptions for renaissance zone residents earning below $1 million. The companion preserved renaissance zone income tax exemptions through the tax overhaul. The House refile preserved the same renaissance zone resident tax exemptions.
December 14, 2011
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Voted to phase out the university charter school cap, permit qualifying multisite academies and revise bargaining and tax rules with transparency and conflict safeguards. He jointly offered adopted amendments on local authorizer factors, multisite educational progress and a bipartisan student growth workgroup.
December 14, 2011
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Supported property tax exemptions for machinery used in approved soil and water conservation work. The House refile exempted the same soil and water conservation machinery from property taxes.
December 14, 2011
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Voted for unemployment reforms reducing future state benefits from twenty six to twenty weeks, changing employer contributions and requiring expanded work searches and qualifying alternative employment. He opposed restoring twenty six weeks and supported expanded overpayment recovery and unemployment fraud penalties.
December 14, 2011
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Supported shifting school aid with expelled students transferred to strict discipline or alternative education programs.
December 13, 2011
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Voted to extend crime victim assessments to all misdemeanors and ordinance violations, retain 130 dollars for felonies and apply seventy five dollars to lesser offenses. The package standardized covered court minimum costs at fifty dollars.
December 13, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored a constitutional requirement for resident tuition at public universities for honorably discharged veterans.
December 13, 2011
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Voted to base workers compensation on reasonably available earning capacity and job searches, extend employer selected treatment to twenty eight days and revise appeals, offsets and worker classification. He opposed broader disability eligibility amendments and supported benefit discontinuation after federal verification of undocumented status.
December 13, 2011
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Supported prohibiting public employee domestic partner benefits, with state universities removed from the final restriction. The companion prohibited bargaining over domestic partner benefits, matching the direct benefit restriction.
December 8, 2011
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Supported eliminating the statutory 45 percent lottery prize payout requirement.
December 8, 2011
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Supported transferring Oakland County commissioner redistricting and board size authority to the county commission.
December 8, 2011
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Supported House Bill 4874, which lowered the population threshold from 750,000 to 600,000 so Detroit could continue special assessment districts for private snow removal, mosquito abatement and security. Owners of 51 percent of the district land had to petition to begin or discontinue the service. The final bill covered that distinct assessment authority; its introduced broader borrowing provisions were removed.
December 8, 2011
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Supported removing the annual production cap restricting on site beer sales by larger breweries.
December 8, 2011
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Supported prohibiting workplace safety rules more stringent than federal standards unless state statute specifically authorized them.
December 8, 2011
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Voted to replace state paid retiree health premiums for new employees with matching savings contributions and qualifying termination credits. The package offered existing employees premium coverage choices, required defined benefit contributions or a future defined contribution transition and revised overtime pension calculations.
December 8, 2011
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Supported unemployment insurance benefit charge relief for employers continuing to pay a claimant while the claimant received benefits from losing another job. The initial House calculation and notice mechanism was replaced with noncharging an employer account when weekly wages equaled or exceeded that employer benefit charge, with later weeks and a prospective 2014 mechanism addressed in the final version. Opposed the June 21 tie bar amendment requiring enactment of House Bill 4619, which proposed restoring a 26 week benefit maximum.
December 7, 2011
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Introduced 2011 House Bill 5201. Forlini introduced state aid eligibility for volunteer township libraries with majority unpaid staff, a certified librarian and twenty weekly public hours; aid was capped at the previous year's local support. Official introduction was December 6, 2011.
December 6, 2011
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Voted for 2011 House Concurrent Resolution 38. Supported bond financing for Washtenaw Community College skilled trades renovations, including four additional classrooms, two dedicated laboratories and renovated annex teaching space. The project cost was $14.8 million, with a $7.4 million state share.
November 30, 2011
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Supported replacing economic growth tax incentives with a Michigan business development cash grant program.
November 30, 2011
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Voted to establish the Michigan Community Revitalization Program for contaminated, historic, blighted, obsolete and qualifying adjacent properties, with investment and award limits, compliance agreements, repayment, penalties and public reporting.
November 30, 2011
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Voted for 2011 House Concurrent Resolution 37. Supported bond financing for Henry Ford Community College science building renovation and an 18,000 square foot expansion with four laboratories and two life science classrooms. The project cost was $15 million, with a $7.5 million state share.
November 30, 2011
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Voted for 2011 House Concurrent Resolution 36. Supported bond financing for Western Michigan University replacement of Sangren Hall, a 214,800 square foot academic building with classrooms, laboratories, a library and support space. The project cost was $60 million, with a $30 million state share.
November 30, 2011
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Voted to revise employee protections during local service consolidations, including transferred terms lasting until modification or six months after transfer, advance negotiations, integrated seniority and representation rules. He supported earlier removal and retention versions before the final compromise.
November 30, 2011
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Voted to legalize regulated consumer fireworks sales with seller certificates, liability coverage, a safety fee and age, intoxication, property permission and penalty safeguards. The package limited local prohibitions around national holidays.
November 10, 2011
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Supported expanding the legislative rules committee's review authority to any proposed regulations it considered appropriate.
November 10, 2011
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Supported requiring agencies to consider small business exemptions and reduce disproportionate rule impacts. The federal standards ceiling was removed before his vote. The companion required regional standards comparisons and disclosure of efforts to reduce small business impacts.
November 10, 2011
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Opposed prohibiting state agency rules more stringent than federal standards, both in June and December.
November 10, 2011
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Supported broader college conference facility alcohol licenses for academic mission events, including the final removal of the private business competition restriction.
November 10, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored the November 10, 2011 bill that allowed deployed military parents to delegate guardianship or visitation to a person with a close relationship to their child when a court found it in the child's best interest.
November 10, 2011
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Supported revoking health professional licenses after convictions for first, second or third degree criminal sexual conduct. The companion imposed the same health professional license revocation requirement. The Senate companion imposed the same sexual misconduct license revocation requirement.
November 9, 2011
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Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 435. The companion extended foster and adoption subsidies to qualifying young adults through age 21. The companion extended guardianship assistance through age 21. The companion extended organizational care payments through age 21. The companion allowed voluntary state ward status through age 21. The companion extended foster maintenance payments through age 21. Supported extending foster care, adoption and guardianship assistance through age 21.
November 9, 2011
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Supported the November 2 House motorcycle helmet exception for operators and riders aged at least 21. Operators needed a motorcycle endorsement held for at least two years or completion of the specified safety course, and at least $20,000 first party medical benefit coverage. Passenger coverage could be supplied by the operator or rider under the per person requirement. The $100,000 and sunset proposals belonged to earlier Senate versions, not his recorded House vote.
November 2, 2011
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Supported restricting inland submerged log removal to relieving logjams, with permits and fees. His earlier version allowed broader permitted removal.
November 2, 2011
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Supported denying summer unemployment benefits to school contractor employees on the same basis as regular school employees.
November 1, 2011
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Supported property tax exemptions for machinery used to install agricultural drainage tile.
October 26, 2011
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Supported narrowing Part 631 mining and reclamation oversight to ferrous minerals, revising related permit and surveillance provisions and repealing the section directing a broader mineral study and survey. This reduced the scope covering nonmetallic mineral mining while retaining other environmental permit requirements and the separate nonferrous framework. It did not repeal every law governing nonmetallic mines.
October 25, 2011
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Supported physician assistants prescribing controlled substances under physician delegation, with revised supervision rules.
October 18, 2011
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Supported allowing Michigan made incandescent bulbs despite federal efficiency restrictions.
October 13, 2011
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Supported removing secondary liner and leachate monitoring requirements for experimental bioreactor landfills.
October 12, 2011
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Supported excluding agricultural acreage from the property value limit for homestead income tax credits.
October 6, 2011
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Supported ending eligibility for legislative retiree health benefits for members without six years of service before January 2013, while preserving the final five year vacancy filling exception and prior tier vesting rights. The earlier proposal applied to members taking office from 2007, but that broader description does not state the final grandfathering. The act also confirms that unvested former participants are ineligible.
October 6, 2011
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Supported nonprofit hospital boards selecting new members, subject to local government approval, instead of direct government appointments.
October 6, 2011
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Supported closing a loophole in financial institutions' physical presence tax liability.
October 6, 2011
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Voted in committee to preserve fiscal year 2012 secondary road patrol funding for communities that reduced policing because of economic conditions.
October 5, 2011
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Supported requiring local governments that prohibited septic waste fertilizer to provide a treatment facility.
October 4, 2011
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Supported allowing retired optometrists to obtain volunteer licenses serving medically underserved communities.
September 28, 2011
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Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 160. The companion supplied sentencing guidelines for the specified abortion procedure ban. Supported banning the specified partial birth abortion procedure, with a life saving exception and penalties for providers rather than patients.
September 28, 2011
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Voted to extend motor vehicle registration surcharges and administrative fee deposits through October 2015 and revise commercial driver qualification, medical certification and motor carrier safety rules. The final commercial group designation fee remained twenty five dollars.
September 28, 2011
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Supported House Bill 4915's air operating permit fee revision. The final act extended fees through October 1, 2015 and raised the emissions rate from 45.25 to 47.95 dollars per ton. Category I and II base charges remained 4,485 and 1,795 dollars, and Category III remained 250 dollars. Electric providers received higher billing caps of 1,250 tons per pollutant and 5,250 total; other providers retained 1,000 and 4,000 ton caps. Specified municipal electric facilities paid fixed 37,000 or 127,000 dollar fees.
September 22, 2011
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Supported transferring state geological mapping and resource evaluation to Western Michigan University. The House refile transferred the same state geological survey functions to Western Michigan University.
September 22, 2011
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Supported restoring two year malpractice lawsuit limits for licensed architects, engineers and surveyors, and three year general negligence limits for contractors, subject to the separate six year repose period. The act retained the gross negligence discovery provision and ten year outer period. This changed the interaction of limitation and repose rules after the Ostroth decision; it did not replace every outer deadline with two or three years.
September 20, 2011
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Supported repealing the 1.85 percent liquor retail tax.
September 20, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored the September 15, 2011 bill that capped compensation for specified Governor appointed positions and noncompetitive executive personal service contracts at the Governor's compensation. It does not cap all public employees.
September 15, 2011
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Supported requiring new multiline phone systems to transmit specific location information for emergency calls.
September 15, 2011
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Supported firefighter training courses for 16 and 17 year olds with fire department instructors exempt from teacher certification.
September 14, 2011
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Supported extending the health facility Medicaid assessment through 2015, with termination if federal matching rules changed.
September 13, 2011
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Supported a 24 hour weekly work limit for 16 and 17 year olds while school was in session, replacing the combined school and work limit.
September 7, 2011
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Voted to limit public employer health costs through indexed coverage amounts or an eighty percent employer contribution option, with existing contract and retiree plan exceptions. Local governments could waive limits by a two thirds vote with executive consent; school districts could not.
August 24, 2011
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Voted to replace the Medicaid managed care use tax with a one percent health claims assessment, with exemptions, caps, credits, a reduced rate for qualifying small carriers and regulated cost pass through. He opposed an amendment excluding school districts and local governmental units from the carrier definition.
August 24, 2011
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Voted to make the four year welfare benefit cap permanent, strengthen repeated work noncompliance sanctions and require annual eligibility and immigration checks. The package retained disability and age exemptions, a sixty day postpartum exemption, verified caregiver exceptions and revised earned income disregards.
August 24, 2011
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Voted for 2011 Senate Bill 450. Voted for Senate Bill 450 on August 24, 2011. The enacted change allowed Waste Reduction Fund receipts to support the Air Quality Permit to Install program, replacing an estimated 1.2 million dollars of general fund support in fiscal 2012. This is a distinct expansion of permitted fund uses. His support does not imply support for the separate landfill fee increase that he opposed.
August 24, 2011
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Voted to establish water operator training, examination and certification fees with dedicated program funding and reporting. The final fee provisions excluded concentrated animal feeding operations and expired in October 2017.
August 24, 2011
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Supported moving $12 million from transportation economic development funding to general road construction and repair for a limited period. The companion redirected the same $12 million transportation development allocation to general road work.
August 24, 2011
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Voted against extending environmental permit fees beyond their scheduled expiration, including water discharge, stormwater, aquatic nuisance, hazardous waste and land and water programs.
June 30, 2011
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Opposed commercial rehabilitation property tax incentives expanded for selected Detroit developers and an Oakland County hotel.
June 30, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored the June 30, 2011 bill that directed 12.5 percent of the casino state services fee fund to the Michigan Agriculture Equine Industry Development Fund before other appropriations.
June 30, 2011
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Voted for a sporting swine ranch licensing proposal with registration, inspection fees, liability coverage, disease surveillance, fencing and record requirements. It allowed verified risk mitigation in deer management unit 452, transitional breeding fences and an exception for promptly reported and killed accidental escapes, with related hunting and invasive species exemptions.
June 30, 2011
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Supported eliminating the minimum hunting age through a mentored program with adult supervision and safety requirements. The Senate companion established the same mentored youth hunting program without a minimum hunting age.
June 30, 2011
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Voted to exclude public employer decisions and contract procedures for local service consolidation agreements from collective bargaining while preserving bargaining over employee effects.
June 30, 2011
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Supported using drug forfeiture proceeds for any law enforcement purpose rather than only drug enforcement.
June 30, 2011
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Voted for 2011 House Bill 4746. Opposed Tlaib's salt exclusion amendment June 16, supported the initial House mineral extraction zoning restriction June 22, and concurred with the Senate version June 30, 2011. The initial bill barred preventing valuable extraction unless very serious consequences would result. The final text added the owner's initial burden to show valuable resources, need and absence of very serious consequences; it specified land use, value, traffic, health and public interest factors while retaining reasonable local operating and state environmental regulation.
June 30, 2011
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Voted for 2011 House Bill 4295. The companion supplied sentencing guidelines for amateur mixed martial arts regulation. Supported licensing, fees and professional style safety regulation for amateur mixed martial arts events, excluding professional competitors.
June 30, 2011
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Supported postponing licensing and regulatory requirements for professional employer organizations.
June 30, 2011
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Voted to bar new city, township, village and county minimum staffing requirements in the local government forms covered by the package while preserving existing requirements.
June 30, 2011
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Supported more detailed public employee insurance claims disclosure for competitive bids. The House refile required more detailed school and local insurance claims disclosures.
June 30, 2011
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Voted for 2011 Senate Joint Resolution C. Supported a failed constitutional amendment transferring public employee health benefit authority to the Legislature.
June 30, 2011
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Supported allowing insurance premium finance companies to pay disclosed commissions or rebates for financing policies.
June 29, 2011
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Supported public safety labor arbitration deadlines and consideration of local ability to pay and private sector compensation, retaining possible tax revenue consideration.
June 29, 2011
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Supported liability protection for clinicians paid by their regular employers while voluntarily serving free clinics.
June 29, 2011
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Voted to expand motor carrier regulation to automobile carriers and specified towing operations by removing prior exemptions.
June 28, 2011
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Supported the new state House and Senate district maps following the 2010 census.
June 28, 2011
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Supported exceptions to young driver passenger and night restrictions for work, authorized activities and emergencies.
June 28, 2011
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Voted in favor of permitting qualifying small farm biofuel facilities without special land use approval, with separate approval procedures for larger facilities.
June 28, 2011
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Supported prohibiting wetland mitigation requirements for projects within existing road rights of way.
June 28, 2011
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Voted to authorize local financial recovery bond refinancing with emergency loan board approval, dedicated revenue payments to a trustee and a superior statutory lien. The proposal preserved existing contract rights and did not create a state debt guarantee.
June 23, 2011
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Supported releasing legislator health reserve funds for current retiree costs before the account covered all liabilities.
June 23, 2011
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Voted to retain Court of Appeals motion fees at one hundred dollars, or two hundred dollars for expedited consideration, instead of scheduled reductions, while preserving inability to pay waivers.
June 23, 2011
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Supported commercial rehabilitation tax incentives for an Oakland County hotel and Bridgman property. His later opposition to a different expanded Senate measure remains distinct.
June 23, 2011
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Supported making school districts insurance policyholders or ensuring rapid claims and cost information access for competitive bids.
June 23, 2011
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Supported giving the eligible person designated by a service member under federal military instructions priority to decide funeral arrangements and disposition of remains. This is a meaningful individual decision right rather than an unrestricted power to choose any designee.
June 22, 2011
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Supported the new congressional district map reducing Michigan representation from 15 seats to 14 after the census.
June 22, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored the June 16, 2011 bill that prohibited health professionals and facilities from collecting insurance reimbursement for elective abortions without a separate optional rider.
June 16, 2011
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Voted to revise Michigan Business Tax credit transitions, including discretionary film credits, refundable brownfield and historic rehabilitation credits, motorsports traffic safety refunds and trucking subcontractor deductions.
June 16, 2011
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Voted for 2011 House Concurrent Resolution 26. Supported the June 14 House financing authorization for Michigan Technological University Great Lakes Research Center. The bond share is 200 dollars below the state share, which includes a 200 dollar general fund payment. The state commits annual rent estimated at 1.286 to 1.681 million dollars until bonds are retired, approximately 15 to 17 years.
June 14, 2011
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Voted for 2011 House Concurrent Resolution 27. Supported the June 14 House financing authorization for Eastern Michigan University Pray-Harrold Hall modernization. The bond share is 200 dollars below the state share, which includes a 200 dollar general fund payment. The state commits annual rent estimated at 2.160 to 2.825 million dollars until bonds are retired, approximately 15 to 17 years.
June 14, 2011
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Voted for 2011 House Concurrent Resolution 14. Supported the June 14 House financing authorization for Oakland University Human Health Building. The bond share is 200 dollars below the state share, which includes a 200 dollar general fund payment. The state commits annual rent estimated at 2.743 to 3.587 million dollars until bonds are retired, approximately 15 to 17 years.
June 14, 2011
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Supported a temporary discounted payoff for farmland development rights liens recorded before January 2011: 85 percent from July through September 2011 and 90 percent through March 2012. Agreements locally approved or rejected from July 2012 acquire prime plus one percentage point interest when a lien follows expiration.
June 14, 2011
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Supported continuing education requirements for licensed landscape architects.
June 14, 2011
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Supported the March 17 House volunteer proposal including civil immunity equivalent to a department employee. Opposed Slavens's March 16 amendment requiring reasonable efforts to train and supervise volunteers; the full amendment and named nays appear in the official journal. Forlini then supported June 14 concurrence with the Senate text, which retains appointment and directed equipment use but removes the explicit immunity provision.
June 14, 2011
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Voted to authorize a 135.274 million dollar state facility preservation financing package covering correctional facilities, security and mechanical upgrades, the Michigan Library and Historical Center and state office buildings.
June 14, 2011
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Introduced 2011 House Bill 4720. Forlini introduced a ban on altering or disguising welfare cards' prescribed appearance.
June 9, 2011
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Voted for the June 8, 2011 House Bill 4003 proposal excluding subsidized private home care and day care workers from public employee bargaining units, including retroactive invalidation of those units.
June 8, 2011
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Supported allowing parents to waive recreational organizers' civil liability for injuries to their minor children.
June 7, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored the June 7, 2011 bill allowing school districts to exclude court placed convicted or adjudicated youth in detention facilities for more than two days from annual reporting and accreditation calculations. It does not remove the pupils from school services.
June 7, 2011
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Opposed the June 1 House bill reducing Detroit's population threshold from 750000 to 600000 for its existing higher municipal income tax authority and the fiscal certification mechanism that can pause scheduled rate reductions. It does not impose a new five percent income tax.
June 1, 2011
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Opposed lowering the city population threshold from 750,000 to 600,000 to preserve Detroit's utility users tax authority of up to five percent. The measure retained the requirement that receipts fund police staffing and applied retroactively to January 2011.
June 1, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored the May 31, 2011 bill that exempted qualifying small solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and water energy devices from property tax.
May 31, 2011
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Voted to deregulate landline services, remove several service and pricing mandates, exclude internet voice services from commission regulation and permit tariff filing opt outs. The final law retained alternative provider requirements, review rights and customer notice for service discontinuance.
May 26, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored the May 26, 2011 bill that added criminal penalties for moving violations and reckless driving that seriously injured or killed pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable road users.
May 26, 2011
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Supported allowing landowners assessed two thirds of lake improvement costs to petition to dissolve the lake board.
May 25, 2011
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Voted to require Natural Resources Trust Fund payment of property tax substitutes on fund acquired land, shifting school and municipal costs from other funds and reducing money available for projects. The passed House proposal also allowed public authority acquisition grants with a twenty-five percent match.
May 19, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored the May 12, 2011 bill that expanded water resource tax increment financing districts to Great Lakes harbors and tributaries and authorized dredging and spoil removal.
May 12, 2011
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Opposed the 2011 tax overhaul replacing the Michigan Business Tax with a six percent corporate income tax, increasing pension taxation and reducing individual exemptions and credits. He later supported pension withholding implementation, low income senior homestead credit clarification and recovery of breached business tax credits.
May 12, 2011
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Opposed grandfathering previously granted business tax credits and subsidies during the Michigan Business Tax transition.
May 12, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored the May 3, 2011 package excluding workers from adult foster care, mental health, and covered health facilities after substantiated state findings of serious abuse or neglect. The introduced headers name him. The new state findings supplement existing federal finding and conviction exclusions.
May 3, 2011
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Opposed removal of the judicial pension income tax exemption as part of the public employee pension tax package. Opposed removal of the city library employee pension income tax exemption as part of the public employee pension tax package. Opposed removal of the public school pension income tax exemption as part of the public employee pension tax package. Opposed ending the state employee pension income tax exemption, together with judicial, library and school pension companion provisions.
April 28, 2011
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Supported ending the legislator pension income tax exemption, a distinct stance from his opposition to taxing other public employee pensions.
April 28, 2011
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Voted to remove the fifty mile alternative bed availability and five day patient transfer requirements for small hospital extended care services, while preserving hospital long term bed and discharge plan safeguards.
April 27, 2011
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Supported continued pension payments to retired Natural Resources wildfire workers and returning legislative bill drafting lawyers.
April 27, 2011
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Offered 2011 House Resolution 62. Forlini offered flood insurance abolition on April 26, 2011, while the adopted June 21 substitute instead urged significant program reform.
April 26, 2011
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Supported barring Detroit police and fire union bargaining over a retiree representative on pension boards.
April 26, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored the April 21, 2011 bill that added the Cold War period to Michigan's uniform veteran service dates. It defines September 2, 1945 through December 26, 1991 without independently changing the act's veteran eligibility definition.
April 21, 2011
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Supported banning government union contracts that paid employees for time spent on union business.
April 14, 2011
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Supported local authority to ban only Sunday morning alcohol sales.
April 14, 2011
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Supported allowing trained reserve peace officers to possess electrical incapacitation devices.
March 24, 2011
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Supported allowing counties to spend surplus general property tax revenue on roads.
March 24, 2011
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Supported liquor permits allowing caterers to purchase and serve alcohol at private food service events.
March 24, 2011
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Supported allowing Kalamazoo County, through the 240000 to 255000 population bracket, to create more than one public transportation authority and allowing only a precinct bounded portion of a county to join. Existing voter approved property taxes up to five mills are background powers, not a new tax imposed by this vote.
March 24, 2011
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Supported prohibiting developers' covenants that charged a fee whenever residential property was resold.
March 23, 2011
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Supported a special refinancing authorization for Houghton's development authority's December 1994 capital appreciation obligation. The actual passed section 1 permits refunding before January 2012 despite ordinary savings and other municipal finance requirements, extends maturity through 2025 and limits relevant tax increment revenue and distributions to 750000 dollars.
March 23, 2011
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Supported extending 21 st Century Jobs Fund grants and loans to information technology and agricultural processing firms.
March 23, 2011
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Supported excluding expressions of sympathy from evidence of liability in medical malpractice cases.
March 17, 2011
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Voted to expand emergency managers' powers over distressed municipalities and schools, including contracts, staffing, borrowing, assets and conditional union agreement and pension board changes. He opposed amendments replacing unilateral union changes with negotiations and supported competitive bidding safeguards.
March 15, 2011
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Supported freezing seniority pay increases during expired government union contracts, shifting increased health costs to employees and barring retroactive compensation increases.
March 10, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored barring adverse possession claims against owners who paid all property taxes and special assessments throughout the limitation period.
March 2, 2011
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Voted for 2011 House Resolution 19. Supported a nonbinding request for Congress to bar unilateral federal greenhouse gas rules, remove their funding and pause other environmental rules for two years except emergencies.
March 2, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored repealing the entire constitutional Civil Service Commission provision, including its merit personnel authority.
March 1, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored immediate and long term federal Asian carp prevention.
February 24, 2011
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Supported prohibiting state workplace ergonomics rules.
February 24, 2011
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Voted to replace the agricultural groundwater program with voluntary environmental assurance education, conservation plans and onsite verification, with conditional liability protections and groundwater fee extensions. He opposed an amendment restricting repeated civil fine waivers and supported the related farm compliance proposal, which did not become law.
February 22, 2011
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Introduced 2011 House Bill 4257. Forlini introduced per capita distribution of statutory county and municipal sales tax revenue sharing after September 30, 2011.
February 15, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored opposition to firearm hunting and snowmobile bans in the Huron Manistee National Forest; the complete resolution was read.
February 10, 2011
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Forlini cosponsored mandatory EVerify for new public employees and public contractors, contract termination and debarment for violations, and a civil remedy for citizens dismissed while an employer knowingly employed unauthorized workers.
January 13, 2011
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Served as majority vice chair of the House Appropriations Agriculture and Rural Development and Judiciary subcommittees, as appointed in the January 12, 2011 letter.
January 12, 2011
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Voted to join the Macomb County Mutual Aid Box Alarm System on November 8, 2010. The agreement coordinated deployment of fire personnel and equipment during emergencies. The vote was 7–0.
November 8, 2010
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Voted to approve a twelve-year industrial facilities tax exemption for Yanfeng USA Automotive Trim Systems on October 25, 2010. It covered building improvements and new equipment, subject to a state incentive and legal review. The vote was 6–0.
October 25, 2010
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Voted September 27, 2010 to suspend annual depreciation transfers to the water and sewer capital reserve for 2010 and 2011, citing limited cash while pursuing infrastructure improvements. He voted to introduce Ordinance 371 in November. The board adopted the same suspension in December while he was absent.
September 27, 2010
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Reported negotiating supervisory union benefit changes in September 2010, when the board delayed approval for a financial analysis. On October 12 he voted to ratify the 2010–2013 contract by a 4–3 vote. He explained that a replacement water superintendent would have lower pay and no retiree healthcare, longevity or pension. The contract included 2010 wage increases.
September 27, 2010
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Voted to join the Michigan Emergency Management Assistance Compact on September 13, 2010. It arranged requests, provision and reimbursement of emergency resources during disasters. The vote was 7–0.
September 13, 2010
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Proposed collecting the interceptor drain assessment through a separate water bill line. The board authorized regional sewer rehabilitation payments of $1,359,618.86 in twenty annual installments, with the first two shares collected beginning in 2011.
September 13, 2010
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Voted to introduce new weed enforcement notices in August 2010 and adopt Ordinance 370 on September 13. It replaced individual notices with an annual March newspaper notice and allowed township cutting after May 1, with cutting and administrative costs charged to owners.
August 23, 2010
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Registered as a Michigan investment adviser with the firm now called Osaic Institutions. He earlier held securities registrations with Equitable, AXA, Securian and Southeast Investments. He also operated Design Financial’s insurance and employee benefits business.
August 11, 2010
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Supported transferring employee retirement savings to John Hancock in July 2010, citing lower management charges and coverage of surrender fees. After the previous provider withheld $60,000 instead of the expected $40,000, the board extended the new surrender period from three to five years in October. His individual vote on that extension was not recorded.
July 26, 2010
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Opposed refusing county foreclosure properties in 2008 and supported an unsuccessful purchase in 2009. In 2010 he supported exploring seven parcels, then recommended against purchase after contamination, occupancy and access review.
June 28, 2010
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Voted to support highway signs for waterfront and tourism attractions on June 28, 2010. The resolution supported House Bill 4974 and Senate Bill 606. It passed 6–0.
June 28, 2010
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Voted to introduce township sign rules in May 2010 and adopt Ordinance 365 on June 14. It limited billboard location and size, flashing advertising and electronic message changes, protected traffic visibility and preserved existing lawful signs until replacement. The final text provided permit appeals to the Building Board of Appeals and civil infraction enforcement.
May 24, 2010
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Voted to raise the water tap charge from $750 to $1,050 on May 24, 2010. The increase covered labor, vehicles and restoration. Other connection charges remained separate. The vote was 6–0.
May 24, 2010
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Developed a volunteer industrial corridor ordinance program with the building official, reported May 24, 2010. The board approved two unpaid volunteers for initial notices and staff referrals. He later discussed one-year appointments and limited enforcement powers.
May 24, 2010
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Voted to place annual fire, police and general operating millage renewals on the November ballot. In 2010 he first delayed an August proposal, then supported the one year renewal of up to 6.6876 mills.
May 24, 2010
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Voted against an $8,500 preliminary water storage design contract on May 10, 2010. In July he supported proceeding with the completed design and construction bidding. The board awarded a $1,357,000 storage and pumping contract in August and added $22,000 for a three-year warranty in September; those later motions did not record his individual vote.
May 10, 2010
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Voted to join the Michigan Small Harbors Coalition on May 10, 2010. The resolution sought reliable, needs-based federal dredging and navigation maintenance funds. It passed 7–0.
May 10, 2010
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Was authorized to negotiate Detroit water supply rates and meter pit ownership on May 10, 2010. The board assigned him, the acting water superintendent and the clerk to continue negotiations under the approved supply contract.
May 10, 2010
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Voted to introduce water billing and septic rules in May 2010 and adopt Ordinance 369 on May 24. They allowed payment plans, certified-mail notice before shutoffs, a ten percent overdue penalty and tax liens. They required private septic inspections every two years and limited new water service to the township system. He also approved a $100 security deposit and $100 reconnect fee.
May 10, 2010
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Voted to encourage voluntary off-peak outdoor watering on April 26, 2010. The resolution requested overnight automatic irrigation and alternating days by street address to reduce peak demand. It passed 7–0.
April 26, 2010
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Established the waste hauler committee, obtained bids and advanced the approved advisory vote. He voted to adopt exclusive residential collection and recycling, with contractor safeguards, a three year contract exit option and hardship discounts.
April 26, 2010
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Voted to increase water and sewer service charges on April 26, 2010. Water delivery rose from $0.80 to $1.15 per unit, and sewer collection from $0.84 to $1.39. Each readiness charge became $6. The vote was 6–1.
April 26, 2010
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Voted to require registration, inspection, securing and maintenance of vacant homes, with enforcement costs recoverable as liens. He later supported removing a licensing reference while preserving registration.
April 26, 2010
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Voted to adopt the township’s water distribution Master Plan on April 26, 2010. It addressed water supply, firefighting flows and infrastructure needs over twenty years. The vote was 7–0.
April 26, 2010
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Secured bicycle path funding and matching funds, engineering and project oversight, and supported Bridgeview, county loop and Selfridge trail connections. He advocated a phased route excluding Emerick and South River; the board received that plan without adopting it.
April 26, 2010
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Secured county funding and voted to petition for the one hundred thousand dollar Petit Conlet drain cleanout, split equally between county and township without special charges to benefited owners.
April 12, 2010
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Voted for annual township budgets and operating millages, furlough savings, six position eliminations and a tentative township employee union concessions agreement. He opposed refilling a senior bookkeeper position and was absent from the final 2011 budget vote.
April 10, 2010
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Voted to support local police authority to remove boating hazards on March 22, 2010. The resolution supported Senate Bill 1117 and passed 7–0.
March 22, 2010
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Voted to fund a regional Lake Saint Clair economic development specialist on March 22, 2010. The township committed $5,000 annually for three years, contingent on three other communities participating. The vote was 5–2.
March 22, 2010
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Voted to spend $54,075 on Townhall road resurfacing on March 22, 2010. The county covered the other half of the estimated construction cost and all engineering and inspection costs. The vote was 5–2.
March 22, 2010
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Voted to introduce water service contractor licensing rules in March 2010 and adopt Ordinance 366 on April 12. It required qualifications, a $2,500 performance bond and liability insurance, with an exception for permitted work on one’s own property.
March 22, 2010
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Was appointed to the Grandview Bay litigation settlement committee on March 8, 2010. He had requested the role assisting township counsel in potential settlement negotiations.
March 8, 2010
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Voted to restore full time supervisor and deputy positions and salaries with union level benefits. Officials waived the 2010 increase, and he opposed a finance director raise and scheduled increases for elected and appointed officials.
March 8, 2010
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Voted to move older retirees to supplemental health coverage and changed prescription cards with reimbursements to promised benefit levels. He recommended terminating the uncured Marwil insurance agreement, and the board selected Cambridge Benefits.
March 1, 2010
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Voted to terminate firefighter Steven Hart on February 22, 2010 following the fire chief’s recommendation. In May he voted for a settlement with the firefighter union concerning Hart. The public minutes disclosed neither the disciplinary reason nor the settlement terms.
February 22, 2010
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Requested state retirement and compulsory arbitration restrictions in 2008, then advocated repeal of police and firefighter compulsory arbitration in 2010. He withheld support for the disputed resolution wording pending correction.
February 22, 2010
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Opposed using public grant funds as charitable donations on February 22, 2010. He stated his opposition during a hearing that considered funding for Care House, a child abuse service organization.
February 22, 2010
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Voted to protect township cable access channels and executed a Comcast franchise form with a five percent service fee and proposed two percent public access fee. Comcast rejected the added fee and channel terms, and the replacement letter remained unsigned.
February 8, 2010
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Voted to adopt the Jefferson Avenue corridor study on January 11, 2010. It guided eligible community development grants and supported the township Master Plan. The vote was 6–0.
January 11, 2010
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Joined a Macomb County delegation to China to explore cultural exchange and investment opportunities for Harrison Township.
December 14, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to reappoint Eleanor Burns and appoint Kathleen Lyon to the township Board of Canvassers.
November 23, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to appoint or reappoint John Bicsak, William Fowke and Carol Murray to the Planning Commission.
November 9, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval for an emergency generator serving the Engineering Building and water and sewer control systems.
November 9, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to appoint or reappoint Shane Brown, Dean Olgiati, John Swatosh, William Servial, Mary Conrad, Earl Dommer and Bernard Aude to the Economic Development Corporation.
November 9, 2009
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Voted to request revocation of AMP Industries' industrial tax exemption and pursue the township's previously abated taxes.
October 26, 2009
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His supervisor office continued Dial a Ride, shopping and summer shuttle services, obtained transit credit funding and expanded Sunday shuttle hours.
October 26, 2009
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His supervisor office helped establish the volunteer township library, obtained donated books, provided township space and organized its committee before the October 24, 2009 opening.
October 24, 2009
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His supervisor office administered a multiyear phragmites control program, secured repeated funding and treated about five acres with herbicides.
September 14, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to appoint or reappoint Kurt Studing, Elizabeth Baker and Brian Batkins to the Building Board of Appeals and Shryell Lowery as an alternate.
August 24, 2009
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Established and joined the township alternative energy committee, authorized initial renewable energy financing work and attended the state wind energy zoning hearing in Bad Axe.
August 24, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to pursue state administered federal energy grants for solar collectors without a township financial commitment.
June 8, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to reappoint Linda Karczewski to the Historical Commission.
June 8, 2009
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Voted to request revocation of Pelican Metal Products' industrial real and personal property tax exemptions after the business closed.
June 8, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval for a three year Macomb County sheriff contract providing ten township deputies.
June 8, 2009
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Obtained approval to reappoint William Carlson and appoint Lawrence Mislinski to the township Housing Board of Appeals.
April 6, 2009
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Voted for nonunion employee discipline and termination rules, including progressive discipline and supervisor approval of involuntary dismissals.
April 6, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to appoint or reappoint Archie Lytle, William Servial and Roger Petri as zoning appeal members and Michael Blum as an alternate.
April 6, 2009
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Opposed requesting revocation of American Mold Technologies' industrial tax exemption after the business closed.
April 6, 2009
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Voted to request revocation of D and N Die and Mold's industrial tax exemptions after the company ceased operations.
April 6, 2009
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Voted to reserve the Township Board's authority to approve or reject the Planning Commission's master plan.
March 23, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to appoint Susan Keehn to the Beautification Commission.
March 9, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to replace contracted janitorial service with additional hours for township maintenance staff.
March 9, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to enter a vacation time understanding with the township employees union.
March 9, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to reappoint Joe Ternullo as Condemnation Hearing Officer.
March 9, 2009
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Voted to allocate community development funds to bicycle paths, senior transportation, home chores and homeless services. He opposed moving 40,000 dollars from the path to a fishing park project.
February 23, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to appoint Mark Boettcher and reappoint William Bitonti to the Firefighters Pension Board.
January 26, 2009
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Proposed and voted for a feasibility study of employing a township engineer and bidding larger projects separately.
January 26, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval for township board liaisons to planning, zoning appeals, parks, firefighter pensions and environmental matters.
January 26, 2009
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His supervisor office established park pavilion reservations with resident and nonresident rental fees and refundable deposits.
January 12, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to reappoint Hubert Forton, Dena Moonen and Marsha DeVergilio to the Board of Review.
January 12, 2009
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His supervisor office obtained approval to reappoint William Servial as Cable Committee member and board liaison.
January 12, 2009
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The township board directed his office to deliver questions to the building official and requested state review of department and elected official activities. The township attorney later closed the building official investigation after finding proper authority and compliance with bid policy.
January 12, 2009
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Opposed removing officials from negotiated benefits and requiring them to pay dependent health costs. His office later obtained restoration of union level fringe benefits for officials and deputies.
December 8, 2008
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Opposed excluding elected officials, appointed deputies and a township manager from the employee pension plan, then voted to repeal the exclusion.
December 8, 2008
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Opposed a review of building permit revenues and accounting from 2001 through 2004. The completed procedures review found no issue warranting further examination.
December 8, 2008
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Obtained dismissal of the Elders defamation suit on governmental immunity grounds, without a finding on the alleged conduct.
November 26, 2008
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Was appointed township liaison to the Employee Pension Board and alternate representative to the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments for four year terms.
November 24, 2008
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Opposed requiring board approval for all township training, then supported repeal so department officials approved in state classes while out of state travel retained board review.
November 24, 2008
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Voted to uphold a coastal property's fill permit requirement and deny the owner's request to rescind it.
November 24, 2008
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Served as Harrison Township supervisor from 2004 through 2010 and won reelection in November 2008.
November 4, 2008
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Opposed a ninety nine year sales moratorium on the Parkway parcel, then voted to conserve its vegetation and prohibit construction within a conservation easement.
October 27, 2008
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Voted against creating a township superintendent with departmental and budget authority and supported an unsuccessful referendum on the change. He later voted to stop hiring for the position.
October 27, 2008
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Voted to require full time elected officials to leave meetings immediately to answer calls residents described as emergencies.
October 27, 2008
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Led the township hiring committee that selected Michael Lopez as fire chief after assessments and interviews. The board approved a five year contract at 85,000 dollars annually.
October 14, 2008
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Opposed the initial township employee union settlement position, then supported the final four year township employee union contract covering 2008 through 2011.
October 14, 2008
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His supervisor office obtained approval for a four year contract retaining Glenn Spencer as finance director at 72,000 dollars annually.
October 14, 2008
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Opposed retroactive trustee salary increases and supported rescinding them. He also opposed the replacement one time payment of 1,986 dollars to each outgoing trustee.
October 14, 2008
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Voted to adopt community cable access rules based on program content and community value. He later opposed airing a legislative debate without cable committee review.
October 14, 2008
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Voted for a resolution supporting federal automotive research and manufacturing finance with conditions favoring domestic suppliers.
September 22, 2008
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Voted against reclaiming a church's zoning fee waiver after political advertising appeared at its festival. The refund request passed four to three.
September 8, 2008
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Voted against removing a 5,000 dollar reserve for replacement election tabulators from the proposed township budget. The removal passed three to two.
September 6, 2008
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His supervisor office coordinated completion of the Prentiss Pointe sidewalk and bicycle path by the property owners without resident funding.
August 25, 2008
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Supported a notice to the township insurer that officials faced personal legal costs for threatening conduct toward other board members.
August 25, 2008
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Sought legal and sheriff assistance to compel two trustees to return after their departure broke the township board's quorum.
August 11, 2008
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Voted to fund a three year stormwater education program with the Clinton River Watershed Council.
August 11, 2008
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Voted to enter a confidential settlement agreement concerning township employee Sandra Mutter.
July 28, 2008
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Voted against delaying a cable committee appointment to advertise vacancies for a month and begin newspaper notices. The delay passed four to three.
July 28, 2008
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Voted against suspending Harrison Township's building official with pay during an investigation into tree removal from private property. The suspension passed four to three.
July 28, 2008
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Voted to request a county transportation authority that allowed townships to opt out of the regional transit system.
July 14, 2008
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His supervisor office obtained approval for management training on employee discipline, supervision and labor contract compliance.
June 9, 2008
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Voted for a resolution opposing a nuclear waste repository near Kincardine, Ontario and other underground repositories in the Great Lakes basin.
June 9, 2008
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Voted for a resolution demanding a Michigan participating environmental assessment of a proposed Canadian tar sands refinery on the St. Clair River.
June 9, 2008
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His supervisor office obtained approval to reappoint Constance Miller to the township Employee Pension Board for two years.
June 9, 2008
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Voted to reappoint Edward Eades to the township Civil Service Commission for six years.
April 28, 2008
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Voted to authorize a settlement process for three township employee grievance and arbitration issues following a closed labor session.
April 14, 2008
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Voted to let the township supervisor issue emergency temporary structure permits with two board members' concurrence, inspections and later zoning appeal board review.
April 14, 2008
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Voted to fund a 2,000 dollar administrative work placement program with L'Anse Creuse High School.
March 10, 2008
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Voted to adopt restrictions on parking vehicles and boats for sale, with notice, owner paid towing and immediate citations in posted no parking areas.
February 25, 2008
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Voted to approve a liquor license transfer for a restaurant where his wife worked, after the board discussed that employment.
February 25, 2008
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Voted to adopt revised coastal flood elevation and seawall construction standards for Harrison Township.
February 11, 2008
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Voted to adopt the International Property Maintenance Code, including unsafe building enforcement and fines of up to 500 dollars.
February 11, 2008
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Voted to adopt residential accessory building size, height and placement limits and prohibit their use for businesses or separate dwellings.
February 11, 2008
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Voted to fund a comprehensive rewrite of Harrison Township's zoning ordinances for 21,500 dollars, with a 5,000 dollar discount for contractor delay.
January 28, 2008
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Served on Harrison Township's base realignment committee addressing Selfridge access, security and connections to local bicycle paths.
January 14, 2008
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Voted against a resolution opposing Selfridge waterfront development that compromised national security or endangered military personnel and township residents. The resolution passed four to three.
January 14, 2008
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Voted against recommending a bottomland lease for a marina beside Supervisor's Plat Number One because required site, engineering, traffic and environmental reviews were incomplete.
November 26, 2007
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Voted against appointing James Senstock to Harrison Township's Zoning Board of Appeals. The appointment passed three to two.
November 26, 2007
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