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MI SB0913

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

6/12/2024

Primary Sponsor

Sue Shink

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Origin

Senate

102nd Legislature

AI Summary

  • Changes terminology from "person" to "individual" throughout the statute for consistency in legal language
  • Adds requirement that false statements must be "materially" false to constitute perjury in examinations under this chapter
  • Maintains perjury penalties of up to 15 years imprisonment, or life imprisonment if the false statement relates to investigation of a life felony
  • Modifies pronoun usage from "himself or herself" to "the witness's self" and updates "shall" to "must" for modernized statutory language
  • Preserves contempt penalty of up to 1 year imprisonment or $10,000 fine for refusing investigative subpoenas, with process for witness to purge contempt

Legislative Description

Crimes: perjury; requirements for crime of perjury; modify. Amends sec. 9, ch. VIIA of 1927 PA 175 (MCL 767A.9).

Crimes: perjury

Last Action

Referred To Committee On Civil Rights, Judiciary, And Public Safety

6/12/2024

Committee Referrals

Civil Rights, Judiciary, And Public Safety6/12/2024

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