SENATE BILL No. 1217

 

 

July 18, 2012, Introduced by Senator CASWELL and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1996 PA 263, entitled

 

"Juvenile boot camp act,"

 

by amending section 5 (MCL 400.1305), as amended by 1998 PA 527.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 5. (1) After a juvenile is placed in a juvenile boot camp

 

program, the department shall verify that the juvenile meets the

 

requirements of section 18(1)(m)(ii), (iii), and (iv) 18(1)(k)(ii),

 

(iii), and (iv) of chapter XIIA of 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.18, and that

 

there is an opening in a juvenile boot camp program. If the

 

juvenile does not meet those requirements, there is no opening in a

 

juvenile boot camp program, or the county juvenile agency is unable

 

to place the juvenile in a juvenile boot camp program, the juvenile

 

shall be returned to the court that entered the order of

 

disposition for alternative disposition.


 

     (2) A juvenile's placement in a juvenile boot camp shall not

 

be less than 90 days or more than 180 days. However, if If during

 

that period the juvenile misses more than 5 days of program

 

participation due to medical excuse for illness or injury occurring

 

after he or she was placed in the program, the placement period

 

shall be increased by the number of days missed, beginning with the

 

sixth day of medical excuse up to a maximum of 20 days. A

 

physician's statement shall verify a medical excuse and a copy

 

shall be sent to the court entering the disposition. A juvenile who

 

is medically unable to participate in a juvenile boot camp program

 

for more than 25 days shall be returned to the court that entered

 

the order of disposition for alternative disposition.

 

     (3) Following his or her stay in a juvenile boot camp, the

 

juvenile shall complete a period of not less than 120 days or more

 

than 180 days of intensive supervised community reintegration in

 

the local community.