2025 House Bill 4524

Property: recording; marketable record title act; revise.

A bill to amend 1945 PA 200, entitled “An act to define a marketable record title to an interest in land; to require the filing of notices of claim of interest in such land in certain cases within a definite period of time and to require the recording thereof; to make invalid and of no force or effect all claims with respect to the land affected thereby where no such notices of claim of interest are filed within the required period; to provide for certain penalties for filing slanderous notices of claim of interest, and to provide certain exceptions to the applicability and operation thereof,” by amending the title and sections 1, 1a, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 (MCL 565.101, 565.101a, 565.102, 565.103, 565.104, 565.105, 565.106, and 565.108), sections 1 and 3 as amended by 2024 PA 20, section 1a as added and section 6 as amended by 1997 PA 154, sections 2 and 5 as amended by 2018 PA 572, and section 4 as amended by 2022 PA 235, and by adding section 5a.

House Fiscal Agency Analysis

House Bill 4524 would amend 1945 PA 200, known as the marketable record title act, to change various requirements and procedures related to marketable record titles, which generally refers to an ownership interest in land that can be transferred to a new owner without the likelihood that another person can claim an interest in the property.

Introduced in the House

May 22, 2025

Introduced by Reps. Doug Wozniak (R-59) and Kelly Breen (D-21)

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary

June 25, 2025

Reported with substitute H-1

Sept. 4, 2025

Substitute H-1 concurred in by voice vote

Passed in the House 105 to 0 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Rep. Bryan Posthumus (R-90)

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Received in the Senate

Sept. 9, 2025

Referred to the Committee on Regulatory Affairs

Sept. 18, 2025

Reported without amendment

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

Reported without amendment

Sept. 25, 2025

Passed in the Senate 35 to 0 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Sen. Sam Singh (D-28)

The motion prevailed by voice vote