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The bills define a fetus as being born when any portion of the body has left the mother's body and shows signs of life such as a fetal heartbeat or sponta- neous movement. State Reps. Marc Shulman, R-West Bloomfield, and Shelley Goodman Taub, R- Bloomfield Hills, voted for the legis- lation; Reps. Andy Meisner, D-. Ferndale, and Steve Tobocman, D- Detroit, voted against. State Sen. Gilda Jacobs, D-Huntington Woods, and Lynn Brater, D-Ann Arbor, offered an amendment to allow the procedure when the mother's health was in danger. The amendment was defeated. Sens. Jacobs, Brater and Burton Leland, D-Detroit, voted against the legislation. • Sen. Jacobs' first package of bills unanimously passed the Senate. The bills define how a cemetery must use monies secured in endowment care funds, protecting the rights of citi- zens who have purchased burial plots. The bills now go to the House for consideration. • Rep. Tobocman has introduced several bills that would amend the Michigan Penal Code. Specifically, the bills would repeal the laws that make it a crime for a person to engage in gross indecency in public or private with someone of the same gender. It also repeals sections of the law that make it a crime for divorced couples to live together; for any per- son who blasphemes the "holy name of God;" who curses, damns or swears in the "name of God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost;" for unmarried couples to cohabitate and for married or unmarried couples to openly display gross lewdness and las- civious behavior. Rep. Andy Meisner co-sponsored the bills. These bills have been referred to the House Committee on Criminal Justice. • Rep. Taub introduced her first House bill that would allow town- ships and villages to create a business improvement district. Current law only allows cities to impose a special assessment on property within a dis- trict to pay for improvements. This bill is necessary to implement the Orchard Lake corridor group's strate- gy for enhancing the Orchard Lake Road corridor between Telegraph Road and 1-696 in western Oakland County. The bill is before the full House of Representatives for a vote. — Compiled by Susan Herman, Michigan Jewish Conference Washington,D. C. • The U.S. Senate passed a tax package 95-3 that includes $20 bil- lion in relief for states, including $520.5 million for Michigan. These funds, which were not included in the House version, include a tempo- rary (18-month) increase in the amount that the federal government pays toward Medicaid (called the FMAP) as well as other funds. Many Jewish agencies, including JVS, JARC and Jewish Home and Aging Services, utilize Medicaid payments to provide services to their clients. Both Michigan senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, voted in favor of the measure. • The Charity Aid, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act provides resources for social and human serv- ice agencies. The Senate version con- tains two important provisions for Jewish agencies: allowing fully tax- deductible IRA charitable rollovers and full funding of the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG), which pays for services such as adult day care and Meals on Wheels. The Senate version calls for SSBG funding at the 1995 level of $2.8 billion over 2 years. The House version (HR 7) contains no SSBG funds at all. — Compiled by Eric Adelman, Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit