EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been corrected to accurately reflect which lawmaker sponsored which bill.
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – The Lakeshore’s two freshmen state House Representatives can now say that legislation that they had sponsored in their few months in office is now law after Governor Whitmer signed a pair of bills on Tuesday.
Republican Rep. Bradley Slagh of Zeeland Township and 10 other lawmakers cosponsored an amendment to the Land Division Act that changes requirements for completing an application for land division, which would bolster protections for prospective buyers and sellers. According to the Governor’s office, this change, “will make Michigan’s economy more dynamic, improving the marketability of land by protecting prospective buyers from being foreclosed upon due to back taxes of which they were unaware.”
Rep. Luke Meerman, R-Coopersville drafted legislation that would allow a township board to reestablish and maintain a public library under the Charter Township Act. This tweak in the law was needed in order for such institutions that had been established under a now-repealed statute to still get state aid and distributions of penal fine revenue as libraries that had been set up under the original Act.
Both bills had cleared the state Legislature a month ago. Each law is the first passed for Slagh and Meerman, respectively.
