HB 5089 Michigan House · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Highways: memorial; portions of M-60; rename as memorial highways. Amends sec. 106 of 2001 PA 142 (MCL 250.1106).

HB 5089 amends Michigan's memorial highway law to rename four specific segments of M-60 in Jackson County after veterans. Each segment is designated with a memorial name honoring distinct groups: WWII veterans (Lynford Graham, Melvin King, Vernon Smalley), Vietnam War veterans (Timothy Ballinger, Robert Jenks, James Morgan), and an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran (Donald Wheeler Jr.). The bill directly affects drivers using these M-60 portions by changing their official highway names. It does not create new policies or funding, only renaming existing road segments per the memorial highway act. The bill passed unanimously in the Michigan House on December 2, 2025.

Issues: ✓ Veterans

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Oct 2025

Committee Review

Dec 2025

House Passage

Nov 2025

Senate Passage

Dec 2025

Governor

Introduced Oct 1, 2025 Last action Dec 2, 2025

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House Introduced Bill → As Passed by the House · 3 edits · Nov 12, 2025

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The bill text was reformatted and cleaned up during its passage through the House, removing internal tracking marks, page headers, and footer information while preserving all substantive content. No actual policy changes were made to the memorial highway designations.

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Removed internal legislative tracking codes, page numbers, and document identifiers that were present in the original introduction version.

Added standard legislative formatting with proper capitalization and punctuation for the enacted text.

Removed the introductory date line showing when the bill was introduced and by whom.

Floor votes · House Nov 12, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Dec 2, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AND EMERGENCY SERVICES

upper

Dec 2, 2025

Upper · Passed

PASSED BY HOUSE WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT

upper

Nov 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

passed; given immediate effect Roll Call #302 Yeas 102 Nays 0 Excused 0 Not Voting 8

lower

Nov 4, 2025

Committee

referred to second reading

lower

Nov 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

reported with recommendation without amendment

lower

Oct 1, 2025

Committee

referred to Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

lower

Oct 1, 2025

Introduced

introduced by Representative Rep. Sarah Lightner

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors