Bill Text: MI HB5666 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Crime victims; other; use of excess revenue in crime victim's rights fund; modify sunset. Amends sec. 4 of 1989 PA 196 (MCL 780.904).
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2010-10-06 - Assigned Pa 202'10 With Immediate Effect [HB5666 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-HB5666-Chaptered.html
Act No. 202
Public Acts of 2010
Approved by the Governor
October 5, 2010
Filed with the Secretary of State
October 5, 2010
EFFECTIVE DATE: October 5, 2010
STATE OF MICHIGAN
95TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2010
Introduced by Reps. Bauer, Lahti, McDowell, Schuitmaker, Hildenbrand, Rick Jones, Opsommer, Denby, Tyler, Meekhof, Elsenheimer, Scripps, Neumann, Liss, Hammel, Pearce, Coulouris, Haase, Espinoza and Spade
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5666
AN ACT 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 2008 PA 396.
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 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.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
