HB-6275, As Passed House, September 14, 2006

SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 6275

     A bill to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled

"Corrections code of 1953,"

(MCL 791.201 to 791.283) by adding section 40.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 40. (1) If a prisoner serving a sentence for conviction

of a violent felony is placed on parole, both of the following

special provisions apply:

     (a) The supervising parole agent shall make a home call within

the first 45 days after the prisoner is placed on parole.

     (b) The supervising parole agent shall do a LEIN check not

less than quarterly for that parolee and not later than 1 month

before a parolee is discharged from parole.

     (2) If a prisoner who has a history of substance abuse is

placed on parole and is assigned to intensive, maximum, or medium

parole supervision, the department shall require as a condition of

parole that the parolee submit to substance abuse testing at least

twice each month.

     (3) Not later than April 1 of each year, the department shall

report to the legislature on the number of parolees who are

returned to state correctional facilities for a violation of parole

involving the use of alcohol or a controlled substance during the

preceding calendar year. The report shall specify the number of

parolees who are returned to a state correctional facility after 1

such violation, 2 such violations, 3 such violations, 4 such

violations, and 5 or more such violations.

     (4) The department shall report to the legislature on a

quarterly basis both of the following:

     (a) The number of parolees who are absconders.

     (b) The number of parolees who have been absconders for more

than 3 months.

     (5) As used in this section:

     (a) "LEIN" means the law enforcement information network

regulated under the C.J.I.S. policy council act, 1974 PA 163, MCL

28.211 to 28.215.

     (b) "Substance abuse" means the taking of alcohol or other

drugs at dosages that place an individual's social, economic,

psychological, and physical welfare in potential hazard or to the

extent that an individual loses the power of self-control as a

result of the use of alcohol or drugs, or while habitually under

the influence of alcohol or drugs, endangers public health, morals,

safety, or welfare, or a combination thereof.

     (c) "Violent felony" means that term as defined in section 36.

     Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act takes effect January

1, 2007.