HOUSE BILL No. 5227

 

September 27, 2005, Introduced by Reps. Vander Veen, Condino, Taub, Bieda, Lipsey, Kolb and Hoogendyk and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled

 

"Corrections code of 1953,"

 

(MCL 791.201 to 791.283) by adding section 37a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 37a. If a prisoner has money remaining in his or her

 

institutional account on the date of his or her release on parole

 

or release upon completing his or her maximum sentence, the

 

department, upon the prisoner's release, shall issue to the

 

prisoner a debit card that allows the prisoner to make electronic

 

transfers of funds from the prisoner's institutional account.

 

     Enacting section 1.  This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are

 

enacted into law:


 

     (a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5225(request no.

 

01935'05).

 

     (b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5226(request no.

 

01936'05).

 

     (c) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No.____ (request no.

 

01938'05).

 

     (d) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5228(request no.

 

01939'05).