HOUSE BILL No. 6166 November 28, 2000, Introduced by Rep. Ruth Johnson and referred to the Committee on Criminal Law and 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," (MCL 791.201 to 791.283) by adding section 65j. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT: 06680'00 TMV 2 1 SEC. 65J. THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SHALL GIVE THE 2 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES THE RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL FOR 3 THE LABOR OF PRISONERS OPERATING OUT OF CAMP WATERLOO IN WATERLOO 4 RECREATION AREA, CAMP BRIGHTON IN BRIGHTON RECREATION AREA, CAMP 5 GILMAN IN PONTIAC RECREATION AREA, OR CAMP LEHMAN IN HARTWICK 6 PINES STATE PARK. THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES MAY UTI- 7 LIZE THE PRISONERS FOR UNSKILLED LABOR PROJECTS IN THE RESPECTIVE 8 RECREATION AREA OR PARK INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, TRAIL CON- 9 STRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE AND GROUNDS MAINTENANCE. THE DEPART- 10 MENT OF CORRECTIONS SHALL NOT CHARGE THE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL 11 RESOURCES A PER DIEM OR OTHER COMPENSATION FOR THE LABOR AT A 12 RATE HIGHER THAN THE LOWEST RATE CHARGED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF 13 CORRECTIONS TO ANY LOCAL UNIT OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE LABOR OF 14 PRISONERS OPERATING OUT OF THOSE CAMPS. 06680'00 Final page. TMV