102nd Michigan Legislature

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102nd Michigan Legislature
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Overview
TermJanuary 10, 2023 –
Michigan Senate
President of the SenateLt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist (D)
Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brinks (D)
Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt (R)
Party controlDemocratic
Michigan House of Representatives
Members100
Speaker of the House Joe Tate (D)
House Majority Leader Abraham Aiyash (D)
House Minority Leader Matt Hall (R)
Party controlDemocratic
Sessions
1stJanuary 1, 2023 – November 14, 2023
2ndJanuary 1, 2024 –

The 102nd Michigan Legislature, consisting of the Michigan Senate and the Michigan House of Representatives, began its first session on January 1, 2023, which ended on November 14, 2023. A second session began on January 1, 2024.

Contents

Members in both the House of Representatives and Senate were elected in the 2022 election. It is the first time that Democrats have held both houses of the legislature and the governorship since the 82nd Michigan Legislature in 1983–1984, the first time that Democrats have held the majority in the House since 2008, and the first time Democrats have held the majority in the Senate since 1984. It is also the first legislature whose districts were drawn by the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission, which was created through the passage of 2018 Michigan Proposal 2, based on the results of the 2020 United States census and the resulting redistricting cycle.

Membership

Leadership

Joe Tate became the first African American speaker of the House, and Winnie Brinks became the first woman majority leader of the Senate. Jeremy Moss became the first LGBT person to serve as Senate president pro tempore.

Composition changes

As a result of Democratic state representatives Lori Stone (HD13) and Kevin Coleman (HD25) being elected as mayors of Warren and Westland, the House Democratic majority was lessened to a tie with Republicans. Special elections for both districts were scheduled for April 25, 2024 (with a primary scheduled for January 30), with Democratic leadership remaining in control of the House in the interim. [4]

Legislation

Prior to and during the first session, members of the Democratic majority, as well as Governor Gretchen Whitmer, announced their intent to pursue many of the following:

See also

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