Act No. 41
Public Acts of 2001
Approved by the Governor
July 19, 2001
Filed with the Secretary of State
July 23, 2001
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 23, 2001
STATE OF MICHIGAN
91ST LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2001
Introduced by Reps. LaSata, Mead, Stewart, Newell, Shackleton, Stamas, Vander Roest, Jansen, Kooiman, Mortimer, Pappageorge, Cameron Brown and Shulman
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4255
AN ACT to make appropriations for the department of corrections and certain state purposes related to corrections for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002; to provide for the expenditure of the appropriations; to provide for reports; to provide for the creation of certain advisory committees and boards; to prescribe certain powers and duties of the department of corrections, certain other state officers and agencies, and certain advisory committees and boards; to provide for the collection of certain funds; and to provide for the disposition of fees and other income received by certain state agencies.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
PART 1
LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS
Sec. 101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this act, the amounts listed in this part are appropriated for the department of corrections for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, from the funds indicated in this part. The following is a summary of the appropriations in this part:
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY:
Average population 50,252
Full-time equated unclassified positions 16.0
Full-time equated classified positions 19,390.5
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 1,737,667,100
Appropriated from:
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental transfers 5,965,700
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 1,731,701,400
Federal revenues:
Total federal revenues 28,032,400
Special revenue funds:
Total local revenues 349,600
Total private revenues 0
| Total other state restricted revenues | $ | 48,965,500 |
| State general fund/general purpose | $ | 1,654,353,900 |
Sec. 102. EXECUTIVE
Average population 480
Full-time equated unclassified positions 16.0
Full-time equated classified positions 91.5
Unclassified positions--16.0 FTE positions $ 1,316,700
Executive direction--89.5 FTE positions 8,658,200
Michigan youth correctional facility - management services 11,374,400
Michigan youth correctional facility - administration--2.0 FTE positions 196,100
Average population 480
Michigan youth correctional facility - lease payments 5,589,100
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 27,134,500
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues and reimbursements 17,159,600
State general fund/general purpose $ 9,974,900
Sec. 103. ADMINISTRATION AND PROGRAMS
Full-time equated classified positions 409.6
Planning, research, and information services--83.5 FTE positions $ 9,449,500
Administrative services--69.6 FTE positions 5,787,200
Substance abuse testing and treatment 20,075,500
Inmate legal services 314,900
Training 15,206,800
Training administration--32.5 FTE positions 3,604,700
Prison industries operations--224.0 FTE positions 15,793,800
Rent 2,240,800
Equipment and special maintenance 2,054,000
Worker's compensation 19,937,400
Compensatory buyout and union leave bank 275,000
Prosecutorial and detainer expenses 4,051,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 98,790,600
Appropriated from:
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
IDG-MDSP, Michigan justice training fund 630,300
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues and reimbursements 2,912,500
Special revenue funds:
Correctional industries revolving fund 15,793,800
State general fund/general purpose $ 79,454,000
Sec. 104. FIELD OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION
Average population 743
Full-time equated classified positions 2,313.2
Field programs $ 9,324,100
Personnel costs--1,560.0 FTE positions 99,412,600
Parole board operations--26.0 FTE positions 2,133,000
Loans to parolees 204,400
Boot camp-phase III/intensive supervision--72.0 FTE positions 3,342,100
Parole/probation services 2,286,500
Tether operations--174.3 FTE positions 8,793,700
Community residential programs--241.6 FTE positions 19,837,600
Average population 743
Technical rule violator program--104.3 FTE positions 9,562,300
Special alternative incarceration program--135.0 FTE positions 10,463,600
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 165,359,900
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Local restricted revenues and reimbursements 349,600
State restricted revenues and reimbursements 16,003,700
State general fund/general purpose $ 149,006,600
Sec. 105. COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
Full-time equated classified positions 17.0
Community corrections administration--17.0 FTE positions $ 1,549,200
Probation residential centers 14,997,000
Community corrections comprehensive plans and services 13,033,000
Public education and training 50,000
Regional jail program 100
County jail reimbursement program 18,500,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 48,129,300
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
State restricted revenues and reimbursements 13,192,100
State general fund/general purpose $ 34,937,200
Sec. 106. CONSENT DECREES
Average population 400
Full-time equated classified positions 577.4
Hadix consent decree--157.0 FTE positions $ 11,018,900
DOJ consent decree--166.5 FTE positions 11,343,300
DOJ psychiatric plan - MDCH mental health services 72,811,000
DOJ psychiatric plan - MDOC staff and services--253.9 FTE positions 15,732,800
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 110,906,000
Appropriated from:
State general fund/general purpose $ 110,906,000
Sec. 107. HEALTH CARE
Full-time equated classified positions 974.7
Health care administration--22.0 FTE positions $ 2,573,500
Hospital and specialty care services 47,692,100
Vaccination program 1,491,300
Northern region clinical complexes--238.4 FTE positions 23,108,800
Southeastern region clinical complexes--421.0 FTE positions 44,817,700
Southwestern region clinical complexes--293.3 FTE positions 25,844,400
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 145,527,800
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues and reimbursements 85,000
Special revenue funds:
State restricted revenues and reimbursements 100,400
State general fund/general purpose $ 145,342,400
Sec. 108. CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES-ADMINISTRATION
Average population 1,338
Full-time equated classified positions 926.6
Correctional facilities administration--33.0 FTE positions $ 3,266,800
Housing inmates in federal institutions 494,000
Education services and federal education grants--23.0 FTE positions 4,598,400
Federal school lunch program 712,800
Leased beds 100
Inmate housing fund--392.1 FTE positions 32,215,600
Average population 1,338
Dental lab operations 102,300
Academic/vocational programs--478.5 FTE positions 37,130,700
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 78,520,700
Appropriated from:
Intradepartmental transfer revenues:
IDT, dental lab user fees 102,300
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues and reimbursements 5,331,000
State general fund/general purpose $ 73,087,400
Sec. 109. NORTHERN REGION CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
Average population 14,330
Full-time equated classified positions 4,480.2
Alger maximum correctional facility - Munising--381.4 FTE positions $ 28,245,200
Average population 844
Baraga maximum correctional facility - Baraga--448.2 FTE positions 32,162,600
Average population 1,084
Chippewa correctional facility - Kincheloe--566.7 FTE positions 42,920,100
Average population 2,322
Kinross correctional facility - Kincheloe--574.3 FTE positions 45,303,600
Average population 2,423
Marquette branch prison - Marquette--429.8 FTE positions 33,524,500
Average population 1,129
Newberry correctional facility - Newberry--359.4 FTE positions 26,309,600
Average population 1,144
Oaks correctional facility - Eastlake--400.8 FTE positions 30,245,700
Average population 900
Ojibway correctional facility - Marenisco--295.4 FTE positions 21,787,800
Average population 1,196
Pugsley correctional facility - Kingsley--231.4 FTE positions 14,996,300
Average population 954
Saginaw correctional facility - Freeland--387.6 FTE positions 27,738,600
Average population 1,468
Standish maximum correctional facility - Standish--405.2 FTE positions 30,301,300
Average population 866
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 333,535,300
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
State restricted revenues and reimbursements 1,137,600
State general fund/general purpose $ 332,397,700
Sec. 110. SOUTHEASTERN REGION CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
Average population 17,542
Full-time equated classified positions 5,513.0
Cooper street correctional facility - Jackson--285.2 FTE positions $ 22,735,200
Average population 1,360
G. Robert Cotton correctional facility - Jackson--427.5 FTE positions 32,341,400
Average population 1,692
Charles E. Egeler correctional facility - Jackson--302.8 FTE positions 21,072,800
Average population 1,006
Gus Harrison correctional facility - Adrian--542.6 FTE positions 40,508,200
Average population 2,200
Huron Valley men's facility - Ypsilanti--292.8 FTE positions 21,761,700
Average population 497
Jackson maximum correctional facility - Jackson--637.0 FTE positions 46,800,700
Average population 1,556
Macomb correctional facility - New Haven--388.3 FTE positions 26,701,800
Average population 1,468
Mound correctional facility - Detroit--355.4 FTE positions 25,494,500
Average population 1,044
Parnall correctional facility - Jackson--298.0 FTE positions 23,375,100
Average population 1,448
Ryan correctional facility - Detroit--346.3 FTE positions 25,795,500
Average population 1,044
Scott correctional facility - Plymouth--396.7 FTE positions 29,209,600
Average population 847
Southern Michigan correctional facility - Jackson--482.6 FTE positions 31,323,700
Average population 881
Thumb correctional facility - Lapeer--382.7 FTE positions $ 29,253,800
Average population 1,454
Western Wayne correctional facility - Plymouth--272.1 FTE positions 21,549,200
Average population 1,045
Jackson area support and services--103.0 FTE positions 18,718,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 416,641,200
Appropriated from:
Intradepartmental transfer revenues:
IDT, production kitchen user fees 5,233,100
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues and reimbursements 2,544,300
Special revenue funds:
State restricted revenues and reimbursements 1,360,900
State general fund/general purpose $ 407,502,900
Sec. 111. SOUTHWESTERN REGION CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
Average population 15,419
Full-time equated classified positions 4,087.3
E.C. Brooks correctional facility - Muskegon--516.3 FTE positions $ 39,929,900
Average population 2,200
Carson City correctional facility - Carson City--551.8 FTE positions 41,638,200
Average population 2,200
Florence Crane correctional facility - Coldwater--398.8 FTE positions 30,239,900
Average population 1,350
Deerfield correctional facility - Ionia--208.9 FTE positions 16,690,400
Average population 960
Richard A. Handlon Michigan training unit - Ionia--269.0 FTE positions 21,462,400
Average population 1,315
Ionia maximum correctional facility - Ionia--371.0 FTE positions 26,877,000
Average population 636
Lakeland correctional facility - Coldwater--268.9 FTE positions 21,608,100
Average population 1,200
Muskegon correctional facility - Muskegon--310.4 FTE positions 24,905,700
Average population 1,310
Pine River correctional facility - St. Louis--225.6 FTE positions 17,295,700
Average population 960
Riverside correctional facility - Ionia--341.0 FTE positions 27,019,100
Average population 1,034
St. Louis correctional facility - St. Louis--625.6 FTE positions 45,455,400
Average population 2,254
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 313,121,800
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
State restricted revenues and reimbursements 1,377,000
State general fund/general purpose $ 311,744,800
PART 2
PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS
GENERAL SECTIONS
Sec. 201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2001-2002 is $1,704,257,200.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units of government for fiscal year 2001-2002 is $81,843,800.00. The itemized statement below identifies appropriations from which spending to units of local government will occur:
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Field operations - assumption of county probation staff $ 36,381,700
Prosecutorial and detainer expenses 4,051,000
Public service work projects 13,331,000
Community corrections comprehensive plans and services 13,033,000
Community corrections probation residential centers 14,997,000
Community corrections public education and training 50,000
Regional jail program 100
TOTAL $ 81,843,800
Sec. 202. The appropriations authorized under this act are subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.
Sec. 203. As used in this act:
(a) "Department" or "MDOC" means the Michigan department of corrections.
(b) "DOJ" means the United States department of justice.
(c) "FTE" means full-time equated.
(d) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.
(e) "IDT" means intradepartmental transfer.
(f) "MDCH" means the Michigan department of community health.
(g) "MDSP" means the Michigan department of state police.
(h) "OCC" means community corrections.
Sec. 204. The department of civil service shall bill departments and agencies at the end of the first fiscal quarter for the 1% charge authorized by section 5 of article XI of the state constitution of 1963. Payments shall be made for the total amount of the billing by the end of the second fiscal quarter.
Sec. 205. (1) A hiring freeze is imposed on the state classified civil service. State departments and agencies are prohibited from hiring any new full-time state classified civil service employees and prohibited from filling any vacant state classified civil service positions. This hiring freeze does not apply to internal transfers of classified employees from 1 position to another within a department.
(2) The state budget director shall grant exceptions to this hiring freeze when the state budget director believes that the hiring freeze will result in rendering a state department or agency unable to deliver basic services, cause loss of revenue to the state, result in the inability of the state to receive federal funds, or would necessitate additional expenditures that exceed any savings from maintaining a vacancy. The state budget director shall report by the thirtieth of each month to the chairpersons of the senate and house standing committees on appropriations the number of exceptions to the hiring freeze approved during the previous month and the reasons to justify the exception.
Sec. 206. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $20,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds. These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in this act under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
(2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $5,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in this act under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
(3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $500,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in this act under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
(4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $500,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in this act under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
Sec. 207. At least 120 days before beginning any effort to privatize, the department shall submit a complete project plan to the appropriate senate and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees and the senate and house fiscal agencies. The plan shall include the criteria under which the privatization initiative will be evaluated. The evaluation shall be completed and submitted to the appropriate senate and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees and the senate and house fiscal agencies within 30 months.
Sec. 208. Unless otherwise specified, the department shall use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this act. This may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients identified for each reporting requirement or it may include placement of reports on an Internet or Intranet site. Quarterly, the department shall provide to the appropriations subcommittees members, state budget office, and the fiscal agencies an electronic and paper copy listing of the reports submitted during the most recent 3-month period along with the Internet or Intranet site of each report, if any.
Sec. 209. Funds appropriated in part 1 should not be used for the purchase of foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality American goods and services, or both, are available. Preference should be given to goods and services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses if they are competitively priced and of comparable value.
Sec. 210. The director of each department receiving appropriations in part 1 shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.
Sec. 211. (1) Pursuant to the provisions of civil service rules and regulations and applicable collective bargaining agreements, individuals seeking employment with the department shall submit to a controlled substance test. The test shall be administered by the department.
(2) Individuals seeking employment with the department who refuse to take a controlled substance test or who test positive for the illicit use of a controlled substance on such a test shall be denied employment.
Sec. 212. The department may charge fees and collect revenues in excess of appropriations in part 1 not to exceed the cost of offender services and programming, employee meals, academic/vocational services, custody escorts, compassionate visits, union steward activities, public work programs, and emergency services provided to units of government. The revenues and fees collected shall be appropriated for all expenses associated with these services and activities.
Sec. 213. Of the state general fund/general purpose revenue appropriated in part 1, $546,956,700.00 represents a state spending increase over the amount provided to the department for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1994, and may be used to meet state match requirements of programs contained in the violent crime control and law enforcement act of 1994, Public Law 103-322, 108 Stat. 1796, or successor grant programs, so that any additional federal funds received shall supplement funding provided to the department in part 1.
Sec. 214. By September 30, 2002, the department shall report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director the amount of savings realized through the consolidation of special alternative incarceration line items and of facility line items, and how such savings were utilized within their respective line items.
Sec. 214a. By September 30, 2002, the department shall report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on the projected expenditure for each prison clinical complex consolidated into a regional clinical complex line item. The report shall include an assessment of the impact of the consolidation of clinical complex line items into regional clinical line items, including, but not limited to, a description of any legislative transfers that would have been necessary except for the consolidation of the former clinical complex line items, and information on any other administrative or operational efficiencies that may have been realized through the consolidation.
Sec. 215. The department shall provide quarterly reports on the Michigan youth correctional facility to the members of the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The reports shall provide information relevant to an assessment of the safety and security of the institution, including, but not limited to, information on the number of critical incidents by type occurring at the facility, the number of custody staff at the facility, staff turnover rates, staff vacancy rates, overtime reports, prisoner grievances, and number and severity of assaults occurring at the facility. The reports also shall provide information on programming available at the facility and on program enrollments, including, but not limited to, academic/vocational programs, counseling programs, mental health treatment programs, substance abuse treatment programs, and cognitive restructuring programs.
Sec. 216. The department shall require the contract monitor for the Michigan youth correctional facility to provide a manual to each prisoner at intake that details programs and services available at the facility, the processes by which prisoner complaints and grievances can be pursued, and the identity of staff available at the facility to answer questions regarding the information in the manual. The contract monitor shall obtain written verification of receipt from each prisoner receiving the manual. The contract monitor also shall answer prisoner questions regarding facility programs, services, and grievance procedures.
Sec. 217. The department shall report by April 1, 2002 to the senate and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on the amount of milk and milk products produced and distributed and the amount of raw milk purchased, by source, month, and location, during the preceding fiscal year.
Sec. 218. The bureau of health care services shall develop information on hepatitis C prevention and the risks associated with exposure to hepatitis C, and the health care providers shall disseminate this information verbally and in writing to each prisoner at the health screening and full health appraisal conducted at admissions, at the annual health care screening 1 week before or after a prisoner's birthday, and prior to release to the community by parole, transfer to community residential placement, or discharge on the maximum.
Sec. 219. (1) By April 1, 2002, the department shall report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on academic/vocational programs. The report shall provide information relevant to an assessment of the department's academic and vocational programs, including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) The number of prisoners enrolled in each program, the number of prisoners completing each program, and the number of prisoners on waiting lists for each program.
(b) The steps the department has undertaken to improve programs and reduce waiting lists.
(c) An explanation of the value and purpose of each program, e.g., to improve employability, reduce recidivism, reduce prisoner idleness, or some combination of these and other factors.
(d) An identification of program outcomes for each academic and vocational program.
(e) An explanation of the department's plans for academic and vocational programs.
(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall contract with an independent third party to prepare a program design and estimated cost for an evaluation of the department's academic and vocational programs. At a minimum, the program design shall include an assessment of the degree to which departmental academic/vocational programs affect parolee employability and recidivism. The department shall cooperate with the contractor and grant the contractor access to departmental records and staff as necessary to complete the program design. By April 1, 2002, the department shall submit the program design and estimated cost of the evaluation to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director.
Sec. 220. By February 15, 2002, the department shall provide the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director with an annual report on restricted fund balances, projected revenues, and expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2001 and September 30, 2002.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TESTING AND TREATMENT
Sec. 301. (1) The department shall screen and assess each prisoner for alcohol and other drug involvement to determine the need for further treatment. The assessment process shall be designed to identify the severity of alcohol and other drug addiction and determine the treatment plan, if appropriate.
(2) Subject to the availability of funding resources, the department shall provide substance abuse treatment to prisoners with priority given to those prisoners who are most in need of treatment and who can best benefit from program intervention based on the screening and assessment provided under subsection (1).
Sec. 302. (1) In expending residential substance abuse treatment services funds appropriated by this act, the department shall ensure to the maximum extent possible that residential substance abuse treatment services are available statewide.
(2) By April 1, 2002, the department shall report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on corrections and the house and senate fiscal agencies on the allocation, distribution, and expenditure of all funds appropriated by the substance abuse administration and testing line item. Information required by this subsection shall, where possible, be separated by MDOC administrative region and by offender type, including at a minimum a distinction between prisoners, parolees, and probationers.
Sec. 306. (1) The department shall continue to contract with 1 or more independent third parties for evaluation and monitoring of alcohol and substance abuse programs administered by the department, including in-prison programs and programs provided through community placement or field programs. The evaluation shall measure the impact of alcohol and other substance abuse programs on prison admission, length of stay, jail utilization, and offender relapse and recidivism. The evaluation of a program funded with federal residential substance abuse treatment for state prisoners funds shall be consistent with any requirements contained in the federal residential substance abuse treatment grant for that program. Evaluation of substance abuse treatment pilot programs funded under sections 220 and 221 of 1998 PA 321 and under analogous sections of 1999 PA 92 and 2000 PA 237 shall be consistent with recommendations developed and agreed to under section 222 of 1998 PA 321, and shall be structured so as to allow those pilot programs and the programs funded under this act to be compared with each other. Evaluations required by this section shall to the extent feasible compare offenders treated under the programs with other offenders of similar characteristics.
(2) The department shall report by April 1, 2002 to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on corrections and the house and senate fiscal agencies on implementation of substance abuse treatment programs and on the evaluation and monitoring requirements provided by this section.
EXECUTIVE
Sec. 401. The department shall submit 3-year and 5-year prison population projection updates by February 1, 2002 to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director.
Sec. 402. The department shall prepare by April 1, 2002 individual reports for the technical rule violator program, the community residential program, the electronic tether program, and the special alternative to incarceration program. The reports shall be submitted to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The reports shall include the following:
(a) Monthly new participants.
(b) Monthly participant unsuccessful terminations, including cause.
(c) Number of successful terminations.
(d) End month population by facility/program.
(e) Average length of placement.
(f) Return to prison statistics.
(g) Description of program location(s), capacity, and staffing.
(h) Sentencing guideline scores and actual sentence statistics for participants, if applicable.
(i) Comparison with prior year statistics.
(j) Analysis of the impact on prison admissions and jail utilization and the cost effectiveness of the program.
Sec. 403. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall continue to maintain county jail services staff sufficient to enable the department to continue to fulfill its functions of providing technical support, inspections of county jails, and maintenance of the jail reimbursement program.
Sec. 404. The department shall report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director by April 1, 2002 on the ratio of correctional officers to prisoners for each correctional institution, the ratio of shift command staff to line custody staff, and the ratio of noncustody institutional staff to prisoners for each correctional institution.
Sec. 405. (1) The department shall review and revise as necessary policy proposals that provide alternatives to prison for offenders being sentenced to prison as a result of technical probation violations and technical parole violations. To the extent the department has insufficient policies or resources to affect the continued increase in prison commitments among these offender populations, the department shall explore other policy options to allow for program alternatives, including department or OCC-funded programs, local level programs, and programs available through private agencies that may be used as prison alternatives for these offenders.
(2) To the extent policies or programs described in subsection (1) are used, developed, or contracted for, the department may request that funds appropriated in part 1 be transferred under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393, for their operation.
(3) The department shall continue to utilize parole violator processing guidelines that require parole agents to utilize all available appropriate community-based, nonincarcerative postrelease sanctions and services when appropriate. The department shall periodically evaluate such guidelines for modification, in response to emerging information from the pilot projects for substance abuse treatment provided under this act and applicable provisions of prior budget acts for the department.
(4) By March 1, 2002, the department shall report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, senate and house fiscal agencies, and state budget director on the effect that any recommended policy changes for technical violators of parole and technical violators of probation would have on admission to prison and jail and the impact on other program alternatives.
ADMINISTRATION AND PROGRAMS
Sec. 501. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for prosecutorial and detainer expenses, the department shall reimburse counties for housing and custody of parole violators and offenders being returned by the department from community placement to institutional status and for prisoners who volunteer for placement in a county jail.
FIELD OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 601. (1) It is the intent of the legislature that the funding appropriated in part 1 for parole and probation agents shall provide sufficient parole and probation agents to maintain a ratio of 90 workload units per agent.
(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall conduct a statewide caseload audit of field agents. The audit shall address public protection issues and assess the ability of the field agents to complete their professional duties. The results of the audit shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections and the senate and house fiscal agencies by September 30, 2002.
Sec. 602. (1) Of the amount appropriated in part 1 for personnel, a sufficient amount shall be allocated for the community service work program and shall be used for salaries and wages and fringe benefit costs of community service coordinators employed by the department to supervise offenders participating in work crew assignments. Funds shall also be used to cover motor transport division rates on state vehicles used to transport offenders to community service work project sites.
(2) The community service work program shall provide offenders with community service work of tangible benefit to a community while fulfilling court-ordered community service work sanctions and other postconviction obligations.
(3) As used in this section, "community service work" means work performed by an offender in an unpaid position with a nonprofit or tax-supported or government agency for a specified number of hours of work or service within a given time period.
Sec. 603. (1) All prisoners, probationers, and parolees involved with the electronic tether program shall reimburse the department for the equipment costs and telephone charges associated with their participation in the program. The department may require community service work reimbursement as a means of payment for those able-bodied individuals unable to pay for the cost of the equipment.
(2) Program participant contributions and local community tether program reimbursement for the electronic tether program appropriated in part 1 are related to program expenditures and may be used to offset expenditures for this purpose.
(3) Included in the appropriation in part 1 is adequate funding to implement the community tether program to be administered by the department. The community tether program is intended to provide sentencing judges and county sheriffs in coordination with local community corrections advisory boards access to the state's electronic tether program to reduce prison admissions and improve local jail utilization. The department shall determine the appropriate distribution of the tether units throughout the state based upon locally developed comprehensive corrections plans pursuant to the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.401 to 791.414.
(4) For a fee determined by the department, the department will provide counties with the tether equipment, replacement parts, administrative oversight of the equipment's operation, notification of violators, and periodic reports regarding county program participants. Counties are responsible for tether equipment installation and service and apprehension of program violators. For an additional fee as determined by the department, the department will provide staff to install and service the equipment. Counties are responsible for the coordination and apprehension of program violators.
(5) Any county with tether charges outstanding over 60 days shall be considered in violation of the community tether program agreement and lose access to the program.
Sec. 604. Community-placement prisoners and parolees shall reimburse the department for the operational costs of the program. As an alternative method of payment, the department may develop a community service work schedule for those individuals unable to meet reimbursement requirements established by the department.
Sec. 605. The department shall establish a uniform rate to be paid by agencies that benefit from public work services provided by special alternative incarceration participants and prisoners.
Sec. 606. The department shall provide annual training in universal precautions for airborne and bloodborne pathogens for all field operations employees who conduct instant drug tests.
COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
Sec. 701. The office of community corrections shall provide and coordinate the delivery and implementation of services in communities to facilitate successful offender reintegration into the community. Programs and services to be offered shall include, but are not limited to, technical assistance for comprehensive corrections plan development, new program start-up funding, program funding for those programs delivering services for eligible offenders in geographic areas identified by the office of community corrections as having a shortage of available services, technical assistance, referral services for education, employment services, and substance abuse and family counseling. As used in this act:
(a) "Alternative to incarceration in a state facility or jail" means a program that involves offenders who receive a sentencing disposition which appears to be in place of incarceration in a state correctional facility or jail based on historical local sentencing patterns or which amounts to a reduction in the length of sentence in a jail.
(b) "Goal" means the intended or projected result of a comprehensive corrections plan or community corrections program to reduce prison commitment rates, to reduce the length of stay in a jail, or to improve the utilization of a jail.
(c) "Jail" means a facility operated by a local unit of government for the physical detention and correction of persons charged with or convicted of criminal offenses.
(d) "Offender eligibility criteria" means particular criminal violations, state felony sentencing guidelines descriptors, and offender characteristics developed by advisory boards and approved by local units of government that identify the offenders suitable for community corrections programs funded through the office of community corrections.
(e) "Offender target population" means felons or misdemeanants who would likely be sentenced to imprisonment in a state correctional facility or jail, who would not increase the risk to the public safety, who have not demonstrated a pattern of violent behavior, and who do not have criminal records that indicate a pattern of violent offenses.
(f) "Offender who would likely be sentenced to imprisonment" means either of the following:
(i) A felon or misdemeanant who receives a sentencing disposition that appears to be in place of incarceration in a state correctional facility or jail, according to historical local sentencing patterns.
(ii) A currently incarcerated felon or misdemeanant who is granted early release from incarceration to a community corrections program or who is granted early release from incarceration as a result of a community corrections program.
Sec. 702. (1) The funds included in part 1 for community corrections comprehensive plans and services are to encourage the development through technical assistance grants, implementation, and operation of community corrections programs that serve as an alternative to incarceration in a state facility or jail. The comprehensive corrections plans shall include an explanation of how the public safety will be maintained, the goals for the local jurisdiction, offender target populations intended to be affected, offender eligibility criteria for purposes outlined in the plan, and how the plans will meet the following objectives, consistent with section 8(4) of the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.408:
(a) Reduce admissions to prison of nonviolent offenders who would have otherwise received an active sentence, including probation violators.
(b) Improve the appropriate utilization of jail facilities, the first priority of which is to open jail beds intended to house otherwise prison-bound felons, and the second priority being to appropriately utilize jail beds so that jail crowding does not occur.
(c) Open jail beds through the increase of pretrial release options.
(d) Reduce the readmission to prison of parole violators.
(e) Reduce the admission or readmission to prison of offenders, including probation violators and parole violators, for substance abuse violations.
(2) The award of community corrections comprehensive plans funds shall be based on criteria that include, but are not limited to, the prison commitment rate by category of offenders, trends in prison commitment rates and jail utilization, historical trends in community corrections program capacity and program utilization, and the projected impact and outcome of annual policies and procedures of programs on prison commitment rates and jail utilization.
(3) Funds awarded for probation residential centers in part 1 shall provide for a per diem reimbursement of not more than $43.00.
Sec. 703. The comprehensive corrections plans shall also include, where appropriate, descriptive information on the full range of sanctions and services which are available and utilized within the local jurisdiction and an explanation of how jail beds, probation residential services, the special alternative incarceration program (boot camp), probation detention centers, the electronic monitoring program for probationers, and treatment and rehabilitative services will be utilized to support the objectives and priorities of the comprehensive corrections plan and the purposes and priorities of section 8(4) of the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.408. The plans shall also include, where appropriate, provisions that detail how the local communities plan to respond to sentencing guidelines found in chapter XVII of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 777.1 to 777.69, and the use of the county jail reimbursement program pursuant to section 706 of this act. The state community corrections board shall encourage local community corrections boards to include in their comprehensive corrections plans strategies to collaborate with local alcohol and drug treatment agencies of the department of community health for the provision of alcohol and drug screening, assessment, case management planning, and delivery of treatment to alcohol- and drug-involved offenders, including, but not limited to, probation and parole violators who are at risk of revocation.
Sec. 704. (1) As part of the March biannual report specified under section 12(2) of the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.412, which requires an analysis of the impact of that act on prison admissions and jail utilization, the department shall submit to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director the following information for each county and counties consolidated for comprehensive corrections plans:
(a) Approved technical assistance grants and comprehensive corrections plans including each program and level of funding, the utilization level of each program, and profile information of enrolled offenders.
(b) If federal funds are made available, the number of participants funded, the number served, the number successfully completing the program, and a summary of the program activity.
(c) Status of the community corrections information system and the jail population information system.
(d) Data on probation residential centers, including participant data, participant sentencing guideline scores, program expenditures, average length of stay, and bed utilization data.
(e) Offender disposition data by sentencing guideline range, by disposition type, number and percent statewide and by county, current year, and comparisons to prior 3 years.
(2) The report required under subsection (1) shall include the total funding allocated, program expenditures, required program data, and year-to-date totals.
Sec. 705. (1) The department shall identify and coordinate information regarding the availability of and the demand for community corrections programs, jail-based community corrections programs, and basic state-required jail data.
(2) The department shall be responsible for the collection, analysis, and reporting of state-required jail data.
(3) As a prerequisite to participation in the programs and services offered through the department, counties shall provide basic jail data to the department.
Sec. 706. (1) The department shall administer a county jail reimbursement program from the funds appropriated in part 1 for the purpose of reimbursing counties for housing in jails felons who otherwise would have been sentenced to prison.
(2) The county jail reimbursement program shall reimburse counties for housing and custody of convicted felons if the conviction was for a crime committed before January 1, 1999 and 1 of the following applies:
(a) The felon would otherwise have been sentenced to a state prison term with a minimum sentencing guidelines range minimum of 12 months or more.
(b) The felon was convicted of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance, or a combination of both, third or subsequent offense, under section 625(8)(c) of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.625, or its predecessor statute, punishable as a felony.
(c) The felon was sentenced under section 11 or 12 of chapter IX of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 769.11 and 769.12.
(3) The county jail reimbursement program shall reimburse counties for housing and custody of convicted felons if the conviction was for a crime committed on or after January 1, 1999 and 1 of the following applies:
(a) The felon was convicted of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance, or a combination of both, third or subsequent offense, under section 625(8)(c) of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.625, or its predecessor statute, punishable as a felony.
(b) The felon's sentencing guidelines recommended range upper limit is more than 18 months, the felon's sentencing guidelines recommended range lower limit is 12 months or less, the felon's prior record variable score is 35 or more points, and the felon's sentence is not for commission of a crime in crime class G or crime class H under chapter XVII of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 777.1 to 777.69.
(c) The felon's minimum sentencing guidelines range minimum is more than 12 months.
(4) Except as provided in subsection (5), state reimbursement under this section for prisoner housing and custody expenses per diverted offender for the first 90 days of the offender's incarceration shall be $47.00 per diem for a county with a population of more than 100,000 and $42.00 per diem for a county with a population of 100,000 or less. After the diverted offender has been incarcerated 90 days, state reimbursement shall be $40.00 per diem for the remainder of the incarceration up to 1 year total.
(5) For the first 90 days for diverted offenders housed in beds developed under multicounty projects approved and funded under section 807 of 1998 PA 321, state reimbursement shall be $47.00 per diem. After the diverted offender has been incarcerated 90 days, state reimbursement shall be $40.00 per diem for the remainder of the incarceration up to 1 year total.
(6) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the county jail reimbursement program, the department shall contract for an ongoing study to determine the impact of the new legislative sentencing guidelines. The study shall analyze historical sentencing patterns of jurisdictions as well as current and future patterns in order to determine and quantify the population impact on prisons and jails of the new guidelines as well as to identify and define felon or crime characteristics or sentencing guidelines scores that indicate a felon is a prison diversion. The department shall contract for a local and statewide study for this purpose and provide periodic reports regarding the status and findings of the study to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director.
(7) The department, the Michigan association of counties, and the Michigan sheriffs' association shall review the periodic findings of the study required in subsection (6) and, if appropriate, recommend modification of the criteria for reimbursement contained in subsection (3)(b) and (c). Any recommended modification shall be forwarded to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on corrections.
(8) The department shall reimburse counties for offenders in jail based upon the reimbursement eligibility criteria in place on the date the offender was originally sentenced for the reimbursable offense.
(9) County jail reimbursement program expenditures shall not exceed the amount appropriated in part 1 for this purpose. Payments to counties under the county jail reimbursement program shall be made in the order in which properly documented requests for reimbursements are received. A request shall be considered to be properly documented if it meets MDOC requirements for documentation. The department shall by October 15, 2001 distribute the documentation requirements to all counties.
Sec. 708. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for probation residential centers, funds are allocated for the operation of a probation detention program in a county that has adopted a charter pursuant to 1966 PA 293, MCL 45.501 to 45.521. The probation detention program shall have a capacity of 100 beds. The department shall provide the program administrator monthly with 90-day projections of the numbers of beds expected to be needed for probationers and parolees in Phase II residential placement under section 4(2) of the special alternative incarceration act, 1988 PA 287, MCL 798.14, and the program administrator shall make beds available as necessary to house probationers and parolees entering Phase II residential placement.
(2) Funds awarded for probation residential centers in part 1 shall provide for a per diem reimbursement of not more than $43.00.
(3) Payments under this section for operation of the probation detention program shall be made at the same rates applicable to disbursement of other funds awarded under the probation residential centers line item, not to exceed a total expenditure of $1,569,500.00.
(4) The purpose of the probation detention program is to reduce the admission to prison of probation violators by providing a community punishment program within a secure environment with 24-hour supervision and programming with an emphasis on structured daily activities. Programming shall include, but need not be limited to, the following components that may be provided directly or by referral:
(a) Orientation and assessment.
(b) Substance abuse counseling.
(c) Life skills counseling.
(d) Education.
(e) Employment preparation.
(f) Vocational training.
(g) Employment.
(h) Community service.
(i) Physical training.
(j) Cognitive skill training.
(5) The probation detention program shall reduce the admission to prison of probation violators directly or indirectly by providing a program for direct sentencing of felony probation violators who likely would be prison-bound based on historical local sentencing practices or by removing probation violators from jail with a resulting increase in the number of jail beds available and used for felons who otherwise would be likely to be sentenced to prison based on historical local sentencing practices.
(6) The operation of the probation detention program shall be included in an approved community corrections comprehensive plan for the county described in subsection (1) pursuant to the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.401 to 791.414, and shall be consistent with sections 701, 702, and 703.
(7) The comprehensive plan shall specify the programs, eligibility criteria, referral, and enrollment process, the assessment and client-specific planning case management process, a program design that includes a variable length of stay based on assessed need, and the evaluation methodology to show the impact of the program on prison admissions and recidivism.
(8) The length of stay for a probationer or parolee in Phase II residential placement shall be at the department's discretion based on the offender assessment and client-specific planning case management process and the offender's progress at meeting the case management objectives, but shall not exceed 120 days.
(9) The department shall require the program administrator to report not later than March 1, 2002 to the state budget director, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections concerning the program's impact on prison admissions and recidivism including, but not limited to, the numbers of offenders released from the probation detention program who are arrested for a felony offense within 1 year of their termination from the program.
Sec. 711. (1) As a condition of receipt of the funds appropriated in section 105 for community corrections plans and services and probation residential centers, the department shall only award those funds requested under a properly prepared and approved comprehensive corrections plan submitted under section 8 of the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.408, or directly applied for under section 10 of the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.410.
(2) The department shall only halt funding for an entity funded under section 8 of the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.408, in instances of substantial noncompliance during the period covered by the plan.
CONSENT DECREES
Sec. 801. Funding appropriated in part 1 for consent decree line items is appropriated into separate control accounts created for each line item. Funding in each control account shall be distributed as necessary into separate accounts created for the purpose of separately identifying costs and expenditures associated with each consent decree.
HEALTH CARE
Sec. 901. The department shall not expend funds appropriated under part 1 for any surgery, procedure, or treatment to provide or maintain a prisoner's sex change unless it is determined medically necessary by a physician.
Sec. 902. (1) As a condition of expenditure of the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections on January 1, 2002 and July 1, 2002 the status of payments from contractors to vendors for health care services provided to prisoners, as well as the status of the contracts, and an assessment of prisoner health care quality.
(2) It is the intent of the legislature that, in the interest of providing the most efficient and cost-effective delivery of health care, local health care providers shall be considered and given the opportunity to competitively bid as vendors under future managed care contracts.
(3) It is the intent of the legislature that by September 30, 2002, the auditor general shall audit the delivery of health care to prisoners. The audit should determine the extent, if any, of cost savings that have been realized through privatization of prisoner health care, and include the amount of total vendor payments, estimated administrative costs, and the amount of outstanding payments during the most recent contract period.
Sec. 903. There are sufficient funds and FTEs appropriated in part 1 to provide a full complement of nurses for clinical complexes working regular pay hours and it is the intent of the legislature that sufficient nurses be hired or retained to limit the use of overtime other-than-holiday pay.
Sec. 904. From the funds allocated in part 1 for health care services, the department shall conduct a 1-year cost/benefit analysis of privatizing pharmacy services and shall report the findings of this 1-year cost/benefit analysis to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections and the senate and house fiscal agencies not less than 120 days before any effort to privatize pharmacy services.
INSTITUTIONAL OPERATIONS
Sec. 1001. As a condition of expenditure of the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall ensure that smoking areas are designated for use by prisoners and staff at each facility. At a minimum, all outdoor areas within each facility's perimeter shall be designated for smoking, except that smoking may be forbidden within 20 feet of any building designated as nonsmoking or smoke-free.
Sec. 1002. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall allocate sufficient funds to develop a pilot children's visitation program. The pilot program shall teach parenting skills and arrange for day visitation at these facilities for parents and their children, except for the families of prisoners convicted of a crime involving criminal sexual conduct in which the victim was less than 18 years of age or involving child abuse.
(2) It is the intent of the legislature that the department review its policies for reapproving and retraining volunteers in an outreach program that is sponsored by an external religious organization to ensure, to the extent feasible, they minimize the time and effort of the volunteer and encourage continuing participation, and to revise those policies as the department determines appropriate.
Sec. 1003. The department shall prohibit prisoners access to or use of the Internet or any similar system.
Sec. 1004. Any department employee who, in the course of his or her job, is determined by a physician to have had a potential exposure to the hepatitis B virus, shall receive a hepatitis B vaccination upon request.
Sec. 1006. (1) The inmate housing fund shall be used for the custody, treatment, clinical, and administrative costs associated with the housing of prisoners other than those specifically budgeted for elsewhere in this act. Funding in the inmate housing fund is appropriated into a separate control account. Funding in the control account shall be distributed as necessary into separate accounts created to separately identify costs for specific purposes.
(2) Quarterly reports on all expenditures from the inmate housing fund shall be submitted by the department to the state budget director, the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, and the senate and house fiscal agencies.
Sec. 1007. The department shall provide programs that allow prisoners to self-rehabilitate for successful reintegration into the community. The department shall report to the senate and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director, on the academic/vocational programs offered as described in section 219 for prisoners participating as of September 30, 2001. Also, the report shall include information on Michigan prison build program outcomes, including, but not limited to, the number of prisoners who participated in the program during fiscal year 2000-2001, the number of houses/components completed, and the facilities included in the program.
Sec. 1008. It is the intent of the legislature that from the funds appropriated in part 1 for prison operations the department maintain on a voluntary basis 1 or more cognitive restructuring programs such as Project CHANGE for high-security-level prisoners.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Secretary of the Senate.
Approved
Governor.