{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-iv-16","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Const. art. IV, § 16","heading":"Legislature; officers, rules of procedure, expulsion of members.","body":"Sec. 16.\n\nEach house, except as otherwise provided in this constitution, shall choose its own officers and determine the rules of its proceedings, but shall not adopt any rule that will prevent a majority of the members elected thereto and serving therein from discharging a committee from the further consideration of any measure. Each house shall be the sole judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of its members, and may, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members elected thereto and serving therein, expel a member. The reasons for such expulsion shall be entered in the journal, with the votes and names of the members voting upon the question. No member shall be expelled a second time for the same cause.","path":["Michigan Constitution","Article IV"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-Article%20IV%20%C2%A7%2016","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"32422ee802c791d662eb9b7f47706fd4ce250e848e3f59b8a463a0c963e8d9f6","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-iv-15","next":"us-mi/mich.-const.-art.-iv-17","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}