Bill Text: MI SB0997 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered

Michigan Senate Bill 997 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Civil procedure; evidence; authentication process for notarial acts performed outside of this state; revise. Amends sec. 2102 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.2102). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0664'17, SB 0996'18, SB 0998'18

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-13 - Assigned Pa 0362'18 With Immediate Effect [SB0997 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0997-Chaptered.html

Act No. 362

Public Acts of 2018

Approved by the Governor

December 12, 2018

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 12, 2018

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 12, 2019

STATE OF MICHIGAN

99TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2018

Introduced by Senators MacGregor, Hertel, Marleau, Booher, Gregory and Schmidt

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 997

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 2102 (MCL 600.2102), as amended by 2012 PA 361.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 2102. If by law the affidavit of a person residing in another state of the United States or in a foreign country is required or may be received in an action or judicial proceeding in this state, to entitle the affidavit to be read, it must be authenticated under section 25a of the Michigan law on notarial acts, 2003 PA 238, MCL 55.285a, or be an unsworn declaration executed under chapter 21A.

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 all of the following bills of the 99th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) Senate Bill No. 664.

(b) Senate Bill No. 996.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor