HOUSE BILL No. 6054


     October 3, 2000, Introduced by Reps. Basham, Bovin, Bogardus, Dennis, Hale, Clarke, Hanley, Stallworth and Switalski 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,"

   by amending section 31 (MCL 791.231), as amended by 1982 PA 314.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:





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           Sec. 31.  (1) There is established within the department a

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      bureau of field  services  OPERATIONS, under the direction and

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      supervision of a deputy director in charge of field  services 

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      OPERATIONS, who shall be appointed by the director and who shall

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      be within the state civil service.  The deputy director shall

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      direct and supervise the work of the bureau of field  services 

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      OPERATIONS and shall formulate methods of investigation and

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      supervision and develop various processes in the technique of

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      supervision by the parole staff.  The deputy director is respon-

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      sible for all investigations of persons eligible for release from

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      state  penal institutions,  CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES and for the

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      general supervision of persons released from  penal institutions 

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      STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.  The deputy director in charge of

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      the bureau of field  services  OPERATIONS is responsible for the

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      collection and preservation of records and statistics with

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      respect to paroled prisoners as may be required by the director

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      and the chairperson of the parole board.  The deputy director

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      shall employ parole officers and assistants as may be necessary,

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      subject to the approval of the director.  The deputy director

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      shall select secretarial and other assistants as may be necessary

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      and may obtain permanent quarters for the staff as may be

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      necessary.

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           (2) UPON THE REQUEST OF A PAROLE OFFICER EMPLOYED BY THE

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      DEPARTMENT, IT IS THE DUTY OF EACH SHERIFF AND EACH CHIEF POLICE

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      OFFICER OF A CITY, VILLAGE, TOWNSHIP, COLLEGE, OR UNIVERSITY TO

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      DELIVER ALL POLICE REPORTS NECESSARY FOR THE PAROLE OFFICER TO





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      CARRY OUT HIS OR HER DUTIES.  THE REPORTS SHALL BE DELIVERED

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      WITHOUT UNREASONABLE DELAY.




















































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