HOUSE BILL No. 4999


     October 14, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Jamnick and Daniels and referred to the
Committee on Criminal Law and 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 allow for the operation of cer-
   tain facilities by private entities; to prescribe the powers and
   duties of certain other state departments and agencies; to pro-
   vide for the creation of a local lockup advisory board; to pre-
   scribe 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,"

   (MCL 791.201 to 791.283) by adding section 34b.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:





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 1         SEC. 34B.  (1) NOT LESS THAN 30 DAYS BEFORE A PAROLE HEARING

 2    IS HELD FOR A PRISONER WHO IS SERVING A SENTENCE FOR A LISTED

 3    OFFENSE THAT WOULD REQUIRE REGISTRATION UNDER THE SEX OFFENDERS

 4    REGISTRATION ACT, 1994 PA 295, MCL 28.721 TO 28.732, THE DEPART-

 5    MENT OF CORRECTIONS SHALL SEND A WRITTEN NOTICE TO 1 OF THE FOL-

 6    LOWING, AS APPLICABLE:

 7         (A) THE LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE CITY, VILLAGE, OR

 8    TOWNSHIP IN WHICH THE OFFENSE TOOK PLACE.

 9         (B) IF THERE IS NO LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE CITY,

10    VILLAGE, OR TOWNSHIP IN WHICH THE OFFENSE TOOK PLACE, THE COUNTY

11    SHERIFF FOR THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE OFFENSE TOOK PLACE.

12         (2) THE NOTICE REQUIRED UNDER SUBSECTION (1) SHALL INCLUDE

13    THE PRISONER'S NAME, THE PRISONER'S DATE OF CONVICTION, THE

14    FELONY OR FELONIES FOR WHICH THE PRISONER WAS SENTENCED, AND THE

15    DATE AND LOCATION OF THE SCHEDULED PAROLE HEARING.

16         (3) UPON RECEIVING A WRITTEN NOTICE UNDER SUBSECTION (1),

17    THE LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT OR COUNTY SHERIFF SHALL NOTIFY A

18    NEWSPAPER HAVING GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE CITY, VILLAGE, OR

19    TOWNSHIP AS TO THE CONTENTS OF THE WRITTEN NOTICE OR PROVIDE TO

20    THAT NEWSPAPER A COPY OF THE WRITTEN NOTICE.

















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