Bill Text: MI HB5959 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Corrections; other; legislative corrections ombudsman's access to prisoner health and mortality records; provide for. Amends sec. 5 of 1975 PA 46 (MCL 4.355). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5958'10
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-12-29 - Assigned Pa 287'10 With Immediate Effect [HB5959 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-HB5959-Chaptered.html
Act No. 287
Public Acts of 2010
Approved by the Governor
December 16, 2010
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 16, 2010
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 16, 2010
STATE OF MICHIGAN
95TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2010
Introduced by Reps. Warren, Smith and Kennedy
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5959
AN ACT to amend 1975 PA 46, entitled “An act to create the office of the legislative corrections ombudsman; to prescribe the powers and duties of the office, the ombudsman, the legislative council, and the department of corrections; and to provide remedies from administrative acts,” by amending section 5 (MCL 4.355).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 5. (1) Upon request and without the requirement of any release, the ombudsman shall be given access to all information, records, and documents in the possession of the department which the ombudsman deems necessary in an investigation, including, but not limited to, prisoner medical health records, prisoner mental health records, and prisoner mortality and morbidity records.
(2) Upon request and without notice, the ombudsman shall be granted entrance to inspect at any time any premises under the control of the department.
(3) The ombudsman may hold informal hearings and may request that any person appear before the ombudsman, or at a hearing, and give testimony or produce documentary or other evidence which the ombudsman deems relevant to a matter under investigation.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 5958 of the 95th Legislature is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
