The Michigan Senate approves a $ 465 million COVID-19 relief bill

LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Senate passed a $ 465 million COVID-19 relief bill during Friday night’s session.

The Senate voted 35-2 to pass Senate Bill 748.

Part of the money distribution includes $ 220 million in unemployment, $ 48 million for the distribution and testing of COVID vaccines, $ 45 million in grants for work fired or intended for companies affected by restrictions, and $ 55 million in survival grants for small businesses.

The bill is scheduled to arrive at Michigan House on Monday.

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced that the state is reviewing its COVID-19 order to resume high school face-to-face classes, reopen certain indoor entertainment venues, and allow contactless sports and fitness classes at the ‘Open air.

Whitmer has held about 80 of these press conferences since the coronavirus pandemic began, but Friday’s was the first for which she was visibly frustrated. After his friend Benny Napoleon, the sheriff of Wayne County, died of COVID-19, Whitmer said that when it comes, the distribution of the vaccine has a bottleneck due to Washington.

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