By Brandon Hall
(Email him at WestMIPolitics@Gmail.com)
Kunse’s Questionable Votes:
Voted to decrease the penalty for not timely reporting a death:
2023 House Bill 4011 Labor: health and safety; penalty for failure to report a death; decrease by the maximum allowable amount if the death occurs to a certain individual on a family farm.
Voted in favor
Passed 93 to 13 on Feb. 29, 2024
Voted against requiring animal testing centers to try adoption before killing:
2023 Senate Bill 149 / Public Act 315 Animals: research facilities; certain research facilities to offer certain laboratory animals for adoption before euthanization; require.
Voted against
Passed 67 to 39 on Nov. 9, 2023
Voted against reporting requirements and penalties for animal testing centers:
2023 Senate Bill 148 / Public Act 314 Animals: research facilities; reporting requirements and penalties for noncompliance; provide for.
Voted against
Passed 63 to 43 on Nov. 9, 2023
Voted to allow implementation of a hotel tax:
2023 House Bill 5048 Taxation: hotel-motel; local units to levy a hotel tax; allow and increase rate allowed to be levied by counties.
Voted in favor
Passed 66 to 44 on Oct. 31, 2023
Voted in favor
Amendment concurred in 68 to 38 on Nov. 9, 2023
Voted against ending big pharma’s immunity from liability:
2023 Senate Bill 410 / Public Act 285 Torts: product liability; limitation on liability for drugs that have been approved by federal Food and Drug Administration; rescind.
Voted against
Passed 79 to 30 on Nov. 8, 2023
Voted against strengthening domestic violence laws:
2023 Senate Bill 528 / Public Act 199 Crimes: other; penalties for certain offenses committed when victim and offender have a domestic relationship; provide for.
Voted against
Passed 58 to 52 on Nov. 1, 2023
Voted to increase court transcript fees:
2023 House Bill 5046 Civil procedure: costs and fees; fees for transcripts; increase.
Voted in favor
Passed 104 to 6 on Nov. 1, 2023
Sided with HOAs over property rights:
2023 House Bill 5028 Housing: other; energy-saving home improvements; invalidate prohibition of by homeowners' association.
Voted against
Passed 56 to 54 on Nov. 1, 2023
Supports corporate welfare and crony capitalism:
2023 House Bill 5100 Corporate income tax: credits; research and development credit for certain large employers; provide for.
Voted in favor
Passed 79 to 31 on Oct. 31, 2023
2023 House Bill 5099 Economic development: Michigan strategic fund; research and development tax credit program; create and administer.
Voted in favor
Passed 77 to 33 on Oct. 31, 2023
Voted in favor
Passed 72 to 38 on Oct. 31, 2023
Voted against setting water quality standards in daycares:
2023 House Bill 4341 / Public Act 154 Water supply: quality and standards; clean drinking water in schools and child care centers; provide for.
Voted against
Passed 76 to 34 on Sept. 20, 2023
Voted against
Substitute S-2 concurred in 74 to 36 on Oct. 12, 2023
Voted against more options for cancer patients:
2023 House Bill 4071 / Public Act 170 Insurance: health insurers; coverage for orally administered anticancer chemotherapy; provide equal treatment for.
Voted against
Passed 70 to 37 on May 24, 2023
Voted against
Substitute S-1 concurred in 72 to 38 on Oct. 12, 2023
Voted to continue ORV license fee:
2023 House Bill 4515 Vehicles: off-road; license fee; eliminate sunset.
Voted in favor
Passed 79 to 30 on June 14, 2023
Kunse, whose district includes Osceola and Mecosta Counties, as well as parts of Clare County and Lake County, he is up for re-election in August.
Brandon Hall is a lifelong political nerd from Grand Haven, and is the Managing Editor of West Michigan Politics.
>>>Email him at WestMIPolitics@Gmail.com
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