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MI SB0922

Bill

Status

Passed

12/28/2018

Primary Sponsor

Darwin Booher

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Origin

Senate

99th Legislature

AI Summary

  • Amends Michigan's sentencing guidelines to add 16 felonies related to animal cruelty, directed energy devices, and unmanned aircraft to the sentencing guidelines framework under MCL 777.16b.

  • Establishes Class E felony for aiming a directed energy beam at or into the path of aircraft or moving trains with maximum sentence of 5 years.

  • Establishes Class F felonies for operating unmanned aircraft that interfere with federally registered facilities or hover over designated facilities with maximum sentence of 4 years.

  • Establishes multiple animal cruelty and fighting-related felonies with sentences ranging from 2 years to life, depending on severity and prior convictions.

  • Takes effect 90 days after enactment (March 27, 2019) conditional upon passage of House Bill No. 5495.

Legislative Description

Criminal procedure; sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for using an unmanned aircraft in a manner that interferes with the operations of a key facility; provide for. Amends sec. 16b, ch. XVII of 1927 PA 175 (MCL 777.16b).

Criminal procedure: sentencing guidelines

Last Action

Assigned Pa 469'18 With Immediate Effect

12/28/2018

Committee Referrals

Communications And Technology9/27/2018
Transportation3/21/2018

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