Lansing Politicians Slow To Enact Policy Reforms After Flint Water Crisis
LANSING (AP) -- In the year since Flint's man-made drinking water crisis exploded and was exposed primarily as a failure of state government, Michigan has allocated $234 million toward the public health emergency that exposed children to lead and has been linked to a deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak.
The state has been much slower, however, in enacting policy reforms to address problems uncovered.
It's likely that no major action in the Republican-led Legislature will occur until 2017, angering Democrats who are pushing for changes to the emergency manager law and lead testing.
It's been four months since a bicameral legislative committee concluded hearings about Flint's crisis. It has yet to issue a report and recommendations.
They are now expected by year's end. Democrats say there's no reason to wait to start debating legislation.
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