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2006 House Bill 5675 (Revise convicted school employee list requirements) (Senate Roll Call 230)

Passed in the Senate (36 to 0) on March 30, 2006, to adopt a compromise version of the bill reported by a House-Senate conference committee. This would give schools information on all convictions of current employees, including those for very minor offences, but only require them to release information on serious offences that under the law requires the employee to be fired. Aggregate data on all school employee offences but without names attached would be available from the state. [History, Amendments & Comments]

The vote was 36 in favor, 0 opposed, and 2 not voting
(Senate Roll Call 230 at Senate Journal 33)

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22 total votes
Legislators (Democrat)
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16 total votes

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The following legislators supported 2006 House Bill 5675 (Revise convicted school employee list requirements):

Allen (R) Barcia (D) Basham (D) Birkholz (R) Bishop (R) Brater (D)
Brown (R) Cassis (R) Cherry (D) Clark-Coleman (D) Clarke (D) Cropsey (R)
Emerson (D) Garcia (R) George (R) Gilbert (R) Goschka (R) Hammerstrom (R)
Hardiman (R) Jacobs (D) Jelinek (R) Johnson (R) Kuipers (R) Leland (D)
McManus (R) Olshove (D) Patterson (R) Prusi (D) Sanborn (R) Schauer (D)
Scott (D) Sikkema (R) Stamas (R) Switalski (D) Van Woerkom (R) Whitmer (D)

The following legislators opposed 2006 House Bill 5675 (Revise convicted school employee list requirements):

The following legislators did not vote on 2006 House Bill 5675 (Revise convicted school employee list requirements):

Thomas (D) Toy (R)

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1) Save it. They warn you in pre education classes to keep your nose clean. [by Anonymous Citizen on November 19, 2006]
No mercy.
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2) sfaggion [by Anonymous Citizen on November 19, 2006]
20 years ago I made a huge mistake involving drugs. I was convicted for my crimes and paid for my mistake. My life and my record has been spotless since 1987 and prior to 1987. I have been working in the schools for 14 years and with children everyday. I think children are our most precious gift and love to work with them. I was fired in October 2006 because of this mistake I made 20 years ago. This is wrong. People make mistakes and they learn from them. My crime was not against children and yet I have lost my job because of it. I have tried to prove myself worthy of this job and think it is totally unfair that after working so hard for the last 15 years in the schools that I must pay again. Not all felons are criminals. Children are not endangered when around a person such as myself. It is the children who suffer when we as a state and country pretend that mistakes are not made and crimes not committed. We learn from these mistakes. That's what life is about - learning.
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3) first things first [by crazycajun on May 11, 2006]
FIRST...

lets get an accurate list to see who did and who did not get convicted of a crime.

THEN...

lets take care of the other problems...

btw...

some of the best lessons i ever learned have been from convicted felons. they weren't trying to indoctrinate me into their political party.
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