HOUSE BILL No. 4676

 

 

May 30, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Garrett, Chang, Love, Phelps, Dianda, Chirkun, LaGrand, Robinson, Cochran, Elder, Lasinski, Pagan, Byrd, Jones, Webber, Pagel, Lucido, Hauck, Santana, Gay-Dagnogo, Wittenberg, Liberati, Howrylak, Guerra, Durhal, Greimel, Singh, Peterson and Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Law and Justice.

 

     A bill to amend 1974 PA 150, entitled

 

"Youth rehabilitation services act,"

 

by amending section 2 (MCL 803.302), as amended by 1998 PA 517.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 2. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "County juvenile agency" means that term as defined in

 

section 2 of the county juvenile agency act, 1998 PA 518, MCL

 

45.622.

 

     (b) "Department" means the family independence agency.

 

department of health and human services.

 

     (c) "Public ward" means either of the following:

 

     (i) A youth accepted for care by a youth agency who is at

 

least 12 years of age when committed to the youth agency by the

 


juvenile division of the probate court or the family division of

 

circuit court under section 18(1)(e) of chapter XIIA of the probate

 

code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.18, if the court acquired

 

jurisdiction over the youth under section 2(a) or (d) of chapter

 

XIIA of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.2, and the

 

act for which the youth is committed occurred before his or her

 

seventeenth eighteenth birthday.

 

     (ii) A youth accepted for care by a youth agency who is at

 

least 14 years of age when committed to the youth agency by a court

 

of general criminal jurisdiction under section 1 of chapter IX of

 

the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 769.1, if the act

 

for which the youth is committed occurred before his or her

 

seventeenth eighteenth birthday.

 

     (d) "Youth agency" means either the department or a county

 

juvenile agency, whichever has responsibility over a public ward.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.