Bill Text: MI HB4552 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Civil procedure: costs and fees; freelance court reporters; allow to negotiate rates. Amends sec. 2543 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.2543).
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-24 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/23/2021 [HB4552 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB4552-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4552
A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled
"Revised judicature act of 1961,"
by amending section 2543 (MCL 600.2543), as amended by 2004 PA 328.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 2543. (1) The Unless a lower rate is agreed on, circuit court reporters or recorders are entitled to demand and receive per page for a transcript ordered by any person the sum of the circuit court and paid for by the county $1.75 per original page and 30 cents per page for each copy. , unless a lower rate is agreed upon. For a transcript ordered by the circuit judge, reporters or recorders are entitled to receive from the county the same compensation. The supreme court, by administrative order or court rule, may authorize the payment to circuit court reporters or recorders the sum of $3.00 per original page and 50 cents per page for each copy for transcripts ordered and timely filed as part of a program of differentiated case management for appeals of civil cases in which the circuit court either grants or denies summary disposition. If a transcript ordered under a program of differentiated case management is not timely filed, the circuit court reporter or recorder is not entitled to receive the increased rate for that transcript.This subsection does not apply to the rate a court reporter or recorder who is not an employee of the court or the county may demand and receive for a transcript ordered by a person other than a governmental entity. Except as provided in this section, this state or a county shall not otherwise set a rate that a court reporter or recorder who is not an employee of the court or the county may demand and receive for a transcript.
(2) Only if the transcript is desired for the purpose of moving for a new trial or preparing a record for appeal shall may the amount of reporters' or recorders' fees paid for the transcript be recovered as a part of the taxable costs of the prevailing party in the motion, in the court of appeals or the supreme court.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date this amendatory act is enacted into law.
