It is believed Whitmre is going to sign this mess because it is in the budget bill. That's right, the state budget is held hostage to the Michigan legislatures political dogma. Whitmer should be putting a very big veto across this budget and tell the legislature to do better. That veto would result in an override of it and the law within the budget would pass anyway.
I think the budget provision will be challenged by cites and probably successfully. As a matter of fact wasn't a similar attempt at killing people attempted by Florida's governor What's His Name? The courts did not endorse, oh, yeah, DeSantis, DeSantis' idea of good governance.
September 21, 2021By Dave Boucher
Michigan public agencies (click here) may not require employees or customers be vaccinated against COVID-19 while state and local health officials cannot enact or enforce mask rules for K-12 students under provisions of a budget bill that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and legislative leaders say will be approved.
The nearly $70-billion budget proposal also mandates the state publish detailed justification for any future pandemic orders.
Senate Bill 82, a budget measure that emerged from closed-door negotiations between legislative leaders and Whitmer's administration on Tuesday, includes nearly 1,000 pages outlining funding for all state departments next financial year. It passed the Senate with unanimous support.
"We wanted to negotiate. Those negotiations were in good faith, they were bipartisan. They were very productive. They weren't always easy, but I'm pleased with how the budget ended up," Whitmer said, speaking Tuesday afternoon from outside the Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island.
