COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
House Bill 6090
Sponsor: Rep. William Callahan
Committee: Judiciary
Complete to 9-17-98
A SUMMARY OF HOUSE BILL 6090 AS INTRODUCED 9-16-98
The bill would amend the Revised Probate Code to require the state court administrator to set up a system for collecting data regarding adult guardianships and conservatorships. The information collected would have to be made available to the public and would have to be provided to the House and Senate standing committees and appropriations subcommittees with legislative oversight over guardianship and conservatorship issues or judicial branch issues.
The purpose of the system would be to provide at least the following information for each calender year by county:
The number of petitions filed to establish a guardianship and the number filed to establish a conservatorship.
Excluding successor guardians, the number of individuals for whom a guardian or conservator was appointed. In addition, as of December 31 of each year, the number of individuals who have a guardian or conservator regardless of the year appointed. The information for both of these would have to be separated into the following categories:
* A full guardian and a conservator.
* A full guardian, but no conservator.
* A limited guardian and a conservator.
* A limited guardian, but no conservator.
* A conservator, but no guardian.
The number of guardians appointed and the number of conservators appointed. Cofiduciaries could only be counted once and the both sets would have to be separated into the following categories:
* Relatives.
* Friends.
* Individual volunteers.
* County guardians or county administrators.
* Corporations, partnerships, or individual professionals.
MCL 700.402
Analyst: W. Flory