Former Legislator Employment Moratorium — Utility Consumer Participation Board Grantees

Current understanding

A proposed new act would bar former Michigan legislators, for a defined period after leaving office, from accepting employment with entities that receive grants from the Utility Consumer Participation Board. Unlike the PA 472 lobbying revolving-door bills (HB4062/HB4063/HB4064), this measure targets direct employment — not lobbying activity — and is scoped narrowly to a specific class of state-funded grantees. Cooling-off duration and definitions to be captured from bill text; status: introduced.

Evidence log

• 2026-08-27 — Public employees and officers: ethics; moratorium on former legislators accepting employment with an entity that receives a grant from the utility consumer participation board; provide for. Creates new act.: cross-connection with former-legislator-lobbying-restrictions: Both address post-service conduct of former legislators; the lobbying package (HB4062 et al.) restricts lobbying activity under PA 472, while this bill restricts outright employment with a narrow class of Utility Consumer Participation Board grantees. (novelty: 2)

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