MI HB4627

Requires courts to conduct a risk and needs assessment for each juvenile before disposition using research-based and nationally validated tools, with results shared with the court and all parties to the proceeding.

Mandates the risk and needs assessment results inform dispositional recommendations and determine appropriate dispositions based on public safety, victim interests, juvenile rehabilitation, and improved outcomes including educational advancement.

Requires new risk and needs assessments every 6 months, after major life events, or upon major changes in juvenile proceedings, conducted and used in the same manner as initial assessments.

Establishes that risk and needs assessment information, including any admissions or confessions obtained during assessment, is inadmissible in adjudicatory hearings and not subject to subpoena for any other proceeding.

Makes technical changes including updating gendered language ("his or her" to "the juvenile's") and renumbering existing subsections; ties enactment to passage of HB 4624.