part 1

line-item appropriations

Sec. 101. There is appropriated for the department of corrections for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025 from the following funds:

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Full-time equated unclassified positions	16.0
Full-time equated classified positions	13,211.0

GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	2,145,157,100
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental transfers			0
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	2,145,157,100
Federal revenues:
Total federal revenues			5,180,500
Special revenue funds:
Total local revenues			11,694,000
Total private revenues			0
Total other state restricted revenues			33,494,400
State general fund/general purpose		$	2,094,788,200
Sec. 102. DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT
Full-time equated unclassified positions	16.0
Full-time equated classified positions	395.0
Unclassified salaries--FTEs	16.0	$	2,294,100
Administrative hearings officers			3,988,000
Budget and operations administration--FTEs	303.0		43,990,400
Compensatory buyout and union leave bank			100
County jail reimbursement program			14,814,600
Employee wellness programming--FTEs	8.0		2,378,200
Equipment and special maintenance			1,559,700
Executive direction--FTEs	24.0		4,886,200
Judicial data warehouse user fees			50,600
New custody staff training			22,444,600
Prison industries operations--FTEs	60.0		10,188,800
Property management			2,479,200

Prosecutorial and detainer expenses			4,801,000
State employees retirement system implementation costs			16,450,000
Worker's compensation			11,659,700
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	141,985,200
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ, prison rape elimination act grant			674,700
Special revenue funds:
Correctional industries revolving fund 110			10,188,800
Jail reimbursement program fund			721,600
Local corrections officer training fund			5,900,000
State general fund/general purpose		$	124,500,100
Sec. 103. OFFENDER SUCCESS ADMINISTRATION
Full-time equated classified positions	343.9
Community corrections comprehensive plans and services		$	14,198,100
Criminal justice reinvestment			2,548,400
Eastern Michigan University education program			250,000
Education/skilled trades/career readiness programs--FTEs	259.9		38,843,200
Enhanced food technology program--FTEs	11.0		1,680,800
Goodwill Flip the Script			1,250,000
Higher education in prison			1,250,000
Nation Outside			1,000,000
Offender success community partners			19,175,000
Offender success federal grants			751,000
Offender success programming			15,742,200

Offender success services--FTEs	73.0		15,753,800
Probation residential services			14,575,500
Public safety initiative			2,000,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	129,018,000
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ, prisoner reintegration			751,000
Federal education funding			1,621,600
State general fund/general purpose		$	126,645,400
Sec. 104. FIELD OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION
Full-time equated classified positions	1,880.5
Field operations--FTEs	1,849.5	$	233,525,600
Parole board operations--FTEs	31.0		4,003,700
Parole/probation services			940,000
Residential alternative to prison program			1,500,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	239,969,300
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Community tether program reimbursement			275,000
Reentry center offender reimbursements			10,000
Supervision fees			6,630,500
Supervision fees set-aside			940,000
State general fund/general purpose		$	232,113,800
Sec. 105. CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ADMINISTRATION
Full-time equated classified positions	681.0
Body-worn cameras--FTEs	8.0	$	3,801,500
Central records--FTEs	43.0		5,035,100
Contraband prevention			1,000,000

Correctional facilities administration--FTEs	35.0		6,593,900
Housing inmates in federal institutions			511,000
Inmate housing fund			100
Inmate legal services			290,900
Intelligence unit--FTEs	30.0		4,021,500
Leased beds and alternatives to leased beds			100
Prison food service--FTEs	324.0		76,098,200
Prison store operations--FTEs	32.0		3,567,800
Transportation--FTEs	209.0		32,548,600
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	133,468,700
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ-BOP, federal prisoner reimbursement			411,000
SSA-SSI, incentive payment			272,000
Special revenue funds:
Correctional industries revolving fund 110			874,600
Resident stores			3,567,800
State general fund/general purpose		$	128,343,300
Sec. 106. HEALTH CARE
Full-time equated classified positions	1,526.3
Breast milk program--FTE	1.0	$	500,000
Clinical complexes--FTEs	1,033.3		163,636,400
Health care administration--FTEs	18.0		3,727,700
Healthy Michigan plan administration--FTEs	12.0		1,045,000
Hepatitis C treatment			10,499,100
Interdepartmental grant to health and human services, eligibility specialists			120,200

Mental health and substance use disorder treatment services--FTEs	462.0		67,760,900
Prisoner health care services			108,750,600
Vaccination program			691,200
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	356,731,100
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues and reimbursements			415,400
Special revenue funds:
Prisoner health care co-payments			257,200
State general fund/general purpose		$	356,058,500
Sec. 107. CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
Full-time equated classified positions	8,381.3
Alger Correctional Facility - Munising--FTEs	259.0	$	33,416,400
Baraga Correctional Facility - Baraga--FTEs	295.8		39,605,900
Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility - Ionia--FTEs	415.2		52,028,100
Carson City Correctional Facility - Carson City--FTEs	422.4		53,554,000
Central Michigan Correctional Facility - St. Louis--FTEs	386.6		50,609,400
Charles E. Egeler Correctional Facility - Jackson--FTEs	386.6		50,267,800
Chippewa Correctional Facility - Kincheloe--FTEs	443.6		56,465,900
Cooper Street Correctional Facility - Jackson--FTEs	254.6		32,433,000
Detroit Detention Center--FTEs	75.8		11,419,000

Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility - Muskegon--FTEs	248.2	33,461,400
G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility - Jackson--FTEs	396.0	49,669,800
Gus Harrison Correctional Facility - Adrian--FTEs	304.0	39,797,900
Ionia Correctional Facility - Ionia--FTEs	293.3	38,157,900
Kinross Correctional Facility - Kincheloe--FTEs	247.3	34,594,900
Lakeland Correctional Facility - Coldwater--FTEs	275.4	36,356,400
Macomb Correctional Facility - New Haven--FTEs	313.3	41,215,200
Marquette Branch Prison - Marquette--FTEs	319.7	41,504,500
Muskegon Correctional Facility - Muskegon--FTEs	217.3	30,113,900
Newberry Correctional Facility - Newberry--FTEs	200.1	26,912,900
Oaks Correctional Facility - Eastlake--FTEs	289.4	38,522,200
Parnall Correctional Facility - Jackson--FTEs	266.1	33,090,000
Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility - Ionia--FTEs	268.3	35,454,400
Saginaw Correctional Facility - Freeland--FTEs	276.9	36,529,700
Special Alternative Incarceration Program - Jackson--FTEs	26.2	4,035,900
St. Louis Correctional Facility - St. Louis--FTEs	306.6	41,548,200
Thumb Correctional Facility - Lapeer--FTEs	295.6	37,920,600
Womens Huron Valley Correctional Complex - Ypsilanti--FTEs	506.1	65,059,300
Woodland Correctional Facility - Whitmore Lake--FTEs	296.9	40,427,500

Northern region administration and support--FTEs	43.0		4,652,800
Southern region administration and support--FTEs	52.0		19,243,500
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	1,108,068,400
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ, state criminal assistance program			1,034,800
Special revenue funds:
Local funds			11,419,000
State restricted fees, revenues and reimbursements			102,100
State general fund/general purpose		$	1,095,512,500
Sec. 108. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Information technology services and projects		$	31,516,400
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	31,516,400
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Correctional industries revolving fund 110			183,000
Supervision fees set-aside			718,800
State general fund/general purpose		$	30,614,600
Sec. 109. ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS
Full-time equated classified positions	3.0
Chance for Life		$	250,000
Mental health crisis intervention training			750,000
Thumb Education Center--FTEs	3.0		3,400,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	4,400,000
Appropriated from:

Special revenue funds:
Other state restricted revenue		3,400,000
State general fund/general purpose	$	1,000,000

part 2

provisions concerning appropriations

for fiscal year 2024-2025

general sections

Sec. 201. In accordance with section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, total state spending under part 1 from state sources is $2,128,282,600.00 and state spending under part 1 from state sources to be paid to local units of government is $123,656,000.00. The following itemized statement identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will occur:

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Community corrections comprehensive plans and services	$	14,198,100
County jail reimbursement program		14,814,600
Field operations		71,766,700
Leased beds and alternatives to leased beds		100
Probation residential services		14,575,500
Prosecutorial and detainer expenses		4,801,000
Public safety initiative		2,000,000
Residential alternative to prison program		1,500,000
TOTAL	$	123,656,000

Sec. 202. The appropriations under this part and part 1 are subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

Sec. 203. As used in this part and part 1:

(a) "Administrative segregation" means confinement for maintenance of order or discipline to a cell or room apart from accommodations provided for inmates who are participating in programs of the facility.

(b) "Department" means the department of corrections.

(d) "DOJ" means the United States Department of Justice.

(e) "DOJ-BOP" means the DOJ Bureau of Prisons.

(f) "Evidence-based" means a decision-making process that integrates the best available research, clinician expertise, and client characteristics.

(g) "FTE" means full-time equated.

(h) "Goal" means the intended or projected result of a comprehensive corrections plan or community corrections program to reduce repeat offending, criminogenic and high-risk behaviors, prison commitment rates, the length of stay in a jail, or to improve the utilization of a jail.

(i) "Jail" means a facility operated by a local unit of government for the physical detention and correction of individuals charged with or convicted of criminal offenses.

(j) "OCC" means the office of community corrections.

(k) "Offender success" means that an offender has, with the support of the community, intervention of the field agent, and benefit of any participation in programs and treatment, made an adjustment while at liberty in the community such that the offender has not been sentenced to or returned to prison for the conviction of a new crime or the revocation of probation or parole.

(l) "Recidivism" means that term as defined in section 1 of

2017 PA 5, MCL 798.31.

(m) "Serious emotional disturbance" means that term as defined in section 100d(3) of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1100d.

(n) "Serious mental illness" means that term as defined in section 100d(4) of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1100d.

(o) "SSA" means the United States Social Security Administration.

(p) "SSA-SSI" means SSA supplemental security income.

(q) "Standard report recipients" means the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the senate and house policy offices, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office.

Sec. 204. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall use the internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this part. This requirement includes transmitting reports to the standard report recipients and any other required recipients by email and posting the reports on an internet website.

Sec. 205. To the extent permissible under section 261 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1261, all of the following apply to the expenditure of funds appropriated in part 1:

(a) The funds must not be used for the purchase of foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality American goods or services, or both, are available.

(b) Preference must be given to goods or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are competitively priced and of comparable quality.

(c) Preference must be given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of comparable quality.

Sec. 206. The department shall not take disciplinary action against an employee of the department or a prisoner because the employee or prisoner communicates with a member of the legislature or legislative staff, unless the communication is prohibited by law and the department is exercising its authority as provided by law.

Sec. 207. Consistent with section 217 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1217, the department shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1. The report must list all travel by classified and unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately previous fiscal year that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department's budget. The department shall submit the report to the standard report recipients and to the senate and house appropriations committees. The report must include the following information:

(a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

(b) The total transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence and the proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, state restricted revenues, federal revenues, and other revenues.

Sec. 208. The department shall not use funds appropriated in part 1 to hire a person to provide legal services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This section does not apply to legal services for bonding activities or to outside services that the attorney general authorizes.

Sec. 209. Not later than December 15, the state budget office shall prepare and submit a report that provides estimates of the total general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the previous fiscal year. The report must summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by major departmental program or program areas. The state budget office shall submit the report to the standard report recipients and to the chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees.

Sec. 210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $2,500,000.00 for federal contingency authorization. Amounts appropriated are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

(2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency authorization. Amounts appropriated are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

(3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $2,000,000.00 for local contingency authorization. Amounts appropriated are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

Sec. 211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology, management, and budget to maintain a searchable

website accessible by the public at no cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for the department:

(a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

(b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

(c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name, payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

(d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

(e) Job specifications and wage rates.

Sec. 212. Not later than 14 days after the release of the executive budget recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide an annual report on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues, and state restricted fund expenditures for the previous 2 fiscal years. The report must be submitted to the standard report recipients and to the chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees.

Sec. 214. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 must not be used to restrict or impede a marginalized community's access to government resources, programs, or facilities.

(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, local governments shall report any action or policy that attempts to restrict or interfere with the duties of the local health officer.

Sec. 215. To the extent permissible under the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594, the director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure geographically-disadvantaged business enterprises compete for and perform contracts to provide services or supplies, or both. The director shall strongly

encourage firms with which the department contracts to subcontract with certified geographically-disadvantaged business enterprises for services, supplies, or both. As used in this section, "geographically-disadvantaged business enterprises" means that term as defined in Executive Directive No. 2023-1.

Sec. 216. On a quarterly basis, the department shall report on the number of full-time equated positions in pay status by civil service classification, including a comparison by line item of the number of full-time equated positions authorized from funds appropriated in part 1 to the actual number of full-time equated positions employed by the department at the end of the reporting period. The report must be submitted to the standard report recipients and to the senate and house appropriations committees.

Sec. 217. The department shall receive and retain copies of all reports funded from appropriations in part 1. The department shall follow federal and state guidelines for short-term and long-term retention of records. The department may electronically retain copies of reports unless otherwise required by federal and state guidelines.

Sec. 218. Not later than April 1, the department shall report on each specific policy change made to implement a public act affecting the department that took effect during the previous calendar year. The department shall submit the report to the standard report recipients and to the senate and house appropriations committees, and to the joint committee on administrative rules.

Sec. 219. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall do the following:

(a) Report any amounts of severance pay to a department

director, deputy director, or other high-ranking department official not later than 14 days after a severance agreement with the director or official is signed. The name of the director or official and the amount of severance pay must be included in the report required by this subdivision.

(b) Not later than February 1, report on the total amount of severance pay remitted to former department employees during the previous fiscal year and the total number of former department employees that were remitted severance pay during the previous fiscal year.

(2) Reports required by this section must be submitted to the standard report recipients and to the senate and house appropriations committees.

(3) As used in this section, "severance pay" means compensation that is both payable or paid on the termination of employment and in addition to either wages or benefits earned during the course of employment or generally applicable retirement benefits.

Sec. 220. To the extent possible, the department shall not expend appropriations under part 1 until all existing authorized work project funds available for the same purposes are exhausted.

Sec. 221. The department shall make timely reimbursement to the department of the attorney general for legal services provided by the department of the attorney general to the department. If the department fails to make timely reimbursement, the department of the attorney general may increase the amount billed to include a penalty for late reimbursement. As used in this section, "timely reimbursement" means reimbursement not later than 60 days after the department receives a bill for the legal services from the

department of the attorney general.

DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT

Sec. 301. For 3 years after a felony offender is released from the department's jurisdiction, the department shall maintain the offender's file on the offender tracking information system and make it publicly accessible in the same manner as the file of the current offender. The department shall immediately remove the offender's file from the offender tracking information system upon determination that the offender was wrongfully convicted and the offender's file is not otherwise required to be maintained on the offender tracking information system.

Sec. 302. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department must submit a report by March 1 that includes an assessment of the cost of allowing corrections officers and corrections medical officers to reach their highest level of pay within 3 years of service instead of reaching it within 5 years of service.

Sec. 303. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit a report by March 1 on the department's staff retention strategies. The report must include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(a) The department's strategies on how to improve employee engagement, how to improve employee wellness, and how to offer additional training and professional development for employees, including metrics the department is using to measure success of employee wellness programming.

(b) Mechanisms by which the department receives employee feedback in areas under subdivision (a) and how the department

considers suggestions made by employees.

(c) Steps the department has taken, and future plans and goals the department has for retention and improving employee wellness.

Sec. 304. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit a report by March 1 on the number of employee departures. The report must include all of the following:

(a) The number of corrections officers that departed from employment at a state correctional facility in the immediately preceding fiscal year and the number of years they worked for the department.

(b) A chart that shows the normal distribution of employee departures in the positions described under subdivision (a) based on years of service. Years of service must be grouped into the following ranges: 1 to 3 years, 3 to 5 years, 5 to 10 years, 10 to 15 years, 15 to 20 years, and 20 and more years.

(i) Recruits who are in training at the academy that depart employment.

(ii) Recruits who are in training at a facility that depart employment.

(iii) Employees who have been on the job that depart employment.

(2) The department shall review all reasons for employee departures by conducting a survey of all employees departing within 1 to 3 years of initial employment. The survey must include questions regarding primary reasons for departure. The survey must be summarized in the report required under this section for employee departures occurring in years 1 to 3 of initial employment based on the available responses.

Sec. 305. Funds appropriated in part 1 for prosecutorial and detainer expenses must be used to reimburse counties for housing and custody of parole violators and offenders being returned by the department from community placement who are available for return to institutional status and for prisoners who volunteer for placement in a county jail.

Sec. 306. The department shall provide fiduciary oversight of funds received under the local corrections officers training act, 2003 PA 125, MCL 791.531 to 791.546.

Sec. 307. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall issue an annual report for all vendor contracts. The report must cover service contracts with a value of $500,000.00 or more and include all of the following:

(a) The original start date and the current expiration date of each contract.

(b) The number, if any, of contract compliance monitoring site visits completed by the department for each vendor.

(c) The number and amount of fines, if any, for service-level agreement noncompliance for each vendor broken down by area of noncompliance.

Sec. 308. The department must ensure that a prisoner telephone system is maintained. The prisoner telephone system must meet ongoing operational needs of the department while maintaining the lowest per-minute rate possible. The department must provide notice at least 45 days in advance of each of the following taking effect:

(a) Changes to telephone rates.

(b) Extending the telephone contract, including the department exercising the option to extend the contract.

Sec. 309. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall do both of the following:

(a) Provide for the training of all custody staff in effective and safe ways of handling prisoners with mental illness and referring prisoners to mental health treatment programs. Mental health awareness training must be incorporated into the training of new custody staff.

(b) Train all custody staff, including new custody staff, on how to respond to challenges faced when working with a prisoner who is experiencing a mental health crisis. Training provided under this subdivision includes, but is not limited to, effective communication skills, skillful intervention and monitoring guidelines, and successful de-escalation strategies.

Sec. 310. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall issue a report for all correctional facilities by January 1 that sets forth all of the following information for each facility:

(a) The name, street address, and date of construction.

(b) The current maintenance costs.

(d) The current utility costs.

(e) The expected future capital improvement costs.

(f) The current unspent balance of any authorized capital outlay projects, including the original authorized amount.

(g) The expected future useful life.

Sec. 311. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide a report on the Michigan state industries program by December 1. The report must include, but is not limited to, all of the following information:

(a) The locations of the programs.

(b) The total number of participants at each location.

(d) How the program provides marketable skills that lead to employable outcomes after release from a department facility.

Sec. 311a. The department shall create an account for each prisoner working at a Michigan state industries site to which the pay for hours worked in such a facility will be credited to the account created. Funds in a prisoner's account shall be used first to pay any court-ordered restitution payments and associated costs. Any funds remaining in a prisoner's account shall be released to a prisoner or a prisoner's designee upon release.

Sec. 312. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for employee wellness programming must be used for post-traumatic stress outreach, treating mental health issues, peer support programs, and providing mental health programming for all department staff, including former employees.

(2) By December 15, the department shall submit a report on programs the department has established, the level of employee involvement, and expenditures made by the department for employee wellness programming.

Sec. 313. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for new custody staff training, the department shall work to hire and train new corrections officers to address attrition of corrections officers and to decrease overtime costs. The department shall submit quarterly reports on new employee schools. The reports must include all of the following information for the immediately preceding fiscal quarter, and as much of the information as

possible for the current and next fiscal year:

(a) The number of new employee schools that took place and the location of each.

(b) The number of recruits that started in each employee school.

(2) Third quarter reports must outline steps the department has taken to obtain the highest number of recruits possible for each new employee school. A report prepared under this subsection must include, but is not limited to, all of the following information:

(a) Internal sources of recruitment, including transfers and promotions.

(b) External sources of recruitment, including advertisements.

(c) Job portals, social networking platforms, placement agencies, job fairs, campus placements, or professional entities used for recruitment.

(d) Whether the department's website was used to advertise vacancies.

Sec. 314. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit a quarterly report on the number of overtime hours worked by all custody staff, by facility. The report must include, for each facility, all of the following:

(a) The number of mandatory overtime hours worked.

(b) The number of voluntary overtime hours worked.

(d) The average number of overtime hours worked by active employees.

(2) Additionally, the department shall submit a monthly report indicating each incident in which an employee was required to work mandatory overtime within the 32-hour period following the beginning of the last overtime shift of more than 4 hours the employee worked (2 hours for employees assigned to 12-hour shifts).

(3) Funds appropriated in part 1 for employee travel to conferences and award-granting events must be reported by March 1 to the standard report recipients. Funds appropriated in part 1 for employee travel to conferences and award-granting events cannot be used if a violation of the 32-hour mandatory overtime period as described in subsection (2) exceed 1% of total shifts worked.

Sec. 315. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department may establish agreements and exchange offender data with local, state, and federal agencies, law enforcement, community service and treatment providers, and research partners in order to improve offender success, reduce recidivism risk, and enhance public safety. This data sharing may include, but is not limited to, efforts to support all of the following:

(a) Providing continuing access to behavioral health, physical health, and medication needs through community-based providers.

(b) Establishing assistance program eligibility and participation.

(d) Providing ongoing cognitive and behavioral treatment programming in the community.

(e) Providing substance abuse testing and referrals for counseling services and treatment.

(f) Providing vocational skill training, job placement

support, and monitoring employment attainment.

(g) Determining educational attainment and needs.

(h) Establishing accurate offender identification, criminal histories, and monitoring new criminal activity.

(i) Measuring and evaluating treatment programs and services in support of evidence-based practices.

Sec. 317. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit 3-year and 5-year prison population projection updates concurrent with submission of the executive budget recommendation, including explanations of the methodology and assumptions used in developing the projection updates.

Sec. 318. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall place the statistical report from the immediately preceding calendar year on an internet website by June 30. The statistical report must include, but not be limited to, the information as provided in the 2004 statistical report.

Sec. 319. The department shall report the reincarceration recidivism rates of offenders based on available data.

Sec. 320. (1) The department shall administer a county jail reimbursement program from the funds appropriated in part 1 for the purpose of reimbursing counties for housing in jails certain felons who otherwise would have been sentenced to prison.

(2) The county jail reimbursement program must be used to reimburse counties for convicted felons in the custody of the sheriff if the conviction was for a crime committed on or after January 1, 1999 and 1 of the following applies:

(a) The felon's sentencing guidelines recommended range upper limit is more than 18 months, the felon's sentencing guidelines recommended range lower limit is 12 months or less, the felon's

prior record variable score is 35 or more points, and the felon's sentence is not for commission of a crime in crime class G or crime class H or a nonperson crime in crime class F under chapter XVII of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 777.1 to 777.69.

(b) The felon's minimum sentencing guidelines range minimum is more than 12 months under the sentencing guidelines described in subdivision (a).

(c) The felon was sentenced to jail for a felony committed while the felon was on parole and under the jurisdiction of the parole board and for which the sentencing guidelines recommended range for the minimum sentence has an upper limit of more than 18 months.

(3) State reimbursement under this section must be $65.00 per diem per diverted offender for offenders with a presumptive prison guideline score, $55.00 per diem per diverted offender for offenders with a straddle cell guideline for a group 1 crime, and $40.00 per diem per diverted offender for offenders with a straddle cell guideline for a group 2 crime. Reimbursements must be paid for sentences up to a 1-year total.

(4) County jail reimbursement program expenditures must not exceed the amount appropriated in part 1 for the county jail reimbursement program. Payments to counties under the county jail reimbursement program must be made in the order in which properly documented requests for reimbursements are received. A request is properly documented if it meets departmental requirements for documentation. By October 15, the department shall distribute the documentation requirements to all counties.

(5) Any county that receives funding under this section for the purpose of housing in jails certain felons who otherwise would

have been sentenced to prison shall, as a condition of receiving the funding, report by September 30 an annual average jail capacity and annual average jail occupancy for the immediately preceding fiscal year.

(6) Not later than February 1, the department shall report all of the following information:

(a) The number of inmates sentenced to the custody of the sheriff and eligible for the county jail reimbursement program.

(b) The total amount paid to counties under the county jail reimbursement program.

(c) The total number of days inmates were in the custody of the sheriff and eligible for the county jail reimbursement program.

(d) The number of inmates sentenced to the custody of the sheriff under each of the 3 categories: presumptive prison, group 1 crime, and group 2 crime in subsection (3).

(e) The total amount paid to counties under each of the 3 categories: presumptive prison, group 1 crime, and group 2 crime in subsection (3).

(f) The total number of days inmates were in the custody of the sheriff under each of the 3 categories: presumptive prison, group 1 crime, and group 2 crime in subsection (3).

(g) The estimated cost of housing inmates sentenced to the custody of the sheriff and eligible for the county jail reimbursement program as inmates of a state prison.

(7) As used in this section:

(a) "Group 1 crime" means a crime in 1 or more of the following offense categories: arson, assault, assaultive other, burglary, criminal sexual conduct, homicide or resulting in death, other sex offenses, robbery, and weapon possession as determined by

the department based on specific crimes for which counties received reimbursement under the county jail reimbursement program in fiscal year 2007 and fiscal year 2008, and listed in the county jail reimbursement program document titled "FY 2007 and FY 2008 Group One Crimes Reimbursed", dated March 31, 2009.

(b) "Group 2 crime" means a crime that is not a group 1 crime, including larceny, fraud, forgery, embezzlement, motor vehicle offenses, malicious destruction of property, controlled substance offense, felony drunk driving, and other nonassaultive offenses.

(c) "In the custody of the sheriff" means that the convicted felon has been sentenced to the county jail and either is housed in a county jail, is in custody but is being housed at a hospital or medical facility for a medical or mental health purpose, or has been released from jail and is being monitored through the use of the sheriff's electronic monitoring system.

Sec. 321. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide monthly email reports on offender populations, including, but not limited to, the following:

(a) Prison population by facility and security level and prisoners housed in county jails.

(b) Net operating capacity according to the most recent certification report.

(d) Number of prisoners serving life sentences.

(e) Prisoners classified as past their earliest release date.

(f) Prisoner intakes.

(g) Prisoner exits, including paroles, maximum discharges, and other exits.

(h) Community residential service populations.

(i) Electronic monitoring populations.

(j) Parole populations.

(k) Probation populations, with identification of the number of offenders in special alternative incarceration.

(2) If the department knows it will not meet the reporting requirements under this section, the department shall immediately issue a report stating that fact and listing the reasons for not meeting the reporting requirements.

Sec. 322. (1) On a quarterly basis, the department shall report the following information:

(a) The number of positions in pay status by civil service classification for each correctional facility.

(b) A detailed accounting of all vacant positions that exist within the department.

(c) A detailed accounting of all correction officer positions at each correctional facility, including positions that are filled and vacant positions, by facility.

(d) A detailed accounting of all vacant positions that are health care-related.

(e) A detailed accounting of vacant positions that are being held open for temporarily nonactive employees.

(2) As used in this section, "vacant position" means any position that has not been filled at any time during the previous quarter.

Sec. 324. The department may charge fees and collect revenues in excess of appropriations in part 1 not to exceed the cost of offender services and programming, employee meals, parolee loans, academic/vocational services, custody escorts, compassionate visits, union steward activities, and public works programs and

services provided to local units of government or private nonprofit organizations. The revenues and fees collected are appropriated for all expenses associated with these services and activities.

Sec. 325. It is the intent of the legislature that the department establish and maintain a management-to-staff ratio of not more than 1 supervisor for each 8 employees at the department's central office in Lansing and at both the northern and southern region administration offices.

Sec. 326. The department shall provide the state court administrative office data sufficient to administer the swift and sure sanctions program.

Sec. 327. The funds appropriated in part 1 for state employees retirement system implementation costs must be remitted to the state employees retirement system for implementation costs if the following bills of the 102nd Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) Senate Bill No. 165.

(b) Senate Bill No. 166.

OFFENDER SUCCESS ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 401. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide a report by March 1 on offender success expenditures and allocations. At a minimum, the report must include details on prior-year expenditures, including amounts spent on each project funded, itemized by service provided and service provider.

(2) The report must include outcomes and performance measures for all offender success programs, including, but not limited to, the following, as applicable to each offender success program and as stated in each offender success program goal:

(a) The number of individuals who obtain critical documents within 90 days of release and the nature of those documents.

(b) The number of individuals who access 1 or more community resources such as housing or transportation within 90 days of release and the nature of those resources.

(d) The number of individuals who report increased positive social activity within 90 days of release.

(e) The number of individuals employed or enrolled in an educational or vocational program, or both, within 60 to 90 days of release.

(f) The rate of job retention, housing, and education in the first year after release.

(g) The number of individuals in stable housing within 60 to 90 days of release.

(h) The number of individuals with adequate health care access, including access to medical, dental, behavioral health, and pharmacy services within 60 to 90 days of release.

(i) The recidivism rate in the first year after release, including a breakdown of procedural violations and new charges.

(j) With respect to recidivism, an accounting of procedural violations versus new charges.

(k) Substance use status, including alcohol, drug use, and smoking.

(l) Analysis of referral patterns.

(m) Comparison of de-identified client assessments.

(n) Civic engagement, including, but not limited to, voter registration.

(o) Tracking office-based versus community-based sessions with clients, to search for correlations and causation with outcomes.

(p) Use of incentives.

(q) Differences in outcomes for reentry from jail versus prison.

(r) Participation satisfaction.

(s) Fidelity to program values such as confidentiality, code of ethics, and mutuality.

(t) Use of evidence-based and best practices, such as motivational interviewing and restorative practices.

(u) Supervisory performance reviews.

(v) Reporting and documentation burden.

(w) Use of technology, including social media.

(x) Effectiveness of resource networks.

(y) Time required per client.

(z) Quality of life improvement or other health-related measures.

(aa) Self-efficacy improvement.

(3) Any data collected by offender success programs must be provided to the legislature and must be made available to accredited universities for research purposes.

(4) The department may accept cash or in-kind donations to supplement funds for prison education training, supplies, and materials necessary to complete the academic and job skills-related programs. All funds received are appropriated and may be expended by the department. Any unexpended or unencumbered donations at the end of the fiscal year must not lapse to the general fund but must be carried forward to the subsequent fiscal year.

Sec. 402. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the

department shall partner with nonprofit business and professional, civic, and community organizations for the purpose of providing offender success services. Offender success services include, but are not limited to, counseling, providing information on housing and job placement, and money management assistance.

Sec. 403. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for offender success services, the department, when reasonably possible, shall ensure that inmates have potential employer matches in the communities to which they will return prior to each inmate's initial parole hearing.

Sec. 404. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall design services for offender success and vocational education programs, collaborating with the department of labor and economic opportunity and local entities to the extent deemed necessary by the director. The department shall ensure the program provides relevant professional development opportunities to prisoners who are high quality, demand driven, locally receptive, and responsive to the needs of communities where the prisoners are expected to reside after their release from correctional facilities.

(2) By March 1, the department shall provide a report detailing the results of the workforce development program. The report must include, for each parolee hired, the length of time of employment and list the reasons for the parolee's separation from service.

(3) The department must suspend collaboration with any local entity with a return to prison rate greater than 20% until the local entity has submitted a proposed plan to maintain a return to prison rate of less than 20%.

Sec. 405. Funds awarded for probation residential services in part 1 must provide for the following:

(a) An initial client assessment reimbursement of $200.00.

(b) A per diem reimbursement of not more than $68.00.

Sec. 406. Allowable uses of community corrections comprehensive plans and services funds must include reimbursing counties for transportation, treatment costs, and housing drunk drivers during a period of assessment for treatment and case planning, in accordance with an approved comprehensive plan. Reimbursements for housing during the assessment process must be at the rate of $43.50 per day per offender, up to a maximum of 5 days per offender.

Sec. 407. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit the following information for each county and counties consolidated for community corrections comprehensive plans:

(a) Approved technical assistance grants and community corrections comprehensive plans including each program and level of funding, the utilization level of each program, and profile information of enrolled offenders.

(b) If federal funds are made available, the number of participants funded, the number served, the number successfully completing the program, and a summary of the program activity.

(d) Data on residential services, including participant data, participant sentencing guideline scores, program expenditures, average length of stay, and bed utilization data.

(e) Offender disposition data by sentencing guideline range,

by disposition type, by prior record variable score, by number and percent statewide and by county, current year, and comparisons to the previous 3 years.

(f) Data on the use of funding made available under the drunk driver jail reduction and community treatment program.

(2) The report required under subsection (1) must include the total funding allocated, program expenditures, required program data, and year-to-date totals.

Sec. 408. (1) The law enforcement agency receiving funding under part 1 for public safety initiative shall submit quarterly expenditure reports including a detailed listing of expenditures made, the purpose for which the expenditures were made, specific services provided, and the number of individuals served. Reports required under this section must be submitted to the standard report recipients and to the department of corrections.

(2) As a condition of receiving funding appropriated for public safety initiative, reports required in the prior fiscal year must be submitted before funds may be disbursed for the current fiscal year.

Sec. 409. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall establish and maintain policies and procedures that assist prisoners with obtaining a birth certificate, duplicate Social Security card, if eligible, DD Form 214 or other military documentation, state identification card, and operator's license before parole or discharge.

Sec. 410. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for higher education in prison must be used by the department in collaboration with accredited universities or colleges to provide incarcerated individuals the opportunity to participate in comprehensive

bachelor's degree programs at no cost to the incarcerated individual. The funds must be used for eligible expenses including staffing, supplies, and tuition.

(2) Universities and colleges that receive funding under this section must report by July 1 on all of the following:

(a) Expenditure of funds.

(b) Number of participants served.

(d) Number of participants who completed the program.

(3) Accredited universities and colleges that receive funding under this section must provide incarcerated individuals the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive bachelor's degree program at no cost to the incarcerated individual. Funds disbursed under this section must be used for eligible expenses including staffing, supplies, and tuition.

(4) By July 1, accredited universities and colleges that receive funding under this section must submit a report that includes all of the following information, as applicable:

(a) A list of program expenditures.

(b) The number of enrollees.

(d) The rate of 30-day, 90-day, and 2-year employment retention post release.

(e) The number of individuals who successfully complete a court-ordered sentence.

(f) The 1-, 2-, and 3-year return to prison rates, if available.

(g) Outcomes and performance measures.

Sec. 411. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for enhanced

food technology program, the department shall maintain a program that provides on-the-job training in prison kitchens that provides prisoners the opportunity to earn food service training credentials recognized by the restaurant industry. The department shall use the funds appropriated in part 1 for enhanced food technology program to collaborate with the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association and other restaurant industry stakeholders to provide job placement assistance to individuals on probation or parole.

Sec. 412. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for offender success programming, the department shall establish medication-assisted treatment offender success pilot programs. A medication-assisted treatment offender success pilot program must provide prerelease treatment and postrelease referral for opioid- or alcohol-addicted offenders who voluntarily participate in a medication-assisted treatment offender success pilot program. The department shall collaborate with residential and nonresidential substance abuse treatment providers and with community-based clinics to provide postrelease assessment and treatment. The programs shall employ a multifaceted approach to treatment, including various forms of medication-assisted treatment approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of opioid use disorder or alcohol use disorder, counseling, and postrelease referral to community-based providers. If clinically appropriate, the department shall consider the use of long-acting injectable formulations of FDA-approved medication-assisted treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorder when developing an offender's release plan.

(2) The department shall submit a report by December 1 on all of the following:

(a) The number of offenders who received an injectable treatment for alcohol use disorder.

(b) The number of offenders who received an injectable treatment for opioid use disorder before release.

(c) The number of offenders who subsequently received treatment in the community for a duration of not less than 3 months.

(d) The number of offenders who received injections and were subsequently returned to prison during the prior fiscal year.

Sec. 413. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall ensure that any inmate with a diagnosed mental illness is referred to a local mental health care provider that is able and willing to treat the inmate upon parole or discharge. Upon referral, the department shall ensure that the provider is informed of the inmate's current treatment plan including any medications that are currently prescribed to the inmate.

Sec. 414. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for Goodwill Flip the Script must be distributed to a Michigan-chartered 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation operating in a county with greater than 1,500,000 people for administration and expansion of a program that serves a population of individuals aged 16 to 39. The program must target individuals who are entering the criminal justice system for the first or second time and must assist those individuals through the following program types:

(a) Alternative sentencing programs in partnership with a local district or circuit court.

(b) Educational recovery for special adult populations with high rates of illiteracy.

(2) By March 30, the selected program shall report on all of the following:

(a) Program performance measurements.

(b) The number of individuals diverted from incarceration.

(d) The outcomes of participants who completed the program.

Sec. 415. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall report by March 1 on academic and vocational programs, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(a) The number of instructors and the number of instructor vacancies, by program and facility.

(b) The number of prisoners enrolled in each program, the number of prisoners completing each program, the number of prisoners who do not complete each program, and the number of prisoners on waiting lists for each program.

(d) The steps the department has undertaken to improve programs, track records, accommodate transfers and prisoners with health care needs, and reduce waiting lists.

(e) The number of prisoners paroled without a high school diploma or a high school equivalency.

(f) The number of prisoners not paroled at their earliest release date because of a lack of a high school equivalency and the reason those prisoners have not obtained a high school equivalency.

Sec. 416. From the funds appropriated in part 1, priority may be given to funding reentry or rehabilitation programs that have been demonstrated to reduce prison violence and recidivism, including faith-based initiatives.

Sec. 417. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for criminal justice reinvestment must be used only to fund data collection and evidence-based programs designed to reduce recidivism among probationers, parolees, and prisoners.

(2) Of the funds appropriated in part 1 for criminal justice reinvestment, not less than $600,000.00 must be allocated to an organization that has received a United States Department of Labor training to work 2-adult reentry grant to provide county jail inmates with programming and services to prepare them to get and keep jobs. Examples of eligible programs and services include, but are not limited to: adult education, tutoring, manufacturing skills training, participation in a simulated work environment, mentoring, cognitive therapy groups, life skills classes, substance abuse recovery groups, fatherhood programs, classes in understanding the legal system, family literacy, health and wellness, finance management, employer presentations, and classes on job retention. Programming and support services should begin before release and continue after release from the county jail. To be eligible for funding, an organization must show not less than 2 years of data that demonstrate program success.

(3) The department shall report on programs described under this section by March 30. The report must include all of the following:

(a) The reincarceration recidivism rate of program participants.

(b) The employment rate of participants who complete the program.

Sec. 418. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the

department shall report on the department's plans to eliminate programming for prisoners. The report must be provided not less than 30 days before program elimination. As used in this section, "programming for prisoners" means a department core program or career and technical education program funded in part 1.

Sec. 419. Revenues appropriated and collected for program and special equipment funds must be considered state restricted revenue. Funding must be used for prisoner programming, special equipment, and security projects. Not less than 75% of funding must be used for prisoner programming. Unexpended funds remaining at the close of the fiscal year must not lapse to the general fund but must be carried forward and be available for appropriation in subsequent fiscal years.

Sec. 420. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for Eastern Michigan University education program, the university must provide incarcerated individuals the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive bachelor's degree program at no cost to the incarcerated individual. Funding must be used for eligible expenses including staffing, supplies, and tuition.

(2) By July 1, Eastern Michigan University shall provide a report on all of the following information, as applicable:

(a) Expenditure of funds.

(b) Number of participants served.

(d) Number of participants who complete the program.

(e) The number of job placements.

(f) The rate of 30-day, 90-day, and 2-year employment retention post release.

(g) The number of individuals who successfully complete a

court-ordered sentence.

(h) The 1-, 2-, and 3-year return to prison rates, if available.

(i) Outcomes and performance measures.

(3) Eastern Michigan University must comply with section 422.

Sec. 421. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for Nation Outside must be used by the department to support a contract with the goal of supporting statewide peer-led reentry programming. The contract must include peer-led group mentoring, along with 1-on-1 peer mentoring for referred parolees to improve housing, civic engagement, transportation, education, employment, and access to health care and insurance.

(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for Nation Outside, the program must enlist Wayne State University to perform an independent program evaluation of the pilot program.

(3) By July 1, Nation Outside must submit a report that includes all of the following information, as applicable:

(a) A list of program expenditures.

(b) The number of enrollees.

(d) The rate of 30-day, 90-day, and 2-year employment retention post release.

(e) The number of individuals who successfully complete a court-ordered sentence.

(f) The 1-, 2-, and 3-year return to prison rates, if available.

(g) Outcomes and performance measures.

(4) Nation Outside must comply with section 422.

Sec. 422. (1) Outcomes and performance measures for the

Eastern Michigan University education program and the Nation Outside program must include, but need not be limited to, the following, as applicable to each program or entity as stated in the program's or entity's goals:

(a) The number of individuals who obtain critical documents within 90 days of release and the nature of those documents.

(b) The number of individuals who access 1 or more community resources such as housing or transportation within 90 days of release and the nature of that resource.

(c) The number of individuals who obtain medical insurance and a health care provider or providers within 90 days of release.

(d) The number of individuals who report increased positive social activity within 90 days of release.

(e) The number of individuals employed or enrolled in an educational or vocational program, or both, within 60 to 90 days of release.

(f) The rate of job retention, housing, and education in the first year after release.

(g) The number of individuals in stable housing within 60 to 90 days of release.

(h) The number of individuals with adequate health care access, including access to medical, dental, behavioral health, and pharmacy services, within 60 to 90 days of release.

(i) The recidivism rate in the first year after release, including a breakdown of procedural violations and new charges.

(j) With respect to recidivism, an accounting of procedural violations versus new charges.

(k) Substance use status, including alcohol, drug use, and smoking.

(l) Analysis of referral patterns.

(m) Comparison of de-identified client assessments.

(n) Civic engagement, including, but not limited to, voter registration.

(o) Tracking office-based versus community-based sessions with clients, to search for correlations and causation with outcomes.

(p) Use of incentives.

(q) Differences in outcomes for reentry from jail versus prison.

(r) Participation satisfaction.

(s) Fidelity to program values such as confidentiality, code of ethics, and mutuality.

(t) Use of evidence-based and best practices, such as motivational interviewing and restorative practices.

(u) Supervisory performance reviews.

(v) Reporting and documentation burden.

(w) Use of technology, including social media.

(x) Effectiveness of resource networks.

(y) Time required per client.

(z) Quality of life improvement or other health-related measures.

(aa) Self-efficacy improvement.

(2) Any data collected by the Eastern Michigan University education program and the Nation Outside program must be provided to the legislature and must be made available to accredited universities for research purposes.

FIELD OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 501. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the

department shall prepare individual reports by March 1 for the residential reentry program, the electronic monitoring program, and the special alternative to incarceration program. Each program's report must include information on all of the following:

(a) Monthly new participants by type of offender. Residential reentry program participants must be categorized by reason for placement. For technical rule violators, the report must sort offenders by length of time since release from prison, by the most recent violation, and by the number of violations occurring since release from prison.

(b) Monthly participant unsuccessful terminations, including cause.

(d) End-of-month population by facility and program.

(e) Average length of placement.

(f) Return to prison statistics.

(g) Description of each program location or locations, capacity, and staffing.

(h) Sentencing guideline scores and actual sentence statistics for participants, if applicable.

(i) Comparison with prior year statistics.

(j) Analysis of the impact on prison admissions, jail utilization, and the cost effectiveness of the program.

Sec. 502. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall review and revise as necessary policy proposals that provide alternatives to prison for offenders being sentenced to prison as a result of technical probation violations and technical parole violations. To the extent the department has insufficient policies or resources to affect the continued increase

in prison commitments among these offender populations, from the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall explore other policy options to allow for program alternatives, including department or OCC-funded programs, local level programs, and programs available through private agencies that may be used as prison alternatives for these offenders.

(2) By April 1, the department shall provide a report on the number of all parolees returned to prison and probationers sentenced to prison for either a technical violation or new sentence during the preceding fiscal year. The report must include the following information for probationers, for parolees after their first parole, and for parolees who have been paroled more than once:

(a) The numbers of parole and probation violators returned to or sent to prison for a new crime with a comparison of original versus new offenses by major offense type: assaultive, nonassaultive, drug, and sex.

(b) The numbers of parole and probation violators returned to or sent to prison for a technical violation and the type of violation, including, but not limited to, zero gun tolerance and substance abuse violations. For parole technical rule violators, the report must list violations by type, by length of time since release from prison, by the most recent violation, and by the number of violations occurring since release from prison.

(c) The educational history of those offenders, including how many had a high school equivalency or high school diploma before incarceration in prison, how many received a high school equivalency while in prison, and how many received a vocational certificate while in prison.

(d) The number of offenders who participated in the reentry program versus the number of those who did not.

(e) The unduplicated number of offenders who participated in substance abuse treatment programs, mental health treatment programs, or both, while in prison, itemized by diagnosis.

Sec. 503. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for residential alternative to prison program, the department shall provide vocational, educational, and cognitive programming in a secure environment to enhance existing alternative sentencing options, increase employment readiness and successful placement rates, and reduce new criminal behavior for the west Michigan probation violator population. The department must ensure that all of the following program goals are attained:

(a) Participants successfully complete the program.

(b) Participants completing the program earn a nationally recognized credential for a career or vocational program.

(d) Reduction of the prison commitment rate for probation violators within the impacted geographic area.

Sec. 504. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall issue quarterly reports for the previous 4 quarters detailing outcomes of prisoners who have been reviewed for parole. The report must include all of the following:

(a) How many prisoners in each quarter were reviewed.

(b) How many prisoners were granted parole.

(d) How many parole decisions were deferred.

(e) The distribution of the total number of prisoners reviewed

during that quarter grouped by whether the prisoner had been interviewed for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or more than sixth time.

(f) The number of paroles granted, denied, or deferred for each of the parole guideline scores of low, average, and high.

(g) The reason for denying or deferring parole.

HEALTH CARE

Sec. 601. By April 1, the department shall provide a report on all of the following:

(a) Physical and mental health care, pharmaceutical services, and durable medical equipment for prisoners. A report under this section must detail prior fiscal year expenditures itemized by vendor, allocations, status of payments from contractors to vendors, and projected year-end expenditures from accounts. A report under this section must include a breakdown of all payments to the integrated care provider and to other providers itemized by physical health care, mental health care, pharmaceutical services, and durable medical equipment expenditures.

(b) Pharmaceutical prescribing practices, including a detailed accounting of expenditures on antipsychotic medications, and any changes that have been made to the prescription drug formularies.

(c) A status report on efforts to develop measurable data and outcomes for physical and mental health care within the prisoner population.

Sec. 602. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall ensure that all prisoners, upon any health care treatment funded from appropriations in part 1, are given the opportunity to sign a release of information form designating a

family member or other individual to whom the department shall release records and information regarding the prisoner upon the request of the prisoner. A release of information form signed by a prisoner remains in effect for 1 year. However, the prisoner may elect to withdraw or amend the release form at any time.

(2) The department shall ensure that a signed release form follows a prisoner upon transfer to another department facility or to the supervision of a parole officer.

(3) The form must be placed online, on a public website managed by the department.

Sec. 603. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide a report by April 1 on prisoner health care utilization that includes all of the following:

(a) The number of inpatient hospital days, outpatient visits, emergency room visits, prisoners receiving off-site inpatient medical care in the fiscal year, by facility.

(b) A listing of the 10 most common chronic care conditions.

Sec. 604. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for Hepatitis C treatment must be used only to purchase specialty medication for Hepatitis C treatment in the prison population. In addition to the above appropriation, any rebates received from the medications used must be used only to purchase specialty medication for Hepatitis C treatment. By February 15, the department shall issue a report for the prior fiscal year that includes all of the following:

(a) The total amount spent on specialty medication for the treatment of Hepatitis C.

(b) The number of prisoners who were treated for Hepatitis C.

(c) The amount of any rebates that were received from the purchase of specialty medication, and what, if any, outstanding

rebates are expected to be received.

(2) The report required under this section must include the Hepatitis C status of all incoming prisoners and the number of prisoners who are reinfected while incarcerated and require retreatment for Hepatitis C. The report must also include the number of those treated and released and then retreated upon reincarceration.

Sec. 605. The department shall provide an annual report on the utilization of Medicaid benefits for prisoners.

Sec. 606. By March 1, the department shall report on the number of prisoners who received medication-assisted therapies. The report must include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(a) The length of time each prisoner received those therapies.

(b) The number of prisoners who have discontinued treatment while incarcerated.

(d) The number of prisoners prescribed each medication listed in subdivision (c).

Sec. 607. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for mental health and substance use disorder treatment, the department must allocate not less than $1,000,000.00 in additional funding to maintain not less than 3 medication-assisted treatment clinics at correctional facilities that allow the department to treat the highest number of prisoners with opioid use disorder as possible. Funding must be used by the department to support costs of staff, including nurses, qualified mental health professionals, recovery coaches, and corrections officers, and costs of medication and supplies. Participating prisoners must be provided with the option

of receiving 1 injection of medication immediately before being released from prison into the community.

(2) The department shall submit quarterly reports on the establishment and operation of medication-assisted treatment clinics. A report under this subsection must include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(a) Clinic site locations.

(b) Staffing levels.

(d) Number of prisoners treated.

(e) Number of prisoners requiring treatment but not yet receiving treatment.

(3) Unexpended funds remaining at the close of the fiscal year must not lapse to the general fund but must be carried forward and be available for appropriation in the subsequent fiscal year.

Sec. 608. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for breast milk program must be used to fund a program to provide breast milk to the newborns of postpartum prisoners.

(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall work in collaboration with Mama's Mobile Milk to develop a contract for delivery services to ensure that every incarcerated individual who has given birth within the last 18 months has an opportunity to express breast milk for delivery to the child. Funds appropriated in part 1 must be used by the department to ensure that participating incarcerated individuals have access to necessary supplies, including a breast pump and appropriate, sanitary containers, and suitable sanitary storage of expressed milk while milk is in the department's possession.

(3) The department, its officials, and employees are immune from criminal and civil liability arising out of their involvement with the process set forth in this program.

(4) Mama's Mobile Milk shall submit quarterly reports on all of the following:

(a) The number of incarcerated individuals participating in the program.

(b) The length of time incarcerated individuals participate.

(d) The location of infants served.

(e) The custodial responsibility of infants served.

(5) Unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for breast milk program are designated as a work project appropriation. Unencumbered or unallotted funds must not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and must be available for expenditure until the project has been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to fund a program to provide breast milk to the newborns of postpartum prisoners.

(b) The project will be accomplished by utilizing state employees or contracts with service providers, or both.

(d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2028.

CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 702. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for prison food service, the department shall report by January 15 on the following:

(a) Average per-meal cost for prisoner food service. Per-meal cost includes all costs directly related to the provision of food for the prisoner population, including, but not limited to, actual food costs, total compensation for all food service workers, including benefits and legacy costs, and inspection and compliance costs for food service.

(b) Food service-related contracts, including goods or services to be provided and the vendor.

(2) The department must ensure that not less than $0.50 of the per-meal cost consists of Michigan-grown and produced products.

Sec. 703. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall report the cost per prisoner per day for each security custody level by January 15. This calculation must include all actual direct and indirect costs for the previous fiscal year. To calculate the cost per prisoner per day, the department shall divide the prisoner-related costs by the total number of prisoner days for each custody level and correctional facility. For multilevel facilities, costs that cannot be accurately allocated to each custody level may be included in the calculation on a per-prisoner basis for each facility. Prisoner-related costs included in the cost per prisoner per day calculation must include all expenditures for the following, from all fund sources:

(a) New custody staff training.

(b) Prison industries operations.

(d) Enhanced food technology program.

(e) Offender success programming.

(f) Central records.

(g) Correctional facilities administration.

(h) Housing inmates in federal institutions.

(i) Inmate legal services.

(j) Leased beds and alternatives to leased beds.

(k) Prison food service.

(l) Prison store operations.

(m) Transportation.

(n) Health care.

(o) Correctional facilities.

(p) Northern and southern region administration and support.

Sec. 704. Any local unit of government or private nonprofit organization that contracts with the department for public works services is responsible for financing the entire cost of such an agreement.

Sec. 705. The department shall allow the Michigan Braille transcribing fund program to operate at designated locations. The department shall continue to encourage the Michigan Braille transcribing fund program to produce high-quality materials for use by the visually impaired.

Sec. 706. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall report all of the following regarding critical incidents:

(a) Within 72 hours of occurrence, any critical incident occurring at a correctional facility. The report must identify the facility at which the incident occurred.

(b) By March 1, the number of critical incidents occurring each month at each facility during the immediately preceding calendar year, categorized by type and severity of each incident.

(2) As used in this section, "critical incident" includes a

prisoner assault on staff that results in a serious physical injury to staff, an escape or attempted escape, a prisoner disturbance that causes facility operation concerns, and an unexpected death of a prisoner.

Sec. 707. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall report by March 1 on all of the following ratios for each correctional facility:

(a) Corrections officers to prisoners.

(b) Shift command staff to line custody staff.

Sec. 708. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall focus on providing required programming to prisoners who are past their earliest release date and have not been paroled because of not having received the required programming. Programming includes, but is not limited to, violence prevention programming, sexual abuse prevention programming, substance use disorder programming, thinking for a change programming, and any other programming that is required as a condition of parole.

(2) To the extent feasible, the department shall consistently provide prisoner programming with the goal of having prisoners complete recommended cognitive programming as early as possible during the prisoner's sentence to impact the prisoner's behavior while incarcerated. Nothing in this section makes parole denial appealable in court.

(3) The department shall submit a quarterly report detailing enrollment in sex abuse prevention programming, violence prevention programming, and thinking for a change programming. At a minimum, the report must include all of the following:

(a) A full accounting, from the date of entrance to prison, of the number of individuals who are required to complete the programming, but have not yet done so.

(b) The number of individuals who have reached their earliest release date, but who have not completed required programming.

Sec. 709. If a pregnant prisoner in a facility funded from appropriations in part 1 consents to a visitor being present, the department shall allow that 1 person to be present during the prisoner's labor and delivery, in addition to a doula being present if the pregnant prisoner wants to work with a doula. The person allowed to accompany the prisoner must be an immediate family member, legal guardian, spouse, or domestic partner. The department is authorized to deny access to a visitor if the department has a safety concern with that visitor's access. The department is authorized to conduct a criminal background check on the visitor.

Sec. 710. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall evaluate all prisoners at intake for substance abuse disorders, serious developmental disorders, serious mental illness, and other mental health disorders. Prisoners with serious mental illness or serious developmental disorders must not be removed from the general population as a punitive response to behavior caused by their serious mental illness or serious developmental disorder. A prisoner with serious mental illness or serious developmental disorder that is unresponsive to treatment who presents a persistent high violence risk or engages in severe disruptive behavior may be placed in secure residential housing programs that facilitate access to institutional programming and

ongoing mental health services funded from appropriations in part 1. A prisoner with serious mental illness or serious developmental disorder, or any other prisoner who is confined in these specialized housing programs, must be evaluated or monitored by a medical professional at a frequency of not less than every 12 hours.

Sec. 711. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit a quarterly report on the number of prisoners confined to specialized housing units or cells. The report must include, but not be limited to, the number of cumulative days each prisoner was confined to the following locations by correctional facility, race, security classification, security level, and earliest release date (ERD):

(a) Administrative segregation.

(b) Temporary segregation.

(d) Inpatient mental health, enumerated by program.

(e) Close observation.

(f) Adaptive skills residential program.

(g) Protective custody.

(2) The report under subsection (1) must also include the number of prisoners assigned to 1 of these special housing units or cells, or designations who, at any time during the current or prior prison term, were diagnosed with serious mental illness or who have a developmental disorder.

(3) The department shall submit an annual report on the number of individuals held on Notice of Intent (NOI) or Security Threat Group (STG) status, or both, by correctional facility, cumulative days held on NOI or STG status, security classification, security

level, race, and Earliest Release Date (ERD).

(4) The department shall submit an annual report, by correctional facility, on the number of individuals who lost visitation rights. The report must include, for each prisoner on the list, the following:

(a) The number of cumulative days visitation rights were lost.

(b) The prisoner's race.

Sec. 712. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall do all of the following:

(a) Ensure that any inmate care and control staff in contact with prisoners less than 18 years of age are adequately trained with regard to the developmental and mental health needs of prisoners less than 18 years of age. By April 1, the department shall report on the training curriculum used and the number and types of staff receiving annual training under that curriculum.

(b) Provide appropriate placement for prisoners less than 18 years of age who have serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder and need to be housed separately from the general population. Prisoners less than 18 years of age who have serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder must not be removed from an existing placement as a punitive response to behavior caused by their serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder. A prisoner who is less than 18 years of age with serious mental illness or a serious developmental disorder that is unresponsive to treatment who presents a persistent high violence risk or engages in severe disruptive behavior may be placed in secure residential housing

programs that facilitate services. A prisoner less than 18 years of age with serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder who is confined in these specialized housing programs must be evaluated or monitored by a medical professional at a frequency of not less than every 12 hours.

(c) Implement a specialized offender success program that recognizes the needs of prisoners less than 18 years old for supervised offender success.

Sec. 713. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit quarterly reports on the number of youth in prison. The report must include, but not be limited to, all of the following information:

(a) The total number of inmates under age 18 who are not on Holmes youthful trainee act status.

(b) The total number of inmates under age 18 who are on Holmes youthful trainee act status.

Sec. 714. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department must submit a report on the number of prisoners who lost visiting privileges. The report required under this section must be submitted by November 15 and include data for the prior fiscal year. The report must include all of the following information:

(a) The number of prisoners who lost visiting privileges by violation type.

(b) The length of visitation time lost by violation type.

(d) The number of prisoners who had visiting privileges restored.

(e) The number of prisoners who had visiting restrictions extended.

Sec. 715. Funds appropriated in part 1 for intelligence unit must be used by the department to maintain an intelligence unit to conduct investigatory and intelligence operations for the department. Intelligence operations must include, but not be limited to, intelligence operations for prisoner phone services.

Sec. 716. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department must submit a preliminary report on the department's plans to close, consolidate, or relocate any correctional facility in the state. The preliminary report must be provided not less than 30 days before the effective date of the closure, consolidation, or relocation. The preliminary report must include the projected savings to the state from closure, consolidation, or relocation of the facility and must include a projection of the potential impact on staff positions.

(2) After a prison closure, consolidation, or relocation, the department must submit a report on the actual savings achieved by the department and the impact on staff positions. Savings amounts and impact on staff positions must be itemized by facility. The report required under this subsection must be submitted 6 months after the prison closure, consolidation, or relocation.

(3) If the department is planning to close a correctional facility, the department must complete an analysis of the potential economic impact of the correctional facility closure on the local community where the facility is located. The analysis must be submitted within 30 days of the department's announcement regarding

closure of the facility.

Sec. 717. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall consult with the legislature and other appropriate state agencies to develop a framework to provide investment in communities that have formerly operational state correctional facilities that have been closed. This framework must include plans to ensure that vacant state correctional facilities do not become a nuisance or danger to the community.

Sec. 718. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall make an information packet for the families of incoming prisoners available on the department's website. The information packet must be reviewed by February 1 and updated as necessary. The department may partner with external advocacy groups and actual families of prisoners in the packet-writing process to ensure that the information is useful and complete. The packet must provide information on topics including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(a) How to put money into prisoner accounts.

(b) How to make telephone calls or create Jpay email accounts.

(d) Proper procedures for filing complaints or grievances.

(e) The rights of prisoners to physical and mental health care.

(f) How to utilize the offender tracking information system (OTIS).

(g) Truth in sentencing and how it applies to minimum sentences.

(h) The parole process.

(i) Guidance on the importance of the role of families in the

reentry process.

Sec. 719. (1) The department shall ensure that all correctional facilities make available to all prisoners information regarding the family participation program. The department shall create information posters that include the contact information for the program and place the posters in highly visible and conspicuous locations throughout all correctional facilities.

(2) The posters required under subsection (1) must include perforated and detachable strips that include the contact information for the family participation program.

ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

Sec. 801. Funds appropriated in part 1 for mental health crisis intervention training must be used for all custody staff, including the training of new custody staff, for training on responding to challenges faced when working with a prisoner experiencing a mental health crisis, including all of the following:

(a) Effective communication skills.

(b) Skillful intervention and monitoring guidelines.

Sec. 802. Unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for Thumb Education Center are designated as a work project appropriation. Unencumbered or unallotted funds shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and shall be available for expenditure until the project has been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to provide education and

vocational training at the Thumb Correctional Facility.

(b) The project will be accomplished by utilizing state employees or contracts with service providers, or both.

(d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2028.