FY 2012-13 SUPPLEMENTAL                                                                            S.B. 126:

                                                                                              SUMMARY AS ENACTED

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Senate Bill 126 (as enacted)                                                   PUBLIC ACT 129 OF 2013

Sponsor:  Senator Roger Kahn, M.D.

Senate Committee:  Appropriations

House Committee:  Appropriations

 

Date Completed:  10-10-13

 

CONTENT

 

The bill would provide supplemental appropriations for fiscal year (FY) 2012-13.  The bill includes Adjusted Gross appropriations of $747,300 (all Federal revenue) in the Department of Natural Resources for Port Austin State Harbor capital outlay costs, as well as three boilerplate language sections that would re-appropriate work projects that will expire at the end of FY 2012-13.  Table 1 summarizes the new appropriations in the bill.

 

Table 1

FY 2012-13 Supplemental Appropriations

Department/Program

Adjusted Gross

Federal

GF/GP

Natural Resources-Capital Outlay

$747,300

$747,300

$0

Total

$747,300

$747,300

$0

 

FISCAL IMPACT

 

The bill would increase FY 2012-13 Adjusted Gross State appropriations by $747,300, all from Federal revenue.  The bill would provide the authorization needed for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to receive a competitive grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sport Fish Restoration Boating Infrastructure Grant Program.  The Federal grant would support completion of Phase III of the Port Austin State Harbor dock renovation project in Huron County. 

 

The bill also would re-appropriate Federal funds from prior fiscal years that had been carried forward in work project accounts.  The Management and Budget Act (Public Act 431 of 1984, Sec. 451a) provides the criteria for the establishment of work projects.  The Act requires that a work project: a) be for a specific purpose; b) contain a specific plan to accomplish its objective; c) have an estimated completion cost; and d) have an estimated completion date.  The Act allows a work project appropriation to be available until completion of the work or 48 months (four years) after the last day of the fiscal year in which the appropriation was originally made, whichever comes first; then, the remaining balance lapses.  The bill would re-appropriate in boilerplate language amounts remaining for three work projects that were originally created at the end of FY 2008-09:  $35.0 million of Federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds for school improvement grants administered by the Department of Education; $16.0 million of Federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) funds for the Department of State's implementation of election reform; and $163,000 of ARRA revenue for the revision of energy assurance plans by the Michigan Energy Office within the Michigan Strategic Fund.


 

Boilerplate Language Sections

 

Sec. 201.  General.  Records amount of total State spending and payments to local units of government.

 

Sec. 202.  General.  Subjects appropriations and expenditures in the bill to the provisions of the Management and Budget Act.

 

Sec. 301.  Department of Education.  Re-appropriates $35.0 million of unspent and unencumbered Federal ARRA funds that were appropriated to the Department in Public Act 7 of 2009 for grants to local schools for school improvement projects.

 

Sec. 401.  Department of State.  Re-appropriates $16.0 million of unspent and unencumbered Federal HAVA funds that were appropriated to the Department in Public Act 140 of 2009 for implementation of election reform.

 

Sec. 501.  Treasury-Strategic Fund.   Re-appropriates $163,000 of unspent and unencumbered ARRA funds that were appropriated in Public Act 122 of 2009 to allow the Michigan Energy Office to revise the State's oil, gas, and electricity energy assurance plans.

 

                                                                                       Fiscal Analyst:  Ellen Jeffries

                                                                                                         Steve Angelotti

 

This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.