Bill Title: State financing and management; purchasing; software purchases; require consideration of suitability of open-source software prior to software purchase. Amends sec. 261d of 1984 PA 431 (MCL 18.1261d).

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 41-10)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-12-30 - Printed Bill Filed 12/21/2009 [HB5723 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Rick Jones [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-024	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Tom Pearce [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-073	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Arlan Meekhof [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-030	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kenneth Kurtz [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-058	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Dave Hildenbrand [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-029	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Joe Haveman [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-090	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Goeff Hansen [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-034	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Hugh Crawford [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-038	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Darwin Booher [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-035	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Kevin Daley [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-026	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Andrew Kandrevas [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-013	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator John Proos [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-021	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Wayne Schmidt [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-037	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Tonya Schuitmaker [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-026	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Phillip Pavlov [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-025	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kevin Elsenheimer [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-105	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Justin Amash [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-072	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative James Bolger [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-063	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kevin Green [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-077	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Eileen Kowall [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-044	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative John Walsh [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-019	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Jim Stamas [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-036	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Gail Haines [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-043	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Cindy Denby [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-047	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Jennifer Haase [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-032	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Dian Slavens [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-021	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Paul Scott [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-051	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Pete Lund [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-036	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Sharon Tyler [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-078	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Kim Meltzer [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-033	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Matthew Lori [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-059	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Bertram Johnson [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-002	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Shanelle Jackson [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-009	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Larry DeShazor [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-061	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Richard Ball [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-085	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Tim Moore [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-097	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Brian Calley [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-087	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Bill Rogers [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-042	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Charles Moss [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-040	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Kenneth Horn [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-032	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Thomas McMillin [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-045	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator James Marleau [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-012	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Tory Rocca [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-010	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Robert Dean [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-075	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Sarah Roberts [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-018	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Rashida Tlaib [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-006	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Frederick Miller [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-031	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Ellen Lipton [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-027	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Marty Knollenberg [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-013	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative David Agema [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-074	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Representative Paul Opsommer [R]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-093	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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