Michigan Proposes House Bill to Measure Personhood

Michigan Representative Douglass Geiss has introduced a bill to measure the chronological age of a

How old am I?

person by statute.

The purpose of the Bill is unknown at this time but it does open discussions on the issues surrounding "personhood" and how to calculate age, which has been omitted in Pro-life discourse.

HOUSE BILL No. 5727

August 27, 2014, Introduced by Rep. Geiss and referred to the Committee on Government

Operations.

A bill to amend 1846 RS 1, entitled

"Of the statutes,"

by amending section 6 (MCL 8.6).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

Sec. 6. (1) This section 1 applies to the statutes and

2 administrative rules OF THIS STATE. In

3 (2) SUBJECT TO SUBSECTION (3), IN computing a period of days,

4 the first day is excluded and the last day is included. If the last

5 day of any period or a fixed or final day is a Saturday, Sunday, or

6 legal holiday, the period or day is extended to include the next

7 day which THAT is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

8 (3) IN COMPUTING THE AGE OF AN INDIVIDUAL, THE APPLICABLE

9 PERIOD IS COMPUTED FROM THE FIRST MINUTE OF THE DAY ON WHICH THE

10 INDIVIDUAL IS BORN. FOR EXAMPLE, IN COMPUTING THE AGE OF AN

2

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INDIVIDUAL IN YEARS, THE INDIVIDUAL 1 BECOMES 1 YEAR OLDER ON THE

2 FIRST MINUTE OF THE ANNIVERSARY DATE OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S BIRTH.

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