SENATE BILL NO. 406


   March 4, 1999, Introduced by Senator VAN REGENMORTER and referred 
        to the Committee on Judiciary.



        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 68 (MCL 791.268), as added by 1996 PA 556.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:





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 1         Sec. 68.  If a prisoner is ordered by a court to make

 2    monthly payments for the purpose of paying the balance of filing

 3    fees or costs under section  2963  5504 of the
             revised judicature

 4    act of 1961,  Act No. 236 of the Public Acts of 1961, being
             sec-

 5     tion 600.2963 of the Michigan Compiled Laws  1961
                       PA 236, MCL

 6    600.5504, the department shall remove those amounts from the

 7    institutional account of the prisoner subject to the order and,

 8    when an amount equal to the balance of the filing fees or costs

 9    due is removed, remit that amount as directed in the order.

10         Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take

11    effect unless Senate Bill No. ______ or House Bill No. ______

12    (request no. 00043'99) of the 90th Legislature is enacted into

13    law.































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