Bill Text: MI HB4412 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Courts; records; digital court records and electronically filed court papers; allow in every state court, and provide for electronic signatures. Amends sec. 1427 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.1427). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4413'13, HB 4414'13, HB 4415'13, HB 4416'13, HB 4417'13

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-13 - Printed Bill Filed 03/13/2013 [HB4412 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4412-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4412

 

March 12, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Price, Jacobsen, Rutledge, Talabi, Stallworth, Lyons, Haveman, MacGregor and Victory and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled

 

"Revised judicature act of 1961,"

 

by amending section 1427 (MCL 600.1427).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1427. All writs, process, proceedings and records in any

 

court within this state , shall be in the English language, (

 

except that the proper and known names of process, and technical

 

words, may be expressed in the language heretofore and now commonly

 

used, ), and shall be made out on paper, in a fair, legible

 

character, in words at length, and not abbreviated; but such

 

abbreviations as are now commonly used in the English language may

 

be used, and numbers may be expressed by Arabic figures, or Roman

 

numerals, in the customary manner.in the manner and on any medium

 

authorized by supreme court rules. If a signature is required on

 

any document filed with or created by a court, that requirement is

 

satisfied by an electronic signature as prescribed by supreme court

 

rules.

 

     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) Senate Bill No. ___ or House Bill No. 4416(request no.

 

00298'13).

 

     (b) Senate Bill No. ___ or House Bill No. 4415(request no.

 

00299'13).

 

     (c) Senate Bill No. ___ or House Bill No. 4413(request no.

 

00301'13).

 

     (d) Senate Bill No. ___ or House Bill No. 4417(request no.

 

00302'13).

 

     (e) Senate Bill No. ___ or House Bill No. 4414(request no.

 

00303'13).