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- Meeting date
- 2025-03-19
- Scheduled start
- 2025-03-19 10:30:00.000000
- Documented start
- Not recorded
- Documented end
- 2025-03-19 11:36:00.000000
- Location
- Room 521, House Office Building
- Official minutes
- Open official source ↗
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- Actual end
- 2025-03-19 11:36:00.000000
- Actual start
- Not recorded
- Chamber
- house
- Committee id
- committee-30
- Committee name
- Judiciary
- Evidence text
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY REP. SARAH LIGHTNER CHAIR COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES The House Committee on Judiciary was called to order by Chair Lightner. The Chair requested attendance to be called: Present: Reps. Lightner, BeGole, Wozniak, Harris, DeBoyer, Johnsen, Schuette, Hope, Breen and Scott. Absent: Rep. Tyrone Carter. Excused: Rep. Tyrone Carter. Representative Wozniak moved to adopt the meeting minutes from March 12, 2025. There being no objection, the motion prevailed with unanimous consent. The Chair laid HB 4033 and HB 4034 before the committee: Representative BeGole moved to adopt substitute (H-1) to HB 4034. The motion prevailed 9-0- 0: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Lightner, BeGole, Wozniak, Harris, DeBoyer, Johnsen, Schuette, Hope and Scott. Nays: None. Pass: None. Wednesday, March 19, 2025 10:30 AM Room 521, House Office Building HB 4033 (Rep. Wozniak) An act to allow certain fiduciaries to convert income trusts to unitrusts, convert express unitrusts to income trusts, and change the percentage or method used to calculate unitrust amounts. HB 4034 (Rep. Wozniak) A bill to amend 1988 PA 418, entitled "Uniform statutory rule against perpetuities," by amending sections 3 and 5 (MCL 554.73 and 554.75), section 5 as amended by 2011 PA 11. Representative Wozniak, testified in support of HB 4033 and HB 4034. Questions and discussions followed. James Spica, representing the Probate and Estate Planning Section of the State Bar of Michigan, testified in support of HB 4033 and HB 4034. Questions and discussions followed. The Chair laid HB 4045 before the committee: Representative Hope testified in support of HB 4045. Questions and discussions followed. Kaitlin Wolff, representing the Uniform Law Commission, testified in support of HB 4045. Peter De Filippis, representing himself, testified with no position on HB 4045. The following people submitted a card in support of HB 4045, but did not wish to speak: Kyle Zawacki, representing the ACLU of Michigan. Josh Levin, representing the Motion Picture Association. Nathan Triplett, representing the State Bar of Michigan. Heath B. Lowry, representing the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence. Mitch Albers, representing the Michigan Association for Justice. Mary Pollock, representing the Michigan Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Network. Mary Pollock, representing the Michigan State Employee Retirees Association. Tim Minotas, representing the Sierra Club of Michigan. Mitch Rice, representing himself. The following person submitted a card in opposition to HB 4045, but did not wish to speak: Katherine Bussard, representing Salt & Light Global. The Chair laid HB 4255 and HB 4256 before the committee: HB 4045 (Rep. Hope) A bill to enact the uniform public expression protection act; and to provide protections and remedies to persons sued for exercising rights to expression and other constitutionally protected rights. HB 4255 (Rep. Lightner) A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled "Public health code," by amending sections 7401, 7410, and 7417 (MCL 333.7401, 333.7410, and 333.7417), section 7401 as amended by 2016 PA 548, section 7410 as amended by 2016 PA 128, and section 7417 as added by 2012 PA 183, and by adding sections 7410b and 7417a. HB 4256 (Rep. Bollin) A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled "The code of criminal procedure," by amending section 13m of chapter XVII (MCL 777.13m), as amended by 2016 PA 549. Jessica Reia, representing the office of Representative Bollin, testified in support of HB 4255 and HB 4256. Questions and discussions followed. Chair Lightner testified in support of HB 4255 and HB 4256. Questions and discussions followed. David Gilbert, Calhoun County Prosecutor, testified in support of HB 4255 and HB 4256. Questions and discussions followed. Julie Risner, representing herself, testified in support of HB 4255 and HB 4256. Questions and discussions followed. Michael Hirst, representing himself, testified in support of HB 4255 and HB 4256. Questions and discussions followed. The following person submitted a card in support of HB 4255 and HB 4256, but did not wish to speak: Matt Saxton, representing the MI Sheriffs' Association. Representative BeGole moved to excuse Representative Tyrone Carter from the meeting. There being no objection the motion prevailed by unanimous consent. There being no further business before the committee, Chair Lightner adjourned the meeting at 11:36 AM. Representative Sarah Lightner, Chair Melissa Sweet Committee Clerk msweet@house.mi.gov
- Location
- Room 521, House Office Building
- Media count
- 2
- Meeting date
- 2025-03-19
- Meeting id
- meeting-58
- Meeting state
- held
- Minutes url
- Open official source ↗
- Quorum state
- quorum not determined
- Scheduled start
- 2025-03-19 10:30:00.000000
- Session name
- 2025-2026
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