Bill Text: MI HB4423 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Law enforcement; funds; sheriff patrol assistance to distressed counties grants; establish. Creates new act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-13 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [HB4423 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4423-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4423
March 28, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Lower, VerHeulen, Webber, Glenn, Wentworth, Crawford, Hoitenga, Graves, Sheppard, Frederick, Kahle, Chirkun, Hauck, Sabo, Green, Albert, Howell, Lucido, Runestad, LaFave, Rendon, Marino, Hughes, Bellino, Sneller and Faris and referred to the Committee on Local Government.
A bill to create the sheriff patrol assistance for financially
distressed communities program act; to describe the sheriff patrol
assistance for financially distressed communities program; and to
provide for certain grants.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
"sheriff patrol assistance for financially distressed communities
program act".
Sec. 3. As used in this act:
(a) "County" means a county in this state that has had a total
force reduction of not less than 5 sheriff's deputies between 2007
and 2017 as a result of financial constraints.
(b) "Department" means the department of treasury.
(c) "Full-time sheriff's deputy" means a law enforcement
officer licensed under the Michigan commission on law enforcement
standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 to 28.615, who is employed
by a county sheriff department as a law enforcement officer.
(d) "Program" means the sheriff patrol assistance for
financially distressed communities program created in section 5.
(e) "Uniform services" means the regular duties performed by a
law enforcement officer, including, but not limited to, road
patrol, crime investigation, crime prevention, and keeping the
peace.
Sec. 5. (1) Subject to appropriation, the sheriff patrol
assistance for financially distressed communities program is
created within the department. The department shall administer
grants from the program to counties. The grants provided to
counties under this section must be used to fund no more than 4
full-time sheriff's deputy positions in the county's sheriff
department. Grants awarded under the program created under this
section are in addition to, and not in replacement of, any other
state funding received by a county sheriff department.
(2) To receive a grant under this section, a county shall
apply to the department in the form and manner prescribed by the
department. As part of its application under this subsection, a
county shall provide the department documentation supporting its
eligibility. The department shall publish on its website the
acceptable types of documentation a county must submit with its
application. The department shall approve the application of a
county that meets the eligibility requirements under this
subsection and that has agreed to enter a shared service agreement
to provide uniform services through the county's sheriff department
to cities, villages, and townships within the county with an
agreed-upon reimbursement rate for those uniform services.
(3) If the department approves a county's application under
subsection (2), the department shall provide grant payments to the
county to fund not more than 4 full-time sheriff's deputies at the
reimbursement rate agreed upon under subsection (2).
(4) Grant fund payments under this section must be paid on a
monthly schedule under an agreement between the county and the
department.
(5) Grant funding provided to a county under subsection (3) is
for a period of 3 years. A county may reapply for grant funding as
provided in this section after 3 years have elapsed from the date
the county was last provided grant funding under this act.
Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the
date it is enacted into law.
