2023 House Bill 4387 / Public Act 276

Criminal procedure: sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for crime of coercing vulnerable adult into providing sexually explicit visual material and institutional desecration; provide for.

An act to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and codify the laws relating to criminal procedure and to define the jurisdiction, powers, and duties of courts, judges, and other officers of the court under the provisions of this act; to provide laws relative to the rights of persons accused of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for the arrest of persons charged with or suspected of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for bail of persons arrested for or accused of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to provide for the examination of persons accused of criminal offenses; to regulate the procedure relative to grand juries, indictments, informations, and proceedings before trial; to provide for trials of persons complained of or indicted for criminal offenses and ordinance violations and to provide for the procedure in those trials; to provide for judgments and sentences of persons convicted of criminal offenses and ordinance violations; to establish a sentencing commission and to prescribe its powers and duties; to provide for procedure relating to new trials and appeals in criminal and ordinance violation cases; to provide a uniform system of probation throughout this state and the appointment of probation officers; to prescribe the powers, duties, and compensation of probation officers; to provide penalties for the violation of the duties of probation officers; to provide for procedure governing proceedings to prevent crime and proceedings for the discovery of crime; to provide for fees of officers, witnesses, and others in criminal and ordinance violation cases; to set forth miscellaneous provisions as to criminal procedure in certain cases; to provide penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act,” by amending section 16g of chapter XVII (MCL 777.16g), as amended by 2020 PA 50.

Introduced in the House

April 12, 2023

Introduced by Rep. Sharon MacDonell (D-56) and two co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Stephanie Young (D-16) and Noah Arbit (D-20)

Referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice

June 6, 2023

Referred to the Committee on Families, Children and Seniors

June 27, 2023

Reported without amendment

Oct. 12, 2023

Passed in the House 110 to 0 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Rep. Abraham Aiyash (D-9)

The motion prevailed by voice vote

Received in the Senate

Oct. 17, 2023

Referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety

Nov. 2, 2023

Reported without amendment

Nov. 7, 2023

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

Reported with substitute S-1

Substitute S-1 concurred in by voice vote

Nov. 9, 2023

Passed in the Senate 36 to 0 (details)

Received in the House

Nov. 9, 2023

Substitute S-1 concurred in 107 to 0 (details)

Signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

Dec. 8, 2023