Pure Michigan funding debate, tobacco law updates introduced
In this issue:
- Senate subcommittee pushes Pure Michigan funding
- Bipartisan package to update tobacco/vaping laws introduced
- Legislators mulling bank and grocery store-based Secretary of State locations
- FDA begins enforcement on certain flavored vaping products
- State scraps switching pharmacy Medicaid reimbursement to fee-for-service plan
- Regulatory round-up
- 2019-2020 bill tracker
Senate subcommittee pushes Pure Michigan funding
Following an overview of the proposed Labor and Economic Opportunity budget,
In their own words: Hastings Ace Hardware’s Jerry and Lyndy Bolthouse
When you think of a family- and community-focused business, Hastings Ace Hardware would vie for top honors. Parents of current owner, Jerry Bolthouse, can prove it. Gerald and Anna Bolthouse had 13 children,
Governor focuses on working alone in second State of the State address
In this issue:
- Governor focuses on working alone in second State of the State address
- Commission approves liquor packaging changes
- Changes to bottle deposit escheats introduced
- Pharmacy members please note: Michigan close to decision on carving out of the Medicaid pharmacy benefit from managed care
- Regulatory round-up
Governor focuses on working alone in second State of the State address
In the shortest State of the State speech in memory,
Road funding questions and guidance from the FDA
In this issue:
- What could a road funding plan look like?
- UIA obligation assessment phased out early
- FDA bans fruit and mint flavored cartridge-based e-cigs effective Feb.
Year end legislative wrap up, bill signing, notices
In this issue:
- Legislature on break until Jan. 8
- Whitmer signs marketplace facilitator bills
- Treasury opines that kombucha subject to deposit law as of May 1
- Michigan Supreme Court declines to issue an advisory opinion on min.
Marketplace bills sent to governor after unanimous vote
In this issue:
- Marketplace bills sent to governor after unanimous vote
- REMINDER: minimum wage increases to $9.65/hour Jan. 1
- Court rules against Genesee County’s Tobacco 21 policy
- Liquor Control Commission investigates RNDC supply and delivery issues
- Regulatory round-up
Marketplace bills sent to governor after unanimous vote
Last week,
“Rain tax”, telepharmacy, and cage-free egg standards
In this issue:
- House discusses stormwater fix via “rain tax”
- Telepharmacy bill amended, reported by House committee
- Bill would delay the cage-free egg standard until 2024
- Regulatory round-up
House discusses stormwater fix via “rain tax”
In an effort to repair and improve systems that are designed to stop flooding basements,
MRA puts out legislative fires
By AMY DRUMM, MRA Vice President, Government Affairs
On the heels of attending a conference of state retail associations in Montana, I was able to spend some time in Glacier National Park and learned about the many forest fires that happen each year in our national parks.
Want a peek into the future of payment processing?
By JOHN MAYLEBEN
Looking out on the payments landscape and working on projects with various members of the Michigan Retailers Association has created a peek into the future of payments.
Flavored vape ban on hold, surprise medical billing discussion starts
In this issue:
- Court puts flavored vape ban on hold
- House unanimously reports marketplace bills
- Discussion to end surprise medical billing starts
- House passes updates to accessibility signs
- Pure Michigan vows to continue
Court puts flavored vape ban on hold
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