HOUSE BILL No. 6009

 

April 24, 2008, Introduced by Reps. Opsommer, Nitz, Ball, LaJoy and Brown and referred to the Committee on Energy and Technology.

 

     A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled

 

"The management and budget act,"

 

by amending sections 112, 115, 213, 305, and 404 (MCL 18.1112,

 

18.1115, 18.1213, 18.1305, and 18.1404), sections 115, 305, and 404

 

as amended by 1999 PA 8 and section 213 as amended by 2006 PA 269,

 

and by adding sections 241c and 255.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 112. (1) "Alternative energy vehicle" means an

 

alternative energy vehicle as defined under section 2 of the

 

Michigan next energy authority act, 2002 PA 593, MCL 207.822.

 

     (2) (1) "Appropriation" means the legislative authorization

 

for expenditure or obligation of money from a state operating fund.

 

     (3) (2) "Appropriations committees" means the appropriations

 

committee of the senate and the appropriations committee of the

 


house of representatives.

 

     (4) (3) "Board" means the state administrative board.

 

     (5) (4) "Budget act" means an act containing appropriations

 

which that form a portion of the state's annual budget.

 

     Sec. 115. (1) "Institution of higher education" means a state

 

supported 4-year college or university.

 

     (2) "JCOS" means the joint capital outlay subcommittee of the

 

appropriations committees.

 

     (3) "LEED" means the leadership in energy and environmental

 

design green building rating system developed by the United States

 

green building council.

 

     (4) (3) Except as used in sections 284 to 292, "record" means

 

a public record as defined in section 2 of the freedom of

 

information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.232.

 

     (5) (4) "State agency" means a department, board, commission,

 

office, agency, authority, or other unit of state government. State

 

agency does not include an institution of higher education or a

 

community college or, for purposes of article 2 or 3, the

 

legislative branch of government. For purposes of article 2 or 3,

 

except for those sections pertaining to the authorization,

 

planning, construction, and funding of a capital outlay project,

 

including construction of a facility to house offices or functions

 

necessary for operation of the judicial branch of government, state

 

agency does not include the judicial branch of government.

 

     (6) (5) "Unit of local government" means a political

 

subdivision of this state, including school districts, community

 

college districts, intermediate school districts, cities, villages,

 


townships, counties, and authorities, if the political subdivision

 

has as its primary purpose the providing of local governmental

 

service for citizens in a geographically limited area of the state

 

and has the power to act primarily on behalf of that area.

 

     Sec. 213. (1) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Fund" means the motor transport revolving fund created in

 

subsection (4) (6).

 

     (b) "Motor vehicle" means a passenger vehicle, van, minibus,

 

bus, truck, tractor, or other motorized vehicle.

 

     (2) The department may issue directives relative to all the

 

following for motor vehicles except for those motor vehicles under

 

the jurisdiction of the state transportation department:

 

     (a) The purchasing, leasing, maintaining, operating,

 

replacing, and disposing of motor vehicles for all state agencies.

 

     (b) The using use of state owned motor vehicles for official

 

business.

 

     (c) The establishing of conditions for use of privately owned

 

motor vehicles on official business.

 

     (d) The acquiring of vehicle registration plates.

 

     (e) The maintaining of motor vehicle titles and insurance

 

inventories.

 

     (f) The assigning of motor vehicles, permanently or

 

temporarily, to state agencies and to institutions of higher

 

education.

 

     (g) The establishing of rates to be charged for use of a motor

 

vehicle. The rates shall be reviewed periodically and shall be

 

sufficient to cover the costs of administration and of the

 


acquisition, operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of

 

motor vehicles.

 

     (h) The displaying of distinctive vehicle registration plates

 

and other external markings on the motor vehicles. The plates and

 

markings shall clearly identify state ownership unless the motor

 

vehicle is used by an elected official, or for an investigative

 

use, or anonymity is essential to properly perform a necessary

 

function of state government as determined by the director.

 

     (3) The department shall ensure that the following percentages

 

of the state's on-road motor vehicle fleet consist of alternative

 

energy vehicles by the following dates:

 

     (a) 2% by December 31, 2010.

 

     (b) 4% by December 31, 2015.

 

     (c) 6% by December 31, 2020.

 

     (4) For the purposes of subsection (3), if an alternative

 

energy vehicle that can reasonably serve, in terms of cost and

 

performance, as a replacement for a conventional vehicle in the

 

state's on-road motor vehicle fleet is not commercially available,

 

the department may exclude that conventional vehicle from the

 

state's on-road motor vehicle fleet for the purpose of calculations

 

under subsection (3).

 

     (5) (3) The department shall establish motor vehicle repair

 

centers and motor pools.

 

     (6) (4) The motor transport revolving fund is hereby created.

 

The revenue received from rates charged pursuant to subsection

 

(2)(g) and revenue which that is received from any other source and

 

designated to be credited to the motor transport revolving fund

 


shall be credited to the motor transport revolving fund. The

 

amounts money in the fund are is continuously appropriated only for

 

administration and the acquisition, lease, operation, maintenance,

 

repair, and replacement of state owned motor vehicles and related

 

capital outlay and equipment.

 

     (7) (5) Assets and liabilities of the motor transport

 

revolving fund shall be considered assets and liabilities of the

 

motor transport revolving fund created by this section.

 

     (8) (6) Not later than January 1, 2007, the director shall

 

install the necessary fueling infrastructure or contract with a

 

supplier to supply alternative fuels at all state motor transport

 

facilities so that all state owned vehicles capable of utilizing

 

alternative fuels are able to use them. As used in this subsection,

 

"alternative fuel" means E85 fuel and biodiesel fuel blends.

 

     Sec. 241c. The department, after consultation with the state

 

energy office, shall implement procedures to ensure that all

 

buildings owned or leased by this state with a fair market value of

 

$1,000,000.00 or more that are constructed or undergo major

 

renovation commencing on or after February 1, 2009 are constructed

 

or renovated to at least the minimum standards necessary for LEED

 

certification. In addition, at least the following percentage of

 

such buildings shall be constructed or renovated to at least the

 

minimum standards necessary for LEED gold certification:

 

     (a) 15%, for buildings the construction or major renovation of

 

which commenced during the period of January 1, 2010 through

 

December 31, 2014.

 

     (b) 20%, for buildings the construction or major renovation of

 


which commenced during the period of January 1, 2015 through

 

December 31, 2019.

 

     (c) 25% for buildings the construction or major renovation of

 

which commenced on or after January 1, 2020.

 

     Sec. 255. (1) The department shall ensure that the government

 

of this state generates the following percentages of the electric

 

energy used by the government of this state by the following dates:

 

     (a) 0.25% by January 1, 2010.

 

     (b) 0.50% by January 1, 2015.

 

     (c) 1.00% by January 1, 2020.

 

     (2) Electricity generated under subsection (1) shall be

 

generated under a state government net metering program, to be

 

established by the public service commission pursuant to 1939 PA 3,

 

MCL 460.1 to 460.10cc, in consultation with the department, not

 

later than 180 days after the effective date of the amendatory act

 

that added this section. The program shall apply to all electric

 

utilities and alternative electric suppliers in this state and

 

shall take into consideration the energy generated under a

 

utility's or alternative electric supplier's other net metering

 

programs when determining which facilities will participate in net

 

metering. However, any electricity generated by the state

 

government net metering program shall not count toward any of the

 

net metering electrical generation caps under other net metering

 

programs created for other customers. Under the state government

 

net metering program created under 1939 PA 3, MCL 460.1 to

 

460.10cc, the amount of electricity generated at a facility may

 

exceed the reasonably expected needs of the facility in limited

 


circumstances.

 

     (3) For the purposes of this section, the department may

 

define a facility to include structures otherwise excluded under

 

section 114(1)(b) to (e).

 

     Sec. 305. (1) "Total state spending" means the sum of state

 

operating fund expenditures, not including transfers between funds.

 

     (2) "Total state spending from state sources" means the sum of

 

state operating fund expenditures not including transfers between

 

funds, federal aid, and restricted local and private sources of

 

financing.

 

     (3) "Transfer payments" means that term as defined by the

 

bureau of economic analysis of the United States department of

 

commerce or its successor.

 

     (4) "Unit of local government" means unit of local government

 

as defined in section 115(5).

 

     Sec. 404. (1) "Revenues" means the increases in the net

 

current assets of a fund other than from expenditure refunds and

 

residual equity transfers.

 

     (2) "Revolving fund" means a self-supporting fund which that

 

provides services or sells goods to state agencies, other

 

governmental jurisdictions, or the public.

 

     (3) "Unencumbered balance" means that portion of an

 

appropriation not yet expended and encumbered.

 

     (4) "Unexpended balance" means that portion of an

 

appropriation not yet expended.

 

     (5) "Unit of local government" means unit of local government

 

as defined by section 115(5).

 


     (5) (6) "Work project" means a 1-time nonrecurring undertaking

 

for the purpose of accomplishing an objective contained in specific

 

line-item appropriation for that purpose or any other specific

 

line-item appropriation designated as a work project by law under

 

criteria established under section 451a(1).

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless House Bill No. 5121 of the 94th Legislature is enacted into

 

law.