HOUSE BILL No. 4322


     February 23, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Geiger, Prusi, Rick Johnson, Cherry, Tesanovich, Garcia, Jellema, Mortimer, Tabor, Pappageorge, Jelinek, Mead, Kukuk, Byl, Ehardt, Bogardus, Jansen and Scranton 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,"

   by amending section 63a (MCL 791.263a).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:





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 1         Sec. 63a.  (1)  A person employed by  a penal institution

 2     in this state  THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS who is injured as a

 3    result of an assault by  an inmate  A PRISONER of a  penal

 4     institution  STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OR BY A PROBATIONER OR

 5    PAROLEE, or WHO IS injured during a riot IN A STATE CORRECTIONAL

 6    FACILITY, shall receive his OR HER full wages by the department

 7    of corrections until  workmen's  WORKER'S compensation benefits

 8    begin and then shall receive in addition to  workmen's  WORKER'S

 9    compensation benefits a supplement from the department which

10    together with the  workmen's  WORKER'S compensation benefits

11    shall equal but not exceed the weekly net wage of the employee at

12    the time of the injury.  This supplement shall only apply while

13    the person is on the department's payroll and is receiving

14     workmen's  WORKER'S compensation benefits and shall include an

15    employee who, ON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE 1999 AMENDATORY ACT

16    THAT AMENDED THIS SECTION, is  currently  receiving  workmen's 

17    WORKER'S compensation due to an injury covered by this section.

18    Fringe benefits normally received by an employee shall be in

19    effect during the time the employee receives the supplement pro-

20    vided by this section from the department.

21          (2) For purposes of this section "penal institution"

22     includes the state prison of southern Michigan in the township of

23     Blackman, the county of Jackson; the state house of correction

24     and branch of state prison at Marquette, in the county of

25     Marquette; the Michigan reformatory at Ionia, in the county of

26     Ionia; the Muskegon correctional facility, the Michigan training

27     unit at Ionia and any other state prison, state reformatory,



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 1    state farm probation recovery camp or other state probation

 2     facility for adults hereafter established. 




















































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