Talk:Michigan Legislature

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Rant by IP

The Michigan Constitution requires the legislature to be in session no less than 90 times per year. As mentioned in the article, there is otherwise no defined length of a session. This means that sessions of less than one hour comply with the constitutional definition of a "session". Herein lies one of Unicameral Michigan's arguments. With some sessions indeed lasting less than an hour and almost all less than three hours, the Michigan legislature is already part time but receives full time pay. It is rare when legislators are in Lansing more than three days per session week.

The issue of unicameralism as a solution to the inefficient and costly government in Michigan remains a topic of public discussion. The groundwork laid by Unicameral Michigan is waiting for another citizen activist group to emerge and take on the challenge of putting the unicameral issue before the voters of Michigan.

Joseph Lukasiewicz, former Spokesperson for Unicameral Michigan208.31.143.163 12:36, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Part-time legislatures

>the Michigan Legislature is one of only eleven full-time state legislatures in the nation

then

>Michigan is one of four states in the U.S. that has a full-time legislature

I wonder which is the right number. I've checked all wikipedia articles about US state legislatures. The state legislatures that are not defined as part-time are Arizona, California, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

But in some cases the articles are not clear. Tcp-ip (talk) 21:21, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

PA is full time New Hampshire is part time. I know that for certain. this needs fixed though. TheHammer24 (talk) 20:46, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

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Edit war

You cannot just keep reverting my original edit. There is nothing wrong with this article. Just because you don't like the fact that someone is correcting your inaccuracies, poor grammar and other mistakes. I removed a plethora of mistakes, which you keep trying to re-publish. Please follow Wikipedia rules and stop engaging in this edit war.75.129.106.189 (talk) 15:49, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Numbering of the Legislature

The article indicates that the 96th Legislature begins in 2011, and that the numbering reflects two-year legislatures since statehood. Michigan was admitted as a state on January 26, 1837. If that is the reference point, then we will not reach the 96th Legislature until 2027. Are they counting from the date on which Michigan was established as a territory? 98.191.220.101 (talk) 21:48, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Part time

On May 30, 2017, Lt. Governor Brain Calley announced a campaign to make the legislature part time.

I think this warrants inclusion.

Benjamin (talk) 00:07, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

References

Wikidata list

Michigan state legislative terms from 1835 through 2021 are in Wikidata. -- M2545 (talk) 12:54, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Edits to infobox on 17 December 2024 by User:Therequiembellishere

What follows below is adapted from Talk:State legislature (United States). I am merely raising this issue on this talk page and not fixing it at this time. This article is not a priority for me. Therefore, I am not going to waste my time cleaning up User:Therequiembellishere's mistakes.

User:Therequiembellishere made a massive number of edits to state legislature infoboxes on 17 December 2024: namely, changing "president of the Senate" to "Senate president" and "speaker of the Assembly" to "Assembly speaker".

A native American English speaker actually familiar with domestic press coverage of state legislatures or who studied political science at the postsecondary level would not make such edits. (I was not a poli sci major, but because I was thinking about pursuing a legal career at the time, I did take introductory courses in political science and political philosophy with a lecturer who earned his doctorate in political science from Stanford University.) It is true that "Assembly speaker" is becoming a bit more common (though still rather informal), but Senate president is definitely not in common use. Overall, the longer phrasings of both terms are still the more common usages, especially in formal written English.

Here is what I already posted to that user's talk page:

"Unfortunately, it looks like your massive number of edits on 17 December 2024 are going to require a mass revert. The fact that all those infoboxes are using (and have always used) the longer titles should have been a clue that your proposed shorter titles are not the prevailing forms in formal written English. Google Ngram Viewer shows that "president of the Senate" is more common than "Senate president" and "speaker of the Assembly" is more common than "Assembly speaker"."

I have already reverted the relevant edits to the infoboxes for the legislatures in California, Nevada, New York, and Pennsylvania. However, as a working attorney, I have better things to do with my time than fix such poorly thought-out edits. But I am raising the issue here and now so that anyone else interested in state legislatures can either manually fix those edits or take them to the administrators' noticeboard for a mass revert. --Coolcaesar (talk) 01:07, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

"101st Michigan Legislature" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect 101st Michigan Legislature has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 May 2 § 101st Michigan Legislature until a consensus is reached. Elli (talk | contribs) 02:54, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Term Limit Change

Curious if anyone thought it'd be worth it on House and Senate elections articles post 2022 to make a distinction between members term-limited out because they hit their term limits in a particular chamber, versus those who hit their limits because of the terms served in both? For instance, there are currently a lot of Senators termed out because they had previously also served in the House. But if you weren't familiar with the previous limits, the way the charts are done on Michigan legislative election articles, you'd probably wonder why all of these Senators elected in 2018 are leaving when you'd think they'd have another term left. I know it can be deduced from enough reading, but perhaps when we're listing termed-out and retiring members for a particular election, we can split the termed-out members into two different subsections to make this more clear. Just a thought. Criticalthinker (talk) 08:55, 23 May 2026 (UTC)