Bill Text: MI HB4192 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Corrections: other; program to provide driver license and state identification cards to parolees; provide for. Amends sec. 34c of 1953 PA 232 (MCL 791.234c). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4191'23, HB 4193'23
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2024-12-31 - Vetoed By The Governor 01/17/2025 [HB4192 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4192-Enrolled.html
state of michigan
102nd Legislature
Regular session of 2024
Introduced by Reps. Brabec, Aiyash, Edwards, Fitzgerald, McFall, Rheingans, Mentzer, Paiz, Scott, Hope, Wegela, Steckloff, Conlin, Tyrone Carter, Liberati, Skaggs, Snyder, Price, Weiss and Hood
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4192
AN ACT to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled ?An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to probationers and probation officers, to pardons, reprieves, commutations, and paroles, to the administration of correctional institutions, correctional farms, and probation recovery camps, to prisoner labor and correctional industries, and to the supervision and inspection of local jails and houses of correction; to provide for the siting of correctional facilities; to create a state department of corrections, and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the transfer to and vesting in said department of powers and duties vested by law in certain other state boards, commissions, and officers, and to abolish certain boards, commissions, and offices the powers and duties of which are transferred by this act; to allow for the operation of certain facilities by private entities; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain other state departments and agencies; to provide for the creation of a local lockup advisory board; to provide for a lifetime electronic monitoring program; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; to make certain appropriations; to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act,? by amending section 34c (MCL 791.234c), as added by 2012 PA 24.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 34c. (1) The department, by contract or otherwise, shall assist prisoners with reentry into the community, including, but not limited to, doing all of the following:
(a) Assisting prisoners in obtaining the identification documents described in this section.
(b) Subject to the department?s security needs, assisting prisoners in obtaining the following identification documents before those prisoners are released on parole or discharged upon completion of their maximum sentences:
(i) Any of the identification documents that, in combination with the prisoner identification card issued under section 37(4), would satisfy the application requirements for obtaining an operator?s license or official state personal identification card as established by the secretary of state under section 307 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.307, or section 1 of 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291.
(ii) A Social Security card or Social Security number verification, if possible to obtain.
(c) Not less than 60 days before a prisoner is scheduled to
be released on parole or discharged upon completion of the prisoner?s maximum
sentence, collecting application documents, to the extent possible, and a
photograph of the prisoner required for an operator?s license or official state
personal identification card as established by the secretary of state under
section 307 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.307, or section
1 of 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291, as applicable, and sending the documents,
photograph, and the projected date the prisoner will be released on parole or
discharged upon completion of the prisoner?s maximum sentence to the secretary
of state.
(2) A prisoner?s refusal to obtain or attempt to obtain the documents identified in subsection (1)(b) may be included as part of the prisoner?s parole eligibility report, as provided in section 35(7)(e).
(3) This section applies to all prisoners who are serving a sentence under the jurisdiction of the department after February 23, 2012, who are eligible to obtain an operator?s license under section 307 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.307, or an official state personal identification card under section 1 of 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291.
(4) The department shall include in writing to each prisoner the information described in section 14(9)(b) of chapter XI of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 771.14, listing the identification documents referenced in subsection (1). For a prisoner who begins serving a sentence under the jurisdiction of the department after February 23, 2012, the department shall provide that written information during reception center processing. For any prisoner who is under the jurisdiction of the department on February 23, 2012, the department shall provide that written information at the time the parole eligibility report is prepared.
(5) The department shall allow the secretary of state to have electronic access to prisoner information for the purpose of verifying the identity of prisoners who apply for driver licenses or state personal identification cards.
(6) The reentry success fund is created within the state treasury. The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments. Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year must remain in the fund and not lapse to the general fund. The department shall expend money from the reentry success fund, upon appropriation, only for the expenses of performing the activities required by this section.
(7) The department shall provide to an individual any operator?s license or official state personal identification card that the department receives for that individual following an application to the secretary of state under subsection (1)(c).
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 102nd Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) House Bill No. 4191.
(b) House Bill No. 4193.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
