REPEALERS - S.B. 1025-1027: FLOOR ANALYSIS
Senate Bills 1025, 1026, and 1027 (as reported without amendment)
Sponsor: Senator Thaddeus G. McCotter
Committee: Government Operations
CONTENT
The bills would repeal various acts or delete parts of acts, as described below.
Senate Bill 1025 would repeal Public Act 165 of 1865, which requires banks and bankers to stamp the word "counterfeit", "altered", or "worthless" on any bank bill that is counterfeit, altered, or worthless.
Senate Bill 1026 would repeal Section 502 of the Michigan Penal Code, which governs the handling of gasoline, benzine, and naphtha by wholesalers and retailers of those products, and makes a violation a misdemeanor.
Senate Bill 1027 would repeal Section 41 of the Penal Code, which makes it a misdemeanor for a person to sell, lend, give away, show, or possess any publication of criminal news, police reports, accounts of criminal deeds, or stories of bloodshed, lust, or crime.
MCL 487.651 & 487.652 (S.B. 1025) - Legislative Analyst: George Towne
750.502 (S.B. 1026)
750.41 (S.B. 1027)
FISCAL IMPACT
Senate Bill 1025 would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
Senate Bills 1026 and 1027 would have an indeterminate fiscal impact on local government. There are no statewide data currently available to indicate how many offenders a year (if any) are convicted of a misdemeanor for the applicable offenses. Local units of government would incur the cost of incarceration for these offenses, and libraries would receive the fine revenue.
Date Completed: 2-12-02 - Fiscal Analyst: Bill Bowerman
- Bethany Wicksall
Floor\sb1025 - Bill Analysis @ http://www.senate.state.mi.us/sfa
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.