Senator John Damoose's Press Releases

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. John Damoose, R-Harbor Springs, issued the following statement after the Senate voted to send reforms to the impending sick leave law and legislation to preserve Michigan’s tip credit to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: “We had months and months and months to do this, yet here we are at the eleventh hour rushing to get this done. Issues of this magnitude deserve significant

LANSING, Mich. — Sen. John Damoose on Wednesday introduced legislation to exempt tips earned by the state’s hospitality workers from income taxes in the state of Michigan. “Tourism and hospitality are both incredibly important to the Northern Michigan and Upper Peninsula economies,” said Damoose, R-Harbor Springs. “A lot of people are concerned with rising costs and how they are going to make ends meet. My goal

LANSING, Mich. — State Sens. Michael Webber and John Damoose on Tuesday introduced legislation to implement mobile panic alert systems throughout the state’s public and nonpublic schools to ensure real-time coordination between schools, 911, law enforcement and first responders. “This legislation would raise Michigan up alongside several other states that have enacted school mobile panic alert systems — critical technology to support the safety of students,

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. John Damoose, along with State Reps. Parker Fairbairn and John Roth on Monday called for the Department of Natural Resources to end its plan to displace hundreds of acres of wildlife habitat after recent reporting exposed a DNR proposal to replace over 400 acres of forest, located just west of Gaylord, with solar panel installations. The legislators said the DNR, which

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. John Damoose will join fellow lawmakers and advocates in a virtual press conference on Monday, Dec. 2, to discuss and build support for water affordability legislation currently before the Legislature. Who: State Sen. John Damoose, R-Harbor Springs State Sen. Stephanie Chang, D-Detroit State Rep. Abraham Aiyash, D-Detroit Macomb County Councilman Henry Yanez Representatives from social service organizations: Michigan Community Action –

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. John Damoose, R-Harbor Springs, issued the following statement after the Senate Committee on Education approved bills that would have a dramatic negative effect on charter schools and their ability to operate in Michigan: “I simply cannot believe what occurred in today’s Education Committee. We literally watched the committee chair attack the entire premise of for-profit corporations, the bedrock of the American