Bill Text: MI HB5054 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Crime victims: other; program participants receive notice under the sexual assault victim's access to justice act at designated address; allow. Amends sec. 4 of 2014 PA 319 (MCL 752.954).
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-3)
Status: (Passed) 2020-12-31 - Assigned Pa 274'20 With Immediate Effect [HB5054 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB5054-Chaptered.html
Act No. 274
Public Acts of 2020
Approved by the Governor
December 29, 2020
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 29, 2020
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 29, 2020
state of michigan
100th Legislature
Regular session of 2020
Introduced by Reps. Farrington, Pagan, Manoogian, Guerra, Clemente, Sneller, Hoadley, Bolden, Rendon, Koleszar, Anthony, Stone, Kuppa, Wittenberg, Hood, Hammoud, Warren, Hope, Cynthia Johnson, Sowerby, Greig, Yaroch, Garrett, Lasinski, Brenda Carter and Yancey
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5054
AN ACT to amend 2014 PA 319, entitled “An act to create a sexual assault victim’s access to justice act; to provide for certain victim’s rights in sexual assault cases; to require certain notifications; and to require certain duties of certain state and local officials and agencies,” by amending section 4 (MCL 752.954).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 4. (1) When a sexual assault victim requests information from an investigating law enforcement agency under section 5 or 6, the law enforcement agency shall respond by telephone, in writing mailed to the sexual assault victim, or by electronic mail, as specified by the sexual assault victim. If the sexual assault victim is a program participant who requests that the information be mailed to his or her address designated by the department of the attorney general, the law enforcement agency shall respond in writing mailed to the sexual assault victim at that address. If the victim does not specify, the law enforcement agency may respond using any of the methods described in this subsection. If new or updated information becomes available after a response is given to a sexual assault victim’s request, the law enforcement agency may, but is not required to, provide the new or updated information to the sexual assault victim in the absence of a new request from him or her.
(2) This section does not require the law enforcement agency to communicate with the sexual assault victim regarding information if he or she does not specifically make a request to the law enforcement agency.
(3) A sexual assault victim may designate an alternative person to receive the information requested by the sexual assault victim, and the law enforcement agency shall then direct any information to that designated person.
(4) To receive information under this section, the sexual assault victim shall provide the law enforcement agency with the name, address, telephone number, and electronic mail address of the person to whom the information should be provided.
(5) The law enforcement agency may require a sexual assault victim’s request for information under this section to be in writing. If a sexual assault victim has submitted a written request for information, subsequent requests for updated information are not required to be in writing.
(6) As used in subsection (1), “program participant” means that term as defined in section 3 of the address confidentiality program act.
Enacting section 1. This
amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 70 of the 100th Legislature
is enacted into law.
This act
is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Governor
