PUBLIC ACT 253 of 1996 (S.B.700)
 
   Section 1.  Section 2 of Act No. 150 of the Public Acts of 1974, as amended 
by Act No. 76 of the Public Acts of 1988, being section 803.302 of the 
                                                                 
 
                                                                                 
Michigan Compiled Laws, is amended to read as follows: 
 
   Sec. 2. As sued in this act: 
 
   (a) "Department" means the family independence agency. 
 
   (b) "State ward" means either of the following: 
 
   (i) A person accepted for care by the department who is at least 12 years of  
age at the time committed to the department by the juvenile division of a 
probate court under section 18(1)(e) of chapter XIIA of Act No. 288 of the 
Public Acts of 1939, being section 712A.18 of the Michigan Complied Laws, if the 
court acquired jurisdiction over the person under section 2(a) of (d) of chapter 
XIIA of Act No. 288 of the Public Acts of 1939, being section 712A.2 of the 
Michigan Compiled Laws, and if the act for which the youth is committed occurred 
before his or her seventeenth birthday. 
 
   (ii) A person accepted for care by the department who is at least 14 years of 
age at the time committed to the department by the court of general criminal 
jurisdiction under section 1 of chapter IX of the code of criminal procedure, 
Act No. 175 of the Public Acts of 1927, being section 769.1 of the Michigan 
Compiled Laws, if the act for which the youth is committed occurred before his 
                                                                 
 
                                                                                 
or her seventeenth birthday. 
 
   Section 2.  This amendatory act shall take effect January 1, 1997. 
 
   Section 3.  This amendatory act shall not take effect unless all of the 
following bills of the 88th Legislature are enacted into law: 
 
   (a) Senate Bill No. 281. 
 
   (b) Senate Bill No. 283. 
 
   (c) Senate Bill No. 682. 
 
   (d) Senate Bill No. 689. 
 
   (e) Senate Bill No. 699. 
 
   (f) Senate Bill No. 724. 
 
   (g) Senate Bill No. 867. 
                                                                 
 
                                                                                 
   (h) Senate Bill No. 870. 
 
   (i) House Bill No. 4037. 
 
   (j) House Bill No. 4038. 
 
   (k) House Bill No. 4044. 
 
   (l) House Bill No. 4371. 
 
   (m) House Bill No. 4445. 
 
   (n) House Bill No. 4486. 
 
   (o) House Bill No. 4487. 
 
   (p) House Bill No. 4490. 
 
   This act is ordered to take immediate effect.