Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
1 instrument in Michigan. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsExtends the disabled veteran plate to veterans rated 50 percent or more and to surviving spouses.
Amended MCL 257.803f, effective April 2, 2025, to let a partially disabled veteran with a VA service-connected disability rating of not less than 50 percent hold the DV plate, and to let the surviving spouse of a disabled veteran rated not less than 50 percent use and renew it after the veteran’s death. The registration tax exemption in section 801 was not extended with it and still reaches only a totally disabled veteran, so a 50 percent veteran gets the plate and the service fee waiver and still pays the registration tax. Tracked for a second reason the act did not mention: the Recreation Passport exemption in MCL 324.74116(c) cross-references section 803f as a whole, so partially disabled veterans gained free state park entry at the same moment, and the Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency recreation page still describes that benefit as being for 100 percent disabled veterans.
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