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Public Policy Report May 2024

 

Michigan Bar Journal

AT THE CAPITOL

HB 5392 (Lightner) Criminal procedure: sentencing; Law: sunset. Criminal procedure: sentencing; sunset on certain costs that may be imposed upon criminal conviction; modify. Amends sec. 1k, ch. IX of 1927 PA 175 (MCL 769.1k).

POSITION: Support.
(Position adopted by roll call vote. Commissioners voting in support: Anderson, Bryant, Burrell, Clay, Cripps-Serra, Detzler, Easterly, Evans, Hamameh, Howlett, Larsen, Lerner, Low, Mansoor, Mantese, Mason, McGill, Murray, Newman, Nyamfukudza, Ohanesian, Perkins, Quick, Reiser, VanDyk, Walton. Commissioners abstaining: Simmons.)

HB 5534 (Breen) Criminal procedure: sentencing; Law: sunset. Criminal procedure: sentencing; supreme court to determine court operation costs and funding; require. Creates new act.

POSITION: Support.
(Position adopted by roll call vote. Commissioners voting in support: Anderson, Bryant, Burrell, Clay, Cripps-Serra, Detzler, Easterly, Evans, Hamameh, Howlett, Larsen, Lerner, Low, Mansoor, Mantese, Mason, McGill, Murray, Newman, Nyamfukudza, Ohanesian, Perkins, Quick, Reiser, VanDyk, Walton. Commissioners abstaining: Simmons.)