Welcome to my Web site!
I'm State Representative Vicki Barnett, and I serve Michigan's 37th House District.
I hope you find my Web site useful and informative. You can use it to keep up-to-date on the work I'm doing in Lansing to make our community a better place to live, work and raise a family. You can also use it to sign up to receive my e-newsletter. I encourage you to please contact me if I can ever be of service. I am here to serve you and be your voice in our State Capitol.
Sincerely,
State Representative Vicki Barnett
37th House District
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Plan signed into law in May will keep Michigan families in their homes— Jul 02, 2009LANSING – In a victory for struggling families throughout Michigan, a plan supported by State Representatives Lisa Brown (D-West Bloomfield) and Vicki Barnett (D-Farmington Hills) will go into effect on Sunday, providing a 90-day lifeline for homeowners at risk of losing their home to foreclosure. ...
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Plan targets discrimination by insurance companies, requires coverage— Jun 24, 2009LANSING – Scoring a major victory for children with autism and families across the state, Oakland County lawmakers today voted for a plan that requires health insurance companies to cover treatments for autism. The plan now heads to the Senate. ...
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$138M in stimulus funds to aid workers at risk due to Senate inaction— Jun 23, 2009LANSING – With Michigan's unemployment rate rising to 14.1 percent and tens of thousands of workers at risk of exhausting their unemployment benefits, State Representatives Lisa Brown (D-West Bloomfield) and Vicki Barnett (D-Farmington Hills) today called on the Senate to act on a House plan that will capture $138 million in stimulus funds to extend unemployment benefits for workers who enter into retraining or vocational programs in order to upgrade their skills and re-enter the workforce. ...
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Lawmakers send stronger plan back to Senate for action— Jun 18, 2009LANSING – Oakland County lawmakers today sent the "Hire Michigan First" package back to the State Senate after adding key provisions that were stripped by the Senate back into the plan. ...
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Plan protects voters from anonymous calls, increases transparency in campaigns— Jun 16, 2009LANSING – In a move to increase transparency and accountability in elections and political campaigns, State Representatives Lisa Brown (D-West Bloomfield) and Vicki Barnett (D-Farmington Hills) voted in favor of legislation requiring automated telephone calls targeted at voters – or "robocalls" – to state the identity of the person paying for the call as well as his or her phone number or address at the beginning of the call. ...