Act No. 508
Public Acts of 1998
Approved by the Governor
January 7, 1999
Filed with the Secretary of State
January 8, 1999
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 8, 1999
STATE OF MICHIGAN
89TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 1998
Introduced by Senators Geake and Shugars
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1218
AN ACT to amend 1974 PA 258, entitled "An act to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to mental health; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials and certain private agencies and individuals; to regulate certain agencies and facilities providing mental health services; to provide for certain charges and fees; to establish civil admission procedures for individuals with mental illness or developmental disability; to establish guardianship procedures for individuals with developmental disability; to establish procedures regarding individuals with mental illness or developmental disability who are in the criminal justice system; to provide for penalties and remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts," by amending section 1001b (MCL 330.2001b), as amended by 1995 PA 290.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1001b. (1) "Place of detention" means a detention facility operated by a political subdivision of the state.
(2) "Prisoner" means a person confined in a state correctional facility, but does not include any of the following:
(a) A person confined pursuant to an order of a juvenile division of the probate court or the family division of circuit court.
(b) A person confined in a place of detention.
(c) A person who is on parole from a state correctional facility.
(3) "Protective environment" means an environment that supports mental health services in accordance with a prisoner's individual plan of services.
(4) "State correctional facility" means a facility that houses prisoners and is operated by the department of corrections, and also includes a youth correctional facility operated by the department of corrections or a private vendor under section 20g of 1953 PA 232, MCL 791.220g.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate.
Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Approved
Governor.