Act No. 12

Public Acts of 2017

Approved by the Governor

March 30, 2017

Filed with the Secretary of State

March 31, 2017

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 29, 2017

STATE OF MICHIGAN

99TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

Introduced by Senators Horn, O’Brien, Proos, Jones, Colbeck, Knollenberg, Booher, Schuitmaker, Brandenburg, Hansen, Kowall, Gregory and Johnson

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 18

AN ACT to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to probationers and probation officers, to pardons, reprieves, commutations, and paroles, to the administration of correctional institutions, correctional farms, and probation recovery camps, to prisoner labor and correctional industries, and to the supervision 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 certain facilities by private entities; 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 provide for a lifetime electronic monitoring program; to prescribe 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 791.285) by adding section 84.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 84. (1) On a quarterly basis, the department shall provide to the department of health and human services a list of supervised individuals who have absconded from supervision and whom a law enforcement agency or the department is actively seeking.

(2) As used in this section:

(a) “Abscond” means the intentional failure of an individual supervised under this act to report to his or her supervising agent and to advise his or her supervising agent of his or her whereabouts.

(b) “Actively seeking” means either of the following:

(i) A law enforcement agency or the department intends to enforce an outstanding felony warrant for a supervised individual or arrest a supervised individual for a parole violation or for absconding from supervision within the following 30 days.

(ii) The supervised individual has an active warrant for absconding.

(c) “Supervised individual” means an individual who has been released from prison on parole.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 19 of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor