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John Gleason (D)
State Senator, District 27
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Missed Votes
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Bill 776 (Use juror compensation fund money for other state spending ). Passed in the Senate (37 to 0) on November 12, 2009, to concur with the House-passed version of the bill. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 House Bill 5246 (Impose additional funeral home unclaimed remains regulations ). Passed in the Senate (37 to 0) on November 12, 2009, to concur with the House-passed amendment to the bill. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 House Bill 5514 (Exempt babysitting from state licensure mandates ). Passed in the Senate (37 to 0) on November 12, 2009, to exempt “babysitting services" from state licensure mandates. This is defined as “temporarily caring for a child on behalf of the child's parent or guardian where the annual compensation is less than $600," or an amount that would trigger IRS payroll deduction mandates. The bill was introduced after the state Department of Human Services made national headlines for seeking to prosecute for not having a license an individual who kept on eye on her neighbors children while they were waiting for the school bus. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Concurrent Resolution 24. Passed in the Senate (22 to 15) on November 12, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Concurrent Resolution 23 (Reject DNR/DEQ merger, and trimming Ag & Natural Resources Commission power ). Passed in the Senate (22 to 15) on November 12, 2009, to disapprove Gov. Jennifer Granholm's Executive Order No. 2009-45, which would merge the Departments of Natural Resources and Environmental Quality, transfer to the governor the power of the state Agriculture Commission to name the director of the Department of Agriculture, and also transfer the Natural Resources Commission's power to name the DNR director. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Bill 253 (Appropriations: 2009-2010 State Police ). Failed in the Senate (17 to 10) on September 30, 2009, to reconsider the vote by which the conference report was not adopted. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Bill 253 (Appropriations: 2009-2010 State Police ). Failed in the Senate (17 to 17) on September 30, 2009, the House-Senate conference report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 State Police budget. The report was not accepted on this vote because some senators object to the provision authorizing the purchase for around $70 million of a controversial new State Police headquarters in downtown Lansing owned by prominent Democratic Party contributor Joel Ferguson and Republican contributor Gary Granger. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 House Bill 5120 (Cobo Hall Regional Authority “re-do” ). Passed in the Senate (37 to 0) on November 12, 2009, to transfer $6.6 million in "convention facilities fund" money (which comes from past borrowing, and some hotel and liquor taxes) to the state general fund to cover other state spending in Fiscal Year 2008-2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Concurrent Resolution 21 (Require disclosure of tax hikes needed for spending beyond revenue ). Passed in the Senate (28 to 6) on September 16, 2009, to require the House and Senate to each adopt budget "targets" by June 1 based on revenue projections from the most recent revenue estimating conference, and if either body proposes spending more than can be paid for with expected revenues, to require it to specify details of the tax or fee hikes that would be needed to pay for the extra spending. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Bill 807 (Re-combine DEQ and DNR ). Passed in the Senate (22 to 15) on November 10, 2009, to merge the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Natural Resources. This is part of a legislative package comprised of Senate Bills 806 to 824 which would amend various public acts so as to (re)combine the two departments. The bill would create Office of Environmental Permits within the DNR, whose director's appointment would require the advice and consent of the Senate. [Vote Details and Comments]
