May POAM Washington Update In the past two months, both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate worked to pass their respective Fiscal Year 2016 budget resolutions. On March 25, the House passed ...
On April 28th, POAM provided a written request to The Honorable Debbie Stabenow, asking for an amendment to the AHA (Affordable Healthcare Act) to prohibit employers, both public and private, from eli...
March POAM Washington Update As the new 114th Congress kicked off its first session in January, it had to resolve leftover business from the previous year. Full 2015 year funding for the Department of...
January POAM Washington Update The 114th Congress was officially sworn in on Tuesday, January 6, 2015. Both House and Senate Leadership will now begin work on shaping their priorities and goals for 20...
Senator Pat Colbeck (center) came to the POAM Executive Board meeting and was recognized for his tremendous effort on SB 850. Left to right: Brian Earle (DSAM), President Jim Tignanelli, Legislative D...
Governor Snyder [center, seated] signs HB 5097 into law. There for the occasion where (left to right) — EB member Dan Kuhn, Rep. John Walsh [Bill Sponsor], POAM Lobbyist Tim Ward, EB Member and ...
Over the past two months Congress has only been in session for two weeks and during that period they passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) which prevents a government shut down and provides government f...
POAM thanks Representative John Walsh [Center, seated] for introducing and pushing HB 5097 at it’s official signing on October 15th. POAM board members from left to right are President Jim Tignanell...
Below is an urgent memo written by POAM General Counsel Frank Guido in regards to HB5097: The Governor has signed into law legislation amending PA 54 of 2011 (Enrolled House Bill No. 5097). The amendi...