Bill Text: MI SB1045 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Courts; other; sunset on e-filing fee; extend. Amends sec. 1987 of 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.1987).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-12-30 - Assigned Pa 519'16 With Immediate Effect [SB1045 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB1045-Enrolled.html
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
Introduced by Senator Jones
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1045
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 1987 (MCL 600.1987), as added by 2015 PA 231.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1987. (1) Except for an automated payment service fee collected under section 1986(5), and except as provided in subsection (2), the electronic filing system fee authorized under this chapter is the only fee that may be charged to or collected in a civil action specifically for electronic filing.
(2) If, pursuant to a supreme court order, a court or court funding unit is collecting a fee for electronic filing other than the electronic filing system fee on September 30, 2015, the court or court funding unit may continue to collect $2.50 for filing or service or $5.00 for filing and service, in addition to the electronic system filing fee until December 31, 2017.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
