MI Senate
The number of Michigan Senate seats.
What is 38?
The number of terms a Governor is limited to.
What is 2?
Senate Bills start at _______ (number) while House Bills start at ________ (number).
What are 1 and 4001?
It takes this number of votes for a bill to pass the House.
What is 56?
This event officially kicks off the budget season (also known as Rachel's favorite budget holiday).
What is the Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference (CREC)?
This person votes in the event of a tie.
Who is the Lt. Governor (Lt. Governor Gilchrist)?
After the Lt. Gov, this official is second in the line of succession for Governor.
Who is the Secretary of State?
This agency is responsible for drafting of bills.
What is the Legislative Service Bureau (LSB)?
Most House members have offices in this building.
What is the Anderson House Office Building (named after Rep. Cora R. Anderson)?
The two main provisions in a budget bill.
What are line items and boilerplate?
What is 26?
The maximum number of state departments.
What is 20?
The number of readings of a bill before it is put up for final passage.
What is 3?
Men are always required to wear this piece of apparel on the House floor.
What is a tie?
The Governor has this many of days after the start of session to deliver their budget recommendation.
What is 30 (or 60 in the Governor's first term)?
Each Senator serves approximately this many residents (range).
What is between 210,000 and 264,000?
This was the first woman to serve as Michigan's Treasurer (not in an acting role).
Who is Rachael Eubanks? (Madhu Anderson served in an interim role from Nov 1998 to mid January 1999)
Bills are submitted using a signature sheet of this color.
What is blue (blueback)?
This person was the last House Democratic Majority Floor Leader.
Who is Representative Kathy Angerer?
These are the two main ways to make mid-year adjustments to a budget?
What are supplemental budget bills and transfer requests?
This person was the last Democratic Senate Majority Leader.
Who was Senator William Faust? (1976-1984)
This Department is the only one to have a non-elected head that isn't appointed by the Governor.
What is the Department of Education?
It takes this supermajority to pass changes to an initiated law (like the decriminalization of marijuana)?
What is three-fourths? (83 in the House; 29 in the Senate)
Gary Randall has served as clerk or assistant clerk of the House since ____________ (year).
What is 1999?
Adjusted for inflation, state General Fund revenues are just above the level set in this year.
What is 1968?