Bill Text: MI HB4570 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Courts; juries; eligibility to postpone jury service of students; expand to include full-time higher education students under certain circumstances. Amends sec. 1335 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.1335).
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)
Status: (Passed) 2014-02-19 - Assigned Pa 10'14 With Immediate Effect [HB4570 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4570-Chaptered.html
Act No. 10
Public Acts of 2014
Approved by the Governor
February 18, 2014
Filed with the Secretary of State
February 18, 2014
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 18, 2014
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Introduced by Reps. Cotter, Singh, Walsh, Victory, Lyons, Kelly, Knezek and Oakes
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4570
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 1335 (MCL 600.1335), as amended by 2004 PA 12.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1335. (1) The chief judge of the court to which a person is returned as a juror may excuse the person from serving when it appears that the interests of the public or of the individual juror will be materially injured by his or her attendance or the health of the juror or that of a member of his or her family requires his or her absence from court.
(2) The chief judge of the court to which a person is returned as a juror shall postpone the person’s term of service until the end of the school year if the person is a full-time student enrolled in and attending high school.
(3) The chief judge of the court to which a person is returned as a juror shall, upon request, postpone the person’s term of service until the end of the academic year if the person is a full-time student enrolled in and attending a college, community college, university, graduate or professional school, vocational school, or any other accredited educational institution and the person provides satisfactory proof that the term of service will likely interfere with his or her class schedule.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
