CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS S.B. 968: COMMITTEE SUMMARY
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Senate Bill 968 (as introduced 12-6-07)
Sponsor: Senator Wayne Kuipers
Committee: Judiciary
Date Completed: 12-10-07
CONTENT
The bill would create a new act to allow a local unit of government (a county, city, village, township, or charter township) to require, by ordinance, the fingerprinting of any of the following for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information on them:
-- Door-to-door solicitors.
-- Taxicab drivers or other drivers for hire.
-- Street vendors or other transient merchants.
The local unit could submit the fingerprints to the Michigan Department of State Police (MSP) for a State criminal history record check and, if necessary, to the FBI for a national criminal history record check. The MSP would serve as the sole source for receiving fingerprint submissions from local units and for receiving the responses to those submissions from the FBI. The MSP would have to disseminate the criminal history record check information to the local unit.
The local unit would have to transmit to the MSP the appropriate fees for a State and national criminal history record check.
Legislative Analyst: Patrick Affholter
FISCAL IMPACT
The bill would have an indeterminate 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 require a local unit of government to pay 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 devise a method in which to require the occupational groups in question to fund the cost of the criminal history checks.
Fiscal Analyst: Bruce Baker
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