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Vote Yes on this bill if you want to discourage parents from using false information to enroll children in nonresident districts while allowing students already enrolled to finish the current school year without being forced out immediately.
Organizations that support this bill may include school districts, school administrators, and groups that want to prevent enrollment fraud while avoiding midyear disruptions for students.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid new enrollment penalties for families and preserve broader access to nonresident schools without limiting a student's future attendance after an address or residency dispute.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include school choice advocates, parent rights groups, and organizations concerned that families could face added barriers or penalties when trying to access better schools outside their home district.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want families to be able to apply to almost any public school in Michigan, with year-round applications, clearer seat postings, fewer residency barriers, and no tuition for nonresident students.
Organizations that support this bill may include school choice advocacy groups, parent organizations seeking more school options, charter school supporters, and groups that favor statewide open enrollment.
Vote No on this bill if you want local districts to keep more control over enrollment, protect neighborhood schools from losing students and funding, and avoid possible crowding, longer travel burdens, and added state oversight.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include local school boards associations, teachers unions, rural and small-district advocates, and groups worried that open enrollment could drain students and funding from neighborhood schools.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want a uniform schools‑of‑choice process that replaces district‑set tuition for nonresident students and expands affordable options for families.
Organizations that support this bill may include parent and school‑choice advocacy groups, education reform nonprofits, and business groups that favor open enrollment and lower barriers to attending schools across district lines.
Vote No on this bill if you want districts to keep control over whether to accept nonresidents and how much to charge them, limiting enrollment shifts and protecting local budgets.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include school boards, teachers unions, and rural or small districts concerned about losing students, funding, and local control over admissions and class sizes.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to allow lawsuits for miscarriage, stillbirth, or embryo/fetus injury or death from wrongful or negligent acts, removing exemptions for the pregnant person, medical procedures, and lawful medications.
Organizations that support this bill may include pro-life and fetal-rights groups, some victims’ rights advocates, and faith-based organizations seeking civil accountability for harms to unborn children.
Vote No on this bill if you want to keep protections that shield pregnant individuals, health professionals, and lawful medication use from civil suits and avoid chilling reproductive and prenatal care.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include reproductive rights groups, medical and hospital associations, OB-GYN and pharmacy groups, and civil liberties organizations concerned about liability for lawful care.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want Michigan to drop the Algebra II mandate, expand math options, require personal finance and workplace readiness, allow coding to count as a world language, raise science to four credits starting with students entering high school in 2029–30, and provide model course plans to districts.
Organizations that support this bill may include business and employer associations, skilled-trades unions and apprenticeship programs, career and technical education coalitions, charter school groups, and financial literacy advocates.
Vote No on this bill if you want to keep Algebra II as a core requirement, avoid new future-skills and workplace classes or an added fourth science credit, and maintain the current graduation framework without these statewide changes.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include associations of math educators, some higher education and college admissions groups seeking uniform rigor, and traditional education advocates concerned about inconsistent standards.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want Michigan to end daylight saving time and stay on standard time all year with no more clock changes after the 2026 vote.
Public health and sleep organizations, parent‑teacher groups, some farm associations, and senior advocates may support this bill for stable year‑round standard time and fewer clock changes.
Vote No on this bill if you want Michigan to keep switching clocks twice a year and stay aligned with other states that observe daylight saving time.
State and local chambers of commerce, tourism and recreation groups, broadcasters, airlines, and multi‑state logistics companies may oppose this bill due to darker summer evenings and cross‑state scheduling conflicts.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to shield compliant shooting ranges from noise lawsuits and criminal charges, limit state and local noise rules on them, and let existing ranges continue operating and expand events or membership.
Organizations that support this bill may include gun-rights groups, shooting range operators and associations, hunting and sportsmen clubs, and property-rights advocates who want certainty against noise lawsuits.
Vote No on this bill if you want residents and local governments to keep stronger tools to address gunfire noise, apply current noise limits to ranges, and restrict expansion when it disturbs nearby communities.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include neighborhood associations, local government groups, environmental and public health organizations, and noise-abatement advocates concerned about louder or expanded range activity.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want a single city or district to create a recreation authority, expanded authority to buy and manage parks and public forests, options for sustainable forestry and carbon credits, and voter‑approved millages and bonds to improve local recreation.
Local governments, parks and recreation departments, conservation and land‑trust groups, tourism and outdoor recreation advocates, and forestry or climate groups interested in carbon credits may support this bill.
Vote No on this bill if you want to limit local government growth and taxes, avoid commercial forestry and carbon credit programs on public land, keep current multi‑city formation rules, and prevent new bonding or millages for recreation projects.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include taxpayer associations, anti‑tax and small‑government groups, private property advocates concerned about land reversion, and environmental groups wary of commercial forestry on public lands.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want to end state clean and renewable energy mandates, lower utility efficiency targets to 1%, sharply cap customer solar programs at 1% of peak load and 100% of prior use, expand use of waste-derived fuels, and maintain a 2,500‑MW energy storage goal by 2029.
Organizations that support this bill may include electric utilities, natural gas and waste-to-energy companies, and business associations that want fewer renewable mandates and more flexibility to manage costs and reliability.
Vote No on this bill if you want to keep or strengthen clean-energy and efficiency standards, preserve higher limits for rooftop and community solar, maintain policies that prioritize wind and solar growth over waste-to-energy, and push utilities toward faster decarbonization.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include environmental groups, solar and wind industry associations, climate advocates, and consumer groups that favor stronger clean-energy standards.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want the state to quickly suspend marijuana licenses when shops carry untracked or illegal products, block investigations, or withhold records to protect consumers and level the playing field for compliant businesses.
Organizations that support this bill may include public health and consumer safety groups, law enforcement associations, and compliance‑focused cannabis businesses that want bad actors removed quickly.
Vote No on this bill if you want to limit the regulator’s power to summarily shut down businesses, require more due process before suspensions, and reduce the risk of abrupt closures that could harm small operators.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include civil liberties advocates, small and social equity cannabis operators, and industry trade groups concerned about summary suspensions and agency overreach.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want every district and charter school to adopt clear policies that let students be excused for off-campus religious activities with written parent consent while keeping consistent, state-approved rules for safety-related school closures.
Organizations that support this bill may include religious freedom advocacy groups, faith-based organizations, and parent associations that favor release time for religious instruction with parental consent.
Vote No on this bill if you want to avoid formalizing release time for religious activities within school attendance policies, reduce administrative requirements, or keep a stricter separation between religion and public school schedules.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include civil liberties and secular groups, some education associations, and youth advocates concerned about instructional time, equity, and church–state boundaries.
Vote Yes on this bill if you want tenants who paid their debts to quickly clear eviction judgments, have fees and hearings waived when landlords don’t respond in 15 days, and get records sealed to reduce housing barriers.
Organizations that support this bill may include tenant advocacy groups, legal aid organizations, housing nonprofits, and consumer rights groups that want faster clearing of paid eviction judgments and sealing of records when landlords don’t respond.
Vote No on this bill if you want to keep stricter court review, maintain broader public access to eviction records, and require landlord participation before judgments are marked satisfied.
Organizations that oppose this bill may include landlord and property owner associations, property managers, and tenant screening companies concerned about automatic satisfaction, fee waivers, and record sealing that limit access to rental history.