SENATE BILL No. 540

 

 

May 6, 2009, Introduced by Senators JELINEK and SWITALSKI and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1972 PA 222, entitled

 

"An act to provide for an official personal identification card; to

provide for its form, issuance and use; to regulate the use and

disclosure of information obtained from the card; to prescribe the

powers and duties of the secretary of state; to prescribe fees; to

prescribe certain penalties for violations; and to provide an

appropriation for certain purposes,"

 

by amending section 7 (MCL 28.297), as amended by 2005 PA 172.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 7. (1) The secretary of state may provide a commercial

 

look-up service of records maintained under this act. For each

 

individual record looked up, the secretary of state shall charge a

 

fee specified annually by the legislature, or if the legislature

 

does not specify a fee, a market-based price established by the

 

secretary of state. The secretary of state shall process a

 

commercial look-up request only if the request is in a form or

 

format as prescribed by the secretary of state. Fees collected


 

under this subsection on and after October 1, 2005 through

 

September 30, 2009 shall be credited to the transportation

 

administration collection fund created in section 810b of the

 

Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.810b. Beginning October

 

1, 2009, fees collected under this subsection shall be credited to

 

the department of state operations fund established under section

 

810b of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.810b.

 

     (2) The secretary of state shall establish and maintain a

 

computerized central file of the information contained on

 

application forms received under this act. The computerized central

 

file shall be interfaced with the law enforcement information

 

network as provided in the L.E.I.N. C.J.I.S. policy council act, of

 

1974, 1974 PA 163, MCL 28.211 to 28.216 28.215.

 

     (3) Except as provided in section 10(2), the secretary of

 

state shall not provide an entire computerized central file or

 

other file of records maintained under this act to a

 

nongovernmental person or entity, unless the purchaser pays the

 

prescribed fee for each individual record contained within the

 

computerized file.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No. 494 of the 95th Legislature is enacted into

 

law.