Advocacy

The Michigan House Committee on Energy & Technology narrowly passed a telecommunications bill Wednesday that will enable phone companies to eliminate landline service with only 90 days' notice starting in 2017.

Senate Bill 636, which would allow phone companies to eliminate landline telephone service with only 90 days’ notice starting in 2017, is a threat to the lives and safety of Michigan residents, according to the law enforcement community and AARP Michigan.

The Michigan Senate voted to pass a bill on Thursday that would allow phone companies to eliminate landline telephone service with only 90 days' notice starting in 2017.

AARP Michigan was surprised and disappointed that the U.S. Bankruptcy Judge said today he will allow pension benefit cuts in Detroit’s bankruptcy proceedings.

Following is testimony from Melissa Seifert, AARP Michigan Associate State Director for Government Affairs, to the Senate Energy & Technology Committee on Senate Bill 636, which would allow phone companies to eliminate landlline phone service with only 90 days' notice starting in 2017:

AARP Michigan members are saying in droves that they don't want to lose their landline telephone service.

From the Detroit Free Press

AARP Michigan celebrated final passage today of a House bill that enables nurses and other retired health care professionals to get a special license to perform volunteer work in rural and underserved areas.

LANSING, MI -- AARP Michigan announced today it is sending letters to members of the State Senate Energy & Technology Committee notifying them that their vote on Senate Bill 636 is designated a “key vote.” By designating the telecommunications bill a key vote, AARP will inform members and the public about how lawmakers vote on this critical bill.

LANSING – An AARP Michigan call to action in opposition to a Senate bill that would allow AT&T to abandon its landline telephone service in the state spurred more than 500 AARP members to call their state Senators over the past several days.