MI HB5785

Courts shall impose minimum state costs at sentencing when a defendant enters a guilty plea, pleads nolo contendere, or is found guilty after trial or hearing.

Courts may impose fines, statutory costs, legal assistance expenses, assessments, and reimbursements authorized by law in addition to minimum state costs.

Courts may impose court operation costs (salaries, goods, services, building maintenance) for 36 months from the enactment date without calculating case-specific amounts.

Beginning January 1, 2015, courts must inform defendants of all imposed fines, costs, and assessments, and courts must report annually to the state court administrative office on costs imposed and collected.

Defendants cannot be imprisoned for failure to pay court costs unless the court determines they have resources to pay and have not made good-faith payment efforts.