Act No. 110
Public Acts of 2019
Approved by the Governor
October 31, 2019
Filed with the Secretary of State
October 31, 2019
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 1, 2021
state of michigan
100th Legislature
Regular session of 2019
Introduced by Senators Chang, Santana, Irwin, Wojno, Alexander, Hollier, Bullock, Hertel, McMorrow, Moss, Polehanki, Bayer and Geiss
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 93
AN ACT to amend 1974 PA 150, entitled An act to provide for the acceptance, care, and discharge of youths committed as public wards; to prescribe the liability for the cost of services for public wards; to prescribe procedures for the return of public wards who absent themselves without permission; to provide a penalty for the violation of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts, by amending section 2 (MCL 803.302), as amended by 1998 PA 517.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) County juvenile agency means that term as defined in section 2 of the county juvenile agency act, 1998 PA 518, MCL 45.622.
(b) Department means the department of health and human services.
(c) Public ward means either of the following:
(i) A youth accepted for care by a youth agency who is at least 12 years of age when committed to the youth agency by the juvenile division of the probate court or the family division of circuit court under section 18(1)(e) of chapter XIIA of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.18, if the court acquired jurisdiction over the youth under section 2(a) or (d) of chapter XIIA of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.2, and the act for which the youth is committed occurred before his or her eighteenth birthday.
(ii) A youth accepted for care by a youth agency who is at least 14 years of age when committed to the youth agency by a court of general criminal jurisdiction under section 1 of chapter IX of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 769.1, if the act for which the youth is committed occurred before his or her eighteenth birthday.
(d) Youth agency means either the department or a county
juvenile agency, whichever has responsibility over a public ward.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect October 1, 2021.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor