SB-1409, As Passed House, December 9, 2004                                  

    SUBSTITUTE FOR

    SENATE BILL NO. 1409

                                                                             A bill to amend 1992 PA 116, entitled                                             

"Records media act,"                                                        

by amending section 3 (MCL 24.403) and by adding section 6.                 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

1       Sec. 3.  With respect to a reproduction created by a person                 

2   other than a governmental entity or a governmental official                 

3   acting in his or her official capacity, a law that references               

4   this act incorporates by reference any reproduction method or

5   medium  that correctly and accurately reproduces the original

6   approved by this act.                                                       

7   Sec. 6.  A record reproduced under this act shall have the                  

8   same force and effect as a true paper copy of a record.  All                

9   copies produced under this act, when certified as true by the               

10  officer in whose office the original was filed or recorded, shall           

11  have the same force and effect as an original for all legal                 

1   purposes and is admissible in court, administrative proceedings,            

2   and elsewhere as evidence in the same manner as an original.

3       Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take                      

4   effect unless all of the following bills of the 92nd Legislature            

5   are enacted into law:                                                       

6       (a) House Bill No. 5550.                                                    

7       (b) House Bill No. 5657.