Civil Law

2009 House Bill 5514 (Exempt babysitting from state licensure mandates )

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Introduced in the House on October 14, 2009

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2009 House Bill 5546 (Exempt taser lawsuits from on-economic damages cap )

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Introduced in the House on October 27, 2009

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2009 House Bill 5516 (Exempt babysitting from state licensure mandates )

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Introduced in the House on October 14, 2009

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2006 House Bill 6251 (Give preference to relatives over foster homes )

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Introduced in the House on June 21, 2006

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2009 House Bill 5364 (Make DHS employees liable for false reports )

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Introduced in the House on September 15, 2009

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2009 Senate Bill 197 (Specify putative father paternity suit circumstances )

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Introduced in the Senate on February 5, 2009

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2009 House Bill 4131 (Allow two unmarried persons to adopt a child )

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Introduced in the House on February 4, 2009

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2009 House Bill 4061 (Allow child support termination if DNA shows non-paternity )

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Introduced in the House on January 22, 2009

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2009 House Bill 4971 (Revise child abuse documentation request restrictions )

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Introduced in the House on May 19, 2009

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2007 House Bill 5382 (Require school truancy policies )

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Introduced in the House on October 30, 2007

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2007 House Bill 4896 (Establish adoptee birth parent identification process )

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Introduced in the House on June 12, 2007, to allow a person who was adopted to get a copy of his or her original birth certificate upon reaching age 21, and allow the birth parent of an adopted child to insert a contact preference form in the file with the sealed birth record, indicating a desire to be contacted or not should the adopted child obtain the birth records

The vote was 99 in favor, 8 opposed and 3 not voting

(House Roll Call 659 at House Journal 65)

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2009 House Bill 4535 (Revise parental rights termination grounds )

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Introduced in the House on March 10, 2009

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2009 Senate Bill 387 (Revise Michigan Trust Code )

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Introduced in the Senate on March 17, 2009, to revise and update many sections of the Michigan Trust Code, which establishes regulations for law relating to wills, estates, trusts, guardianships of legally incapacitated or vulnerable individuals, the duties and responsibilities of trustees, fiduciaries, guardians, etc. For details see Senate Fiscal Agency analysis

The vote was 37 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 120 at Senate Journal 0)

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2009 House Bill 4131

TCBrat — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:50:54 GMT

Most people know as a matter of common sense that the ideal, safest, healthiest, most secure environment for a child is a home where they have parents who are married, both a mother and a father.

2009 House Bill 4722 (Place state spending information on-line )

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Introduced in the House on March 26, 2009, to require the state to post a website by Oct, 1, 2009 that contains “year-to-date expenditures by department and category; the number of state employees by department and job classification; a listing of state contracts; the executive budget; the annual comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR); the constitutional revenue limit report; the constitutional local spending requirements report; an annual work projects reports; detailed financial schedules, and monthly financial reports; the annual workforce report; state job specifications and wage rates.” Most if not all of this information is already published in various places. The bill would not require an online state “check register”

The vote was 109 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 not voting

(House Roll Call 133 at House Journal 0)

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2009 House Bill 4640 (Impose detailed record keeping requirements on notaries )

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Introduced in the House on March 19, 2009

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2007 House Bill 4735 (Give preference to relatives over foster care )

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Introduced in the House on May 9, 2007, to require government authorities determining whether to remove a child from his or her parents and place the child in foster care to give special consideration and preference to placing the child with relatives instead, unless doing so is clearly not in the child’s best interests

The vote was 106 in favor, 0 opposed and 4 not voting

(House Roll Call 207 at House Journal 61)

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2009 House Bill 4117

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Introduced in the House on January 22, 2009

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2007 House Bill 4564 (Establish joint custody presumption )

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Introduced in the House on April 5, 2007

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2003 Senate Bill 727 (Revise grandparent visitation law)

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Introduced in the Senate on September 24, 2003, to revise the state grandparent visitation law, which applies to child custody disputes, to comply with a ruling from the state Supreme Court in the case of DeRose v DeRose. The court ruled that the previous law excessively limited the authority of parents. The bill would place the burden of proof on a grandparent to show with "clear and convincing" evidence that grandparenting time is in the child's best interest. Before issuing a grandparenting time order a court would have to consider factors such as the love, affection, and other emotional ties existing between the grandparent and the child; the grandparent’s moral fitness; the grandparent’s mental and physical health; the child’s reasonable preference; the effect on the child of hostility between parent and grandparent; and more

The vote was 38 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 35 at Senate Journal 13)

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2009 Senate Bill 106 (Revise child custody, support, and parenting time procedures )

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Introduced in the Senate on January 28, 2009

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2008 House Bill 6539 (Revise rule against "perpetuities” )

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Introduced in the House on October 15, 2008

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2009 Senate Bill 100 (Revise child custody, support, and parenting time procedures )

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Introduced in the Senate on January 28, 2009

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2008 House Bill 6653 (Authorize life sentence for child abuse that causes death )

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Introduced in the House on November 13, 2008

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2008 Senate Bill 1421 (Revise child abuse case procedures )

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Introduced in the Senate on June 26, 2008, to require the children's protective services bureau of the Department of Human Services to develop and use a child protection investigation checklist to determine whether the procedures followed in cases of suspected child abuse or neglect comply with state law

The vote was 38 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 543 at Senate Journal 75)

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