June 14, 2021
From the Associated Press — A group will launch a ballot drive to require legislative approval to extend emergency pandemic orders beyond 28 days, in what is the latest bid to neuter a law Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s administration has used to issue coronavirus restrictions. The initiative will be organized by Unlock Michigan. The ballot committee previously gathered signatures to repeal a law
that underpinned Whitmer’s rules. After the ruling, her administration kept the limits intact under a law giving the state health director broad authority to issue orders. The new measure would make emergency orders unenforceable after 28 days unless the Legislature OKs an extension.