Bill Text: MI HB5448 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Law enforcement; communications; urgent and immediate threat alerts sent to residents through various types of technology including on cellular telephones; provide for. Creates new act.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-15 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/10/2016 [HB5448 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB5448-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5448
March 10, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Hoadley, Iden, Maturen, Plawecki, Rutledge, Schor, Brinks, Lane, Faris, Townsend, Geiss, Love, Hovey-Wright, Dianda, LaVoy, Irwin, Pagan, Moss, Gay-Dagnogo, Byrd, Brunner, Smiley, Neeley, Chang, Garrett, Phelps, Greimel, Singh, Guerra, Kivela, Santana, Vaupel, Chirkun, Wittenberg, Greig, Driskell, Sarah Roberts and Zemke and referred to the Committee on Communications and Technology.
A bill to prescribe the urgent and immediate threat to public
safety notification system as the official response to situations
creating urgent and immediate threats to public safety in this
state; to provide for the powers and duties of state and local
governmental officers and authorities; to prohibit certain conduct;
to create the urgent and immediate threat to public safety
notification system fund; to provide for the distribution of the
money from the urgent and immediate threat to public safety
notification system fund; and to prescribe penalties.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
"urgent and immediate threat to public safety notification act".
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Department" means the department of state police.
(b) "Fund" means the urgent and immediate threat to public
safety notification system fund created in section 5.
(c) "Urgent and immediate threat to public safety" includes,
but is not limited to, an act of terrorism, an unresolved mass
shooting, or an unresolved mass shooting spree.
Sec. 3. (1) The department shall establish and maintain the
urgent and immediate threat to public safety notification system
plan.
(2) The urgent and immediate threat to public safety
notification system plan shall be designed to rapidly disseminate
imminent emergency and public safety related information in a
predetermined manner to the public by various means, including, but
not limited to, telephone, cellular telephone, wireless 2-way
communication device, dual party relay service or
telecommunications device, text messaging, electronic mail, and
facsimile, and to radio and television stations, and to be
integrated with federal emergency messaging systems.
(3) The urgent and immediate threat to public safety
notification system plan shall be activated only in accordance with
the policies established by the department.
Sec. 4. (1) A person shall not intentionally make a false
report of an urgent and immediate threat to public safety, or
intentionally cause a false report of an urgent and immediate
threat to public safety to be made, to a peace officer, police
agency of this state or of a local unit of government, 9-1-1
operator, or any other governmental employee or contractor or
employee of a contractor who is authorized to receive the report,
knowing that the report is false. A person who violates this
section is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not
more than 4 years or a fine of not more than $2,000.00, or both.
(2) The court may order a person convicted under this section
to pay to the state or a local unit of government and the media the
costs of responding to the false report or threat, including, but
not limited to, use of police or fire emergency response vehicles
and teams, pursuant to section 1f of chapter IX of the code of
criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 769.1f.
Sec. 5. (1) The urgent and immediate threat to public safety
notification system fund is created in the state treasury.
(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from
any source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall
direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit
to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.
(3) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall
remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general fund.
(4) The department shall be the administrator of the fund for
auditing purposes.
(5) The department shall expend money from the fund, upon
appropriation, solely for the purposes described in this act.
Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the
date it is enacted into law.
