Law enforcement: other; jurisdiction of sergeant at arms; modify, the official text

Act
No. 35

Public
Acts of 2025

Approved
by the Governor

November
18, 2025

Filed
with the Secretary of State

November
18, 2025

EFFECTIVE
DATE:  Sine Die

(91st day after final adjournment of the 2025 Regular Session)

state of michigan

103rd Legislature

Regular session of 2025

Introduced by Rep. Lightner

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5055

AN ACT to amend 2001 PA 185,
entitled “An act to commission and confer certain police and arrest powers on certain
sergeants at arms and assistant sergeants at arms in the legislative branch; to
prescribe certain duties and responsibilities of certain state employees; and
to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 2 (MCL 4.382), as
amended by 2016 PA 303.

The People of the State of
Michigan enact:

Sec.
2. (1) Each house of the legislature may commission the sergeant at arms and
may commission 1 or more assistant sergeants at arms within that respective
house as police officers, to enforce rules adopted by that house and the laws
of this state as designated by the senate and the house of representatives,
respectively. In performing those enforcement activities, commissioned
sergeants at arms and assistant sergeants at arms are vested with the powers,
privileges, prerogatives, and immunities conferred on police officers under the
laws of this state.

(2) Each sergeant at arms and assistant sergeant at arms
commissioned by the senate or the house of representatives as a police officer
under subsection (1) has the power to enforce rules adopted by that house and
the laws of this state in the following places:

(a) The capitol building and capitol grounds.

(b) Buildings in which the offices of legislative members or
staff are located.

(c) Locations where either house of the legislature or a
committee or subcommittee of either house is holding a session, meeting, or
public hearing, including a reasonable time before and after the session,
meeting, or hearing.

(d) Legislative parking areas.

(e) Areas immediately adjacent to the places described in
subdivisions (a) to (d).

(f) Subject to subsection (4), in other locations in this
state only as necessary to do 1 or more of the following:

(i) Provide security for a legislative
member, a family member of the legislative member, or staff of the legislative
member, if the need for security is related to threats directed toward or
crimes committed against the legislative member in the course of the
legislative member’s official duties.

(ii) Provide security at an event attended by
a legislative member in the course of the legislative member’s official duties.

(iii) Subject to subsection (5), investigate
threats toward or crimes committed against a legislative member.

(3) A sergeant at arms or assistant sergeant at arms
commissioned as a police officer under this act shall exercise his or her
authority as a police officer at the locations specified in subsection (2)(c) and
(f) only while actually engaging in his or her duties as the sergeant at arms
or an assistant sergeant at arms under the rules adopted by the senate or the
house of representatives respectively.

(4) Subsection
(2)(f) only applies if the senate majority leader or the speaker of the house
of representatives, as applicable, approves a request submitted by a
legislative member requesting security or investigation from a sergeant at arms
or assistant sergeant at arms.

(5) If investigating a threat or crime as provided under
subsection (2)(f)(iii), a sergeant at arms or assistant
sergeant at arms shall coordinate with other state or local law enforcement
agencies, as practicable.

(6) Subject to subsection (4), the senate may delegate,
pursuant to rules of the senate, the authority to commission the sergeant at
arms or assistant sergeants at arms as police officers and delegate their
responsibilities under subsection (1) to the senate majority leader, the
secretary of the senate, or other officers or employees of the senate.

(7) Subject to subsection (4), the house of representatives
may delegate, pursuant to rules of the house of representatives, the authority
to commission the sergeant at arms or assistant sergeants at arms as police
officers and delegate their responsibilities under subsection (1) to the
speaker of the house of representatives, the clerk of the house of
representatives, or other officers or employees of the house of
representatives.

(8) The office of sergeant at arms of each house of the
legislature is a law enforcement agency of this state.

(9) A sergeant at arms or an assistant sergeant at arms
commissioned as a police officer under this act is subject to the training and
licensure requirements under the Michigan commission on law enforcement
standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 to 28.615.

(10) Not less than once per legislative session, the
individual designated to supervise the sergeants at arms under house rules and
the individual designated to supervise the sergeants at arms under senate
rules, or their designees, shall report to the standing committees of the house
of representatives and senate concerned with government operations and
oversight respectively on the activities of the sergeants at arms and other
matters of interest involving the security and decorum in their respective houses.

Clerk of the House of
Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved___________________________________________

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Governor