State Legislative Session Formally Ends This Week

LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Dec. 30, 2024) – The lame duck state legislature may have called time on proceedings before Christmas, but the formal closing of the two-year lawmaking session in Lansing takes place this week.

Senate Majority Leader Winnie Brooks of Grand Rapids bangs the gavel down for the last time on Monday, although the Upper Chamber still has two more years to go before all of its seats are up for election consideration. Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt of Lawton is hoping for better things on the back half of this term.

Meanwhile, the state House ends its session on Tuesday, and Brad Slagh of Zeeland Township is hopeful that his fellow Republicans, who will take the gavel as the majority in the Lower Chamber after the first of the year, don’t make the same leadership mistakes that the GOP claims the Democrats did over the past 24 months.

It will be divided state government for the next two years in Lansing, as Democrats will continue to hold control of the Senate, as well as in the Governor’s Mansion with Gretchen Whitmer, and in the Supreme Court.