Bill Text: MI SB0974 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Corrections; alternatives; definition of recidivism; provide for in the community corrections act. Amends sec. 2 of 1988 PA 511 (MCL 791.402).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-07-13 - Referred To Committee On Criminal Justice [SB0974 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0974-Engrossed.html
SB-0974, As Passed Senate, June 9, 2016
SENATE BILL No. 974
May 19, 2016, Introduced by Senators SCHUITMAKER, PROOS, SHIRKEY, COLBECK and JONES and referred to the Committee on Michigan Competitiveness.
A bill to amend 1988 PA 511, entitled
"Community corrections act,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 791.402), as amended by 2014 PA 466.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "City advisory board" means a community corrections
advisory board created by a city under sections 6 and 7.
(b) "City-county advisory board" means a community corrections
advisory board created by a county and the largest city by
population within that county under sections 6 and 7.
(c) "Community corrections program" means a program that is
operated by or contracted for by a city, county, or group of
counties, or is operated by a nonprofit service agency, and that
offers programs, services, or both, instead of incarceration in
prison,
and which that are locally operated and span provide a
continuum of programming options from pretrial through post-
adjudication.
(d) "County advisory board" means a community corrections
advisory board created by a county under sections 6 and 7.
(e) "Department" means the department of corrections.
(f) "Evidence-based practices" means a progressive,
organizational use of direct, current scientific evidence to guide
and inform efficient and effective correctional services.
(g) "Key performance indicator" means a measure that captures
the performance of a critical variable to expand and improve
community-based corrections programs to promote offender success,
ensure accountability, enhance public safety, and reduce
recidivism.
(h) "Moderate to high risk" means that the individual assessed
has scored in the moderate to high range of risk using an
actuarial, objective, validated risk and need assessment
instrument.
(i) "Nonprofit service agency" means a nonprofit organization
that provides treatment, guidance, training, or other
rehabilitative services to individuals, families, or groups in such
areas as health, education, vocational training, special education,
social services, psychological counseling, alcohol and drug
treatment, community service work, victim restitution, and
employment.
(j) "Office" means the office of community corrections created
Senate Bill No. 974 as amended June 9, 2016
in section 3.
(k) "Plan" means a comprehensive corrections plan submitted by
a county, city, or regional advisory board under section 8.
(l) "Recidivism" means the rearrest, reconviction, <<or>>
reincarceration in prison or jail<<, or any combination of those
events,>> of an individual <<as measureD first after 3 years and
again after 5 years from the
date>> of his or her release from incarceration, placement on
probation, or conviction, whichever is later, and probation and
parole violations as well as misdemeanor and felony convictions, if
recidivism data regarding technical probation and parole violations
are collected and maintained separately from data on new felony or
misdemeanor convictions.
(m)
(l) "Regional
advisory board" means a community
corrections advisory board created by a group of 2 or more counties
under sections 6 and 7.
(n) (m)
"State board" means the
state community corrections
advisory board created in section 3.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
