May 30, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Garrett, Chang, Love, Phelps, Dianda, Chirkun, LaGrand, Robinson, Cochran, Elder, Lasinski, Pagan, Byrd, Jones, Webber, Pagel, Lucido, Hauck, Santana, Gay-Dagnogo, Wittenberg, Liberati, Howrylak, Guerra, Durhal, Greimel, Singh, Peterson and Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Law and Justice.
A bill to amend 1974 PA 150, entitled
"Youth rehabilitation services act,"
by amending section 2 (MCL 803.302), as amended by 1998 PA 517.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "County juvenile agency" means that term as defined in
section 2 of the county juvenile agency act, 1998 PA 518, MCL
45.622.
(b)
"Department" means the family independence agency.
department of health and human services.
(c) "Public ward" means either of the following:
(i) A youth accepted for care by a youth agency who is at
least 12 years of age when committed to the youth agency by the
juvenile division of the probate court or the family division of
circuit court under section 18(1)(e) of chapter XIIA of the probate
code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.18, if the court acquired
jurisdiction over the youth under section 2(a) or (d) of chapter
XIIA of the probate code of 1939, 1939 PA 288, MCL 712A.2, and the
act for which the youth is committed occurred before his or her
seventeenth
eighteenth birthday.
(ii) A youth accepted for care by a youth agency who is at
least 14 years of age when committed to the youth agency by a court
of general criminal jurisdiction under section 1 of chapter IX of
the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 769.1, if the act
for which the youth is committed occurred before his or her
seventeenth
eighteenth birthday.
(d) "Youth agency" means either the department or a county
juvenile agency, whichever has responsibility over a public ward.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.