STATE OF MICHIGAN

99TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

Introduced by Senators O’Brien, Proos, Colbeck, Knollenberg, Booher, Jones, Horn, Schuitmaker, Brandenburg, Hansen, Kowall, Gregory, Johnson and Warren

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 10

AN ACT to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to probationers and probation officers, to pardons, reprieves, commutations, and paroles, to the administration of correctional institutions, correctional farms, and probation recovery camps, to prisoner labor and correctional industries, and to the supervision and inspection of local jails and houses of correction; to provide for the siting of correctional facilities; to create a state department of corrections, and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for the transfer to and vesting in said department of powers and duties vested by law in certain other state boards, commissions, and officers, and to abolish certain boards, commissions, and offices the powers and duties of which are transferred by this act; to allow for the operation of certain facilities by private entities; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain other state departments and agencies; to provide for the creation of a local lockup advisory board; to provide for a lifetime electronic monitoring program; to prescribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act; to make certain appropriations; to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act,” (MCL 791.201 to 791.285) by adding section 31b.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 31b. (1) The department shall submit a quarterly report to the senate and house committees responsible for legislation concerning corrections issues detailing the number of prisoners who have reached their earliest possible release on parole date under the requirements of this chapter but who have not been granted parole.

(2) The report required under this section must categorize the total number of parole denials by the number of prisoners who have been denied parole for each of the following reasons:

(a) The nature and circumstances of the offense for which the prisoner is incarcerated at the time of the parole consideration.

(b) The prisoner’s institutional program performance, including whether or not the prisoner completed all required programming.

(c) The prisoner’s institutional conduct, including the number of major misconduct charges for which the prisoner has been found guilty and security classification increases over the previous 5 years and the year immediately before parole consideration.

(d) The prisoner’s prior criminal record and pending criminal charges or detainers. As used in this subdivision, “prior criminal record” means the recorded criminal history of a prisoner, including all misdemeanor and felony convictions, probation violations, juvenile adjudications for acts that would have been crimes if committed by an adult, parole failures, and delayed sentences.

(e) Whether the prisoner was previously granted parole and had his or her parole revoked.

(f) Whether the prisoner was identified in the federal combined DNA index system (CODIS) and linked to an unsolved criminal violation.

(g) Other relevant factors under the parole guidelines.

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