SB-0968, As Passed Senate, January 23, 2008

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 968

     A bill to authorize local units of government to fingerprint

certain individuals for the purpose of receiving criminal history

record information from the department of state police or other law

enforcement consortium and the federal bureau of investigation; to

prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments and

officers; and to provide for the collection of fees.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 1. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the

contrary, a local unit of government may by ordinance require the

fingerprinting of door-to-door solicitors, taxicab drivers or other

drivers for hire, or street vendors or other transient merchants

for the purpose of obtaining criminal history record information on

those individuals. Fingerprints obtained pursuant to this act may

be submitted by the local unit of government to the department of

state police or other public law enforcement consortium for a state

criminal history record check and to the federal bureau of

investigation for a national criminal history record check.

     (2) The department of state police or other public law

enforcement consortium shall serve as the sole source for receiving

fingerprint submissions from local units of government and for

receiving the responses to those fingerprint submissions from the

federal bureau of investigation. The criminal history record

information obtained by the department of state police or other

public law enforcement consortium shall be disseminated to the

local unit of government.

     (3) A local unit of government may charge an individual the

appropriate fees for the state and national criminal history record

check. The appropriate fees for a state and national criminal

history record check shall be transmitted by the local unit of

government to the department of state police or other public law

enforcement consortium.

     (4) As used in this act:

     (a) "Criminal history record information" means that term as

defined in section 1a of 1925 PA 289, MCL 28.241a.

     (b) "Local unit of government" means a county, city, village,

township, or charter township.

     Enacting section 1. This act takes effect January 1, 2009.