CIVIL INFRACTIONS H.B. 5552: FLOOR ANALYSIS
House Bill 5552 (as reported without amendment) Sponsor: Representative Alan Cropsey
House Committee: Judiciary and Civil Rights Senate Committee: Judiciary
The bill would amend Chapter 171 of the Revised Statutes of 1846, which provides for the regulation of county jails, to designate as State civil infractions both of the following, which currently are civil infractions:
-- Selling, hiring, leasing, loaning, contracting for, or otherwise using the labor of prisoners for a person’s own private benefit or financial gain.
-- A sheriff’s deriving any private benefit or financial gain from the provision of food to prisoners, whether by retaining the difference between money budgeted for food and money spent for food, or by any other method.
Violators currently are “subject to a fine of not more than $500 plus the value of the private benefit or financial gain”. Under the bill, violators could “be ordered to pay a civil fine” of up to $500.
MCL 801.10 Legislative Analyst: P. Affholter
The bill would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.
Date Completed: 3-19-96 Fiscal Analyst: M. Bain
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This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.