2011 Senate Bill 188 / Public Act 17

Revise certain sex offender registry details

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 22, 2011

Introduced by Sen. Rick Jones (R-24)

To create categories of offense within the state sex offender registry based on seriousness, with less serious ones imposing less stringent ongoing reporting requirements and also allowing offenders to come off the list after 15 or 25 years; and make other detail changes to this law and its requirements. In general, the thrust of the bill is to exclude or impose less rigorous reporting requirements on certain youthful offenders if the victim was not more than four years younger but still age 13 or more and depending on the seriousness of the offense (so cslled “Romeo and Juliet” offences).

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary

March 9, 2011

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S­3) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

March 10, 2011

Substitute offered

To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance as previously described.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 36 to 0 (details)

Received in the House

March 10, 2011

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary

March 17, 2011

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the amendments be adopted and that the bill then pass.

March 22, 2011

Amendment offered

To clarify some procedures related to assigning a person to the sex offender registry and appeals to the assignment, and add certain crime circumstances to the assignment considerations.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. John Walsh (R-19)

To revise details of which crimes involving certain "Romeo and Juliet" conditions are included in the intermediate "tier 2" level of registration.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Douglas Geiss (D-22)

To impose "school safety zone" prohibitions on individuals in the proposed "tier 2" level of sexual registration, with exceptions similar to those proposed by House Bill 4355 (giving a school the option to waive the ban if the person is a student or the parent of a child in the school).

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Douglas Geiss (D-22)

To authorize an exception to prohibition of a person on the state sex offender registration registry coming within 1,000 feet of a school if the person lived there before this "safety zone" law went into effect in 2006.

The amendment failed by voice vote

March 23, 2011

Amendment offered by Rep. John Walsh (R-19)

To revise details of which crimes involving certain "Romeo and Juliet" conditions are included in the most stringent "tier 3" level of registration.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 103 to 6 (details)

To create categories of offense within the state sex offender registry based on seriousness, with less serious ones imposing less stringent ongoing reporting requirements and also allowing offenders to come off the list after 15 or 25 years; and make other detail changes to this law and its requirements. In general, the thrust of the bill is to exclude or impose less rigorous reporting requirements on certain youthful offenders if the victim was not more than four years younger but still age 13 or more and depending on the seriousness of the offense (so cslled “Romeo and Juliet” offences).

Received in the Senate

March 24, 2011

Amendment offered by Sen. Rick Jones (R-24)

To clarify a statutory reference in the bill.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 35 to 0 (details)

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.

Received in the House

March 24, 2011

Passed in the House 104 to 6 (details)

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill.

In the Senate

March 24, 2011

Motion to reconsider

The vote by which the House amendments were concurred in.

The motion passed by voice vote

Received

Passed in the Senate 36 to 0 (details)

To vote again on final passage, after adopting a technical correction in the bill's wording.

Signed by Gov. Rick Snyder

April 12, 2011