Congressional Legislation Authored by Senator Debbie Stabenow Signed into Law 

1. 1998: Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act
2. 1998: Automobile National Heritage Area Act
3. 2001: Banned drilling in the Great Lakes for 2 years
4. 2002: Unity in the Spirit Of America (USA) Act
5. 2002: Specialty Crop Purchase Program
6. 2003: Established Financial Literacy Commission
7. 2003: Required FTC to examine how unreported transactions affect the credit ratings of lower-income borrowers.
8. 2003: Required Federal Trade Commission to undertake an aggressive anti-identity theft media campaign
9. 2003: Ended protection against lawsuits for Eli Lilly and other drug manufactures over the use of the mercury-based compound thimerosal
10. 2003: Extended the ban on drilling in the Great Lakes
11. 2003: Funded programs to address cormorant problem
12. 2004: Extended ban on drilling in the Great Lakes
13. 2004: Gave lenders more flexibility to expand loans for small businesses.
14. 2004: Specialty Crop Competitiveness Act
15. 2005: Passed permanent ban on drilling in the Great Lakes
16. 2005: Renamed the Federal Homeland Security Building in Detroit after Rosa Parks
17. 2005: Investigated if gas prices were being artificially manipulated
18. 2005: Funding for Treasury to combat trade violations
19. 2006: Michigan Lighthouse and Maritime Heritage Act
20. 2007: Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
21. 2007: Cracked down on frivolous petitions that delay access to generic drugs
22. 2007: Required Treasury to report to Congress which U.S. trading partners are manipulating their currency.
23. 2008: Additional tax benefits for seniors and disabled veterans.
24. 2007: Named the Veterans Clinic in Alpena after Lieutenant Colonel Clement C. Van Wagoner.
25. 2007: Specialty Crop Block Grants
26. 2007: Support for Asparagus Producers
27. 2007: National Institute for Food and Agriculture (S.1094)
28. 2008: Allowed manufacturers to utilize built-up tax credits to invest in their businesses.
29. 2008: Extended unemployment insurance by 13 weeks.
30. 2008: Extended of Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
31. 2008: Green Jobs Initiative
32. 2008: Passed the Great Lakes Compact Resolution
33. 2009: Extended Children’s Health Insurance (CHIP)
34. 2009: Expanded health care electronic records usage
35. 2009: Auto Ownership Tax Assistance
36. 2009: Continued Green Jobs Initiative with new Clean Energy Fund
37. 2009: Helped manufacturers remain competitive in the MEP partnership.
38. 2009: Increased funding for programs that help address unemployment insurance and job training in states and localities with the highest unemployment rate
39. 2009: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
40. 2009: Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act
41. 2009: Drive American Forward Act
42. 2010: Ensured insurance plans conform to the same consumer protections and market rules
43. 2010: Required exchange plans to follow mental health parity requirements like other health insurers and plans
44. 2010: Established a network of centers of excellence for depression through SAMSA
45. 2010: Made sure Medicaid beneficiaries with mental illness would be eligible for coordinated services under the new Medicaid option promoting health homes and integrated care
46. 2010: Added community mental health centers to the list of examples of designated providers eligible to participate in the program
47. 2010: Made sure states had the option of including family planning as part of their Medicaid programs
48. 2010: Created a $200 million “Graduate Nurse Education” demonstration program to train advance practice nurses
49. 2010: Made sure businesses could take advantage of health tax credits sooner
50. 2010: Expanded eligibility for small business health tax credit
51. 2010: Allowed Part D sponsors to waive co-pays as an incentive to encourage seniors to try generic drugs, also known as “free generic fill”
52. 2010: Established a nationwide program for national and State background checks on direct patient access employees of certain long-term care (LTC) facilities or providers and provide Federal matching funds to states to conduct these activities
53. 2010: Required improvements to long term care facilities
54. 2010: $200 million in funding for school based health centers
55. 2010: Made sure vulnerable children had access to school based care
56. 2010: Allowed stand-alone dental plans to continue and offer the required pediatric dental services to be offered in the individual and small group markets including within the insurance exchanges
57. 2010: Provided $5 billion in funding to insure early retirees
58. 2010: Required HHS to develop guidelines to permit a group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage to utilize value-based insurance designs
59. 2010: Required community health centers and other safety-net facilities be designated providers with the new exchange plans
60. 2010: Reduced tax burdens on individuals by delaying application of Cadillac Tax
61. 2010: Excluded stand alone dental and vision plans from taxes
62. 2010: Permitted employers to reduce the cost of the coverage when applying the tax if the employer’s age and gender demographics are not representative of the age and gender demographics of a national risk pool
63. 2011: Named U.S Patent Office After Elijah McCoy
64. 2011: Repealed the burdensome 1099 requirement that hurt small businesses
65. 2012: Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2012
66. 2012: Made sure women are better represented in clinical trials
67. 2012: Stop Invasive Species Act
68. 2002: Extended Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
69. 2013: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Conservation and Lakeshore Conservation Act
70. 2014: Extension of seven-year depreciation schedule for motorsports complexes
71. 2014: AMT in lieu of bonus depreciation
72. 2014: Excellence in Mental Health Act
73. 2014: Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act
74. 2014: 5-year Farm Bill
75. 2014: Agriculture Rick Coverage Program (eliminate Direct Payments) (2014 Farm Bill)
76. 2014: Margin Protection Program and Revisions for Dairy Producers (2014 Farm Bill)
77. 2014: Dairy Product Donation Program (2014 Farm Bill)
78. 2014: Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) (2014 Farm Bill)
79. 2014: Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) (2014 Farm Bill)
80. 2014: Expanded Conservation Compliance (2014 Farm Bill)
81. 2014: Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) program (2014 Farm Bill)
82. 2014: Foundation for Food and Ag Research (2014 Farm Bill)
83. 2014: Nationwide Good Neighbor Authority (forestry) (2014 Farm Bill)
84. 2014: Expansion of crop insurance to specialty crops and organics (2014 Farm Bill)
85. 2014: Training and Coordination for Food and Ag Protection (IFTPI) (2014 Farm Bill)
86. 2014: Military Veterans Liaison at USDA (2014 Farm Bill)
87. 2014: Increased flexibility in international food aid programs provides food for 800,000 people each year around the world at no additional cost. (2014 Farm Bill)
88. 2014: Extension of Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
89. 2015: 2 years of funding for community health centers
90. 2015: Banned plastic micro beads out of the Great Lakes
91. 2015: Established a permanent Interagency Trade Enforcement Center and Chief Manufacturing Negotiator
92. 2015: Improved domestic airfields for defense use
93. 2015: Permanent conservation easements
94. 2015: Charitable Agricultural Research Act
95. 2015: Modified bonus depreciation to help blueberry growers
96. 2015: Increased eligibility for empowerment zones
97. 2015: Passed private mortgage insurance deduction
98. 2015: Extended bonus depreciation
99. 2015: Make the R&D tax credit permanent
100. 2015: Made Section 179 expensing for small businesses permanent
101. 2015: Extension of seven-year depreciations schedule for motorsports complexes
102. 2015: Michigan and other states received additional funding for blight removal
103. 2015: Mandatory Price Reporting for Livestock
104. 2015: National Forest Foundation
105. 2015: US Grain Standards Act Reauthorization
106. 2015: Comprehensive review of access and quality of women’s health services for
servicewomen
107. 2015: Access to additional funding for School Based Health Centers
108. 2016: Extension of Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act
109. 2016: Funding to fix the pipes in Flint and help children exposed to lead
110. 2016: S.2579 – Drinking Water Safety and Infrastructure Act
111. 2016: Allowed Michigan Veteran James C. McCloughan to be awarded the medal of
Honor
112. 2017: Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act
113. 2018: Funding for ambulance providers
114. 2018: Extended Mortgage Tax Forgiveness Act
115. 2018: Expanded access to cardiac rehabilitation programs
116. 2018: Expansion of value-based insurance design
117. 2018: Repealed Independent Payment Advisory Board
118. 2018: Funded children’s health insurance program (CHIP) for 10 years
119. 2018: Funding for mental health based on Excellence in Mental Health Act
120. 2018: Career Counseling legislation (Perkins Career and Technical Education Act)
121. 2018: Required prompt payments to providers in the VA Mission Act
122. 2018: Funded community health centers for 2 years
123. 2018: Navigation protocols to stop Asian Carp
124. 2018: Accountability for Brandon Road completion
125. 2018: Additional funding for PFAS
126. 2018: Additional funding for community mental health
127. 2018: Stopped gag clauses in Medicare Part D plans
128. 2018: Stopped gag clauses in private insurance plan
129. 2018: Help for Moms and Babies
130. 2018: CHIP Mental Health Parity
131. 2018: Soo Locks Modernization Act
132. 2018: Increased federal cost-share for operation and maintenance at Brandon Road to 80% federal (currently 0%)
133. 2018: Great Lakes Coastal Resiliency Study
134. 2018: Additional funding for PFAS contaminations in small and disadvantaged communities
135. 2018: 5-year Farm Bill
136. 2018: Expands crop insurance coverage to new crops and more than doubles the disaster assistance options for crops not eligible for insurance (2018 Farm Bill)
137. 2018: Improves and expands dairy margin coverage program (2018 Farm Bill)
138. 2018: $500 million for farmers markets and local food systems (2018 Farm Bill)
139. 2018: $435 million to support minority, veteran, and beginning farmers (2018 Farm Bill)
140. 2018: Expanded support for military veterans with careers in agriculture (2018 Farm Bill)
141. 2018: Establish historic new office and support for urban agriculture (2018 Farm Bill)
142. 2018: $395 million in funding for organic research (2018 Farm Bill)
143. 2018: Improves regional conservation partnerships and triples funding (2018 Farm Bill)
144. 2018: Promote climate-smart agriculture by encouraging cover crops, and a new soil health pilot to sequester carbon (2018 Farm Bill)
145. 2018: Doubles investments for Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentives that encourage SNAP participants to purchase fruits and vegetables (2018 Farm Bill)
146. 2018: Establish new produce prescription initiatives that make fruits and vegetables more accessible and affordable for families (2018 Farm Bill)
147. 2018: Target infrastructure investments to ensure small town water systems are providing clean and reliable tap water (2018 Farm Bill)
148. 2018: Reestablish the Under Secretary of Rural Development at USDA (2018 Farm Bill)
149. 2018: Timber Innovation Act (2018 Farm Bill)
150. 2018: Expands the Good Neighbor Authority for the US Forest Service (2018 Farm Bill)
151. 2018: Expanded testing for lead in school and provided assistance to replace drinking fountains
152. 2019: Pesticide Registration Improvement Act
153. 2019: NDAA – IMPROVE Transition for Service Members Act, 2019
154. 2019: NDAA – PFAS Monitoring Act
155. 2019: NDAA – PFAS Accountability Act
156. 2019: Patient Access to Cellular Transplant (PACT) Act included in omni
157. 2020: $1.4 billion (approximately) for 2 more demo states + extension through FY23 of all 10 states. (CARES Act) This includes Michigan for the first time.
158. 2020: School-Based Health Centers Reauthorization Act
159. 2020: Improving HOPE for Alzheimer’s Act (Consolidated Appropriations, 2021)
160. 2020: Flint Registry Reauthorization Act (Consolidated Appropriations, 2021)
161. 2020: CHIME Act (Consolidated Appropriations, 2021)
162. 2020: Great Lakes Navigation Act (WRDA)
163. 2020: NDAA, amendment to increase accountability and transparency to Buy American
Laws.
164. 2020: GLRI Act (S. 2295)
165. 2020: $250 million for CCBHCs (CARES Act)
166. 2020: $850 million for CCBHCs ($600 million COVID title, $250 million Appropriation title)
167. 2020: 5 year extension (through 2025) of the tax exclusion for mortgage debt forgiveness (Consolidated Appropriations, 2021)
168. 2020: 5 year extension of motorsports entertainment complexes (Consolidated Appropriations, 2021)
169. 2020: U.S. Grain Standards Reauthorization Act (S.4054)
170. 2020: National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (S.2695) (Consolidated Appropriations, 2021)
171. 2020: Increase in SNAP Benefits/Food Banks/WIC (Consolidated Appropriations, 2021)
172. 2020: $1.5 billion to support food purchases and donations (Consolidated Appropriations, 2021)
173. 2020: $400 million for Dairy Product Donation (Consolidated Appropriations, 2021)
174. 2021: $10B to reauthorize and fund the State Small Business Credit Initiative
(S.258 in the 117th Congress, ARPA)
175. 2020: $350 million to support specialty crops, local agriculture, healthy food purchases, and underserved farmers (Consolidated Appropriations, 2021)
176. 2021: Over $10 billion for Food Assistance for Children, Families and Seniors (ARPA)
177. 2021: $ 4 billion to Strengthen Food Supply Chain/Protect Workers, based on Food Supply Protection Act (ARPA)
178. 2021: $420 million for CCBHCs grant funding.
179. 2021: $5 billion to Support Farmers of Color through debt relief and expanded opportunities, based on Emergency Relief for Farmers of Color Act (ARPA)

50 Michigan Public Acts Sponsored By Debbie Stabenow

1. Created Neighborhood Assistance Program (PA #56, 4/1/80; HLAS, 3/27/80)
2. Computerize the Register of Deeds’ indices (PA #95, 4/16/80)
3. Repealed the grain tax (PA #68, 4/30/80)
4. Required monitoring of treatment after a patient is released from a mental hospital ( PA #409, 1/8/81)
5. Established warrantless arrests for spousal abuse (PA 471, 1/17/81)
6. Eliminated the need for park commissions and allowed county governments to take mill increases directly to voters (PA #164, 5/25/82)
7. Credited a portion of income tax refunds to the Children’s Trust Fund (PA #211, 7/2/82)
8. Created the Children’s Trust Fund (PA #249, 9/29/82)
9. Friend of the Court reform (PA #295, 10/9/82)
10. Friend of the Court reform (PA #296, 10/9/82)
11. Friend of the Court reform (PA #297, 10/9/82)
12. Friend of the Court reform (PA #298, 10/9/82)
13. Friend of the Court reform (PA #294, 10/9/82)
14. Modified the Domestic Violence Board (PA #383, 12/28/82)
15. Friend of the Court reform (PA #108, 7/1/83)
16. Modified revenue sharing for local governments (PA #146, 7/18/83)
17. Friend of the Court reform (PA #193, 11/1/83)
18. Friend of the Court reform (PA #192, 11/1/83)
19. Friend of the Court reform (PA #194, 11/1/83)
20. Friend of the Court reform (PA #195, 11/1/83)
21. Allowed circuit courts to issue injunctions in domestic abuse cases (PA #228, 11/28/83)
22. Allowed circuit courts to issue injunctions in spouse abuse cases (PA #229, 11/28/83)
23. Family Support Subsidy Act provides support for families caring for severely disabled children at home (PA #249, 12/15/83)
24. Created mental health requirements for the voluntary admission of minors (PA #186, 7/2/84)
25. “Equal Access to Justice Act gave individuals, small businesses, and non-profit organizations the right to be reimbursed for attorney fees and court costs when successfully defending themselves against frivolous state actions (PA #196, 7/3/84)
26. “Equal Access to Justice Act gave individuals, small businesses, and non-profit organizations the right to be reimbursed for attorney fees and court costs when successfully defending themselves against frivolous state actions (PA #197, 7/3/84)
27. Defines autism in the mental health code (PA #358, 12/26/84)
28. Increased amounts to the Children’s Trust Fund check-off (PA #156, 11/15/85)
29. Friend of the Court reform (PA #172, 11/29/85)
30. Fingerprinting of children (PA #176, 12/2/85)
31. Voluntary fingerprinting with exception for children (PA #175, 12/2/85)
32. Created exceptions to barrier free design requirements (PA #196, 12/19/85)
33. Established a grant program for part-time students (PA #106, 5/13/86)
34. Updated civil admission and discharge procedures for the mentally ill (PA #117, 5/24/86
35. Made TV and radio reporters’ sources privileged and confidential ( PA #293, 12/20/86)
36. Mandated retirement of incapacitated judges (PA #102, 7/7/87)
37. Reformed law regarding mental health services for children (PA #155, 6/14/88)
38. Added a resident member to proposed superconductor super collider commission (PA #157, 6/14/88)
39. Child care funds for county juvenile justice services (PA #223, 7/1/88)
40. Established new criteria for removing child from home (PA #224, 7/1/88)
41. Review of minors in Michigan’s children institute (PA #225, 7/1/88)
42. Modified Division of Deafness Act (PA #434, 12/24/88)
43. Modified Division of Deafness Act (PA #435, 12/24/88)
44. Reformed Pesticide Control Act (PA #449, 12/25/88)
45. Legalized the use of crane amusement switches (PA #464, 12/25/88)
46. Modified foster care review boards (PA #73, 6/15/89)
47. Modified foster care review boards (PA #74, 6/15/89¬)
48. Protected Great Lakes water resources (PA #327, 12/20/90)
49. Toughened drunk driving laws (PA #93, 8/1/91)
50. Modified village council compensation requirements (PA #42, 5/13/92)