Michigan Bill Regarding Sentencing Guidelines Regarding Violations of Heartbeat Ban (HB 5645)

This law was last updated on Jul 7, 2014

State

Michigan

Number

HB 5645

Status

Failed to Pass

Proposed

Jun 10, 2014

Topics

Heartbeat Bans, Later Abortion

Full Bill Text

www.legislature.mi.gov

HB 5645 would have amended the Michigan code of criminal procedure to include a sentencing guideline — up to 4 years imprisonment — for “performing an abortion after detecting heartbeat in unborn child.”

STATUS

This bill was tie-barred with HB 5643 and HB 5644. (“Tie bar” is a device to condition the effectiveness of legislation on the enactment or passage of other specified legislation. In other words, if one bill fails, they all fail.) They all failed.