November 6, 2014, Introduced by Rep. McMillin and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to make, supplement, and adjust appropriations for
various state departments and agencies for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2015; to provide for the expenditure of the
appropriations; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
PART 1
LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS
Sec. 101. There is appropriated for the various state
departments and agencies to supplement appropriations for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, from the following funds:
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Full-time equated exempted positions................ 0.0
Full-time equated classified positions.............. 0.0
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ 0
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental
transfers............................................ 0
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION........................... $ 0
Federal revenues:
Total federal revenues................................. 0
Special revenue funds:
Total local revenues................................... 0
Total private revenues................................. 0
Total other state restricted revenues.................. 0
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ 0
Sec. 102. DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
(1) APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Full-time equated classified positions.............. 0.0
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ 0
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental
transfers............................................ 0
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION........................... $ 0
Federal revenues:
Total federal revenues................................. 0
Special revenue funds:
Total local revenues................................... 0
Total private revenues................................. 0
Total other state restricted revenues.................. 0
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ 0
(2) REVENUE SHARING
County incentive program............................... $ (42,240,000)
County incentive program............................... 42,240,000
City, village, and township revenue sharing............ (243,040,000)
City, village, and township revenue sharing............ 243,040,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ 0
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Sales tax.............................................. 0
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ 0
(3) ONE-TIME BASIS ONLY APPROPRIATIONS
City, village, and township revenue sharing............ $ (5,800,000)
City, village, and township revenue sharing............ 5,800,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ 0
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Sales tax.............................................. 0
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ 0
PART 2
PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS
GENERAL SECTIONS
Sec. 201. In accordance with the provisions of section 30 of
article IX of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending
from state resources in this appropriation act for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2015 is $0 and state appropriations paid to
local units of government are $0.
Sec. 202. The appropriations made and expenditures authorized
under this act and the departments, commissions, boards, offices,
and programs for which appropriations are made under this act are
subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101
to 18.1594.
DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
Sec. 301. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for city,
village, and township revenue sharing are for grants to cities,
villages, and townships such that, subject to fulfilling the
requirements under subsection (3), each city, village, or township
that received a payment under section 950(2) of 2009 PA 128 greater
than $4,500.00 is eligible to receive a payment equal to 78.51044%
of its total payment received under section 950(2) of 2009 PA 128
or for each city, village, or township with a population in excess
of 7,500, notwithstanding whether it received a payment greater
than $4,500.00 under section 950(2) of 2009 PA 128, a payment equal
to the population of the city, village, or township multiplied by
$2.64659, whichever is greater, rounded to the nearest dollar.
Payments under this section to cities, villages, or townships that
did not receive a payment under section 950(2) of 2009 PA 128
greater than $4,500.00 are 1-time payments for which eligibility is
based on a presumed level of local services provided. For purposes
of this subsection, any city, village, or township that completely
merges with another city, village, or township will be treated as a
single entity, such that when determining the payment received
under section 950(2) of 2009 PA 128 for the combined single entity,
the amount each of the merging local units received under section
950(2) of 2009 PA 128 is summed. For purposes of this subsection,
population is determined in the same manner as under section 3 of
the Glenn Steil state revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL
141.903. In addition, any city or village that according to the
2010 federal decennial census is determined to have population in
more than 1 county shall be treated as a single entity when
determining the payment received under section 950(2) of 2009 PA
128.
(2) The funds appropriated in part 1 for the county incentive
program are to be used for grants to counties such that each county
is eligible to receive an amount equal to the amount by which the
balance in its revenue sharing reserve fund under section 44a of
the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.44a, for the
county's most recent fiscal year that ends prior to the January 1
of the state's fiscal year is less than the amount calculated under
section 44a(13) of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL
211.44a, for the county fiscal year that begins in the state's
fiscal year. The amount calculated under this subsection shall be
adjusted as necessary to reflect partial county fiscal years and
prorated based on the total amount appropriated for distribution to
all eligible counties. Except as otherwise provided under this
subsection, payments under this subsection will be distributed to
an eligible county subject to the county's fulfilling the
requirements under subsection (3).
(3) For purposes of accountability and transparency, each
eligible city, village, township, or county shall certify by
December 1, or the first day of a payment month, that it has
produced a citizen's guide of its most recent local finances,
including a recognition of its unfunded liabilities; a performance
dashboard; a debt service report containing a detailed listing of
its debt service requirements, including, at a minimum, the
issuance date, issuance amount, type of debt instrument, a listing
of all revenues pledged to finance debt service by debt instrument,
and a listing of the annual payment amounts; and a projected budget
report, including, at a minimum, the current fiscal year and a
projection for the immediately following fiscal year. The projected
budget report shall include revenues and expenditures and an
explanation of the assumptions used for the projections. The
citizen's guide, performance dashboard, debt service report, and
projected budget report shall be made available for public viewing
in the city, village, township, or county clerk's office or posted
on a publicly accessible Internet site. Each city, village,
township, and county applying for a payment under this subsection
shall submit a copy of the citizen's guide, a copy of the
performance dashboard, a copy of the debt service report, and a
copy of the projected budget report to the department of treasury.
The department of treasury shall develop detailed guidance for a
city, village, township, or county to follow to meet the
requirements of this subsection. The detailed guidance shall be
posted on the department of treasury website and distributed to
cities, villages, townships, and counties by October 1.
(4) City, village, and township revenue sharing payments and
county incentive program payments are subject to the following
conditions:
(a) The city, village, township, or county shall certify to
the department that it has met the required criteria for subsection
(3) and submitted the required citizen's guide, performance
dashboard, debt service report, and projected budget report as
required by subsection (3). A department of treasury review of the
citizen's guide, dashboard, or reports is not required in order for
a city, village, township, or county to receive a payment under
subsection (1) or (2). The department shall develop a certification
process and method for cities, villages, townships, and counties to
follow.
(b) Subject to subdivisions (c), (d), and (e), if a city,
village, township, or county meets the requirements of subsection
(3), the city, village, township, or county shall receive its full
potential payment under this section.
(c) Cities, villages, and townships eligible to receive a
payment under subsection (1) shall receive 1/6 of their eligible
payment on the last business day of October, December, February,
April, June, and August. After the specified due date for
subsection (3), payments shall be made to a city, village, or
township only if that city, village, or township has complied with
subdivision (a).
(d) After the specified due date for subsection (3), payments
shall be made to a county only if that county has complied with
subdivision (a).
(e) If a county does not provide the required certification or
fails to submit the required citizen's guide, performance
dashboard, debt service report, and projected budget report by the
first day of a payment month, the county shall forfeit the payment
in that payment month.
(f) Any city, village, township, or county that falsifies
certification documents shall forfeit any future city, village, and
township revenue sharing payments or county incentive program
payments and shall repay to this state all payments it has received
under this section.
(g) City, village, and township revenue sharing payments and
county incentive program payments under this section shall be
distributed on the last business day of October, December,
February, April, June, and August.
(h) Payments distributed under this section may be withheld
pursuant to sections 17a and 21 of the Glenn Steil state revenue
sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL 141.917a and 141.921.
(5) The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for city,
village, and township revenue sharing and the county incentive
program shall be available for expenditure under the program for
financially distressed cities, villages, or townships after the
approval of transfers by the legislature pursuant to section 393(2)
of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
(6) If a city, village, township, or county fails to report to
the state police as required under sections 2 and 3 of the uniform
forfeiture reporting act, then the department of treasury shall
reduce the amount described in this section for that city, village,
township, or county by 1/12 for each month that the city, village,
township, or county fails to report as provided in this subsection.
REPEALER
Sec. 401. Section 952 of article VIII of 2014 PA 252 is
repealed.
Enacting section 1. This act does not take effect unless House
Bill No. 5250 of the 97th Legislature is enacted into law.