Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the Senate on March 1, 2006, to allow for electronically-submitted marriage license applications. The county clerk accepted would have to print the required application in the form of an affidavit and have a party named in the application sign it in person. The bill provides that a marriage license application would be a nonpublic record and exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, but would have be available to the people named in it. The bill also allows a county clerk to charge a fee if the the license is delivered immediately. Under current law, a marriage license may not be delivered for three days, although a county clerk, for good cause shown, may deliver the license immediately

The vote was 37 in favor, 0 opposed and 1 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 354 at Senate Journal 45)

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Besides requiring pre-marital counseling, now an increase in the cost of the fee to marry. Wouldn't it just be cheaper to live in sin, and wait for the 7 year common law marriage to kick in? Good plan, people. If you want to reward marriage, why not give a credit based on length of time married? My wife should get some reward for putting up with me for almost twenty years!

You increase the fee to fund the technology upgrades that you then charge extra to use. I hope you rot in hell.

some folks would get a refund...

With the Michigan economy on its knee's all our senate could think up is to more than double the marriage license fee's? Way to go folks! Way to go. Why don't you just take a 365 day vacation? Please!

Of course, every new couple ideally has $50 bucks to pay tribute to the occassion; however, at a time when more and more young people are choosing not to marry because they cannot afford health insurance--just seems to be another road block for marriage.

After 35 years of marriage, paying for both girls' college, Law school and weddings; I fully agree that rewarding long-term marriages would be terrific!