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) The assistant DEPUTY director in charge of 2 the bureau of penal institutions CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES shall 3 have authority and it shall be his duty to classify the prison- 4 ers in the several penal institutions. He CORRECTIONAL 5 FACILITIES. THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR shall, subject to the approval 6 of the director, promulgate regulations under which there shall 7 be organized in each penal institution, CORRECTIONAL FACILITY a 8 classification committee from the staff of such penal 9 institution THAT CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, which committee shall 10 perform such services and in such SERVICES IN A manner as the 11 assistant director in charge of the bureau of penal institutions 12 shall require. It shall be the duty of each such CORRECTIONAL 13 FACILITIES REQUIRES. 14 (2) EACH classification committee to SHALL obtain and file 15 complete information with regard to each prisoner sentenced 16 under an indeterminate sentence at the time such WHEN THE pris- 17 oner is received in any penal institution. It shall be the duty 18 of the A 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 and of all 21 probation officers and other officials to send such information 22 as may be SHALL SEND INFORMATION in their possession or under 23 their control to each such classification committee when and 24 in such REQUESTED TO DO SO, IN THE manner as they may be ARE 25 directed. When all such existing available records have been 26 assembled, each such classification committee shall determine 27 whether any further investigation is necessary, and, if so, it 05127'97 3 1 shall make such THAT investigation. All such THE 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