Bill Text: MI HB5815 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Corrections; prisoners; reentry services and housing for individuals released from prison without parole due to the prisoner's conviction or sentence being overturned; provide for. Amends sec. 83 of 1953 PA 232 (MCL 791.283).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-12-28 - Assigned Pa 344'16 [HB5815 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB5815-Chaptered.html
Act No. 344
Public Acts of 2016
Approved by the Governor
December 21, 2016
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 21, 2016
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 29, 2017
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2016
Introduced by Rep. Chang
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5815
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 83 (MCL 791.283).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 83. (1) The department shall provide all of the following to a prisoner who is discharged from custody prior to his or her maximum discharge date without being granted parole because his or her conviction or sentence has been reversed, vacated, or overturned:
(a) Reentry services, excluding reentry housing, consistent with the services received by parolees in this state for a period not to exceed 2 years following the date of his or her discharge.
(b) Reentry housing, consistent with the transitional housing provided to parolees in this state for a period not to exceed 1 year following the date of his or her discharge.
(c) Vital documents, including, but not limited to, the prisoner’s birth certificate.
(2) The department shall assign staff to ensure that a prisoner eligible for the services and documents described in subsection (1) is provided with those services and documents in a timely manner.
(3) A prisoner who received the reentry services described in subsection (1) and whose conviction is subsequently reinstated or who is resentenced and returned to the custody of the department for the same conviction that was previously reversed, vacated, or overturned entitling him or her to the services described in subsection (1) shall repay the department for all reentry services he or she received under subsection (1). The amount owed by a prisoner under this subsection shall be determined by the department.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
