MI HB5102

Requires county board of commissioners approval by resolution for creation of new judicial circuits and circuit judgeships, with filing deadline of 4 p.m. on the sixteenth Tuesday before the August primary following the amendatory act's effective date.

Counties approving new circuits must voluntarily accept all expenses and capital improvements resulting from creation, though the state remains obligated to pay a portion of judges' salaries and fund state-mandated costs.

Exempts the reformation of the eleventh, twenty-third, twenty-sixth, thirty-fourth, fiftieth, and fifty-third judicial circuits under 2002 PA 92 from requiring county board approval.

Combines probate judge offices with district judge offices in Huron County (73rd-b district) and Chippewa County (91st district) effective April 1, 2012, allowing counties to revert to one probate judge upon vacancy or incumbent retirement.

Sanilac County's probate judge office is permanently combined with the 73rd-a district judge position under the state constitution.