Bill Text: MI SB0502 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: State financing and management; funds; police recruit scholarship match fund; create. Amends 1984 PA 431 (MCL 18.1101 - 18.1594) by adding sec. 496.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-09-10 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB0502 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB0502-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL NO. 502
September 10, 2019, Introduced by Senators
BRINKS, HERTEL, MCCANN, GEISS, WOJNO, BULLOCK, BAYER, ALEXANDER, CHANG,
MOSS and HOLLIER and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled
"The management and budget act,"
(MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594) by adding section 496.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 496. (1) The department shall create a police recruit scholarship grant program to assist units of local government in training police recruits in this state.
(2) Grants shall be made only if matched on a 1-to-1 basis with funds made available by the unit of local government. Grants to a single unit of local government shall not exceed $50,000.00 in a fiscal year.
(3) Grants under the police recruit scholarship grant program shall be used by units of local government to recruit and train police recruits pursuant to the strategic personnel hiring and retention plan described in subsection (4).
(4) The department shall create an application process, selection criteria, and a grant dispersal process and post the application process, selection criteria, and grant dispersal process on the department's website. In developing selection criteria, the department shall do both of the following:
(a) Give preference to qualified demographic groups who reside in or near the unit of local government as determined by the department.
(b) Provide that for a unit of local government to be eligible for the police recruit scholarship program, the unit of local government shall create a strategic personnel hiring and retention plan that is designed to improve the ability of its police force to better reflect the economic, racial, and ethnic makeup of the residents of the unit of local government.
(c) Provide that for a unit of local government to be eligible for the police recruit scholarship grant program, the unit of local government require a police recruit trained under the police recruit scholarship to maintain employment with that unit of local government for a certain period of time or to repay that unit of local government a certain percentage of the costs to train that police recruit, as determined by the unit of local government. If a police recruit trained under the police recruit scholarship was laid off or terminated by a unit of local government, that unit of local government shall not collect any repayment of the training costs for that police recruit.
(d) Require each unit of local government that receives a grant under this section to report the following to the department:
(i) How many police recruits have been trained and hired by the unit of local government with grant proceeds.
(ii) The number of individuals who are members of a qualified demographic group trained who are employed as police officers by the unit of local government, before and after receiving a grant under this section.
(iii) A statement from the unit of local government on how the grant program has made the police department of that unit of local government more diverse in terms of qualified demographic groups.
(5) For the state fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, $500,000.00 from the general fund is appropriated to the department to be used to create and operate the police recruit scholarship grant program created in this section.
(6) Each year, the director shall submit a report to the governor and each house of the legislature and publish a copy of the report on its internet website. The report shall contain all of the following:
(a) The name of the unit of local government that received a grant under this act.
(b) The number of police recruits trained by each unit of local government that received a grant under this act.
(c) The number of individuals who are members of a qualified demographic group employed by the units of local government that received a grant under this act.
(d) The number of applicants who applied to the unit of local government for funds under this section.
(7) As used in this section:
(a) "Qualified demographic group" means women, minorities, and historically underrepresented groups within or near the unit of local government as determined by the department.
(b) "Unit of local government" means a city, village, or township with a population of 80,000 or more.
