Crimes: penalties; threats or assaults against department of health and human services designated caregivers; prohibit, and provide penalties. Amends 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.1 - 750.568) by adding sec. 81f. TIE BAR WITH: HB 5685'26

This bill would add new protections for designated caregivers in Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services by creating specific criminal penalties for threats, intimidation, harassment, and physical assaults against them. It directly affects foster parents, kinship caregivers, fictive kin, and adoptive parents of children formerly in foster care, whether or not they receive payment for their care. The legislation establishes misdemeanor charges for threats, intimidation, or harassment, while creating felony charges for physical assaults that cause injury, with harsher penalties for serious bodily harm. The bill also clarifies legal definitions for harassment and intimidation while ensuring that convictions under this law do not prevent additional charges under other applicable laws.