Bill Text: MI HB5641 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Civil procedure; personal protection orders; orders for transfer of wireless telephone numbers; allow issuance of. Amends 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.101 - 600.9947) by adding sec. 2950n. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5642'16
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2016-07-13 - Assigned Pa 269'16 With Immediate Effect [HB5641 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB5641-Chaptered.html
Act No. 269
Public Acts of 2016
Approved by the Governor
June 29, 2016
Filed with the Secretary of State
July 1, 2016
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 29, 2016
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
Introduced by Reps. Barrett, Hughes, Guerra, Durhal, Lucido and Bizon
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5641
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,” (MCL 600.101 to 600.9947) by adding section 2950n.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 2950n. (1) In an action described in section 2950(1) or 2950a(1), or in another action if the respondent in the action has been ordered, in a separate criminal case, to have no contact with the petitioner or a minor child of whom the petitioner has legal custody, the court may enter an order to allow the petitioner to maintain an existing wireless telephone number, or the wireless telephone number of a minor child of whom the petitioner has legal custody, if the petitioner is not the named customer, by ordering the wireless telephone service provider to transfer the billing responsibility for and rights to the wireless telephone number to the petitioner.
(2) An order issued under subsection (1) must list the name and billing telephone number of the named customer, the name and telephone number of the petitioner, and each telephone number to be transferred to the petitioner. The court shall ensure that the contact information of the petitioner is not provided to the customer or respondent.
(3) This section and section 2950o do not affect the ability of the court to determine the temporary use, possession, and control of personal property or to apportion the assets and debts of the parties as otherwise provided by law.
(4) The state court administrative office shall develop any forms necessary to effectuate this section and section 2950o.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 5642 of the 98th Legislature is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
