Michigan / State / 2025-2026 Regular Session
2025 PA 31, PA 36 and PA 37 Created a National Guard member benefit fund and put child care and TRICARE reimbursement on it
Three acts effective December 9, 2025. PA 31 created the Michigan National Guard member benefit fund. PA 37 created the Guard child care assistance program, paying a stipend at a rate the adjutant general sets annually for up to 12 hours a day of care for weekend drills and annual training, to a maximum of 39 days a year, but only where the member is a single parent or the member’s spouse is also an eligible member. PA 36 created the TRICARE premium reimbursement program for individual TRICARE Reserve Select and TRICARE Dental premiums. A fourth act, PA 38, amended the tuition assistance act so that the reimbursement route draws on the new fund and the unencumbered balance of the tuition assistance fund at the end of the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025 transferred into it. Tracked because three programs now compete for one pot and each is expressly contingent on there being sufficient money in it.
Progress
Path to law: Bill in a two-chamber legislature
- Introduced Done,
- In committee Done, House Appropriations
- Passed one chamber Done, House, 93-16
- Passed both chambers Done, Senate, 33-1
- Signed by the governor Done, Public Act 31 of 2025
- In effect Done,
Sponsors
- Ron Robinson
What it touches
- MCL § 32.491
- MCL § 32.453
- MCL § 32.473
- MCL § 32.434
Catalog entries (3)
Official record
Read 2025 PA 31, PA 36 and PA 37 on the jurisdiction's own record