Bill Text: MI HB5422 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Corrections; employees; new employee training for corrections officers; allow to be provided by certain colleges under certain circumstances. Amends sec. 12 of 1982 PA 415 (MCL 791.512) & adds sec. 15a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Passed) 2012-12-31 - Assigned Pa 526'12 With Immediate Effect 2012 Addenda [HB5422 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB5422-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5422
February 21, 2012, Introduced by Reps. Haveman, Franz, Goike, Cotter, MacGregor, Jacobsen and Heise and referred to the Committee on Education.
A bill to amend 1982 PA 415, entitled
"Correctional officers' training act of 1982,"
by amending section 12 (MCL 791.512), as amended by 2004 PA 583,
and by adding section 15a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 12. (1) Except as provided in subsections (2), (3), and
(4), a person who is not employed as a state correctional officer
on March 30, 1983 and who is not employed as a state correctional
officer until after December 31, 1984, shall not be certified or
recertified by the Michigan commission of corrections unless he or
she has done all of the following:
(a) Obtained a high school diploma or attained a passing score
on the general education development test indicating a high school
graduation level.
(b) Successfully completed all of the following:
(i) One of the following:
(A) A vocational certificate program as determined by the
council, earned from an accredited postsecondary educational
institution, which program shall require a minimum of 15 semester
credit hours or 23 term credit hours.
(B) Equivalent course work to a vocational certificate
program, as determined by the council, earned from an accredited
postsecondary educational institution, which course work shall
require a minimum of 15 semester credit hours or 23 term credit
hours. The credit hours required under this subparagraph may have
been earned at any time.
(C) A degree granted by an accredited postsecondary
educational institution in a major discipline of study that is
relevant to the position of state correctional officer, as
determined by the council. A degree required under this
subparagraph may have been earned at any time.
(ii) A minimum of 2 months of supervised, paid internship, as
determined by the council, as an intern in a correctional facility.
(iii) A minimum of 320 hours of new employee training, as
determined by the council, at the central training academy or at a
college or community college as provided under section 15a.
(c) Fulfilled other minimum standards and requirements
developed
pursuant to under section 13 by the council and approved
by the department for certification and subsequently for
recertification.
(2) A person who was employed as a correctional officer or an
immediate supervisor of a correctional officer at the former
Detroit house of correction on December 31, 1984 shall
automatically be certified and annually recertified by the
department until December 31, 1985. Beginning January 1, 1986, a
person who was employed as a correctional officer or an immediate
supervisor of a correctional officer at the former Detroit house of
correction on December 31, 1984 shall not be recertified unless he
or she has done both of the following:
(a) Completed successfully a minimum of 160 hours of training
provided by the department.
(b) Fulfilled other minimum standards and requirements for
recertification developed pursuant to section 13 by the council and
approved by the department.
(3) A department of mental health direct care employee of a
state facility officially designated for closure or phase-down due
to deinstitutionalization, or a forensic security aide II or III
employed by the department of mental health center for forensic
psychiatry, or a work camp supervisor employed by the department of
corrections shall automatically be certified and annually
recertified by the department for 3 years following the date he or
she became employed as a state correctional officer, if he or she
has done all of the following:
(a) Within 1 year of the date he or she became employed as a
state correctional officer, obtained a high school diploma or
attained a passing score on the general education development test
indicating a high school graduation level.
(b) Within 1 year of the date he or she became employed as a
state correctional officer, completed successfully 320 hours of new
employee training with a credit up to 160 hours of previously
acquired training, as approved by the council.
(c) Within 3 years of the date he or she became employed as a
state correctional officer, completed 1 of the following:
(i) A vocational certificate program, as determined by the
council, earned from an accredited postsecondary educational
institution, which program shall require a minimum of 15 semester
credit hours or 23 term credit hours.
(ii) Equivalent course work to a vocational certificate
program, as determined by the council, earned from an accredited
postsecondary
educational institution. , which The
course work
shall require a minimum of 15 semester credit hours or 23 term
credit hours. The credit hours required under this subparagraph may
have been earned at any time.
(iii) A degree granted by an accredited postsecondary
educational institution in a major discipline of study that is
relevant to the position of state correctional officer, as
determined by the council. A degree required under this
subparagraph may have been earned at any time.
(d) Fulfilled other minimum standards and requirements
developed
pursuant to under section 13 by the council and approved
by the department for certification and subsequently for
recertification.
(4) An employee of the department of community health who is
employed as a forensic security aide at the Huron valley center of
the department of community health or the center for forensic
psychiatry of the department of community health, and who is
transferred to a position as a state correctional officer employed
by the department of corrections, shall be automatically certified
and recertified by the department for 3 years after the date on
which he or she became employed as a state correctional officer, if
he or she meets all of the requirements established by law or by
the department for employment as a state correctional officer and
does all of the following:
(a)
Within 30 days after the effective date of the 2004
amendatory
act that amended this section, Before
February 4, 2005,
declares his or her intent to accept the transfer to a position as
a state correctional officer.
(b) Within 1 year of the date he or she became employed as a
state correctional officer, obtained a high school diploma or
attained a passing score on the general education development test
indicating a high school graduation level.
(c) Within 3 years of the date he or she became employed as a
state correctional officer, completed 1 of the following:
(i) A vocational certificate program, as determined by the
council, earned from an accredited postsecondary educational
institution, which program shall require a minimum of 15 semester
credit hours or 23 term credit hours.
(ii) Equivalent course work to a vocational certificate
program, as determined by the council, earned from an accredited
postsecondary educational institution, which course work shall
require a minimum of 15 semester credit hours or 23 term credit
hours. The credit hours required under this subparagraph may have
been earned at any time.
(iii) A degree granted by an accredited postsecondary
educational institution in a major discipline of study that is
relevant to the position of state correctional officer, as
determined by the council. A degree required under this
subparagraph may have been earned at any time.
(d) Within 1 year of the date he or she became employed as a
state correctional officer, completed successfully 320 hours of new
employee training with a credit up to 160 hours of previously
acquired training, as approved by the council.
(e) Fulfilled other minimum standards and requirements, except
for
physical fitness requirements, developed pursuant to under
section 13 by the council and approved by the department for
certification and subsequently for recertification.
(5) All minimum standards and requirements for certification
and subsequently for recertification of persons under subsections
(1), (2), (3), and (4) are subject to approval by the state civil
service commission.
Sec. 15a. (1) Beginning August 1, 2012, and as often as
necessary after that, the council shall develop minimum standards
and requirements for a certification program for new employee
training under section 12(1)(b)(iii) to be offered by community
colleges and colleges. The certification standards and requirements
shall, at a minimum, address the qualifications for instructors at
approved schools, the facilities and equipment required at those
schools, and program content. Only the council or a community
college or college that is approved by the council may provide
training or a certificate of completion for new employee training
as described in section 12(1)(b)(iii) and this section. The council
shall designate the form for a certificate of completion for
individuals completing new employee training at community colleges
or colleges under this section.
(2) The council may provide for the decertification of
programs that fail to meet the standards developed by the council
under subsection (1).
