Michigan House of Representatives

The Michigan House of Representatives is the lower house of the Michigan Legislature. There are 110 members, each of whom is elected from constituencies having approximately 77,000 to 91,000 residents, based on population figures from the 2010 U.S. Census. Its composition, powers, and duties are established in Article IV of the Michigan Constitution.

Michigan House of Representatives
100th Michigan Legislature
Type
Type
Term limits
3 terms (6 years)
History
New session started
January 9, 2019
Leadership
Lee Chatfield (R)
since January 9, 2019
Speaker pro tempore
Jason Wentworth (R)
since January 9, 2019
Majority Floor Leader
Triston Cole (R)
since January 9, 2019
Minority Leader
Christine Greig (D)
since January 9, 2019
Minority Floor Leader
Yousef Rabhi (D)
since January 9, 2019
Structure
Seats110
Political groups
Majority

Minority

Length of term
2 years
AuthorityArticle IV, Section 3, Michigan Constitution
Salary$71,865/year + expenses
Elections
Last election
November 6, 2018
(110 seats)
Next election
November 3, 2020
(110 seats)
RedistrictingIndependent Redistricting Commission
Meeting place
House of Representatives Chamber
Michigan State Capitol
Lansing, Michigan
Website
Michigan House of Representatives

Members are elected in even-numbered years and take office at 12 p.m. (EST) on January 1[1] following the November general election. Concurrently with the Michigan Senate, the House first convenes on the second Wednesday in January, according to the state constitution.[2] Each member is limited to serving three terms of two years. The House meets in the north wing of the Michigan Capitol in Lansing.

Title

Members of the Michigan House of Representatives are commonly referred to as representatives. Because this mirrors the terminology used to describe members of Congress, constituents and news media, abiding by the Associated Press guidelines for journalists, often refer to members as state representatives to avoid confusion with their federal counterparts. As elected officials, members of the Michigan House of Representatives also receive the courtesy title of the Honorable (abbreviated to Hon. or Hon'ble) for life.

Composition
Affiliation Party
(Shading indicates majority caucus)
 Total
Republican Democratic Vacant
End 2016 60 46 1[3] 107 3
Begin 2017-2018 63 47 110 0
Begin 2019 Session 58 52 110 0
May 21, 2019[4] 57 1
November 8, 2019[5] 51 109 1
March 18, 2020[6] 52 110 0
March 29, 2020[7] 51 109 1
Latest voting share 53.2% 0.9% 46.8%

Leadership

Majority party

Minority party

Members
Composition of the Michigan State House after the 2018 elections
  Democratic Party
  Republican Party
  Vacant (formerly Democratic)
DistrictRepresentativePartyCounty(ies)Term
1Tenisha YanceyDemWayne2nd (1st full)
2Joe TateDemWayne1st
3Wendell ByrdDemWayne3rd
4Vacant
5Cynthia A. JohnsonDemWayne1st
6Tyrone CarterDemWayne1st
7LaTanya GarrettDemWayne3rd
8Sherry Gay-DagnogoDemWayne3rd
9Karen WhitsettDemWayne1st
10Leslie LoveDemWayne3rd
11Jewell JonesDemWayne2nd
12Alex GarzaDemWayne1st
13Frank LiberatiDemWayne3rd
14Cara ClementeDemWayne2nd
15Abdullah HammoudDemWayne2nd
16Kevin ColemanDemWayne1st
17Joe BellinoRepMonroe, Wayne2nd
18Kevin HertelDemMacomb2nd
19Laurie PohutskyDemWayne1st
20Matt KoleszarDemWayne1st
21Kristy PaganDemWayne3rd
22John ChirkunDemMacomb3rd
23Darrin CamilleriDemWayne2nd
24Steve MarinoRepMacomb2nd
25Nate ShannonDemMacomb1st
26Jim EllisonDemOakland2nd
27Robert WittenbergDemOakland3rd
28Lori StoneDemMacomb1st
29Brenda CarterDemOakland1st
30Diana FarringtonRepMacomb2nd
31William SowerbyDemMacomb2nd
32Pamela HornbergerRepMacomb, St. Clair2nd
33Jeffrey YarochRepMacomb2nd
34Cynthia NeeleyDemGenesee1st
35Kyra Harris BoldenDemOakland1st
36Doug WozniakRepMacomb1st
37Christine GreigDemOakland3rd
38Kathy CrawfordRepOakland3rd
39Ryan BermanRepOakland1st
40Mari ManoogianDemOakland1st
41Padma KuppaDemOakland1st
42Ann BollinRepLivingston1st
43Andrea SchroederRepOakland1st
44Matt MaddockRepOakland1st
45Michael WebberRepOakland3rd
46John ReillyRepOakland2nd
47Henry VaupelRepLivingston3rd
48Sheryl KennedyDemGenesee1st
49John Cherry IIIDemGenesee1st
50Tim SnellerDemGenesee2nd
51Mike MuellerRepGenesee1st
52Donna LasinskiDemWashtenaw2nd
53Yousef RabhiDemWashtenaw2nd
54Ronnie PetersonDemWashtenaw2nd
55Rebekah WarrenDemWashtenaw3rd
56Jason SheppardRepMonroe3rd
57Bronna KahleRepLenawee2nd
58Eric LeutheuserRepBranch, Hillsdale3rd
59Aaron MillerRepCass, St. Joseph3rd
60Jon HoadleyDemKalamazoo3rd
61Brandt IdenRepKalamazoo3rd
62Jim HaadsmaDemCalhoun1st
63Matt HallRepCalhoun, Kalamazoo1st
64Julie AlexanderRepJackson2nd
65Sarah LightnerRepJackson1st
66Beth GriffinRepVan Buren, Kalamazoo2nd
67Kara HopeDemIngham1st
68Sarah AnthonyDemIngham1st
69Julie BrixieDemIngham1st
70Jim LowerRepMontcalm, Gratiot2nd
71Angela WitwerDemEaton1st
72Steve JohnsonRepKent2nd
73Lynn AfendoulisRepKent1st
74Mark HuizengaRepKent, Ottawa1st
75David LaGrandDemKent3rd (2nd full)
76Rachel HoodDemKent1st
77Tommy BrannRepKent2nd
78Brad PaquetteRepBerrien, Cass1st
79Pauline WendzelRepBerrien1st
80Mary WhitefordRepAllegan3rd (2nd full)
81Gary EisenRepSt. Clair1st
82Gary HowellRepLapeer3rd (2nd full)
83Shane HernandezRepSanilac, St. Clair2nd
84Phil GreenRepHuron, Tuscola1st
85Ben FrederickRepSaginaw, Shiawassee2nd
86Thomas AlbertRepKent, Ionia2nd
87Julie CalleyRepBarry, Ionia2nd
88Luke MeermanRepOttawa1st
89Jim LillyRepOttawa2nd
90Bradley SlaghRepOttawa1st
91Greg VanWoerkomRepMuskegon, Ottawa1st
92Terry SaboDemMuskegon2nd
93Graham FillerRepClinton, Gratiot1st
94Rodney WakemanRepSaginaw1st
95Vanessa GuerraDemSaginaw3rd
96Brian ElderDemBay2nd
97Jason WentworthRepArenac, Clare, Gladwin, Osceola2nd
98Annette GlennRepMidland, Bay1st
99Roger HauckRepIsabella, Midland2nd
100Scott VanSingelRepLake, Newaygo, Oceana2nd
101Jack O'MalleyRepBenzie, Leelanau, Manistee, Mason1st
102Michele HoitengaRepMecosta, Osceola, Wexford2nd
103Daire RendonRepCrawford, Kalkaska, Missaukee, Ogemaw, Roscommon2nd
104Larry C. InmanRepGrand Traverse3rd
105Triston ColeRepAntrim, Charlevoix, Otsego, Montmorency, Oscoda3rd
106Sue AllorRepAlcona, Alpena, Cheboygan, Iosco, Presque Isle2nd
107Lee ChatfieldRepCheboygan, Chippewa, Emmet, Mackinac3rd
108Beau LaFaveRepDelta, Dickinson, Menominee2nd
109Sara CambensyDemAlger, Luce, Marquette, Schoolcraft2nd[8]
110Gregory MarkkanenRepBaraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Marquette, Ontonagon1st

Officials

Speaker of the House
Main article: List of Speakers of the Michigan House of Representatives

The 74th and current Speaker of the House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the House and the leader of the majority party. The current Speaker is Lee Chatfield, a third-term Republican from Levering.

The Speaker calls the House to order at the hour to which the House last adjourned, preserves order and decorum in the chamber, recognizes Members to speak, and puts all questions. The Speaker is the chief administrator of the House and is technically the employer of all legislative staff. There is also a Speaker pro tempore and two associate Speakers pro tempore who preside in the absence of the Speaker. The full duties of the Speaker are described in Chapter II of the Rules of the House.[9]

Clerk of the House
Clerk of the Michigan House of Representatives
Incumbent
Gary L. Randall
since January 12, 2011
StyleMister Clerk
AppointerElected by the House
Term lengthPleasure of the House (nominally a two-year Legislature)
Inaugural holderGeorge R. Griswold

The Clerk of the House of Representatives is elected by Members of the House at the beginning of each two-year term. The 33rd and current clerk is Gary L. Randall.[10] Randall also served as clerk from 1999 to 2006. The assistant clerk is Richard J. Brown, who served as clerk from 2007 to 2010. Both Randall and Brown are former Members of the House.

Under the rules of the House, the clerk is the parliamentarian of the House, presides in the absence of the Speaker or any Speaker pro tempore, takes roll at the beginning of each session day and announces whether or not a quorum is present, prepares the official calendar and journal of the House, is responsible for the care and preservation of all bills introduced in the House, and for bills sent from the Senate until they are returned to the Senate.[9][11]

Sergeant at Arms

The sergeant at arms of the House of Representatives is the chief police officer of the House, appointed by the Speaker. The current chief sergeant at arms is David D. Dickson, Jr.

The chief sergeant and the assistant sergeants are empowered as law enforcement officers by statute.[12] The sergeants at arms have authority to serve subpoenas and warrants issued by the House or any duly authorized officer or committee, see that all visitors are seated and at no time are standing on the floor or balconies of the House, ensure that reasonable decorum is maintained in the lobby immediately in front of the entrance to the chamber to ensure access for Members and to ensure equal treatment for all citizens.[9]

Committees

Article IV of the Michigan Constitution authorizes each house of the Legislature to "establish the committees necessary for the conduct of its business."[13] The House does much of its work in committees, including the review of bills, executive oversight, and the budget and appropriations process. Members of committees and their chairmen are appointed by the Speaker.[9][14] Bills are referred to a committee by the Speaker, and the chairman of a committee sets its agenda, including whether or not a bill will be reported to the full House. The Committee on Appropriations divides its work among subcommittees ordinarily structured by state department or major budget area.

There are also four statutory standing committees: Joint Committee on Administrative Rules; House Fiscal Agency Governing Committee; Legislative Council; Michigan Capitol Committee.

Unlike the Senate, the House does not utilize the committee of the whole.

House Fiscal Agency
House Fiscal Agency
Agency overview
HeadquartersCora B. Anderson House Office Building
Employees24
Annual budget$4,050,400
Agency executives
  • Mary Ann Cleary, Director
  • Kevin Koorstra, Deputy Director
Parent departmentHouse Fiscal Agency Governing Board (Michigan House of Representatives)
Websitehouse.mi.gov/hfa/

The House Fiscal Agency is a nonpartisan agency within the House of Representatives which provides nonpartisan expertise to members of the House Appropriations Committee, as well as all other Members of the House. Fiscal analysts review the governor's budget recommendation, review and prepare budget bills, supplemental appropriations, and certain transfer requests, provide fiscal impact statements on legislative proposals, monitor state and national situations that may have budgetary implications, research and analyze fiscal issues, prepare reports and documents to assist legislative deliberations, and prepare special reports at the request of Representatives. The economist analyzes legislation related to tax and lottery issues, respond to Representatives' inquiries regarding state tax revenue, revenue sharing, and other economic issues, monitors state revenue, tracks state, and national economic conditions, and prepares reports on revenue and other economic issues. Legislative analysts prepare concise, nonpartisan summaries and analyses of bills. Summaries, completed prior to committee deliberations, describe how a bill would change current law, including any fiscal impact. Analyses are prepared for bills reported to the full House from committee and include, with the summary information, a description of the problem being addressed, arguments for and against the bill, and positions of interested organizations.[15]

The agency is governed by a six-member board consisting of the chairman and minority vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee, the Speaker of the House and the minority leader, and the majority and minority floor leaders. The governing committee is responsible for HFA oversight, establishment of operating procedures, and appointment of the HFA director. The director is one of three state officials charged with annually forecasting the state's revenues at the Consensus Revenue Estimating Conferences, which are held at least twice each year.[16]

In January 1993, a front-page story in The Detroit News detailed a massive scandal in the House Fiscal Agency. For six years, the agency's imprest account was used to finance credit card payments, vacations, and property tax payments as well as payments to HFA employees and contract workers for non-existent workers. The scandal threatened to collapse the joint leadership agreement between the Democrats and Republicans brought about by a 55-55 partisan split in the House from the 1992 election. It resulted in Representative Dominic J. Jacobetti of Negaunee in the Upper Peninsula, the longest-serving Member in history, losing his position as chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee.[17]

Past composition of the House of Representatives
Main article: Political party strength in Michigan

See also

References
  1. "Michigan Legislature - Article XI § 2". legislature.mi.gov. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  2. "Michigan Legislature - Article IV § 13". legislature.mi.gov. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  3. One Democrat removed from the caucus.
  4. Republican Larry C. Inman (District 102) removed from the Republican caucus.
  5. Democrat Sheldon Neeley (District 34) resigns to become Mayor of Flint.
  6. Democrat Cynthia Neeley (District 34) sworn in after special election.
  7. Democrat Isaac Robinson (District 4) dies.
  8. "Michigan House Democrats gain 2 new members in special election". November 8, 2017.
  9. Rules of the Michigan House of Representatives
  10. House Resolution 3: A resolution to provide for the Clerk of the House of Representatives for the Ninety-seventh Legislature
  11. 2011-2012 Michigan Manual: Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives (p. 302)
  12. Legislative Sergeant at Arms Police Powers Act, 185 PA 2001, MCL 4.381-4.382
  13. Michigan Constitution: Article IV, § 17 Committees; record of votes, public inspection, notice of hearings.
  14. Journal of the House of Representatives: 97th Legislature—Regular Session of 2013, No. 5 (pg. 77-78)
  15. About Us :: House Fiscal Agency
  16. Michigan Legislature: Management and Budget Act: MCL 18.1367b Revenue estimating conference; principals; forecasts.
  17. Gongwer News Service Blog: The Scandal, 20 Years Later

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