HOUSE BILL No. 4253


     February 11, 1997, Introduced by Reps. Walberg, Cropsey, LeTarte, Kukuk, McBryde, Green, Horton, Raczkowski, Hammerstrom, Harder, Galloway, Brewer and Leland and referred to the Committee on Corrections.


        A bill to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled

   "An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to
   probationers and probation officers, to pardons, reprieves, com-
   mutations, and paroles, to the administration of correctional
   institutions, correctional farms, and probation recovery camps,
   to prisoner labor and correctional industries, and to the super-
   vision 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 prescribe the powers and duties
   of certain other state departments and agencies; to provide for
   the creation of a local lockup advisory board; to prescribe pen-
   alties 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 incon-
   sistent with the provisions of this act,"

   by amending section 63a (MCL 791.263a).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 63a.  (1) A person employed  by  IN a  penal

 2     institution  STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY in this state who is


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 1    injured as a result of an assault by  an inmate of a penal

 2     institution  A PRISONER OR BY A PERSON VISITING A PRISONER, or

 3    WHO IS injured during a riot, shall receive his OR HER full wages

 4    by the department of corrections until  workmen's  WORKER'S com-

 5    pensation benefits begin and then shall receive in addition to

 6     workmen's  WORKER'S compensation benefits a supplement from the

 7    department  which  THAT together with the  workmen's  WORKER'S

 8    compensation benefits shall equal but not exceed the weekly net

 9    wage of the employee at the time of the injury.  This supplement

10    shall only apply while the person is on the department's payroll

11    and is receiving  workmen's  WORKER'S compensation benefits.  and

12     shall include an employee who is currently receiving workmen's

13     compensation due to an injury covered by this section.  Fringe

14    benefits normally received by an employee shall be in effect

15    during the time the employee receives the supplement provided by

16    this section from the department.

17         (2)  For purposes of  AS USED IN this section,  "penal

18     institution" includes the state prison of southern Michigan in

19     the township of Blackman, the county of Jackson; the state house

20     of correction and branch of state prison at Marquette, in the

21     county of Marquette; the Michigan reformatory at Ionia, in the

22     county of Ionia; the Muskegon correctional facility, the Michigan

23     training unit at Ionia and any other state prison, state reforma-

24     tory, state farm probation recovery camp or other state probation

25     facility for adults hereafter established.  "STATE CORRECTIONAL

26    FACILITY" MEANS A FACILITY OPERATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF

27    CORRECTIONS, OR OPERATED BY ANOTHER PARTY UNDER CONTRACT WITH THE



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 1    DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, THAT HOUSES PRISONERS SERVING A

 2    SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE

 3    DEPARTMENT.


















































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