LOCAL FINGERPRINTING: CRIMINAL HISTORY S.B. 968 (S-3): FLOOR ANALYSIS
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Senate Bill 968 (Substitute S-3 as reported)
Sponsor: Senator Wayne Kuipers
Committee: Judiciary
CONTENT
The bill would create a new act, effective January 1, 2009, to allow a local unit of government (a county, city, village, township, or charter township) to require, by ordinance, the fingerprinting of door-to-door solicitors, taxicab drivers or other drivers for hire, and street vendors or other transient merchants for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information on them.
The local unit could submit the fingerprints to the Michigan Department of State Police (MSP) or other public law enforcement consortium for a State criminal history record check and to the FBI for a national criminal history record check. The MSP or public law enforcement consortium would serve as the sole source for receiving fingerprint submissions from local units and for receiving the responses from the FBI. The MSP or consortium would have to disseminate the criminal history record check information to the local unit.
A local unit could charge an individual the appropriate fees for the criminal history check, and would have to transmit the appropriate fees to the MSP or public law enforcement consortium.
Legislative Analyst: Suzanne Lowe
FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would have a minimal fiscal impact on local government. The fee for the processing of a criminal history record from the Department of State Police is $54. While the bill would allow a local unit of government to charge an individual for this cost, it is not known at this time how many checks would be made, how many local units would choose to enact an ordinance allowing such checks, or whether a local unit would require the occupational groups in question to fund the cost of the criminal history checks.
Date Completed: 12-12-07 Fiscal Analyst: Bruce Baker
floor\sb968 Analysis available @ http://www.michiganlegislature.org
This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.
Analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent. sb968/0708