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 sections 1084 and 1091 (MCL 600.1084 and 600.1091), section 1084 as amended by 2017 PA 161 and section 1091 as amended by 2018 PA 591.
Senate Bill 134 would amend the Revised Judicature Act to expand the current DWI/Sobriety Court Interlock Program1 into the Specialty Court Interlock Program. The expanded program would include other specialty courts in addition to DWI/sobriety courts, which would allow eligible participants in other certified specialty courts to have a vehicle they own or operate equipped with an ignition interlock device and to obtain a restricted driver license pertaining to that vehicle. (An ignition interlock device measures a driver’s alcohol concentration before the vehicle can be started.) The bill would replace several references to DWI/sobriety court with specialty court in provisions addressing the ignition interlock program. Senate Bill 135 would amend the Michigan Vehicle Code to apply the current definition of specialty court program to both that term and the term specialty court and define specialty court interlock program to mean the ignition interlock program proposed by SB 134.
Co-sponsored by Sens.
Referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety
Reported without amendment
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Reported without amendment
Passed in the Senate 38 to 0 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice
Reported without amendment
Passed in the House 82 to 25 (details)
Motion to give immediate effect
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The motion prevailed by voice vote
Motion to give immediate effect
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The motion prevailed by voice vote
