July 12, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Brinks, LaGrand, Green, Sabo, Camilleri, Elder, Chang, Hammoud, Gay-Dagnogo, Geiss and Sneller 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 495.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 495. (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 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 webpage. In developing selection
criteria, the department shall do both of the following:
(a) Give preference to lower income young adults, minorities,
and women 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 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.
(5) For the state fiscal year ending September 30, 2017,
$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) As used in this section, "unit of local government" means
a county, city, village, or township with a population of 80,000 or
more.