Bill Text: MI HB4920 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Courts: judges; number of judges in Kent County district court; increase. Amends sec. 8130 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.8130).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-12-31 - Assigned Pa 311'23 With Immediate Effect [HB4920 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2023-HB4920-Enrolled.html

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state of michigan

102nd Legislature

Regular session of 2023

Introduced by Rep. Fitzgerald

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4920

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 8130 (MCL 600.8130), as amended by 2014 PA 60.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 8130. (1) The sixty-first district consists of the city of Grand Rapids, is a district of the third class, and has 6 judges.

(2) The sixty-second-a district consists of the city of Wyoming, is a district of the third class, and has 2 judges.

(3) The sixty-second-b district consists of the city of Kentwood, is a district of the third class, and has 1 judge.

(4) The sixty-third district consists of the county of Kent, except the cities of Grand Rapids, Walker, Grandville, Wyoming, and Kentwood, is a district of the second class, and has 2 judges. For purposes of the November 2020 general election only, the term of the candidate who receives the greatest number of votes is 8 years and the term of the candidate who receives the second greatest number of votes is 6 years. Subject to section 8175, the sixty‑third district may have 1 additional judge beginning January 1, 2025.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

 

Clerk of the House of Representatives

 

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor