Bill Text: MI HB5124 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Courts; judges; number of third judicial circuit judges; reduce. Amends sec. 504 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.504). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5121'13, HB 5122'13, HB 5123'13, HB 5125'13

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-03-27 - Assigned Pa 59'14 With Immediate Effect [HB5124 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB5124-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 59

Public Acts of 2014

Approved by the Governor

March 26, 2014

Filed with the Secretary of State

March 27, 2014

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 27, 2014

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

Introduced by Reps. Leonard, Cotter and Walsh

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5124

AN ACT to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of the courts, and of the judges and other officers of the courts; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in the courts; pleading, evidence, practice, and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in the courts; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 504 (MCL 600.504), as amended by 2011 PA 300.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 504. The third judicial circuit consists of the county of Wayne and has the following number of judges:

(a) Until 12 noon, January 1, 2015, 60 judges.

(b) Beginning 12 noon, January 1, 2015, 56 judges. The 4 judgeships eliminated from this circuit at 12 noon, January 1, 2015 shall be the judgeships of 4 of the judges who are not eligible to run for reelection in 2014 due to constitutional limitation on the effective date of the amendatory act that added this sentence.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 5121.

(b) House Bill No. 5122.

(c) House Bill No. 5123.

(d) House Bill No. 5125.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor