Bill Text: MI HB4005 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Family law: marriage and divorce; minimum entered into by a person under 18 years of age; void. Amends sec. 1 of 1921 PA 352 (MCL 551.51).
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-08 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 01/09/2019 [HB4005 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB4005-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4005
January 9, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Hope, Filler and Anthony and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to amend 1921 PA 352, entitled
"An act to prohibit the marriage of a person under 16 years of age
and to declare the marriage void,"
by amending section 1 (MCL 551.51), as amended by 1983 PA 198.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
1. (1) A marriage in this state shall not be contracted
by
a person who is under 16 years of age, and the marriage, if
entered
into, shall be void. This act shall not prohibit probate
judges
from exercising their powers to perform marriages as
provided
by Act No. 180 of the Public Acts of 1897, being sections
551.201
to 551.204 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.Until December 31,
2019, a marriage in this state shall not be contracted by a person
who is under 16 years of age, and the marriage, if entered into, is
void. This act does not prohibit a probate judge from exercising
his or her power to perform a marriage as provided by 1897 PA 180,
MCL 551.201 to 551.204.
(2) Beginning January 1, 2020, marriage in this state shall
not be contracted by a person who is under 18 years of age, and the
marriage, if entered into by a person who is under 18 years of age,
is void. This act does not prohibit a probate judge from exercising
his or her power to perform a marriage as provided by 1897 PA 180,
MCL 551.201 to 551.204.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 100th Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4003 (request no.
00790'19).
(b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4004 (request no.
00790'19 b).
