Bill Text: MI SB0364 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Law enforcement; other; law enforcement technology, active shooter, and officer safety act; create. Creates new act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-04 - Referred To Committee On Judiciary [SB0364 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0364-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 364
May 4, 2017, Introduced by Senators CONYERS, HERTEL, GREGORY, JOHNSON, JONES and NOFS and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to create the law enforcement technology, active
shooter, and officer safety act; to create the law enforcement
technology, active shooter, and officer safety fund; to provide for
use of the fund; and to provide for the powers and duties of
certain state and local governmental officers and entities.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "law
enforcement technology, active shooter, and officer safety act".
Sec. 3. As used in this act:
(a) "Department" means the department of state police.
(b) "Law enforcement technology" means acoustic technological
devices that have been demonstrated to successfully detect and
prevent terrorist acts and active shooter situations and that
triangulate the geographic location of a gunshot. Law enforcement
technology includes acoustic gunshot detection technology that has
the capacity to precisely differentiate between ambient urban noise
and the explosive noise from a gunshot. Law enforcement technology
also provides law enforcement officers live access to the audio and
the geographic location of a detected gunshot and the number of
gunshots fired, allows for real time 24-hour monitoring by law
enforcement officers and a mobile application for use by law
enforcement officers, and provides for the measurement of gunshot
statistics on a year-to-year basis.
(c) "Law enforcement technology, active shooter, and officer
safety fund" or "fund" means the law enforcement technology, active
shooter, and officer safety fund created in section 5.
(d) "Law enforcement technology, active shooter, and officer
safety program" or "program" means the law enforcement technology,
active shooter, and officer safety program created in section 7.
(e) "Local unit of government" means a village, city,
township, county, or public safety department.
(f) "Private entity" means a nonpublic and nongovernmental
organization or business.
(g) "Public safety department" means a public safety
department established by a community college under section 1606b
of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1606b, or a public
university under 1990 PA 120, MCL 390.1511 to 390.1514, or a
private security force established by a private college under the
private security business and security alarm act, 1968 PA 330, MCL
338.1051 to 338.1092.
Sec. 5. (1) The law enforcement technology, active shooter,
and officer safety fund is created within the state treasury.
(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from
any source for deposit into the fund, including general fund
appropriations, gifts, state and federal grants, and bequests. 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 must
remain in the fund and not lapse to the general fund.
(4) The department is the administrator of the fund for
auditing purposes.
(5) The department shall expend money from the fund, upon
appropriation, only for the following purposes:
(a) To provide grants to local units of government as provided
in section 7.
(b) To carry out its duties under this act.
Sec. 7. (1) The law enforcement technology, active shooter,
and officer safety program is created in the department. The
program must assist local units of government in implementing law
enforcement technology by providing any necessary funding from the
fund to install and implement law enforcement technology within the
local unit of government.
(2) A local unit of government may apply to the department as
provided in this section to participate in the program.
(3) A local unit of government that applies to participate in
the program shall provide the department with a written plan for
the installation and implementation of law enforcement technology
within the geographic area of the local unit of government or
served by the local unit of government. A plan provided under this
subsection must include both of the following:
(a) Any agreement made between the local unit of government
and a private entity for the installation and implementation of law
enforcement technology.
(b) A recommendation from the appropriate local law
enforcement agency regarding the most beneficial and efficient
geographic locations for the use of law enforcement technology
within the geographic area of the local unit of government or
served by the local unit of government.
(4) The department shall approve the application of a local
unit of government that provides a plan meeting the criteria listed
under subsection (3).
(5) A grant awarded to a local unit of government under this
section is for a period of 1 year. A local unit of government may
reapply for a grant under this section every 2 years.
(6) A local unit of government awarded a grant under this
section shall only use the grant funds for the following purposes:
(a) The installation and implementation of law enforcement
technology.
(b) Training on the use of law enforcement technology for law
enforcement officers and any other appropriate individuals working
within the local unit of government.
(c) To reimburse a private entity that has expended funds by
partnering with a local unit of government to install and implement
law enforcement technology within the geographic area of the local
unit of government or served by the local unit of government.
Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the
date it is enacted into law.
