Signed by Governor Rick Snyder

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates supplemental funds for fiscal year 2017-2018, including a statewide rape kit tracking database.

Highlights:

• Appropriates $4 million for a uniform statewide sexual assault evidence kit tracking system (Sec. 157).

• Establishes the sexual assault evidence tracking fund within the Department of Treasury and specifies that $3.2 million of funds appropriated shall be deposited in such fund (Sec. 1451).

• Requires the commission on law enforcement standards to allocate $20,000 of funds appropriated for standards and training to internet-based training seminars on the uniform statewide sexual assault evidence kit tracking system (Sec. 1703).

• Appropriates $700,000 for genomic opioid research (Sec. 157).

• Specifies that funds appropriated for genomic opioid research shall be released to a community mental health program in a county with a population between 245,000 and 255,000 (Sec. 1408).

• Authorizes the Attorney General to spend $2.6 million from the lawsuit settlement proceeds fund for costs related to declaration of emergency due to drinking water contamination (Secs. 302 & 1331).

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