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MI HB5318
Bill
Status
11/9/2023
Primary Sponsor
Samantha Steckloff
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AI Summary
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Allows visits by clerics to prisoners in solitary confinement, in addition to the conveyance of food and other necessary purposes.
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Defines "cleric" to include ministers, priests, rabbis, accredited Christian Science practitioners, or other similar religious functionaries, or individuals reasonably believed by the convict to be religious functionaries.
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Changes statutory language from "shall be" to "is" regarding restrictions on intercourse with solitary-confined convicts.
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Removes the conditional language "unless some minister of the gospel shall be disposed to visit him" and replaces it with mandatory visitation rights for clerics as defined in the act.
Legislative Description
Corrections: jails; persons authorized to visit in solitary imprisonment; expand to include clerics. Amends sec. 3 of 1846 RS 171 (MCL 801.3).
Corrections: jails
Last Action
Referred To Committee On Government Operations
1/17/2024