Bill Text: MI HB6073 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Family law: marriage and divorce; certain references in provision for name change upon solemnization; make gender neutral. Amends title & sec. 1 of 1905 PA 299 (MCL 552.391).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-12 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 08/06/2020 [HB6073 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB6073-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 6073
August 06, 2020, Introduced by Reps. Clemente,
Sneller, Hoadley, Sowerby, Brixie, Koleszar, Hood, Warren and Rabhi and
referred to the Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to amend 1905 PA 299, entitled
"An act to provide for changing and determining the names of divorced women,"
by amending the title and section 1 (MCL 552.391).
the people of the state of michigan enact:
An act to provide for changing and determining the names of divorced women.individuals.
Sec. 1. The circuit courts of this state, whenever a decree of divorce is granted, may, at the instance of the woman, a party to the action, whether complainant or defendant, decree to restore to her her his or her birth name, or the surname she the individual legally bore prior to her before the marriage to the husband spouse in the divorce action, or allow her the individual to adopt another surname if the change is not sought with any fraudulent or evil intent.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Joint Resolution _____ or House Joint Resolution T (request no. 02690'19) of the 100th Legislature becomes a part of the state constitution of 1963 as provided in section 1 of article XII of the state constitution of 1963.
