Bill Text: MI HB4590 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Civil procedure; small claims; limitation on recovery amount in small claims suits; revise. Amends sec. 8401 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.8401).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-28 - Printed Bill Filed 04/28/2011 [HB4590 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4590-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4590

 

April 27, 2011, Introduced by Rep. Foster and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled

 

"Revised judicature act of 1961,"

 

by amending section 8401 (MCL 600.8401), as amended by 1999 PA 27.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 8401. A small claims division is created in each district

 

as a division of the district court. A judge of the district court

 

shall sit as judge of the small claims division. The jurisdiction

 

of the small claims division shall be confined to cases for the

 

recovery of money only when in which the amount claimed does not

 

exceed $3,000.00 $7,000.00.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect September

 

1, 2011.