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The Perry Bullard Papers (1973-1992) document Bullard's service as a state representative from Michigan's 53rd district, primarily between the years of 1980 and 1992. The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, committee reports and studies, bills, and briefing material on issues that came before the Michigan House of Representatives between 1973 and 1992.

The Perry Bullard papers document his twenty year career in the Michigan House of Representatives, especially as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The collection includes both Bullard files and files maintained by members of his staff. The files document the passage of acts (or failure of bills) through correspondence, staff memoranda, communications from constituents and lobbying groups, and all manner of background and printed material. The series in the collection are Correspondence; Legislative Files; House Judiciary Committee files; Topical Files; Political and Campaign materials; Publicity, Speeches, Clippings; and Personal Materials.

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Correspondence

The Correspondence series covers the period of 1978 to 1990 (1987 letters are lacking). The correspondence is arranged by year and then alphabetically. The letters are from Bullard's constituents and cover a range of topics from personal individual concerns, politics, general legislative matters, and constituent opposition or support of specific pieces of legislation.

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Legislative Files

The bulk of the collection consists of Legislative Files from the period when Bullard first entered the Legislature to the end of his last term in 1992. The files are of Bullard himself and some of his key staff, notably David Cahill, who was counsel to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Brad Geller, who was Bullard's personal aide.

The files have been largely left in the order in which they were received. Thus there are materials relating to a specific legislative term and there are files related to topics about which there was considerable contention and which often carried over from one term to the next. These Legislative Files seemed to divide naturally into two subseries: Major Topics / Multiple Legislative Sessions and Miscellaneous legislation / Staff files.

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Major Topics / Multiple Legislative Sessions

"Major Topics / Multiple Legislative Sessions" consists of files pertaining to the major pieces of legislation supported by Bullard. These included legislation relating to the issues of plant relocation, the divestiture of state assets from companies doing business in South Africa or with its apartheid government, tort or liability reform, marijuana legalization, right-to-die legislation, among other topics.