In The Chair: President
The Senate agreed to the title of the bill.
Senator Santana asked and was granted unanimous consent to make a statement and moved that the statement be printed in the Journal.
The motion prevailed.
Senator Santana’s statement is as follows:
Today I just want to rise to say that it has been a long journey to get to this point with these particular bills for Pretrial Incarceration Task Force. I want to take the opportunity to thank our leaders, Chief Justice Bridget McCormack and in addition to that our Lieutenant Governor, Garlin Gilchrist, and also the Pew Charitable Trusts and all of our committee members who over the past two years listened to testimony and also heard the needs of our jails.
We were locking people up for minor violations like failure to appear and also insurance issues in our jails and because of that, people were losing out on their economic stability. And so today we are taking the opportunity to make that wrong right and in addition to that, make sure that we are not using dollars and resources unnecessarily. So I want to say thank you all today for your commitment to support this bill package and in addition to that, getting this done and doing the right thing for the people of Michigan. So thank you.
The following bill was read a third time:
Senate Bill No. 1047, entitled
A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” by amending sections 1, 1a, and 9e of chapter IV (MCL 764.1, 764.1a, and 764.9e), section 1 of chapter IV as amended by 2014 PA 389 and section 1a of chapter IV as amended by 2012 PA 177, and by adding section 10d to chapter II, sections 3 and 6f to chapter IV, and section 6e to chapter V.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows: