Bill Text: MI SB0138 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Crime victims; rights; distribution of crime victim's rights funds; modify. Amends sec. 4 of 1989 PA 196 (MCL 780.904).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-04-14 - Assigned Pa 0009'15 With Immediate Effect [SB0138 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0138-Chaptered.html
Act No. 9
Public Acts of 2015
Approved by the Governor
April 1, 2015
Filed with the Secretary of State
April 1, 2015
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 30, 2015
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2015
Introduced by Senator Hildenbrand
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 138
AN ACT to amend 1989 PA 196, entitled “An act to abolish the criminal assessments commission; to prescribe certain duties of the crime victim services commission; to create the crime victim’s rights fund; to provide for expenditures from the fund; to provide for assessments against criminal defendants and certain juvenile offenders; to provide for payment of crime victim’s rights services; and to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and departments,” by amending section 4 (MCL 780.904), as amended by 2014 PA 299.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 4. (1) The crime victim’s rights fund is created as a separate fund in the state treasury. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund all amounts received under this act and as provided by law. The state treasurer shall invest fund money in the same manner as surplus funds are invested under section 3 of 1855 PA 105, MCL 21.143. Earnings from the fund shall be credited to the fund.
(2) The fund shall be expended only as provided in this act. Amounts in the fund in excess of the necessary revenue determined by the commission under section 3(a) may be used for crime victim compensation under 1976 PA 223, MCL 18.351 to 18.368. Any additional excess revenue that has not been used for crime victim compensation may be used to provide for establishment and maintenance of a statewide trauma system, including staff support associated with trauma and related emergency medical services program activities. Not more than $3,500,000.00 shall be expended for this purpose from the fund in any fiscal year. For the 2014-2015 fiscal year only, not more than $4,800,000.00 shall be expended for this purpose from the fund.
(3) Beginning October 1, 2018, the amount expended for the statewide trauma system from the fund shall not exceed 50% of the maximum allowable under subsection (2), unless the amount expended is reasonably proportional to crime victims’ utilization of the statewide trauma system.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
