Bill Text: MI HB5349 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered

Michigan House Bill 5349 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Mental health; developmental disability; reference to mentally retarded in revised judicature act; replace with developmentally disabled. Amends sec. 876 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.876).

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2014-04-17 - Assigned Pa 68'14 With Immediate Effect [HB5349 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB5349-Chaptered.html

Act No. 68

Public Acts of 2014

Approved by the Governor

March 28, 2014

Filed with the Secretary of State

March 28, 2014

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 28, 2014

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2014

Introduced by Reps. Cotter, Lori, Cavanagh, Schor, Singh, Poleski, Graves, O’Brien, Slavens, Leonard, Foster, Geiss, Lyons and Tlaib

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5349

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 876 (MCL 600.876).

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 876. A charge shall not be made nor shall any fee be collected on account of or by reason of the furnishing of certified copies in connection with proceedings for the admission and commitment of persons to mental hospitals or any facility or institution maintained or operated by the state or the federal government for the care of mentally ill or developmentally disabled persons, or for determining inheritance tax.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor