1998: Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act
1998: Automobile National Heritage Area Act
2001: Banned drilling in the Great Lakes for 2 years
2002: Unity in the Spirit Of America (USA) Act
2002: Specialty Crop Purchase Program
2003: Established Financial Literacy Commission
2003: Required FTC to examine how unreported transactions affect the credit ratings of lower-income borrowers.
2003: Required Federal Trade Commission to undertake an aggressive anti-identity theft media campaign
2003: Ended protection against lawsuits for Eli Lilly and other drug manufactures over the use of the mercury-based compound thimerosal
2003: Extended the ban on drilling in the Great Lakes
2003: Funded programs to address cormorant problem
2004: Extended ban on drilling in the Great Lakes
2004: Gave lenders more flexibility to expand loans for small businesses.
2004: Specialty Crop Competitiveness Act
2005: Passed permanent ban on drilling in the Great Lakes
2005: Renamed the Federal Homeland Security Building in Detroit after Rosa Parks
2005: Investigated if gas prices were being artificially manipulated
2005: Funding for Treasury to combat trade violations
2006: Michigan Lighthouse and Maritime Heritage Act
2007: Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
2007: Cracked down on frivolous petitions that delay access to generic drugs
2007: Required Treasury to report to Congress which U.S. trading partners are manipulating their currency.
2007: Named the Veterans Clinic in Alpena after Lieutenant Colonel Clement C. Van Wagoner.
2007: Specialty Crop Block Grants
2007: Support for Asparagus Producers
2007: National Institute for Food and Agriculture (S.1094)
2008: Additional tax benefits for seniors and disabled veterans.
2008: Allowed manufacturers to utilize built-up tax credits to invest in their businesses.
2008: Extended unemployment insurance by 13 weeks.
2008: Extended of Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
2008: Green Jobs Initiative
2008: Passed the Great Lakes Compact Resolution
2009: Extended Children’s Health Insurance (CHIP)
2009: Expanded health care electronic records usage
2009: Auto Ownership Tax Assistance
2009: Continued Green Jobs Initiative with new Clean Energy Fund
2009: Helped manufacturers remain competitive in the MEP partnership.
2009: Increased funding for programs that help address unemployment insurance and job training in states and localities with the highest unemployment rate
2009: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
2009: Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act
2009: Drive American Forward Act
2010: Ensured insurance plans conform to the same consumer protections and market rules
2010: Required exchange plans to follow mental health parity requirements like other health insurers and plans
2010: Established a network of centers of excellence for depression through SAMSA
2010: Made sure Medicaid beneficiaries with mental illness would be eligible for coordinated services under the new Medicaid option promoting health homes and integrated care
2010: Added community mental health centers to the list of examples of designated providers eligible to participate in the program
2010: Made sure states had the option of including family planning as part of their Medicaid programs
2010: Created a $200 million “Graduate Nurse Education” demonstration program to train advance practice nurses
2010: Made sure businesses could take advantage of health tax credits sooner
2010: Expanded eligibility for small business health tax credit
2010: Allowed Part D sponsors to waive co-pays as an incentive to encourage seniors to try generic drugs, also known as “free generic fill”
2010: Established a nationwide program for national and State background checks on direct patient access employees of certain long-term care (LTC) facilities or providers and provide Federal matching funds to states to conduct these activities
2010: Required improvements to long term care facilities
2010: $200 million in funding for school based health centers
2010: Made sure vulnerable children had access to school based care
2010: Allowed stand-alone dental plans to continue and offer the required pediatric dental services to be offered in the individual and small group markets including within the insurance exchanges
2010: Provided $5 billion in funding to insure early retirees
2010: Required HHS to develop guidelines to permit a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage to utilize value-based insurance designs
2010: Required community health centers and other safety-net facilities be designated providers with the new exchange plans
2010: Reduced tax burdens on individuals by delaying application of Cadillac Tax
2010: Excluded stand alone dental and vision plans from taxes
2010: Permitted employers to reduce the cost of the coverage when applying the tax if the employer’s age and gender demographics are not representative of the age and gender demographics of a national risk pool
2011: Named U.S Patent Office After Elijah McCoy
2011: Repealed the burdensome 1099 requirement that hurt small businesses
2012: Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2012
2012: Made sure women are better represented in clinical trials
2012: Stop Invasive Species Act
2012: Extended Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
2013: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Conservation and Lakeshore Conservation Act
2014: Extension of seven-year depreciation schedule for motorsports complexes
2014: AMT in lieu of bonus depreciation
2014: Excellence in Mental Health Act
2014: Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act
2014: 5 year Farm Bill
2014: Margin Protection Program and Revisions for Dairy Producers
2014: Dairy Product Donation Program
2014: Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP)
2014: Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP)
2014: Expanded Conservation Compliance
2014: Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) program
2014: Foundation for Food and Ag Research
2014: Nationwide Good Neighbor Authority (forestry)
2014: Expansion of crop insurance to specialty crops and organics
2014: Training and Coordination for Food and Ag Protection program (IFTPI)
2014: Military Veterans Liaison at USDA
2014: Increased flexibility in international food aid programs that allow USAID to feed an additional 800,000 people each year around the world at no additional cost.
2014: Extension of Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
2015: 2 years of funding for community health centers
2015: Banned plastic micro beads out of the Great Lakes
2015: Established a permanent Interagency Trade Enforcement Center and Chief Manufacturing Negotiator
2015: Improved domestic airfields for defense use
2015: Permanent conservation easements
2015: Charitable Agricultural Research Act
2015: Modified bonus depreciation to help blueberry growers
2015: Increased eligibility for empowerment zones
2015: Passed private mortgage insurance deduction
2015: Extended bonus depreciation
2015: Make the R&D tax credit permanent
2015: Made Section 179 expensing for small businesses permanent
2015: Extension of seven-year depreciations schedule for motorsports complexes
2015: Michigan and other states received additional funding for blight removal
2015: Mandatory Price Reporting
2015: National Forest Foundation
2015: US Grain Standards Act reauthorization
2015: Comprehensive review of access and quality of women’s health services for servicewomen
2015: Access to additional funding for School Based Health Centers
2016: Extension of Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
2016: Funding to fix the pipes in Flint and help children exposed to lead
2016: Allowed Michigan Veteran James C. McCloughan to be awarded the medal of honor
2017: Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act
2018: Funding for ambulance providers
2018: Extended Mortgage Tax Forgiveness Act
2018: Expanded access to cardiac rehabilitation programs
2018: Expansion of value based insurance design
2018: Repealed Independent Payment Advisory Board
2018: Funded children’s health insurance program (CHIP) for 10 years
2018: Funding for mental health based on Excellence in Mental Health Act
2018: Career Counseling legislation
2018: Required prompt payments to providers in the VA Mission Act
2018: Funded community health centers for 2 years
2018: Navigation protocols to stop Asian Carp
2018: Accountability for Brandon Road completion
2018: Additional funding for PFAS
2018: Additional funding for community mental health
2018: Stopped gag clauses in Medicare Part D plans
2018: Stopped gag clauses in private insurance plan
2018: Help for Moms and Babies*
2018: CHIP Mental Health Parity*
2018: Soo Locks Modernization Act *
2018: Increased federal cost-share for operation and maintenance at Brandon Road to 80% federal (currently 0%)*
2018: Great Lakes Coastal Resiliency Study*
2018: Additional funding for PFAS contaminations in small and disadvantaged communities*
2018: Expanded testing for lead in school and provided assistance to replace drinking fountains*
*Legislation passed the House and Senate and is awaiting the President’s signature
50 Michigan Public Acts Sponsored by Debbie Stabenow
1. Created Neighborhood Assistance Program (PA #56, 4/1/80; HLAS, 3/27/80)
2. Computerize the Register of Deeds’ indices (PA #95, 4/16/80)
3. Repealed the grain tax (PA #68, 4/30/80)
4. Required monitoring of treatment after a patient is released from a mental hospital ( PA #409, 1/8/81)
5. Established warrantless arrests for spousal abuse (PA 471, 1/17/81)
6. Eliminated the need for park commissions and allowed county governments to take mill increases directly to voters (PA #164, 5/25/82)
7. Credited a portion of income tax refunds to the Children’s Trust Fund (PA #211, 7/2/82)
8. Created the Children’s Trust Fund (PA #249, 9/29/82)
9. Friend of the Court reform (PA #295, 10/9/82)
10. Friend of the Court reform (PA #296, 10/9/82)
11. Friend of the Court reform (PA #297, 10/9/82)
12. Friend of the Court reform (PA #298, 10/9/82)
13. Friend of the Court reform (PA #294, 10/9/82)
14. Modified the Domestic Violence Board (PA #383, 12/28/82)
15. Friend of the Court reform (PA #108, 7/1/83)
16. Modified revenue sharing for local governments (PA #146, 7/18/83)
17. Friend of the Court reform (PA #193, 11/1/83)
18. Friend of the Court reform (PA #192, 11/1/83)
19. Friend of the Court reform (PA #194, 11/1/83)
20. Friend of the Court reform (PA #195, 11/1/83)
21. Allowed circuit courts to issue injunctions in domestic abuse cases (PA #228, 11/28/83)
22. Allowed circuit courts to issue injunctions in spouse abuse cases (PA #229, 11/28/83)
23. Family Support Subsidy Act provides support for families caring for severely disabled children at home (PA #249, 12/15/83)
24. Created mental health requirements for the voluntary admission of minors (PA #186, 7/2/84)
25. “Equal Access to Justice Act gave individuals, small businesses, and non-profit organizations the right to be reimbursed for attorney fees and court costs when successfully defending themselves against frivolous state actions (PA #196, 7/3/84)
26. “Equal Access to Justice Act gave individuals, small businesses, and non-profit organizations the right to be reimbursed for attorney fees and court costs when successfully defending themselves against frivolous state actions (PA #197, 7/3/84)
27. Defines autism in the mental health code (PA #358, 12/26/84)
28. Increased amounts to the Children’s Trust Fund check-off (PA #156, 11/15/85)
29. Friend of the Court reform (PA #172, 11/29/85)
30. Fingerprinting of children (PA #176, 12/2/85)
31. Voluntary fingerprinting with exception for children (PA #175, 12/2/85)
32. Created exceptions to barrier free design requirements (PA #196, 12/19/85)
33. Established a grant program for part-time students (PA #106, 5/13/86)
34. Updated civil admission and discharge procedures for the mentally ill (PA #117, 5/24/86)
35. Made TV and radio reporters’ sources privileged and confidential ( PA #293, 12/20/86)
36. Mandated retirement of incapacitated judges (PA #102, 7/7/87)
37. Reformed law regarding mental health services for children (PA #155, 6/14/88)
38. Added a resident member to proposed superconductor super collider commission (PA #157, 6/14/88)
39. Child care funds for county juvenile justice services (PA #223, 7/1/88)
40. Established new criteria for removing child from home (PA #224, 7/1/88)
41. Review of minors in Michigan’s children institute (PA #225, 7/1/88)
42. Modified Division of Deafness Act (PA #434, 12/24/88)
43. Modified Division of Deafness Act (PA #435, 12/24/88)
44. Reformed Pesticide Control Act (PA #449, 12/25/88)
45. Legalized the use of crane amusement switches (PA #464, 12/25/88)
46. Modified foster care review boards (PA #73, 6/15/89)
47. Modified foster care review boards (PA #74, 6/15/89)
48. Protected Great Lakes water resources (PA #327, 12/20/90)
49. Toughened drunk driving laws (PA #93, 8/1/91)
50. Modified village council compensation requirements (PA #42, 5/13/92)