2025 House Bill 4256

Criminal procedure: sentencing guidelines; sentencing guidelines for delivering, manufacturing, or possessing with intent to deliver certain controlled substances; amend.

A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” by amending section 13m of chapter XVII (MCL 777.13m), as amended by 2016 PA 549.

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House Bills 4255 and 4256 amends the Public Health Code to impose stricter penalties for offenses involving controlled substances, particularly heroin, fentanyl, and carfentanil, including life imprisonment without parole for certain violations, and introduces new sections to address the delivery of these substances to minors and misrepresentation in sales.

Introduced in the House

March 18, 2025

Introduced by Rep. Ann Bollin (R-49) and 21 co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Alicia St. Germaine (R-62), David Prestin (R-108), Jamie Thompson (R-28), Angela Rigas (R-79), Greg Markkanen (R-110), Karl Bohnak (R-109), Kathy Schmaltz (R-46), Mike Hoadley (R-99), Joseph Fox (R-101), Timothy Beson (R-96), Jason Woolford (R-50), Tom Kunse (R-100), Bill Schuette (R-95), Joseph Pavlov (R-64), Ken Borton (R-105), Nancy Jenkins-Arno (R-34), Sarah Lightner (R-45), Jerry Neyer (R-92), William Bruck (R-30), Gina Johnsen (R-78) and Jaime Greene (R-65)

Referred to the Committee on Judiciary

April 16, 2025

Reported without amendment

April 23, 2025

Passed in the House 65 to 41 (details)

Motion to give immediate effect by Rep. Bryan Posthumus (R-90)

The motion prevailed by voice vote