House, Senate to look at locker
search, deregulation bills
The Michigan Daily - Monday, January 24, 2000 - 7A
LANSING (AP) - The Legislature eases into the
0 session this week with light activity on the
use and Senate floors and more news likely to
come out of the committees.
Session will be called tomorrow and Wednesday
largely to introduce the bills lawmakers drafted during
the six-week holiday break. Among the new bills are
measures that would prohibit the secretary of state
from selling information about license holders, pro-
hibit criminals from suing their victims and allow for
school locker searches.
"When I was in middle school and high school 40
years ago, things were different than they are today,"
glRep. Lauren Hager (R-Port Huron) who spon-
-ed the locker search bill.
"I think we've come to a time where school adminis-
trators have to have tools to use when they think they may
need to search a locker for whatever reason," Hager said.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has
expressed concern about any legislation that would
allow the searches without suspicion of wrongdoing.
"We know schools are doing it, but it really hasn't
been an issue that has been taken up by the Michigan
courts," said Wendy Wagenheim of the ACLU. "It's
something we probably will be watching."
New utility deregulation bills also will be discussed
this week in committee. The House Energy and
Technology Committee will take up bills deregulating
the natural gas market and the Senate Technology and
Energy Committee is slated to begin its long-awaited
discussion of electricity deregulation.
That legislation, which has been under discussion for
weeks as backers sought support, would let consumers
pick their electric energy producer by 2002. It would open
Michigan's power market by prohibiting any utility from
controlling more than 25 percent of the state's capacity.
It also would freeze electricity rates for three years,
compensate utilities for "stranded costs," or invest-
ments made in the past but not yet fully recovered
through present rates and require major utilities to
upgrade their transmission systems to pen nit more
power to flow into Michigan.
Backers contend the legislation would open the
electricity market to competition and thus increase the
amount of power flowing into Michigan while driving
down prices.
Critics charge the bill mainly would help big utili-
ties and lead to a big increase in electric rates, while
jeopardizing worker's jobs and the environment.
A key to the bill's success will be the fate of efforts
to win support from Detroit Edison Co., which con-
trols about half of Michigan's energy market. Leery of
the 25 percent market limit, Edison has been reluctant
to join a coalition supporting the bill.
Another key committee meeting comes Thursday,
when the House and Senate appropriations committees
gather together to receive Gov. John Engler's proposed
budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The presentation
will kick off a budget process which won't end until
final enactment, probably early in the summer.
The governor's 2000-01 budget will assign dollar
figures to the agenda he spelled out last week in the
State of the State address, including $170.4 million in
new or accelerated tax cuts. It is also expected to put
heavy stress on education programs.
Fiscl analysts said the state's general fund budget
is expected to total $9.5 billion to $10 billion. That
compares to the current year's budget of slightly more
than $9.2 billion.
The school aid fund, which provides money for school
districts across Michigan, is forecast at another $10 bil-
lion, up from $9.8 billion in the current fiscal year.
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regardless of whether the alarm is
false.
Brown said that the penalties for
students who do not evacuate vary.
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