2025 House Bill 4661

A bill to establish a crime victim communication modernization grant program to provide grants to certain state and local governmental officers to modernize communication with victims of crime and other individuals; to create the crime victim communication modernization fund and provide for the distribution of money from the fund; to provide for appropriations; and to provide for the powers and duties of certain state and local governmental officers and entities.

AI Analysis – Experimental

House Bills 4661 and 4662 creates a $7 million grant program and fund to help Michigan state and local agencies modernize and standardize communication with crime victims, emphasizing automated, multilingual, and secure notifications, with implementation and reporting requirements tied to existing victims' rights laws.

Introduced in the House

June 17, 2025

Introduced by Rep. Curtis VanderWall (R-102) and 18 co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Erin Byrnes (D-15), Emily Dievendorf (D-77), Julie Rogers (D-41), Penelope Tsernoglou (D-75), Betsy Coffia (D-103), Regina Weiss (D-5), Reggie Miller (D-31), Carol Glanville (D-84), Laurie Pohutsky (D-17), Morgan Foreman (D-33), Jennifer Conlin (D-48), Natalie Price (D-6), Jason Hoskins (D-18), Matt Longjohn (D-40), David Prestin (R-108), John Roth (R-104), Mike Harris (R-52) and Jason Morgan (D-23)

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations