HOUSE BILL No. 4947


     October 5, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Lemmons, Price, Hale, Daniels, Reeves, Hardman,
Clark, Thomas, Brewer, Garza, Tesanovich, Brater, Scott, Julian, DeWeese and Jacobs and
referred to the Committee on Criminal Law and Corrections.


        A bill to amend 1953 PA 232, entitled

   "An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to
   probationers and probation officers, to pardons, reprieves, com-
   mutations, and paroles, to the administration of correctional
   institutions, correctional farms, and probation recovery camps,
   to prisoner labor and correctional industries, and to the super-
   vision and inspection of local jails and houses of correction; to
   provide for the siting of correctional facilities; to create a
   state department of corrections, and to prescribe its powers and
   duties; to provide for the transfer to and vesting in said
   department of powers and duties vested by law in certain other
   state boards, commissions, and officers, and to abolish certain
   boards, commissions, and offices the powers and duties of which
   are transferred by this act; to allow for the operation of cer-
   tain facilities by private entities; to prescribe the powers and
   duties of certain other state departments and agencies; to pro-
   vide for the creation of a local lockup advisory board; to pre-
   scribe penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act;
   to make certain appropriations; to repeal certain parts of this
   act on specific dates; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts
   inconsistent with the provisions of this act,"

   (MCL 791.201 to 791.283) by adding section 69b.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:





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 1         SEC. 69B.  A PRISONER IN ANY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY MAY

 2    UTILIZE A PREPAID TELEPHONE ACCOUNT.  AS USED IN THIS SUBSECTION,

 3    "PREPAID TELEPHONE ACCOUNT" MEANS AN ACCOUNT WITH A LONG DISTANCE

 4    SERVICE PROVIDER THAT ALLOWS THE ACCOUNT HOLDER TO MAKE PREPAID

 5    LONG-DISTANCE OR OTHER TOLL TELEPHONE CALLS.














































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