2010 Senate Bill 1445

Require MichiganVotes-like “missed votes” info on legislature’s website

Introduced in the Senate

Aug. 11, 2010

Introduced by Sen. Glenn Anderson (D-6)

To require the legislature’s website to include the date of each absence by a member, the names of each member not voting on final passage of a bill, and a summary of total votes not taken by each member. Note: This website (MichiganVotes.org) already provides this data in a searchable, sortable format, for every legislator going back to 2001. Users can look <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/MissedVotes.aspx">tables</a> showing the missed votes of all legislators for any given date range, and using the “<a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/Search.aspx">advanced searches</a>” page, can look up the missed votes of particular legislators sorted by date range, issue category, and/or keyword.

Referred to the Committee on Local, Urban, and State Affairs