Loading chat...

MI SB0626

Bill

Status

Introduced

10/23/2025

Primary Sponsor

Kevin Hertel

Click for details

Origin

Senate

103rd Legislature

AI Summary

  • Expands the definition of "confirmed serious abuse or neglect" to include sexual abuse, manslaughter, and the death of a child, in addition to existing categories like battering, torture, and murder

  • Adds the Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential to the list of child care regulatory agencies authorized to oversee child care organization licensing

  • Clarifies that central registry information may be shared for employment or volunteer positions involving "unsupervised contact" with children, specifying the unsupervised nature of such contact

  • Revises the definition of "confirmed sexual abuse" to explicitly include "other sexual abuse" beyond the previously listed categories of sexual penetration, sexual contact, and attempted penetration

  • Adds a formal definition of "youth program" as an event designed for minors that is supervised by employees or volunteers and occurs without parents or legal guardians present

Legislative Description

Children: protection; modifications to the central registry; provide for. Amends secs. 2, 7j & 8 of 1975 PA 238 (MCL 722.622 et seq.).

Children: protection

Last Action

Referred To Committee On Civil Rights, Judiciary, And Public Safety

10/23/2025

Committee Referrals

Civil Rights, Judiciary, And Public Safety10/23/2025

Full Bill Text

No bill text available