HOUSE BILL No. 4956


     June 24, 1997, Introduced by Rep. Profit and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.


        A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

   "The Michigan penal code,"

   (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 148a.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         SEC. 148A.  (1) AN OFFICIAL, EMPLOYEE, CONTRACTUAL EMPLOYEE,

 2    OR AGENT OF THIS STATE SHALL NOT UNDER COLOR OF LAW OR REGULATION

 3    AND ACTING IN HIS OR HER CAPACITY AS AN OFFICIAL, EMPLOYEE, CON-

 4    TRACTUAL EMPLOYEE, OR AGENT WILLFULLY DO EITHER OF THE

 5    FOLLOWING:

 6         (A) DEPRIVE A PERSON OF ANY RIGHT, PRIVILEGE, OR IMMUNITY

 7    SECURED OR PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES,

 8    THE STATE CONSTITUTION OF 1963, OR A LAW OF THIS STATE.

 9         (B) TREAT A PERSON MORE SEVERELY THAN OTHER PERSONS

10    SIMILARLY SITUATED OR IMPOSE A HARSHER PENALTY OR SANCTION ON A




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 1    PERSON BECAUSE THE PERSON EXERCISES OR INVOKES A RIGHT,

 2    PRIVILEGE, OR IMMUNITY DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION (A).

 3         (2) AN INDIVIDUAL WHO VIOLATES SUBSECTION (1) IS GUILTY OF A

 4    FELONY PUNISHABLE BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN 5 YEARS OR A

 5    FINE OF NOT MORE THAN $20,000.00, OR BOTH.














































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