Karen Kirkpatrick, a resident of Matteson Township in Branch County, stands with Rep. Jennifer Wortz, R-Quincy, in the Michigan House of Representatives chamber ahead of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s State of the State address on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.

“Masquerading as a partial conservative in one speech won’t undo the six years of damage the governor has inflicted on our state.”

Rep. Jennifer Wortz (R-Quincy) voted in favor of House Bill 4002 just before midnight yesterday evening, sending the bill and its tie-barred Senate Bill 8 to the governor to be signed mere hours before government mandates on paid leave and wages were set to go into effect. Wortz expressed her disappointment in Senate Democrats for […]

On Wednesday, the Michigan House of Representatives passed Representative Jennifer Wortz’s (R-Quincy) House Resolution 23, which commemorates February 14th, 2025 as Frederick Douglas Day in the State of Michigan. The resolution is the first of Wortz’s introduced legislation to be passed by the Michigan House. “The last representative from my district introduced this resolution every […]

State Reps. William Bruck, Jennifer Wortz and Mai Xiong this week introduced a bipartisan plan to give struggling parents more options to safely surrender a baby without fear or shame. Since 2001, Michigan’s Safe Delivery law has provided parents with a legal and secure way to surrender newborns to personnel at hospitals, fire stations, police […]

State Rep. Jennifer Wortz (R-Quincy) was appointed Thursday to the House Natural Resources and Tourism Committee, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, and the House Agriculture Committee. Wortz was selected as Vice Chair of the House Agriculture Committee and will serve in her first term as the second highest-ranking […]

State Representative Jennifer Wortz (R-Quincy) issued the following statement on the passage of House Resolution 14, which adds a number of new transparency measures to the House Rules, including a requirement that particular members must sponsor by name line item earmarks in appropriations spending. “Politicians in Lansing have been talking about transparency for years. There […]

The 35th Michigan House District’s new State Representative Jennifer Wortz will be hosting her first in-district coffee hour at 10 A.M. next Friday, January 31st at the Biggby Coffee at 857 E Chicago St. in Coldwater. She anticipates meeting with the people she represents and discussing any thoughts or questions they may have. Rep. Wortz […]

State Rep. Jen Wortz (R-Quincy) issued the following statement after the Select Committee on Protecting Michigan Employees and Small Businesses passed House Bills 4001 and 4002 on Thursday morning. “The new Republican majority’s immediate action on this issue will save businesses in my district from disaster. The changes to the Earned Sick Time Act that […]

State Rep. Jennifer Wortz, R-Quincy, today announced her new legislative staff that will be working in her Capitol office. Jonathan Meckel will serve as Rep. Wortz’s Legislative Director, and Nicole Bohacz will be Rep. Wortz’s Legislative Aide in charge of constituent services. Both Meckel and Bohacz are in-district residents of Hillsdale and Coldwater respectively. As […]