SENATE BILL No. 607

 

 

June 16, 2005, Introduced by Senators PATTERSON, CASSIS, ALLEN, SANBORN, STAMAS, BIRKHOLZ, BISHOP, TOY, VAN WOERKOM, JELINEK and BROWN and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 295, entitled

 

"Sex offenders registration act,"

 

by amending sections 5 and 9 (MCL 28.725 and 28.729), section 5 as

 

amended by 2004 PA 240 and section 9 as amended by 2004 PA 237.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 5. (1) Within 10 days after any of the following occur,

 

an individual required to be registered under this act shall notify

 

the local law enforcement agency or sheriff's department having

 

jurisdiction where his or her new residence or domicile is located

 

or the department post of the individual's new residence or

 

domicile:

 

     (a) The individual changes or vacates his or her residence,

 

domicile, or place of work or education, including any change

 

required to be reported under section 4a.

 


     (b) The individual is paroled.

 

     (c) Final release of the individual from the jurisdiction of

 

the department of corrections.

 

     (2) Within 10 days after either of the following occurs, the

 

department of corrections shall notify the local law enforcement

 

agency or sheriff's department having jurisdiction over the area to

 

which the individual is transferred or the department post of the

 

transferred residence or domicile of an individual required to be

 

registered under this act:

 

     (a) The individual is transferred to a community residential

 

program.

 

     (b) The individual is transferred into a minimum custody

 

correctional facility of any kind, including a correctional camp or

 

work camp.

 

     (3) An individual required to be registered under this act

 

shall notify the department on a form prescribed by the department

 

not later than 10 days before he or she changes his or her domicile

 

or residence to another state. The individual shall indicate the

 

new state and, if known, the new address. The department shall

 

update the registration and compilation databases and promptly

 

notify the appropriate law enforcement agency and any applicable

 

sex or child offender registration authority in the new state.

 

     (4) If the probation or parole of an individual required to be

 

registered under this act is transferred to another state or an

 

individual required to be registered under this act is transferred

 

from a state correctional facility to any correctional facility or

 

probation or parole in another state, the department of corrections

 


shall promptly notify the department and the appropriate law

 

enforcement agency and any applicable sex or child offender

 

registration authority in the new state. The department shall

 

update the registration and compilation databases.

 

     (5) An individual registered under this act shall comply with

 

the verification procedures and proof of residence procedures

 

prescribed in sections 4a and 5a.

 

     (6) Except as provided in subsections (7) and (8), an

 

individual shall comply with this section for 25 years after the

 

date of initially registering or, if the individual is in a state

 

correctional facility, for 10 years after release from the state

 

correctional facility, whichever is longer.

 

     (7) Except as provided in subsection (8), an individual shall

 

comply with this section for life if the individual is convicted of

 

any of the following or a substantially similar offense under a law

 

of the United States, any state, or any country or under tribal or

 

military law:

 

     (a) A violation of section 520b of the Michigan penal code,

 

1931 PA 328, MCL 750.520b.

 

     (b) A violation of section 520c(1)(a) of the Michigan penal

 

code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.520c.

 

     (c) A violation of section 349 of the Michigan penal code,

 

1931 PA 328, MCL 750.349, if the victim is less than 18 years of

 

age.

 

     (d) A violation of section 350 of the Michigan penal code,

 

1931 PA 328, MCL 750.350.

 

     (e) A violation of section 145c(2) or (3) of the Michigan

 


penal code, 1931 PA 328, MCL 750.145c.

 

     (f) An attempt or conspiracy to commit an offense described in

 

subdivisions (a) to (e).

 

     (g) Except as provided in this subdivision, a second or

 

subsequent listed offense after October 1, 1995 regardless of when

 

any earlier listed offense was committed. An individual is not

 

required to comply with this section for life if his or her first

 

or second listed offense is for a conviction on or before September

 

1, 1999 for an offense that was added on September 1, 1999 to the

 

definition of listed offense, unless he or she is convicted of a

 

subsequent listed offense after September 1, 1999.

 

     (8) An individual who is ordered to register as provided in

 

section 8d shall register subject to that section.

 

     Sec. 9. (1) Except as provided in subsections (2), (3), and

 

(4), an individual required to be registered under this act who

 

willfully violates this act is guilty of a felony punishable as

 

follows:

 

     (a) If the individual has no prior convictions for a violation

 

of this act, other than a failure to comply with section 5a, by

 

imprisonment for not more than 4 years or a fine of not more than

 

$2,000.00, or both.

 

     (b) If the individual has 1 prior conviction for a violation

 

of this act, other than a failure to comply with section 5a, by

 

imprisonment for not more than 7 years or a fine of not more than

 

$5,000.00, or both.

 

     (c) If the individual has 2 or more prior convictions for

 

violations of this act, other than a failure to comply with section

 


5a, by imprisonment for not more than 10 years or a fine of not

 

more than $10,000.00, or both.

 

     (2) An individual who fails to comply with section 5a, other

 

than payment of the fee required under section  5a(6)  5a(7) is

 

guilty of a crime punishable as follows:

 

     (a) If the individual has no prior convictions for a violation

 

of this act, the individual is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable

 

by imprisonment for not more than 93 days or a fine of not more

 

than $1,000.00, or both.

 

     (b) If the individual has 1 prior conviction for a violation

 

of this act, the individual is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable

 

by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than

 

$2,000.00, or both.

 

     (c) If the individual has 2 or more prior convictions for a

 

violation of this act, the individual is guilty of a felony

 

punishable by imprisonment for not more than 4 years or a fine of

 

not more than $2,500.00, or both.

 

     (3) An individual who willfully fails to sign a registration,

 

notice, or verification as provided in section 7(4) is guilty of a

 

misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 93 days or

 

a fine of not more than $1,000.00, or both.

 

     (4) An individual who willfully refuses or fails to pay the

 

registration fee prescribed in section  5a(6)  5a(7) or section

 

7(1) within 90 days of the date the individual reports under

 

section 4a or 5a is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by

 

imprisonment for not more than 90 days.

 

     (5) The court shall revoke the probation of an individual

 


placed on probation who willfully violates this act.

 

     (6) The court shall revoke the youthful trainee status of an

 

individual assigned to youthful trainee status who willfully

 

violates this act.

 

     (7) The parole board shall rescind the parole of an individual

 

released on parole who willfully violates this act.

 

     (8) An individual's failure to register as required by this

 

act or a violation of section 5(1), (3), or (4) may be prosecuted

 

in the judicial district of any of the following:

 

     (a) The individual's last registered address or residence.

 

     (b) The individual's actual address or residence.

 

     (c) Where the individual was arrested for the violation.