HOUSE BILL No. 6000 July 2, 1998, Introduced by Reps. DeHart and Schermesser and referred to the Committee on 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 64 (MCL 791.264). THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT: 05127'97 DRM 2 1 Sec. 64. (1) TheassistantDEPUTY director in charge of 2the bureau of penal institutionsCORRECTIONAL FACILITIES shall 3have authority and it shall be his duty toclassify the prison- 4 ers inthe several penal institutions. HeCORRECTIONAL 5 FACILITIES. THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR shall, subject to the approval 6 of the director, promulgate regulations under which there shall 7 be organized in eachpenal institution,CORRECTIONAL FACILITY a 8 classification committee from the staff ofsuch penal9institutionTHAT CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, which committee shall 10 performsuch services and in suchSERVICES IN A manner as the 11 assistant director in charge ofthe bureau of penal institutions12shall require. It shall be the duty of each suchCORRECTIONAL 13 FACILITIES REQUIRES. 14 (2) EACH classification committeetoSHALL obtain and file 15 complete information with regard to each prisonersentenced16under an indeterminate sentence at the time suchWHEN THE pris- 17 oner is received inany penal institution. It shall be the duty18of theA CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. THE CLASSIFICATION COMMITTEE 19 ALSO SHALL RECORD WHETHER OR NOT THE PRISONER SERVED IN THE ARMED 20 FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES. THE clerk of the court andofall 21 probation officers and other officialsto send such information22as may beSHALL SEND INFORMATION in their possession or under 23 their control to eachsuchclassification committee whenand24in suchREQUESTED TO DO SO, IN THE manner as theymay beARE 25 directed. When all such existing available records have been 26 assembled, eachsuchclassification committee shall determine 27 whether any further investigation is necessary, and, if so,it05127'97 3 1 shall makesuchTHAT investigation.All suchTHE information 2 shall be filed with the parole board so as to be readily avail- 3 able when the parole of the prisoner is to be considered. 05127'97 Final page. DRM