Individuals who use a fake license to get a job face stiffer fines under a bill pending in the state legislature. On Tuesday the state Senate passed Senate Bill 97. Republican State Senator Al Novstrup says this bill rides piggyback on past legislation.
"Five years ago, this legislature passed a bill, to make it illegal to buy a false degree. In other words, the mill degree industry was being regulated by us. And the attempt was to make a real degree have value and to punish those people that would buy a degree for any particular profession," State Senator Novstrup says.
Novstrup says this current legislation helps modernize current law. Senate Bill 97 penalizes a person with a first class misdemeanor for obtaining a fake license for a profession. It passed the Senate unanimously and it goes next to the House.
