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.