The question being on concurring in the committee recommendation to give the bill immediate effect,
The recommendation was concurred in, 2/3 of the members serving voting therefor.
The Senate agreed to the title of the bill.
Senator Santana asked and was granted unanimous consent to make a statement and moved that the statement be printed in the Journal.
The motion prevailed.
Senator Santana’s statement is as follows:
I also will agree with my colleague who took the opportunity to speak up on this issue. Over the past few years we have seen where, through driver responsibility fees, people have paid the price for driving under the influence and we have made them pay for that. In addition to that, because they were not able to get their driver’s license back, they were not able to have the upper mobility to have job opportunities. And so while I agree with my colleague and have taken the liberty to do the studies through the Criminal Justice Policy Commission to see where people who have DUIs are being penalized when they receive a DUI and that becomes a part of a habitual offense for their records, I would like to partner with you on working through this process to make sure that we are continuing to work on these issues to make sure that we’re giving people the opportunity to be redeemed and actually move on with their lives. I think that is very important. So as the Pretrial Incarceration Task Force package comes up, I hope that you all will support that as well because that is the next issue that we were planning on tackling through this process. So I look forward to working with the Senator from the Upper Peninsula and I hope that all my colleagues will also join me in working on making sure that we can move Michigan forward and move its people forward.
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 4981, entitled
A bill to amend 1965 PA 213, entitled “An act to provide for setting aside the conviction in certain criminal cases; to provide for the effect of such action; to provide for the retention of certain nonpublic records and their use; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain public agencies and officers; and to prescribe penalties,” (MCL 780.621 to 780.624) by adding section 1c.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows: