Bill Text: MI HB4697 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered

Michigan House Bill 4697 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Courts; circuit court; mental health court; create. Amends 1961 PA 236 (MCL 600.101 - 600.9947) by adding secs. 1099 & 1099a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4694'13, HB 4695'13, HB 4696'13

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-12-31 - Assigned Pa 277'13 With Immediate Effect 2013 Addenda [HB4697 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4697-Chaptered.html

Act No. 277

Public Acts of 2013

Approved by the Governor

December 30, 2013

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 30, 2013

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 30, 2013

STATE OF MICHIGAN

97TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

Introduced by Reps. O’Brien, Cotter, Graves, Johnson, McCready, Heise, Haines, MacMaster, Walsh, Howrylak, Hovey-Wright and Leonard

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4697

AN ACT to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of the courts, and of the judges and other officers of the courts; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in the courts; pleading, evidence, practice, and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in the courts; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 600.101 to 600.9947) by adding sections 1099 and 1099a.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 1099. (1) Each mental health court shall collect and provide data on each individual applicant and participant and the entire program as required by the state court administrative office. The state court administrative office shall provide appropriate training to all courts entering data, as directed by the supreme court.

(2) Each mental health court shall maintain files or databases on each individual participant in the program for review and evaluation as well as treatment, as directed by the state court administrative office. The information collected for evaluation purposes must include a minimum standard data set developed and specified by the state court administrative office.

(3) As directed by the supreme court, the state court administrative office shall provide standards for mental health courts in this state, including, but not limited to, developing a list of approved measurement instruments and indicators for data collection and evaluation. These standards must provide comparability between programs and their outcomes.

(4) The information collected under this section regarding individual applicants to mental health court programs for the purpose of application to that program and participants who have successfully completed mental health courts is exempt from disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.

Sec. 1099a. (1) The supreme court is responsible for the expenditure of state funds for the establishment and operation of mental health courts.

(2) Each mental health court shall report quarterly to the state court administrative office in a manner prescribed by the state court administrative office on the state funds received and expended by that mental health court.

(3) The state court administrative office may establish an advisory committee. If established, this committee shall be separate from and independent of the state’s drug treatment court advisory committee.

(4) As directed by the supreme court, the state court administrative office shall, in conjunction with the department of community health, assure that training and technical assistance are available and provided to all mental health courts.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 4694.

(b) House Bill No. 4695.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor