HOUSE BILL No. 4870

September 16, 2015, Introduced by Reps. Runestad, Johnson, Chatfield, Rendon, Santana, Chirkun, Barrett, Glenn and Robinson and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice.

 

     A bill to prohibit certain acts by certain state and local

 

governmental officers and entities at voluntary checkpoints and

 

stops under certain circumstances.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the

 

"voluntary motor vehicle checkpoint act".

 

     Sec. 2. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Human sample" means a cheek swab, blood or urine sample,

 

saliva, hair, or any other body fluid or exemplar from which the

 

DNA of a donor may be derived and identified and for which a law

 

enforcement officer would be required to seek a court order to

 

obtain.

 

     (b) "Law enforcement agency" means the department of state

 

police, the department of natural resources, or a law enforcement

 


agency of a county, township, city, village, airport authority,

 

community college, or university, that is responsible for the

 

prevention and detection of crime and enforcement of the criminal

 

laws of this state.

 

    (c) "Law enforcement officer" means all of the following:

 

    (i) A person who is trained and certified under the commission

 

on law enforcement standards act, 1965 PA 203, MCL 28.601 to

 

28.616.

 

     (ii) A local corrections officer as defined in section 2 of

 

the local corrections officers training act, 2003 PA 125, MCL

 

791.532.

 

     (iii) An emergency dispatch worker employed by a law

 

enforcement agency.

 

     Sec. 3. (1) A law enforcement agency shall not allow its law

 

enforcement officers to participate in, lend assistance to, or be

 

present in any official capacity at a voluntary motor vehicle

 

checkpoint or stop conducted by a private company or research group

 

to collect human samples from consenting drivers who are stopped at

 

the checkpoint for research or statistical purposes.

 

     (2) This prohibition applies whether or not a motor vehicle

 

checkpoint is operated with funds from a federal grant or under a

 

contract with a federal agency or whether or not the drivers

 

consenting to providing a human sample are compensated.

 

     Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the

 

date it is enacted into law.