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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.
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(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 sta nding 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