Michigan 2023 2023-2024 Regular Session

Michigan House Bill HB4296 Comm Sub / Analysis

Filed 09/20/2023

                    Act No. 123 
Public Acts of 2023 
Approved by the Governor 
September 18, 2023 
Filed with the Secretary of State 
September 19, 2023 
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 19, 2023 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
STATE OF MICHIGAN 
102ND LEGISLATURE 
REGULAR SESSION OF 2023 
Introduced by Reps. Coffia, Hope, Brixie, Young, Hill, Grant, Breen, Byrnes, Hoskins, Morgan, 
Skaggs, Paiz, Brabec and McKinney 
 
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4296 
AN ACT to amend 1919 PA 160, entitled “An act to release legally married minors from parental control and 
to determine their marital rights and duties,” by amending section 1 (MCL 551.251). 
 
The People of the State of Michigan enact: 
 
Sec. 1. (1) For a marriage entered into in this state before the effective date of the amendatory act that added 
subsection (2), the legal marriage of a minor releases that minor from parental control. The husband or wife of a 
minor, so released, is entitled to the same rights, benefits, and privileges, and the minor is subject to the same 
duties, liabilities, and responsibilities, as the husband or wife, as if the minor husband or wife were of legal age 
at the time of the marriage. 
(2) It is unnecessary in any divorce action commenced by or against a legally married minor to have a next 
friend or guardian ad litem appointed for that minor unless the judge requires it. A minor is entitled to prosecute 
or defend the action in the same manner and with the same effect as if he or she were of legal age. 
 
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 
102nd Legislature are enacted into law: 
(a) Senate Bill No. 209. 
(b) Senate Bill No. 212. 
(c) House Bill No. 4294. 
(d) House Bill No. 4295. 
 
 
 
 
(61)   
 
 
Clerk of the House of Representatives 
This act is ordered to take immediate effect. 
 
Secretary of the Senate 
 
 
 
 
Approved  
 
 
 
 
 
Governor 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Compiler's note: The bills referred to in enacting section 1 were enacted into law as follows: 
 
Senate Bill No. 209 was filed with the Secretary of State July 12, 2023, and became 2023 PA 71, Eff. Sept. 19, 2023.  
 
Senate Bill No. 212 was filed with the Secretary of State July 12, 2023, and became 2023 PA 72, Imd. July 12, 2023.  
 
House Bill No. 4294 was filed with the Secretary of State September 19, 2023, and became 2023 PA 121, Imd. Eff. 
Sept. 19, 2023. 
 
House Bill No. 4295 was filed with the Secretary of State September 19, 2023, and became 2023 PA 122, Imd. Eff. 
Sept. 19, 2023. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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