HB 5055 Summary

• Court may order convicted persons to reimburse state or local government for emergency response and prosecution expenses related to specific offenses including impaired/reckless driving, operating violations, and protection order violations.

• Reimbursable expenses include salaries and overtime of law enforcement, fire, emergency medical service, and prosecution personnel; medical supplies; and extradition costs including transportation and personnel wages.

• Reimbursement may be ordered from multiple units of government if personnel from each incurred expenses, and local governments may elect reimbursement under this section, a local ordinance, or both without double recovery.

• Court may require immediate payment or installment payments; reimbursement becomes condition of probation or parole, but person cannot be imprisoned solely for nonpayment unless court determines they have resources and failed in good faith efforts to comply.

• For violent felonies under chapters XXXIII and LXXXIII-A of the Michigan Penal Code, court must order reimbursement to any government entity (state, local, or federal) for related incident expenses.