Bill Text: MI SB1003 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Crime victims; other; allocation of excess revenue in crime victim's rights fund; modify. Amends sec. 4 of 1989 PA 196 (MCL 780.904). TIE BAR WITH: HB 5661'09, HB 5667'09
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2010-12-29 - Assigned Pa 0280'10 With Immediate Effect [SB1003 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-SB1003-Engrossed.html
SB-1003, As Passed House, December 1, 2010
HOUSE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 1003
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 2010 PA 202.
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. Before
October
1, 2010, any Any additional excess revenue that has not
been
used for crime victim compensation may be used to provide any
of
the following services:
(a)
The operation and enhancement of the sex offender registry
compiled
and maintained under the sex offenders registration act,
1994
PA 295, MCL 28.721 to 28.736.
(b)
The Amber alert program under the Michigan Amber alert
act,
2002 PA 712, MCL 28.751 to 28.754.
(c)
Treatment services for victims of conduct prohibited under
sections
520b to 520g of the Michigan penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL
750.520b
to 750.520g.
(d)
Polygraph examination as that term is defined under
section
2 of the polygraph protection act of 1981, 1982 PA 44, MCL
37.202.
(e)
The expert witness testimony of a forensic scientist. 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.
(3) Beginning October 1, 2014, 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 April 1,
2011.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 95th Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) House Bill No. 5661.
(b) House Bill No. 5667.
