October 17, 2012, Introduced by Senator COLBECK and referred to the Committee on Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing.
A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled
"The management and budget act,"
by amending section 371 (MCL 18.1371), as amended by 2007 PA 2.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 371. (1) An employee of a state agency shall not make or
authorize an expenditure or incur an obligation that results in the
agency exceeding the gross appropriation level of an appropriation
line item made to that agency by the legislature. The chief
executive officer and the chief financial officer of a state agency
are responsible for any action taken by a state agency that results
in exceeding an appropriation. The chief executive officer of a
state agency shall report a violation of this subsection
immediately to the director and the chairpersons of the senate and
house appropriations committees, together with a statement of any
action taken to remedy the occurrence.
(2) Within 15 days after a bill appropriating an amount is
enacted into law, the amount appropriated shall be divided into
allotments by department and by state agency based on periodic
requirements. to
represent a spending plan. The state budget
director shall review the allotments. Not later than June 1 of each
year, the director shall submit to the chairpersons of the
appropriations committees and the fiscal agencies a report that
provides estimates as to which departments are spending at a rate
that would exceed the level of the appropriation for the fiscal
year. This report shall include recommendations as to actions that
need to be taken to ensure that actual expenditures do not exceed
the
appropriation at the close of the fiscal year. When it appears
that
a spending plan, or sources of financing related to a spending
plan,
do not provide the level of program service assumed in the
appropriation
for the fiscal year, the state budget director shall
immediately
notify the chairpersons and minority chairpersons of
the
appropriations committees, the chairpersons and minority
chairpersons
of the appropriate appropriations subcommittees, and
the
fiscal agencies.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 96th Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 21.
(b) Senate Bill No. 802.