Bill Text: MI SB0138 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Engrossed
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-Engrossed.html
SB-0138, As Passed Senate, February 26, 2015
SENATE BILL No. 138
February 17, 2015, Introduced by Senator HILDENBRAND and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill 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.
