Types of Research

Research of Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL) or Michigan Administrative Code (MAC) can be accomplished for $650.00 per enactment or administrative action and be available in approximately two weeks. If you need bill history research sooner than two weeks, the fees would be $750.00 per bill. Call us at (800) 666-1917 for a free fee quote.

If your code section of interest has a long and complicated annotated history, we can trace the language for a fee. We would include our trace report and our recommendation. For more information about tracing please visit our explanation on our FAQ page.

Read our free summary of Michigan case law related to legislative intent.

Types of Materials You Can Expect

For MCL, our research generally includes, but is not limited to, the enacting bill and all of its amended versions, analyses by the House and Senate committees, minutes of the House and Senate committees reviewing the bill, committee bill records, fiscal analyses, resolutions, excerpts from the Senate and House Journals, and background information, such as relevant competing and prior legislation. Typically, we work with the enacting state entity, such as the state legislature or relevant state agency.

Regulatory research is provided two ways:
1) tracing of the language to its original adoption; and
2) obtaining the regulatory file maintained by the agency on the rulemaking.