HOUSE BILL No. 6662

 

November 13, 2008, Introduced by Rep. Meisner and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1964 PA 155, entitled

 

"Circuit court family counseling services act,"

 

by amending section 9 (MCL 551.339), as amended by 1996 PA 7.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 9. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), a

 

communication between a counselor in the family counseling service

 

and a person who is counseled is confidential. The secrecy of the

 

communication shall be preserved inviolate as a privileged

 

communication which privilege cannot be waived. The communication

 

shall not be admitted in evidence in any proceedings. The same

 

protection shall be given to communications between spouses and

 

counselors to whom they have been referred by the court or the

 

court's family counseling service. For purposes of this section,

 

privileged communications include psychological evaluations and

 


psychological tests.

 

     (2) A family referred by the court with custody or parenting

 

time problems whose adult members sign an agreement indicating the

 

purpose of the referral is exempt from subsection (1). A report of

 

an evaluation of those families shall be submitted to the court

 

with indicated recommendations.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 94th Legislature are

 

enacted into law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6659(request no.

 

07492'08).

 

     (b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6660(request no.

 

07492'08 a).

 

     (c) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6661(request no.

 

07492'08 b).

 

     (d) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6663(request no.

 

07492'08 d).

 

     (e) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6664(request no.

 

07492'08 e).