Know when your government is actually working.
Government works for you better when you can watch it. Here's how to follow the Michigan Legislature — when it's in session, what's being heard, and how to put it on your own calendar. Sourced links, live now; the weekly auto-import is honestly marked aspirational below.
The official calendars
The Legislature publishes its calendars — session days, agendas, and the daily journals — here: legislature.mi.gov — Calendars. The House also posts its own: house.mi.gov — Session Calendar.
Michigan runs a year-round legislature (it doesn't pack into a short season). House floor sessions are typically scheduled:
(Typical pattern — always confirm the live calendar; session days move, especially around budget and recess.)
The real work happens in committee. The Legislature's meetings page lets you download an .ics file for a meeting (click the calendar icon) and drop it straight into your own calendar app: legislature.mi.gov — Committee Meetings.
Who to watch and call: legislature.mi.gov — Directory. (Or type myreps anywhere on the site for the full reps & judges tool.)
Weekly auto-import — aspirational
connect-src 'self') can't pull an outside calendar feed from the browser — that's the security wall. The honest path is the same as the News Desk: a scheduled worker fetches the Legislature's calendar/.ics once a week and writes a clean, dated summary into the site (like the daily accessibility audit already does), then a human eyeballs it before it publishes. Until that worker is wired, no fabricated session dates appear here — only the real links above, which are always current. Say the word and I'll scaffold the weekly importer.