Act No. 121

Public Acts of 2024

Approved by the Governor*

July 24, 2024

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 24, 2024

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 24, 2024

*Item Vetoes

ARTICLE 9

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

Sec. 1019. (8) and (14)

Entire Subsection. (Page 249 and 250)

Sec. 1050b. (18)

Entire Subsection. (Page 258)

Sec. 1050d. (14)

Entire Subsection. (Page 261)

Sec. 1050e.

Entire Section. (Page 263)

state of michigan

102nd Legislature

Regular session of 2024

Introduced by Senator Anthony

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 747

AN ACT to make, supplement, adjust, and consolidate appropriations for various state departments and agencies, the judicial branch, and the legislative branch and for capital outlay purposes for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2024 and September 30, 2025; to provide for certain conditions on appropriations; to provide for the expenditure of the appropriations; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

ARTICLE 1

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

part 1

line-item appropriations

Sec. 101. There is appropriated for the department of agriculture and rural development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, from the following funds:

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Full-time equated unclassified positions	6.0
Full-time equated classified positions	550.0
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	156,938,900
Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental transfers			332,400
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	156,606,500
Federal revenues:
Total federal revenues			20,357,900
Special revenue funds:
Total local revenues			0
Total private revenues			21,300
Total other state restricted revenues			47,170,900
State general fund/general purpose		$	89,056,400
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
Sec. 102. DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT
Full-time equated unclassified positions	6.0
Full-time equated classified positions	37.0
Unclassified salaries—FTE positions	6.0	$	1,033,200
Accounting service center			1,177,400
Commissions and boards			23,800
Emergency management—FTEs	8.0		3,553,100
Emerging contaminants in food and agriculture—FTEs	6.0		2,109,900
Executive direction—FTEs	23.0		3,354,600
Property management			785,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	12,037,000
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
HHS, multiple grants			439,000
USDA, multiple grants			600,000
Deferred federal revenue funding			15,000
Special revenue funds:
Agriculture licensing and inspection fees			158,300
Dairy and food safety fund			219,600
Feed control fund			8,100
Fertilizer control fund			10,600
Freshwater protection fund			175,700
Gasoline inspection and testing fund			26,400
Industry support funds			57,000
Michigan craft beverage council fund			8,800
Private forestland enhancement fund			16,300
Refined petroleum fund			21,000
Weights and measures regulation fees			5,000
State general fund/general purpose		$	10,276,200
Sec. 103. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Information technology services and projects		$	2,366,400
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	2,366,400
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Agriculture licensing and inspection fees			93,000
Dairy and food safety fund			76,400
Feed control fund			15,000
Fertilizer control fund			15,000
Freshwater protection fund			15,000
Gasoline inspection and testing fund			32,400
State general fund/general purpose		$	2,119,600
Sec. 104. BUREAU OF FOOD SAFETY AND ANIMAL HEALTH
Full-time equated classified positions	212.0
Animal disease prevention and response—FTEs	63.0	$	11,103,000
Animal feed safety—FTEs	10.0		2,100,800
Food safety and quality assurance—FTEs	103.0		18,833,700
Indemnification - livestock depredation			15,000
Michigan animal agriculture alliance			3,000,000
Milk safety and quality assurance—FTEs	36.0		5,999,300
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	41,051,800
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
HHS, multiple grants			3,244,200
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
USDA, multiple grants		$	1,209,500
Special revenue funds:
Agriculture licensing and inspection fees			72,900
Animal welfare fund			150,000
Consumer food safety education fund			242,500
Dairy and food safety fund			5,506,700
Feed control fund			1,431,200
Industry food safety education fund			114,100
Marihuana regulatory fund			349,900
Marihuana regulation fund			350,000
State general fund/general purpose		$	28,380,800
Sec. 105. BUREAU OF ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
Full-time equated classified positions	120.5
Agricultural climate resiliency		$	1,000,000
Environmental stewardship - MAEAP—FTEs	27.0		10,825,300
Local conservation districts			3,000,000
Pesticide and plant pest management—FTEs	82.0		14,506,900
Right-to-farm—FTEs	6.5		1,042,100
Soil health/regenerative agriculture—FTEs	5.0		1,024,900
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	31,399,200
Appropriated from:
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
IDG from MDEGLE, biosolids			95,600
Federal revenues:
Department of interior			96,300
EPA, multiple grants			1,142,700
USDA, multiple grants			2,046,100
Special revenue funds:
Private - slow-the-spread foundation			21,300
Agriculture licensing and inspection fees			4,626,800
Fertilizer control fund			1,372,700
Freshwater protection fund			8,528,400
Horticulture fund			70,000
Industrial hemp fund			685,700
Industry support funds			228,100
State general fund/general purpose		$	12,485,500
Sec. 106. AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT BUREAU
Full-time equated classified positions	72.0
Agricultural preservation easement grants		$	1,900,000
Agricultural support—FTEs	5.0		1,000,000
Agriculture development—FTEs	16.0		4,848,700
Fair food network - double up food bucks			5,000,000
Farm to family—FTEs	6.0		3,000,000
Farmland and open space preservation—FTEs	10.0		1,638,000
Food and agriculture investment program			2,474,800
Food and agriculture supply chain—FTE	1.0		804,900
Fruit and vegetable inspections—FTEs	8.0		1,308,100
Intercounty drain—FTEs	5.0		883,800
Michigan craft beverage council—FTE	1.0		1,341,500
Migrant labor housing—FTEs	9.0		1,389,500
Producer security/grain dealers—FTEs	6.0		1,033,400
Qualified forest program—FTEs	4.0		8,107,000
Rural development fund grant program—FTE	1.0		2,008,200
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	36,737,900
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
USDA, multiple grants		$	8,085,600
Special revenue funds:
Agricultural preservation fund			3,538,000
Agriculture licensing and inspection fees			5,100
Commodity inspection fees			700,300
Grain dealers fee fund			874,600
Industry support funds			223,600
Michigan craft beverage council fund			1,311,500
Migratory labor housing fund			145,100
Private forestland enhancement fund			1,080,100
Rural development fund			2,008,200
State general fund/general purpose		$	18,765,800
Sec. 107. LABORATORY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION BUREAU
Full-time equated classified positions	108.5
Central licensing and customer call center—FTEs	13.0	$	1,553,500
Consumer protection program—FTEs	42.0		7,179,900
Laboratory services—FTEs	42.5		8,873,900
USDA monitoring—FTEs	11.0		1,725,100
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	19,332,400
Appropriated from:
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
IDG from LARA (LCC), liquor quality testing fees			236,800
Federal revenues:
EPA, multiple grants			180,600
HHS, multiple grants			1,572,600
USDA, multiple grants			1,726,300
Special revenue funds:
Agriculture licensing and inspection fees			356,400
Dairy and food safety fund			532,500
Feed control fund			194,900
Fertilizer control fund			25,500
Freshwater protection fund			48,500
Gasoline inspection and testing fund			1,932,500
Grain dealers fee fund			8,200
Industrial hemp fund			323,200
Migratory labor housing fund			31,200
Refined petroleum fund			3,520,700
Testing fees			358,700
Weights and measures regulation fees			755,300
State general fund/general purpose		$	7,528,500
Sec. 108. FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS
County fairs, shows, and expositions		$	500,000
Fairs and racing			258,600
Horse racing advisory commission			125,000
Purses and supplements - fairs/licensed tracks			2,073,600
Standardbred breeders’ awards			345,900
Standardbred purses and supplements - licensed tracks			991,100
Standardbred sire stakes			720,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	5,014,200
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Agriculture equine industry development fund			4,514,200
State general fund/general purpose		$	500,000
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
Sec. 109. ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS
Agricultural climate resiliency		$	5,100,000
Animal disease prevention and response			2,000,000
Animal welfare grants			500,000
Flint Farmers’ market			150,000
Fruit and vegetable prescription program			500,000
Study on agriculture stewardship			250,000
Underserved-owned food and agriculture ventures			500,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	9,000,000
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
State general fund/general purpose		$	9,000,000

part 2

provisions concerning appropriations

for fiscal year 2024-2025

general sections

Sec. 201. In accordance with section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, total state spending from state sources under part 1 is $136,227,300.00 and state spending under part 1 from state sources to be paid to local units of government is $8,800,000.00. The following itemized statement identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will occur:

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Agriculture preservation easement grants	$	1,900,000
Environmental stewardship/MAEAP		1,100,000
Local conservation districts		3,000,000
Qualified forest program		1,400,000
Rural development fund grant program		1,400,000
TOTAL	$	8,800,000

Sec. 202. The appropriations under this part and part 1 are subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

Sec. 203. As used in part 1 and this part:

(a) “Department” means the department of agriculture and rural development.

(b) “Director” means the director of the department.

(d) “FTE” means full-time equated.

(e) “IDG” means interdepartmental grant.

(f) “MAEAP” means the Michigan agriculture environmental assurance program.

(g) “MDEGLE” means the Michigan department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy.

(h) “Standard report recipients” means the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on agriculture and rural development, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the senate and house policy offices, and the state budget office.

(i) “Subcommittees” means all members of the subcommittees of the house and senate appropriations committees with jurisdiction over the budget for the department.

(j) “TB” means tuberculosis.

(k) “USDA” means the United States Department of Agriculture.

Sec. 204. The department shall use the internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this part. This requirement includes transmitting reports to the standard report recipients and any other required recipients by email and posting the reports on an internet site.

Sec. 205. To the extent permissible under section 261 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1261, all of the following apply to the expenditure of funds appropriated in part 1:

(a) The funds must not be used for the purchase of foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality American goods or services, or both, are available.

(b) Preference must be given to goods or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are competitively priced and of comparable quality.

(c) Preference must be given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of comparable quality.

Sec. 206. The department shall not take disciplinary action against an employee of the department for communicating with a member of the legislature or legislative staff, unless the communication is prohibited by law and the department is exercising its authority as provided by law.

Sec. 207. Consistent with section 217 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1217, the department shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1. The report must list all travel by classified and unclassified employees outside this state in the previous fiscal year that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s budget. The department shall submit the report to the standard report recipients and to the senate and house appropriations committees. The report must include all of the following information:

(a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

(b) The total transportation and related expenses of each travel occurrence and the proportions funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, state restricted revenues, federal revenues, and other revenues.

Sec. 208. The department shall not use funds appropriated in part 1 to hire a person to provide legal services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This section does not apply to legal services for bonding activities or to outside legal services that the attorney general authorizes.

Sec. 209. Not later than December 15, the state budget office shall prepare and submit a report that provides estimates of the total general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the previous fiscal year. The report must summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by major departmental program or program areas. The state budget office shall submit the report to the standard report recipients and to the chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees.

Sec. 210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $3,000,000.00 for federal contingency authorization. Amounts appropriated under this section are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

(2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $2,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency authorization. These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

(3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for local contingency authorization. These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

(4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for private contingency authorization. These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

Sec. 211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology, management, and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for the department:

(a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

(b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

(c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name, payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

(d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

(e) Job specifications and wage rates.

Sec. 212. Not later than 14 days after the release of the executive budget recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide an annual report on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues, and state restricted fund expenditures for the previous 2 fiscal years. The report must be submitted to the standard report recipients and to the chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees.

Sec. 214. (1) To the extent permissible under the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594, the director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure geographically disadvantaged business enterprises compete for and perform contracts to provide services or supplies, or both. The director shall strongly encourage firms with which the department contracts to subcontract with certified geographically disadvantaged business enterprises for services, supplies, or both.

(2) As used in this section, “geographically disadvantaged business enterprises” means that term as defined in Executive Directive No. 2023-01.

Sec. 215. On a quarterly basis, the department shall report on the number of full-time equated positions in pay status by civil service classification, including a comparison by line item of the number of full-time equated positions authorized from funds appropriated in part 1 to the actual number of full-time equated positions employed by the department at the end of the reporting period.

Sec. 218. The department shall receive and retain copies of all reports funded from appropriations in part 1. The department shall follow federal and state guidelines for short-term and long-term retention of records. The department may electronically retain copies of reports unless otherwise required by federal and state guidelines.

Sec. 221. To the extent possible, the department shall not expend appropriations under part 1 until all existing authorized work project funds available for the same purposes are exhausted.

Sec. 222. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 must not be used to restrict or impede a marginalized community’s access to government resources, programs, or facilities.

(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, local governments shall report any action or policy that attempts to restrict or interfere with the duties of the local health officer.

Sec. 223. (1) The state budget director shall take steps to ensure that all state fiscal recovery funds allocated to this state under the American rescue plan act of 2021, Public Law 117-2, are expended by December 31, 2026, as required by law. The state budget director may reallocate appropriated funds for the purpose of fully utilizing state fiscal recovery funds that are in jeopardy of not meeting the expenditure deadline for reasons that may include, but are not limited to, completed projects coming in under budget or funds unable to be fully used by subrecipients. The state budget director shall reallocate any of the funds reallocated under this subsection to the programs or purposes specified in this section. Any funds reallocated are unappropriated and immediately reappropriated for the following purposes:

(a) To reclassify general fund/general purpose appropriations for payroll and covered benefits for eligible public health and safety employees at the department of corrections.

(b) To reclassify general fund/general purpose appropriations for payroll and covered benefits for eligible public health and safety employees at the department of state police.

(2) All applicable guidance, implementation, and reporting provisions of Public Law 117-2 must be followed for state fiscal recovery funds reallocated and reappropriated under subsection (1).

(3) The state budget director shall notify the senate and house appropriations committees not later than 10 business days after making any reallocations under subsection (1). The notification must include the authorized program under which funds were originally appropriated, the amount of the reallocation, the program, or programs, or purpose, and the department to which the funds are being reallocated under subsection (1), and the amount reallocated to each program or purpose.

(4) The state budget director and the impacted departments may make the accounting transactions necessary to implement the reallocation and subsequent appropriation of funds as authorized in this section.

Sec. 250. (1) For any grant program or project funded in part 1 intended for a single recipient organization or unit of local government, the grant program or project is for a public purpose and the department shall follow procurement statutes of this state, including any bidding requirements, unless the department can fully validate, through information detailed in this part or public supporting documents, both of the following:

(a) The specific organization or unit of local government that will receive or administer the funds.

(b) How the funds will be administered and expended.

(2) Notwithstanding any other conditions or requirements for direct appropriation grants, the department shall perform at least all of the following activities to administer the grants described in subsection (1):

(a) Develop a standard application process, grantee reporting requirements, and any other necessary documentation, including sponsorship information as specified under subsection (3).

(b) Establish a process to review, complete, and execute a grant agreement with a grant recipient. The department shall not execute a grant agreement unless all necessary documentation has been submitted and reviewed.

(c) Verify to the extent possible that a grant recipient will use funds for a public purpose that serves the economic prosperity, health, safety, or general welfare of the residents of this state.

(d) Review and verify all necessary information to ensure the grant recipient is reasonably able to execute the grant agreement, perform its fiduciary duty, and comply with all applicable state and federal statutes. To be eligible to receive a grant, a recipient must be a unit of local government, public authority or other political instrumentality as authorized by law, institution of higher education, other state department, entity registered with the department of licensing and regulatory affairs or the department of attorney general that has been in existence for at least the 12 months preceding the effective date of this act, or other entity that can demonstrate, through state or federal tax filings or other state or federal government records, that it has been in existence for at least the 12 months preceding the effective date of this act. The department may deduct the cost of background checks and any other efforts performed as part of this verification from the amount of the designated grant award.

(e) Establish a standard timeline to review all documents submitted by grant recipients and provide a response within 45 business days stating whether submitted documents by a grant recipient are sufficient or in need of additional information.

(f) Make an initial disbursement of up to 50% of the grant to the grant recipient not later than 60 days after a grant agreement has been executed. Disbursements must be consistent with part II, chapter 10, section 200 of the Financial Management Guide.

(g) Disburse the funds remaining after the initial disbursement under subdivision (f) per the grant disbursement schedule in the executed grant agreement on a reimbursement basis after the grantee has provided sufficient documentation, as determined by the department, to verify that expenditures were made in accordance with the project purpose.

(3) A sponsor of a grant described in subsection (1) must be a legislator or the department. A legislative sponsor must be identified through a letter submitted by that legislator’s office to the department and state budget director containing the name of the grant recipient, the intended amount of the grant, a certification from that legislator that the grant is for a public purpose, and specific citation of the section and subsection of the public act that authorizes the grant, as applicable. If a legislative sponsor is not identified before December 13, 2024, the department shall do 1 of the following:

(a) Identify the department as the sponsor.

(b) Decline to execute the grant agreement and lapse the associated funds at the end of the fiscal year.

(4) An executed grant agreement under this section between the department and a grant recipient must include at least all of the following:

(a) All necessary identifying information for the grant recipient, including any tax and financial information for the department to administer funds under this section.

(b) A description of the project for which the grant funds will be expended, including tentative timelines and the estimated budget. The department shall not reimburse expenditures that are outside of the project purpose, as stated in the executed grant agreement, from appropriations in part 1. The grantee shall return to the treasury any interest in excess of $1,000.00 earned on the grant funds while unexpended and in possession of the grantee.

(c) Unless otherwise specified in department policy, a requirement that funds appropriated for the grants described in subsection (1) may be used only for expenditures that occur on or after the effective date of this act.

(d) A requirement for reporting by the grant recipient to the department and the legislative sponsor that provides the status of the project and an accounting of all funds expended by the grant recipient, as determined by the department.

(e) A claw-back provision that allows the department of treasury to recoup or otherwise collect any funds that are declined, unspent, or otherwise misused.

(f) The signed legislative sponsorship letter required under subsection (3), incorporated into the grant agreement and included as an appendix or attachment.

(5) If appropriate to improve the administration or oversight of a grant described in subsection (1), the department may adopt a memorandum of understanding with another state department to perform the required duties under this section.

(6) A grant recipient shall respond to all reasonable information requests from the department related to grant expenditures and retain grant records for not less than 7 years, and the grant may be subject to monitoring, site visits, and audits as determined by the department. The grant agreement required under this section must include signed assurance by the chief executive officer or other executive officer of the grant recipient that the requirements of this subsection will be met.

(7) The grant recipient shall expend all funds awarded and complete all projects not later than September 30, 2029. If at that time any unexpended funds remain, the grant recipient shall return those funds to the state treasury. If a grant recipient does not provide information sufficient to execute a grant agreement not later than June 1, 2025, the department shall return funds associated with the grant to the state treasury.

(8) Any funds that are granted to a state department are appropriated in that department for the purpose of the intended grant.

(9) The state budget director may, on a case-by-case basis, extend the deadline in subsection (7) on request by a grant recipient. The state budget director shall notify the chairs of the senate and house of representatives appropriations committees not later than 5 days after an extension is granted.

(10) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (11), beginning March 15 of the current fiscal year, the department shall post a report in a publicly accessible location on its website. The report must list the grant recipient, project purpose, and location of the project for each grant described in subsection (1), the status of funds allocated and disbursed under the grant agreement, and the legislative sponsor, if applicable. The department shall update the report and shall post an updated report not later than June 15 of the current fiscal year and again not later than September 15 of the current fiscal year. The department shall include in the report the most comprehensive information the department has available at the time of posting for grants awarded.

(11) If the state budget office determines that it is more efficient for the state budget office to compile all affected departments’ information and post a report of the compiled information rather than the report required under subsection (10) being posted by individual departments, the state budget office may compile that information across all affected departments and post the compiled report and any updates on the same time schedule as identified in subsection (10).

(12) As applicable, the legislative sponsor of a grant described in subsection (1) shall not sponsor a grant, or ask another legislator to sponsor a grant, if there is a conflict of interest related to the grant recipient.

(13) If the department reasonably determines that the funds allocated for an executed grant agreement under this section were misused or that use of the funds was misrepresented by the grant recipient, the department shall not award any additional funds under the executed grant agreement and shall refer the grant for review following internal audit protocols.

DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT

Sec. 301. (1) The department may establish a fee schedule and collect fees for the following work activities and services:

(a) Pesticide and plant pest management propagation and certification of virus-free foundation stock.

(b) Fruit and vegetable inspection and grading services at shipping and termination points and processing plants.

(c) Laboratory support analyses of food, livestock, and agricultural products for disease, foreign products for disease, toxic materials, foreign substances, and quality standards.

(d) Laboratory support test samples for other state and local agencies and public or private organizations.

(2) The department may receive and expend revenue from the fees authorized under subsection (1), subject to appropriation, to recover expenses associated with the work activities and services described in subsection (1). Fee revenue collected by the department under subsection (1) does not lapse to the state general fund at the end of the fiscal year but carries forward for appropriation by the legislature in the subsequent fiscal year.

(3) The department shall notify the subcommittees, the fiscal agencies, and the state budget office 30 days before proposing changes in fees authorized under this section or under section 5 of 1915 PA 91, MCL 285.35.

(4) On or before February 1 of each year, the department shall provide a report to the subcommittees, the fiscal agencies, and the state budget office detailing all the fees charged by the department under the authorization provided in this section, including, but not limited to, rates, number of individuals paying each fee, and the revenue generated by each fee in the previous fiscal year.

Sec. 302. (1) The department may contract with or provide grants to local units of government, institutions of higher education, or nonprofit organizations to support activities authorized by appropriations in part 1.

(2) The department shall provide notice of contracts or grants authorized under this section to the subcommittees, the fiscal agencies, and the state budget office not later than 7 days before the department notifies contract or grant recipients.

(3) As used in this section:

(a) “Contracts” includes, but is not limited to, contracts for delivery of groundwater/freshwater programs, MAEAP technical assistance, forest management, invasive species monitoring, and wildlife risk mitigation.

(b) “Grants” includes, but is not limited to, grants promoting proper pesticide disposal and research grants for the purpose of enhancing the agricultural industries in this state.

Sec. 303. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for emerging contaminants in food and agriculture the department shall support efforts to identify and respond to the impacts of emerging contaminants to the food and agriculture sector, help address and mitigate current issues caused by emerging contaminants, and work to prevent and minimize future impacts. The department shall coordinate these efforts with other state agencies, federal agencies, tribal governments, local governments, institutions of higher learning, and the food and agriculture sector. Emerging contaminants include but are not limited to pesticides, dioxins, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

(2) The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for emerging contaminants in food and agriculture are designated as a work project appropriation, and any unencumbered or unallotted funds do not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and are available for expenditures for projects under this section until the projects have been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a(1) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to support efforts to identify and respond to the impacts of emerging contaminants to the food and agriculture sector, help address and mitigate current issues caused by emerging contaminants, and work to prevent and minimize future impacts.

(b) The project will be accomplished by utilizing state employees or contracts with service providers, or both.

(d) The tentative completion date for the work project is September 30, 2029.

BUREAU OF FOOD safety and animal health

Sec. 401. (1) The department shall report on the previous fiscal year’s activities of the bureau of food safety and animal health. The report must include information on activities and outcomes of the dairy safety and inspection program, the food safety inspection program, the foodborne illness and emergency response program, and the food service program.

(2) The report must include information on significant foodborne outbreaks and emergencies, including any significant enforcement actions taken related to food safety during the prior calendar year.

(3) The department shall include in the report all indemnification payments for livestock depredation made in the previous calendar year and shall include all of the following:

(a) The reason for the indemnification.

(b) The amount of the indemnification.

(4) The report must be transmitted on or before April 1 of each year.

Sec. 402. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall pay for all whole herd bovine TB testing costs and individual animal testing costs in the modified accredited zone and buffer counties as referenced in the current memorandum of understanding between the department and the USDA to maintain split-state status requirements. These costs include indemnity and compensation for injury causing death or downer to animals.

Sec. 403. The department shall use its resources to collaborate with the USDA to monitor bovine TB, consistent with the current required memorandum of understanding between the department and the USDA.

Sec. 404. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for animal disease prevention and response, the department shall use $200,000.00 to cover costs associated with testing of registered privately owned cervid facilities as follows:

(a) Required surveillance testing for chronic wasting disease.

(b) Infected herd bovine TB testing.

Sec. 405. (1) On or before October 15 of each year, the department shall provide to the subcommittees, the fiscal agencies, and the state budget office a report on bovine TB status and department activities.

(2) For each fiscal quarter following the report required in subsection (1), the department shall provide an update. The quarterly update reports must identify significant impacts to the program, including new incidence of bovine TB in this state, department activity associated with specific new incidence of bovine TB, any changes in USDA requirements or movement orders, and information and data on wildlife risk mitigation plan implementation in the modified accredited zone; implementation of a movement certificate process; progress toward annual surveillance test requirements; efforts to work with slaughter facilities in this state, as well as those that slaughter a significant number of animals from this state; and educational programs and information for this state’s livestock community.

Sec. 406. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for Michigan animal agriculture alliance, the department shall work with animal industry representatives and state research universities to continue an animal research grant program.

BUREAU OF ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY

Sec. 501. The department shall report on the previous calendar year’s activities of the bureau of environment and sustainability on or before April 1 of each year.

Sec. 502. (1) The purpose of the part 1 appropriation for agricultural climate resiliency is to promote the usage and implementation of best regenerative agricultural farming practices and new technologies related to environmental sustainability, including measures to address the impacts of climate change. Program goals include enhancing soil and plant health, soil carbon sequestration, efficient use of water, and protection of water resources.

(2) The purpose of the part 1 appropriation for soil health/regenerative agriculture is advancing the adoption of soil health and regenerative agriculture principles in agriculture in this state.

(3) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for agricultural climate resiliency and soil health/regenerative agriculture, the department shall do both of the following:

(a) Promote the principles of soil health and regenerative agriculture through at least the following:

(i) The maintenance of soil cover.

(ii) The minimization of soil disturbance.

(iii) The maximization of plant and crop diversity.

(iv) The maximization of the presence of living roots.

(v) The integration of livestock into the cropping systems.

(b) Ensure that program outcomes include at least the following:

(i) The integration of livestock into the cropping systems.

(ii) The increase of soil organic matter content.

(iii) The improvement of soil water infiltration capacity.

(iv) The increase in soil water holding capacity.

(v) The improvement of soil biological capacity to break down plant residue and other substances and to maintain soil aggregation.

(vi) The improvement of soil nutrient sequestration and cycling capacity.

(vii) The reduction of nutrient losses.

(viii) The increase of carbon sequestration capacity of soil.

(4) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for agricultural climate resiliency and soil health/regenerative agriculture, the department shall promote practices of soil health and regenerative agriculture, including the use of no-till farming, intercropping, cover crops, multispecies cover crops, roller crimping, managed rotational grazing, and other practices identified that utilize natural biological processes to advance the goals of soil health and regenerative agriculture.

(5) No funds appropriated in part 1 for agricultural climate resiliency and soil health/regenerative agriculture may be used for applied research into the precision application of fertilizer, pesticides, or herbicides.

(6) It is the intention of the legislature that the department engage with program partners to achieve the purposes of the agricultural climate resiliency and soil health/regenerative agriculture programs through research, education, and outreach. Program partners include, but are not limited to, farmer-to-farmer networks, Michigan State University Extension, Michigan State University AgBioResearch, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, local conservation districts, and other nongovernmental organizations. Agreements with program partners receiving funds through agricultural climate resiliency and soil health/regenerative agriculture appropriations must describe intended outcomes and how intended outcomes will be measured and require the provision of a report to the department on uses of funding received and a progress report on outcomes.

(7) The department may use state employees or contract service providers, or both, to achieve the purposes of the agricultural climate resiliency and soil health/regenerative agriculture programs.

(8) In the report required under section 501 of this part, the department shall provide information on the program described in this section, including department activities, uses of program funds by activity or project, contractors, grantees, and a summary of projects and project results.

(9) Of the funds appropriated in part 1 for agricultural climate resiliency, not less than $6,100,000.00 must be used by the department to partner with the state land grant university through MSU Extension and AgBioResearch to develop, implement, and evaluate a soil health, regenerative agriculture, and climate resiliency program. The partnership described in this subsection must be focused on researching and assisting the agricultural industry in implementing climate resiliency, soil health, and regenerative agricultural principles and techniques. Partnership goals must include, but are not limited to, establishing program priorities, developing metrics, implementing goals, evaluating outcomes, and engaging with stakeholders.

Sec. 503. In addition to the report required under section 501, by April 1, the department shall prepare a report to be posted on the department’s website and provided to the relevant house and senate standing committees and appropriations subcommittees as well as to the fiscal agencies and state budget office. The report must contain the following information for agriculture nutrient best management voluntary practices program:

(a) The number and location of acres enrolled in nutrient management or other best management practices.

(b) The number of acres enrolled that were not previously verified under the MAEAP.

(d) The starting and ending balances of the program.

(e) A summary of outreach and training efforts.

(f) Testing results.

Sec. 505. The funds appropriated in part 1 for environmental stewardship/MAEAP must be used to support department agriculture pollution prevention programs, including groundwater and freshwater protection programs under part 87 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.8701 to 324.8717, and technical assistance in implementing conservation grants available under the federal farm bill.

Sec. 506. The department may receive and expend federal revenues up to a total of $1,000,000.00 in excess of the federal revenue appropriated in part 1 for environmental stewardship and MAEAP activities. The department shall notify the subcommittees, the fiscal agencies, and the state budget office prior to expending federal revenues authorized under this section.

Sec. 507. (1) From the appropriations in part 1 for local conservation districts, $3,000,000.00 must be distributed through a grant program to local conservation districts in this state that were in operation in the previous fiscal year, based upon criteria established by the department.

(2) On or before April 1, the department shall report on the previous calendar year’s activities of local conservation districts. The report must include descriptions of local conservation district activities and the use of funding. In preparing this report, the department shall coordinate with representatives of local conservation districts.

LABORATORY AND CONSUMER PROTECTIOn BUREAU

Sec. 601. The department shall report by April 1 on the previous calendar year’s activities of the laboratory bureau.

Sec. 602. No funds from the appropriations in part 1 may be used for the purpose of consolidating state-run laboratories.

AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT BUREAU

Sec. 701. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the food and agriculture investment program, the department shall operate a food and agriculture investment program.

(2) The food and agriculture investment program shall do all of the following:

(a) Expand the Michigan food and agriculture sector.

(b) Promote food security.

(d) Grow Michigan exports.

(e) Promote the development of value-added agricultural production.

(f) Support urban farms, food hubs, food incubators, and community-based processing facilities with a focus on new and expanding protein processors.

(g) Promote the expansion of farm markets, flower markets, and urban agriculture, including hoop houses.

(h) Increase food processing activities within this state by accelerating investment projects and infrastructure development that support growth in production agriculture and food and agriculture processing, expand opportunity to new agricultural producers and processors, promote agriculture tourism and agricultural heritage, and develop agricultural education and interpretation activities.

(3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, the department may receive and expend funds received from outside sources for the food and agriculture investment program.

(4) Before the allocation of funding, all projects must receive approval from the Michigan commission of agriculture and rural development, except for projects selected through a competitive process by a joint evaluation committee selected by the director and consisting of representatives that have agriculture, food security, local and regional food systems, business, and economic development expertise. Projects funded through the food and agriculture investment program will be required to have a grant agreement that outlines milestones and activities that must be met in order to receive a disbursement of funds. Projects must also identify measurable project outcomes.

(5) The department shall include, in the agriculture development annual report, a report on the food and agriculture investment program for the previous fiscal year that includes a listing of the grantees, award amounts, match funding, project locations, and project outcomes.

(6) The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for the food and agriculture investment program are designated as a work project appropriation, and any unencumbered or unallotted funds do not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and are available for expenditures for projects under this section until the projects have been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a(1) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to promote and expand the Michigan food and agriculture sector, grow Michigan exports, and increase food processing activities within the state.

(b) The project will be accomplished by utilizing state employees or contracts with service providers, or both.

(d) The tentative completion date for the work project is September 30, 2027.

(7) The department may expend money from the funds appropriated in part 1 for the food and agriculture investment program, including all of the following activities:

(a) Grants.

(b) Loans or loan guarantees.

(d) Other economic assistance.

(e) Program administration.

(f) Export assistance.

(8) The department shall expend no more than 5% from the funds appropriated in part 1 for the food and agriculture investment program for administrative purposes.

(9) In awarding grants under the food and agriculture investment program, the department shall identify and encourage applications from members of socially disadvantaged groups, women, veterans, and beginning farmers and ranchers. In awarding grants under the food and agriculture investment program, the department must also prioritize Michigan-based small businesses, nonprofits, and organizations promoting agriculture and food security activities.

Sec. 703. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for fair food network – double up food bucks, the department shall work with the fair food network to ensure that at least 80% of the funds allocated to the double up food bucks program are directly used for the payments to participating vendors.

(2) The department shall work with the department of health and human services to do all of the following:

(a) Notify recipients of food assistance program benefits that food assistance program benefits can be accessed at many farmer’s markets in this state with bridge cards.

(b) Notify recipients of food assistance program benefits about the double up food bucks program and that it is administered by the fair food network. Food assistance program recipients shall receive information about the double up food bucks program.

(3) The department shall work with the fair food network to expand access to the double up food bucks program in each of the state’s counties with grocery stores or farmer’s markets that meet the program’s eligibility requirements.

(4) On or before June 1, the department shall submit a report on activities and outcomes of the double up food bucks program. The report must contain all of the following:

(a) Counties in this state with participating double up food bucks vendors, the number of vendors by county, and the name and location of vendors, as of May 1, 2023.

(b) Counties in this state with participating double up food bucks vendors, the number of vendors by county, and the name of location of vendors, as of May 1, 2024. The report must highlight counties and vendors added to the program since May 1, 2023.

Sec. 706. (1) By not later than April 1, the department shall report on the previous calendar year’s activities of the agriculture development bureau.

(2) The report described in subsection (1) must include the following information on any grants awarded during the prior fiscal year:

(a) The name of the grantee.

(b) The amount of the grant.

(d) Additional state, federal, private, or local funds contributed to the grant project.

(e) The completion date of grant-funded activities.

(3) The report must include the following information on the Michigan craft beverage council established under section 303 of the Michigan liquor control code of 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.1303:

(a) Council activities and accomplishments for the previous fiscal year.

(b) Council expenditures for the previous fiscal year by category of administration, industry support, research and education grants, and promotion and consumer education.

(c) Grants awarded during the previous fiscal year and the results of research grant projects completed during the previous fiscal year.

(4) The report must identify grant recipients who are members of socially disadvantaged groups, women, veterans, and beginning farmers and ranchers.

Sec. 707. Unexpended industry support fund revenues at the end of the fiscal year may be carried forward into the industry support fund in the succeeding fiscal year and do not lapse to the general fund.

Sec. 708. (1) The appropriations in part 1 for the qualified forest program are for the purpose of increasing the knowledge of nonindustrial private forestland owners regarding sound forest management practices and increasing the amount of commercial timber production from those lands.

(2) The department shall work in partnership with stakeholder groups and other state and federal agencies to increase the active management of nonindustrial private forestland to foster the growth of this state’s timber product industry.

Sec. 709. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall maintain coordination with the department of treasury to improve the timely processing and issuance of tax credits under section 36109 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.36109, for the Michigan’s farmland and open space preservation program under parts 361 and 362 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.36101 to 324.3116 and 324.36201 to 324.36207. The improvement of timely processing and issuance, as described in this section, includes, but is not limited to:

(a) Timely review of mailed applications and paperwork.

(b) Timely and proactive communications to applicants on the status of their application.

FAIRS and EXPOSITIONS

Sec. 801. All appropriations from the agriculture equine industry development fund must be spent on equine-related purposes. No funds from the agriculture equine industry development fund must be expended for non-equine-related purposes without prior approval of the legislature.

Sec. 802. From the funds appropriated in part 1 from agriculture equine industry development funds, available revenue must be allocated in the following priority order:

(a) To support all administrative, contractual, and regulatory costs incurred by the department and the Michigan gaming control board.

(b) Any remaining funds collected through September 30, 2024, after the obligations in subdivision (a) have been met, must be prorated equally among the county fairs, supplements, breeders’ awards, and sire stakes awards to eligible race meeting licensees in accordance with section 20 of the horse racing law of 1995, 1995 PA 279, MCL 431.320.

Sec. 803. From the funds appropriated in part 1 from purses and supplements – fairs/licensed tracks, $720,000.00 may be spent only if there is no standardbred race meeting in this state that is licensed under the horse racing law of 1995, 1995 PA 279, MCL 431.301 to 431.336, by January 1, 2025.

Sec. 805. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for county fairs, shows, and expositions, the department shall establish and administer a county fairs, shows, and expositions grant program. The program must have the following objectives:

(a) Assist in the financing of building improvements or other capital improvements at county fairgrounds of this state.

(b) Provide financial support, promotion, prizes, and premiums of equine, livestock, and other agricultural commodity expositions in this state.

(2) The department shall award grants on a competitive basis to county fairs or other organizations from the funds appropriated in part 1 for county fairs, shows, and expositions grants. Grantees will be required to provide a 50% cash match with grant awards and identify measurable project outcomes. A county fair organization that received a county fair capital improvement grant in the prior fiscal year must not receive a grant from the appropriation in part 1.

(3) From the amount appropriated in part 1 for county fairs, shows, and expositions, up to $25,000.00 must be expended for the purpose of financial support, promotion, prizes, and premiums of equine, livestock, and other agricultural commodity expositions and festivals in this state.

(4) All fairs receiving grants under this section must provide a report to the department on the financial impact resulting from the capital improvement project on both fair and nonfair events. These reports are due for 3 years immediately following the completion of the capital improvement project.

(5) The department shall identify criteria, evaluate applications, and provide recommendations to the director for final approval of grant awards.

(6) The department may expend money from the funds appropriated in part 1 for the county fairs, shows, and expositions for administering the program.

(7) The unexpended portion of the appropriation in part 1 for county fairs, shows, and expositions grants are designated as a work project appropriation and any unencumbered or unallotted funds do not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and are available for expenditures for projects under this section until the projects have been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a(1) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to support building improvements or other capital improvements at county fairgrounds of this state.

(b) All grants will be distributed in accordance with this section and the grant guidelines published prior to the request for proposals.

(d) The estimated cost of the project is $500,000.00.

(e) The tentative completion date for the work project is September 30, 2027.

(8) The department shall provide a year-end report on the county fairs, shows, and expositions grants no later than December 1, 2025 that includes a listing of the grantees, award amounts, match funding, project outcomes, and department costs of grant administration.

ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

Sec. 901. (1) From the 1-time funds appropriated in part 1 for underserved-owned food and agriculture ventures, the department shall create a grant program to expand underserved businesses in food and agriculture. Grant recipients must be majority underserved-owned or ventures that are providing access to predominately majority underserved-owned businesses.

(2) The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for underserved-owned food and agriculture ventures are designated as a work project appropriation, and any unencumbered or unallotted funds do not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and are available for expenditures for projects under this section until projects have been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a(1) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.145a:

(a) The purpose of the project is the expansion of underserved-owned businesses in food and agriculture.

(b) The project is to be accomplished by utilizing state employees or contracts with service providers, or both.

(d) The tentative completion date for the work project is September 30, 2029.

Sec. 902. (1) From funds appropriated for the fruit and vegetable prescription program, the department shall allocate $500,000.00 to expand the fruit and vegetable prescription program in Genesee County and allow participants to redeem prescriptions at qualified full-service grocery stores and farmer’s markets participating in the program to positively impact the nutrition and health of children and families.

(2) On or before June 1, 2025, the administrators of the fruit and vegetable prescription program shall submit a report to the department, and the department shall then distribute the report to standard report recipients required on the activities and outcomes of the fruit and vegetable prescription program. The report must include a description of the program’s activities and contain both of the following:

(a) The number of fruit and vegetable prescriptions redeemed.

(b) The dollar amount of fruit and vegetable prescriptions redeemed.

Sec. 903. The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for study of agriculture stewardship is designated as a work project appropriation, and any unencumbered or unallotted funds do not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and are available for expenditures for those projects until the projects have been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a(1) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.145a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to create a report on the goals of agriculture stewardship with recommendations as to future strategies to best achieve those goals.

(b) The project is to be accomplished by utilizing contracts with service providers.

(d) The tentative completion date for the work project is September 30, 2029.

ARTICLE 2

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

part 1

line-item appropriations

Sec. 101. There is appropriated for the department of corrections for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, from the following funds:

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Full-time equated unclassified positions	16.0
Full-time equated classified positions	13,211.0
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	2,147,379,000
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental transfers			0
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	2,147,379,000
Federal revenues:
Total federal revenues			5,180,500
Special revenue funds:
Total local revenues			11,694,000
Total private revenues			0
Total other state restricted revenues			33,494,400
State general fund/general purpose		$	2,097,010,100
Sec. 102. DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT
Full-time equated unclassified positions	16.0
Full-time equated classified positions	395.0
Unclassified salaries—FTEs	16.0	$	2,294,100
Administrative hearings officers			3,988,000
Budget and operations administration—FTEs	303.0		43,990,400
Compensatory buyout and union leave bank			100
County jail reimbursement program			14,814,600
Employee wellness programming—FTEs	8.0		2,378,200
Equipment and special maintenance			1,559,700
Executive direction—FTEs	24.0		4,886,200
Judicial data warehouse user fees			50,600
New custody staff training			22,444,600
Prison industries operations—FTEs	60.0		10,188,800
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
Property management		$	2,479,200
Prosecutorial and detainer expenses			4,801,000
Worker’s compensation			11,659,700
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	125,535,200
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ, prison rape elimination act grant			674,700
Special revenue funds:
Correctional industries revolving fund			10,188,800
Correctional industries revolving fund 110			721,600
Jail reimbursement program fund			5,900,000
State general fund/general purpose		$	108,050,100
Sec. 103. OFFENDER SUCCESS ADMINISTRATION
Full-time equated classified positions	343.9
Community corrections comprehensive plans and services		$	14,198,100
Criminal justice reinvestment			2,548,400
Education/skilled trades/career readiness programs—FTEs	259.9		38,843,200
Enhanced food technology program—FTEs	11.0		1,680,800
Goodwill Flip the Script			1,250,000
Higher education in prison			1,250,000
Offender success community partners			19,175,000
Offender success federal grants			751,000
Offender success programming			15,742,200
Offender success services—FTEs	73.0		15,753,800
Probation residential services			14,575,500
Public safety initiative			2,000,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	127,768,000
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ, prisoner reintegration			751,000
Federal education funding			1,621,600
State general fund/general purpose		$	125,395,400
Sec. 104. FIELD OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION
Full-time equated classified positions	1,880.5
Field operations—FTEs	1,849.5	$	233,525,600
Parole board operations—FTEs	31.0		4,003,700
Parole/probation services			940,000
Residential alternative to prison program			1,500,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	239,969,300
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Community tether program reimbursement			275,000
Reentry center offender reimbursements			10,000
Supervision fees			6,630,500
Supervision fees set-aside			940,000
State general fund/general purpose		$	232,113,800
Sec. 105. CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ADMINISTRATION
Full-time equated classified positions	681.0
Body-worn cameras—FTEs	8.0	$	3,801,500
Central records—FTEs	43.0		5,035,100
Contraband prevention			1,000,000
Correctional facilities administration—FTEs	35.0		6,593,900
Housing inmates in federal institutions			511,000
Inmate housing fund			100
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
Inmate legal services		$	290,900
Intelligence unit—FTEs	30.0		4,021,500
Leased beds and alternatives to leased beds			100
Prison food service—FTEs	324.0		76,098,200
Prison store operations—FTEs	32.0		3,567,800
Transportation—FTEs	209.0		32,548,600
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	133,468,700
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ-BOP, federal prisoner reimbursement			411,000
SSA-SSI, incentive payment			272,000
Special revenue funds:
Correctional industries revolving fund 110			874,600
Resident stores			3,567,800
State general fund/general purpose		$	128,343,300
Sec. 106. HEALTH CARE
Full-time equated classified positions	1,525.3
Clinical complexes—FTEs	1,033.3	$	174,030,600
Health care administration—FTEs	18.0		3,727,700
Healthy Michigan plan administration—FTEs	12.0		1,045,000
Hepatitis C treatment			10,499,100
Interdepartmental grant to health and human services, eligibility specialists			120,200
Mental health and substance use disorder treatment services—FTEs	462.0		66,998,500
Prisoner health care services			117,540,700
Vaccination program			691,200
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	374,653,000
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues and reimbursements			415,400
Special revenue funds:
Prisoner health care co-payments			257,200
State general fund/general purpose		$	373,980,400
Sec. 107. CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
Full-time equated classified positions	8,381.3
Alger Correctional Facility - Munising—FTEs	259.0	$	33,416,400
Baraga Correctional Facility - Baraga—FTEs	295.8		39,605,900
Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility - Ionia—FTEs	415.2		52,028,100
Carson City Correctional Facility - Carson City—FTEs	422.4		53,554,000
Central Michigan Correctional Facility - St. Louis—FTEs	386.6		50,609,400
Charles E. Egeler Correctional Facility - Jackson—FTEs	386.6		50,267,800
Chippewa Correctional Facility - Kincheloe—FTEs	443.6		56,465,900
Cooper Street Correctional Facility - Jackson—FTEs	254.6		32,433,000
Detroit Detention Center—FTEs	75.8		11,419,000
Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility - Muskegon—FTEs	248.2		33,461,400
G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility - Jackson—FTEs	396.0		49,669,800
Gus Harrison Correctional Facility - Adrian—FTEs	304.0		39,797,900
Ionia Correctional Facility - Ionia—FTEs	293.3		38,157,900
Kinross Correctional Facility - Kincheloe—FTEs	247.3		34,594,900
Lakeland Correctional Facility - Coldwater—FTEs	275.4		36,356,400
Macomb Correctional Facility - New Haven—FTEs	313.3		41,215,200
Marquette Branch Prison - Marquette—FTEs	319.7		41,504,500
Muskegon Correctional Facility - Muskegon—FTEs	217.3		30,113,900
Newberry Correctional Facility - Newberry—FTEs	200.1		26,912,900
Oaks Correctional Facility - Eastlake—FTEs	289.4		38,522,200
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
Parnall Correctional Facility - Jackson—FTEs	266.1	$	33,090,000
Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility - Ionia—FTEs	268.3		35,454,400
Saginaw Correctional Facility - Freeland—FTEs	276.9		36,529,700
Special Alternative Incarceration Program - Jackson—FTEs	26.2		4,035,900
St. Louis Correctional Facility - St. Louis—FTEs	306.6		41,548,200
Thumb Correctional Facility - Lapeer—FTEs	295.6		37,920,600
Womens Huron Valley Correctional Complex - Ypsilanti—FTEs	506.1		65,059,300
Woodland Correctional Facility - Whitmore Lake—FTEs	296.9		40,427,500
Northern region administration and support—FTEs	43.0		4,652,800
Southern region administration and support—FTEs	52.0		19,243,500
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	1,108,068,400
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ, state criminal assistance program			1,034,800
Special revenue funds:
Local funds			11,419,000
State restricted fees, revenues and reimbursements			102,100
State general fund/general purpose		$	1,095,512,500
Sec. 108. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Information technology services and projects		$	31,516,400
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	31,516,400
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Correctional industries revolving fund 110			183,000
Supervision fees set-aside			718,800
State general fund/general purpose		$	30,614,600
Sec. 109. ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS
Full-time equated classified positions	4.0
Breast milk program—FTE	1.0	$	500,000
Higher education in prison			500,000
In-reach services expansion			500,000
Nation Outside			1,000,000
Peer-led reentry services			500,000
Thumb education center—FTEs	3.0		3,400,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	6,400,000
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Program and special equipment fund			3,400,000
State general fund/general purpose		$	3,000,000

part 2

provisions concerning appropriations

for fiscal year 2024-2025

general sections

Sec. 201. In accordance with section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, total state spending under part 1 from state sources is $2,130,504,500.00 and state spending under part 1 from state sources to be paid to local units of government is $123,656,000.00. The following itemized statement identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will occur:

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Community corrections comprehensive plans and services	$	14,198,100
County jail reimbursement program		14,814,600

For Fiscal Year

Ending Sept. 30,

2025

Field Operations	$	71,766,700
Leased beds and alternatives to leased beds		100
Probation residential services		14,575,500
Prosecutorial and detainer expenses		4,801,000
Public safety initiative		2,000,000
Residential alternative to prison program		1,500,000
TOTAL	$	123,656,000

Sec. 202. The appropriations under this part and part 1 are subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

Sec. 203. As used in this part and part 1:

(a) “Administrative segregation” means confinement for maintenance of order or discipline to a cell or room apart from accommodations provided for inmates who are participating in programs of the facility.

(b) “Department” means the department of corrections.

(d) “DOJ” means the United States Department of Justice.

(e) “DOJ-BOP” means the DOJ Bureau of Prisons.

(f) “Evidence-based” means a decision-making process that integrates the best available research, clinician expertise, and client characteristics.

(g) “FTE” means full-time equated position in the classified service of this state.

(h) “Goal” means the intended or projected result of a comprehensive corrections plan or community corrections program to reduce repeat offending, criminogenic and high-risk behaviors, prison commitment rates, the length of stay in a jail, or to improve the utilization of a jail.

(i) “Jail” means a facility operated by a local unit of government for the physical detention and correction of individuals charged with or convicted of criminal offenses.

(j) “OCC” means the office of community corrections.

(k) “Offender success” means that an offender has, with the support of the community, intervention of the field agent, and benefit of any participation in programs and treatment, made an adjustment while at liberty in the community such that the offender has not been sentenced to or returned to prison for the conviction of a new crime or the revocation of probation or parole.

(l) “Recidivism” means that term as defined in section 1 of 2017 PA 5, MCL 798.31.

(m) “Serious emotional disturbance” means that term as defined in section 100d(3) of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1100d.

(n) “Serious mental illness” means that term as defined in section 100d(4) of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1100d.

(o) “SSA” means the United States Social Security Administration.

(p) “SSA-SSI” means SSA supplemental security income.

(q) “Standard report recipients” means the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the senate and house policy offices, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office.

Sec. 205. To the extent permissible under section 261 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1261, all of the following apply to the expenditure of funds appropriated in part 1:

(a) The funds must not be used for the purchase of foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality American goods or services, or both, are available.

(b) Preference must be given to goods or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are competitively priced and of comparable quality.

Sec. 206. The department shall not take disciplinary action against an employee of the department or a prisoner because the employee or prisoner communicates with a member of the legislature or legislative staff unless the communication is prohibited by law and the department is exercising its authority as provided by law.

Sec. 207. Consistent with section 217 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1217, the department shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1. The report must list all travel outside this state by classified and unclassified employees in the immediately previous fiscal year that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s budget. The department shall submit the report to the standard report recipients and to the senate and house appropriations committees. The report must include the following information:

(a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

(b) The total transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence and the proportions funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, state restricted revenues, federal revenues, and other revenues.

Sec. 210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $2,500,000.00 for federal contingency authorization. Amounts appropriated are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

(2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $2,000,000.00 for local contingency authorization. Amounts appropriated are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

(a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

(b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

(c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name, payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

(d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

(e) Job specifications and wage rates.

Sec. 213. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 must not be used to restrict or impede a marginalized community’s access to government resources, programs, or facilities.

(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, local governments shall report any action or policy that attempts to restrict or interfere with the duties of the local health officer.

Sec. 214. To the extent permissible under the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594, the director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure geographically disadvantaged business enterprises compete for and perform contracts to provide services or supplies, or both. The director shall strongly encourage firms with which the department contracts to subcontract with certified geographically disadvantaged business enterprises for services, supplies, or both. As used in this section, “geographically disadvantaged business enterprises” means that term as defined in Executive Directive No. 2023-1.

Sec. 217. The department shall receive and retain copies of all reports funded from appropriations in part 1. The department shall follow federal and state guidelines for short-term and long-term retention of records. The department may electronically retain copies of reports unless otherwise required by federal and state guidelines.

Sec. 218. Not later than April 1, the department shall report on each specific policy change made to implement a public act affecting the department that took effect during the previous calendar year. The department shall submit the report to the standard report recipients and to the senate and house appropriations committees, the joint committee on administrative rules, the senate standing committee on civil rights, judiciary, and public safety, and the house standing committee on criminal justice.

Sec. 219. To the extent possible, the department shall not expend appropriations under part 1 until all existing authorized work project funds available for the same purposes are exhausted.

Sec. 220. (1) The state budget director shall take steps to ensure that all state fiscal recovery funds allocated to this state under the American rescue plan act of 2021, Public Law 117-2, are expended by December 31, 2026, as required by law. The state budget director may reallocate appropriated funds for the purpose of fully utilizing state fiscal recovery funds that are in jeopardy of not meeting the expenditure deadline for reasons that may include, but are not limited to, completed projects coming in under budget or funds unable to be fully used by subrecipients. The state budget director shall reallocate any of the funds reallocated under this subsection to the programs or purposes specified in this section. Any funds reallocated are unappropriated and immediately reappropriated for the following purposes:

(a) To reclassify general fund/general purpose appropriations for payroll and covered benefits for eligible public health and safety employees at the department of corrections.

(b) To reclassify general fund/general purpose appropriations for payroll and covered benefits for eligible public health and safety employees at the department of state police.

(2) All applicable guidance, implementation, and reporting provisions of Public Law 117-2 must be followed for state fiscal recovery funds reallocated and reappropriated under subsection (1).

DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT

Sec. 301. For 3 years after a felony offender is released from the department’s jurisdiction, the department shall maintain the offender’s file on the offender tracking information system and make it publicly accessible in the same manner as the file of the current offender. The department shall immediately remove the offender’s file from the offender tracking information system upon determination that the offender was wrongfully convicted and the offender’s file is not otherwise required to be maintained on the offender tracking information system.

Sec. 302. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department must submit a report not later than March 1 that includes an assessment of the cost and also details the effects on staffing since corrections officers and corrections medical officers were allowed to reach the highest level of pay within 3 years of service instead of reaching it within 5 years of service.

Sec. 303. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit a report not later than March 1 on the department’s staff retention strategies. The report must include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(a) The department’s strategies on how to improve employee engagement, how to improve employee wellness, and how to offer additional training and professional development for employees, including metrics the department is using to measure success of employee wellness programming.

(b) Mechanisms by which the department receives employee feedback in areas under subdivision (a) and how the department considers suggestions made by employees.

(c) Steps the department has taken, and future plans and goals the department has for retention and improving employee wellness.

Sec. 304. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit a report not later than March 1 on the number of employee departures. The report must include all of the following:

(a) The number of corrections officers that departed from employment at a state correctional facility in the previous fiscal year and the number of years they worked for the department.

(b) A chart that shows the normal distribution of employee departures in the positions described under subdivision (a) based on years of service. Years of service must be grouped into the following ranges: 1 to 3 years, 3 to 5 years, 5 to 10 years, 10 to 15 years, 15 to 20 years, and 20 and more years.

(i) Recruits who are in training at the academy that depart employment.

(ii) Recruits who are in training at a facility that depart employment.

(iii) Employees who have been on the job that depart employment.

(2) The department shall review all reasons for employee departures and summarize in the report required under this section the primary reasons for departure for each of the ranges of years of service described under subdivision (1)(b) based on the available responses.

Sec. 305. Funds appropriated in part 1 for prosecutorial and detainer expenses must be used to reimburse counties for housing and custody of parole violators and offenders being returned by the department from community placement who are available for return to institutional status and for prisoners who volunteer for placement in a county jail.

Sec. 306. The department shall provide fiduciary oversight of funds received under the local corrections officers training act, 2003 PA 125, MCL 791.531 to 791.546.

Sec. 307. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall issue a report not later than March 1 for all vendor contracts. The report must cover service contracts with a value of $500,000.00 or more and include all of the following:

(a) The original start date and the current expiration date of each contract.

(b) The number of available option years.

(d) The number and amount of fines, if any, for service-level agreement noncompliance for each vendor broken down by area of noncompliance.

Sec. 308. The department must ensure that a prisoner telephone system is maintained. The prisoner telephone system must meet ongoing operational needs of the department while maintaining the lowest per-minute rate possible. The department must provide notice at least 45 days in advance of each of the following taking effect:

(a) Changes to telephone rates.

(b) Extending the telephone contract, including the department exercising the option to extend the contract.

Sec. 309. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide for the training of all custody staff in effective and safe ways of handling prisoners with mental illness and referring prisoners to mental health treatment programs. Mental health awareness training must be incorporated into the training of new custody staff.

Sec. 310. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall issue a report for all correctional facilities not later than January 1 that includes all of the following information for each facility:

(a) The name, street address, and date of construction.

(b) The current maintenance costs.

(d) The current utility costs.

(e) The expected future capital improvement costs.

(f) The current unspent balance of any authorized capital outlay projects, including the original authorized amount.

(g) The expected future useful life.

Sec. 311. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide a report on the Michigan state industries program not later than December 1. The report must include, but is not limited to, all of the following information:

(a) The locations of the programs.

(b) The total number of participants at each location.

(d) How the program provides marketable skills that lead to employable outcomes after release from a department facility.

Sec. 312. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for employee wellness programming must be used for post-traumatic stress outreach, treating mental health issues, peer support programs, and providing mental health programming for all department staff, including former employees.

(2) Not later than December 15, the department shall submit a report on programs the department has established, the level of employee involvement, and expenditures made by the department for employee wellness programming.

Sec. 313. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for new custody staff, the department shall work to hire and train new corrections officers to address attrition of corrections officers and to decrease overtime costs. The department shall submit quarterly reports on new employee schools. The reports must include all of the following information for the immediately preceding fiscal quarter, and as much of the information as possible for the current and next fiscal year:

(a) The number of new employee schools that took place and the location of each.

(b) The number of recruits that started in each employee school.

(2) Third quarter reports must outline steps the department has taken to obtain the highest number of recruits possible for each new employee school. A report prepared under this subsection must include, but is not limited to, all of the following information:

(a) Internal sources of recruitment, including transfers and promotions.

(b) External sources of recruitment, including advertisements.

(c) Job portals, social networking platforms, placement agencies, job fairs, campus placements, or professional entities used for recruitment.

(d) Whether the department’s website was used to advertise vacancies.

Sec. 314. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit a quarterly report on the number of overtime hours worked by all custody staff, by facility. The report must include, for each facility, the reasons for overtime hours worked and the average number of overtime hours worked by active employees.

Sec. 315. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department may establish agreements and exchange offender data with local, state, and federal agencies, law enforcement, community service and treatment providers, and research partners in order to improve offender success, reduce recidivism risk, and enhance public safety. This data sharing may include, but is not limited to, efforts to support all of the following:

(a) Providing continuing access to behavioral health, physical health, and medication needs through community-based providers.

(b) Establishing assistance program eligibility and participation.

(d) Providing ongoing cognitive and behavioral treatment programming in the community.

(e) Providing substance abuse testing and referrals for counseling services and treatment.

(f) Providing vocational skill training, job placement support, and monitoring employment attainment.

(g) Determining educational attainment and needs.

(h) Establishing accurate offender identification, criminal histories, and monitoring new criminal activity.

(i) Measuring and evaluating treatment programs and services in support of evidence-based practices.

Sec. 317. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit 3-year and 5-year prison population projection updates not later than April 1, including explanations of the methodology and assumptions used in developing the projection updates.

Sec. 318. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall place the statistical report from the immediately preceding calendar year on a website not later than June 30. The statistical report must include, but not be limited to, the information as provided in the 2004 statistical report.

Sec. 319. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall report the reincarceration recidivism rates of offenders based on available data.

Sec. 320. (1) The department shall administer a county jail reimbursement program from the funds appropriated in part 1 for the purpose of reimbursing counties for housing in jails certain felons who otherwise would have been sentenced to prison.

(2) The county jail reimbursement program must be used to reimburse counties for convicted felons in the custody of the sheriff if the conviction was for a crime committed on or after January 1, 1999 and 1 of the following applies:

(a) The felon’s sentencing guidelines recommended range upper limit is more than 18 months, the felon’s sentencing guidelines recommended range lower limit is 12 months or less, the felon’s prior record variable score is 35 or more points, and the felon’s sentence is not for commission of a crime in crime class G or crime class H or a nonperson crime in crime class F under chapter XVII of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 777.1 to 777.69.

(b) The felon’s minimum sentencing guidelines range minimum is more than 12 months under the sentencing guidelines described in subdivision (a).

(c) The felon was sentenced to jail for a felony committed while the felon was on parole and under the jurisdiction of the parole board and for which the sentencing guidelines recommended range for the minimum sentence has an upper limit of more than 18 months.

(3) State reimbursement under this section must be $70.00 per diem per diverted offender for offenders with a presumptive prison guideline score, $60.00 per diem per diverted offender for offenders with a straddle cell guideline for a group 1 crime, and $45.00 per diem per diverted offender for offenders with a straddle cell guideline for a group 2 crime. Reimbursements must be paid for sentences up to a 1-year total.

(4) County jail reimbursement program expenditures must not exceed the amount appropriated in part 1 for the county jail reimbursement program. Payments to counties under the county jail reimbursement program must be made in the order in which properly documented requests for reimbursements are received. A request is properly documented if it meets departmental requirements for documentation. Not later than October 15, the department shall distribute the documentation requirements to all counties.

(5) Any county that receives funding under this section for the purpose of housing in jails certain felons who otherwise would have been sentenced to prison shall, as a condition of receiving the funding, report not later than September 30 an annual average jail capacity and annual average jail occupancy for the previous fiscal year.

(6) Not later than February 1, the department shall report all of the following information:

(a) The number of inmates sentenced to the custody of the sheriff and eligible for the county jail reimbursement program.

(b) The total amount paid to counties under the county jail reimbursement program.

(c) The total number of days inmates were in the custody of the sheriff and eligible for the county jail reimbursement program.

(d) The number of inmates sentenced to the custody of the sheriff under each of the 3 categories: presumptive prison, group 1 crime, and group 2 crime in subsection (3).

(e) The total amount paid to counties under each of the 3 categories: presumptive prison, group 1 crime, and group 2 crime in subsection (3).

(f) The total number of days inmates were in the custody of the sheriff under each of the 3 categories: presumptive prison, group 1 crime, and group 2 crime in subsection (3).

(g) The estimated cost of housing inmates sentenced to the custody of the sheriff and eligible for the county jail reimbursement program as inmates of a state prison.

(7) As used in this section:

(a) “Group 1 crime” means a crime in 1 or more of the following offense categories: arson, assault, assaultive other, burglary, criminal sexual conduct, homicide or resulting in death, other sex offenses, robbery, and weapon possession as determined by the department based on specific crimes for which counties received reimbursement under the county jail reimbursement program in fiscal year 2007 and fiscal year 2008, and listed in the county jail reimbursement program document titled “FY 2007 and FY 2008 Group One Crimes Reimbursed”, dated March 31, 2009.

(b) “Group 2 crime” means a crime that is not a group 1 crime, including larceny, fraud, forgery, embezzlement, motor vehicle offenses, malicious destruction of property, controlled substance offense, felony drunk driving, and other nonassaultive offenses.

(c) “In the custody of the sheriff” means that the convicted felon has been sentenced to the county jail and either is housed in a county jail, is in custody but is being housed at a hospital or medical facility for a medical or mental health purpose, or has been released from jail and is being monitored through the use of the sheriff’s electronic monitoring system.

Sec. 321. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide all of the following information on the offender population in a monthly report:

(a) Prison population by facility and security level, including the population of prisoners under the department’s jurisdiction housed in county jails.

(b) Net operating capacity according to the most recent certification report.

(d) Parole populations.

(e) Probation populations, with identification of the number of offenders in special alternative incarceration.

(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide all of the following information on the offender population in a quarterly report:

(a) The number of closed housing units and beds in those units, including the security level of closed beds.

(b) The number of prisoners serving life sentences.

(d) The number of prisoner intakes during the previous quarter.

(e) The number of prisoner exits, including paroles, maximum discharges, and other exits during the previous quarter.

(3) If the department knows it will not meet the reporting requirements under this section, the department shall immediately issue a report that states that fact and that lists the reasons for not meeting the reporting requirements.

Sec. 322. (1) On a quarterly basis, the department shall report on all of the following:

(a) A detailed accounting of all vacant positions that exist within the department.

(b) A detailed accounting of all correction officer positions at each correctional facility, including positions that are filled and positions that are vacant by facility.

(d) A detailed accounting of vacant positions that are being held open for temporarily nonactive employees.

(2) As used in this section, “vacant position” means any position that has not been filled at any time during the past 6 calendar months.

Sec. 323. The department may charge fees and collect revenues in excess of appropriations in part 1 not to exceed the cost of offender services and programming, employee meals, parolee loans, academic/vocational services, custody escorts, compassionate visits, union steward activities, and public works programs and services provided to local units of government or private nonprofit organizations. The revenues and fees collected are appropriated for all expenses associated with these services and activities.

Sec. 324. It is the intent of the legislature that the department establish and maintain a management-to-staff ratio of not more than 1 supervisor for each 8 employees at the department’s central office in Lansing and at both the northern and southern region administration offices.

Sec. 325. The department shall provide the state court administrative office data sufficient to administer the swift and sure sanctions program.

OFFENDER SUCCESS ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 401. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide a report not later than March 1 on offender success expenditures, allocations, and performance. The report must include, but not be limited to, details on prior-year expenditures, including amounts spent on each project funded, itemized by service provided and service provider. Reported performance factors must be reported by region and must include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(a) The number of individuals who received transitional housing services.

(b) The average length of stay in transitional housing.

(c) The number of individuals who received a referral for economic stability assistance and the number of referred individuals who secured employment or enrolled in education/training to increase economic stability.

(d) The number of referred individuals who maintained employment for 12 months or more.

(e) The total amount of leveraged services secured by the contractor.

(2) As used in this section, “leveraged services” means services that benefit clients that are not directly paid for by the department, such as educational scholarships or grants, workforce training grants, or housing choice vouchers.

(3) The department may accept cash or in-kind donations to supplement funds for prison education training, supplies, and materials necessary to complete the academic and jobs skills related programs. All funds received are appropriated and may be expended by the department. Any unexpended or unencumbered donations at the end of the fiscal year shall not lapse to the general fund but shall be carried forward to the subsequent fiscal year.

Sec. 403. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for offender success services, the department, when reasonably possible, shall ensure that inmates have potential employer matches in the communities to which they will return prior to each inmate’s initial parole hearing.

Sec. 404. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall design services for offender success and vocational education programs, collaborating with the department of labor and economic opportunity and local entities to the extent deemed necessary by the director. The department shall ensure the program provides relevant professional development opportunities to prisoners that are high quality, demand driven, locally receptive, and responsive to the needs of communities where the prisoners are expected to reside after their release from correctional facilities.

(2) Not later than March 1, the department shall provide a report detailing the results of the workforce development program.

Sec. 405. Funds awarded for probation residential services in part 1 must provide for all of the following:

(a) An initial client assessment reimbursement of $200.00.

(b) A per diem reimbursement of not more than $70.00.

Sec. 406. Allowable uses of community corrections comprehensive plans and services funds must include reimbursing counties for transportation, treatment costs, and housing drunk drivers during a period of assessment for treatment and case planning, in accordance with an approved comprehensive plan. Reimbursements for housing during the assessment process must be at the rate of $43.50 per day per offender, up to a maximum of 5 days per offender.

Sec. 407. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit the following information for each county and counties consolidated for community corrections comprehensive plans:

(a) Approved technical assistance grants and community corrections comprehensive plans including each program and level of funding, the utilization level of each program, and profile information of enrolled offenders.

(b) If federal funds are made available, the number of participants funded, the number served, the number successfully completing the program, and a summary of the program activity.

(d) Data on residential services, including participant data, participant sentencing guideline scores, program expenditures, average length of stay, and bed utilization data.

(e) Offender disposition data by sentencing guideline range, by disposition type, by prior record variable score, by number and percent statewide and by county, current year, and comparisons to the previous 3 years.

(f) Data on the use of funding made available under the drunk driver jail reduction and community treatment program.

(2) The report required under subsection (1) must include the total funding allocated, program expenditures, required program data, and year-to-date totals.

Sec. 408. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for public safety initiative, the law enforcement agency receiving funding under part 1 shall submit quarterly expenditure reports including a detailed listing of expenditures made, the purpose for which the expenditures were made, specific services provided, and the number of individuals served. Reports required under this section must be submitted to the standard report recipients and to the department of corrections.

(2) As a condition of receiving funding appropriated for public safety initiative, reports required in the previous fiscal year must be submitted before funds may be disbursed for the current fiscal year.

Sec. 409. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall establish and maintain policies and procedures that assist prisoners with obtaining a birth certificate, duplicate Social Security card, if eligible, DD Form 214 or other military documentation, state identification card, and operator’s license before parole or discharge.

Sec. 410. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for higher education in prison must be used by the department in collaboration with accredited universities or colleges to provide incarcerated individuals the opportunity to participate in comprehensive bachelor’s degree programs at no cost to the incarcerated individual. The funds must be used for eligible expenses including staffing, supplies, and tuition.

(2) Universities and colleges that receive funding under this section must report not later than July 1 on all of the following:

(a) Expenditure of funds.

(b) Number of participants served.

(d) Number of participants who completed the program.

Sec. 411. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for enhanced food technology program, the department shall maintain a program that provides on-the-job training in prison kitchens that provides prisoners the opportunity to earn food service training credentials recognized by the restaurant industry. The department shall use the funds appropriated in part 1 for enhanced food technology program to collaborate with the Michigan Restaurant and Lodging Association and other restaurant industry stakeholders to provide job placement assistance to individuals on probation or parole.

Sec. 412. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for offender success programming, the department shall establish medication-assisted treatment offender success pilot programs. A medication-assisted treatment offender success pilot program must provide prerelease treatment and postrelease referral for opioid- or alcohol-addicted offenders who voluntarily participate in a medication-assisted treatment offender success pilot program. The department shall collaborate with residential and nonresidential substance use disorder treatment providers and with community-based clinics to provide postrelease assessment and treatment. The programs shall employ a multifaceted approach to treatment, including various forms of medication-assisted treatment approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of opioid use disorder or alcohol use disorder, counseling, and postrelease referral to community-based providers. If clinically appropriate, the department shall consider the use of long-acting injectable formulations of FDA-approved medication-assisted treatment for alcohol and opioid use disorder when developing an offender’s release plan.

(2) The department shall submit a report not later than December 1 on all of the following:

(a) The number of offenders who received an injectable treatment for alcohol use disorder.

(b) The number of offenders who received an injectable treatment for opioid use disorder before release.

(c) The number of offenders who subsequently received treatment in the community for a duration of not less than 3 months.

(d) The number of offenders who received injections and were subsequently returned to prison during the previous fiscal year.

Sec. 413. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall ensure that any inmate with a diagnosed mental illness is referred to a local mental health care provider that is able and willing to treat the inmate upon parole or discharge. Upon referral, the department shall ensure that the provider is informed of the inmate’s current treatment plan including any medications that are currently prescribed to the inmate.

Sec. 414. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for Goodwill Flip the Script must be distributed to a Michigan-chartered 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation operating in a county with greater than 1,500,000 people for administration and expansion of a program that serves a population of individuals aged 16 to 39. The program must target individuals who are entering the criminal justice system for the first or second time and must assist those individuals through the following program types:

(a) Alternative sentencing programs in partnership with a local district or circuit court.

(b) Educational recovery for special adult populations with high rates of illiteracy.

(d) Financial counseling and coaching services.

(2) Not later than March 30, the selected program shall report on all of the following:

(a) Program performance measurements.

(b) The number of individuals diverted from incarceration.

(d) The outcomes of participants who completed the program.

Sec. 415. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall report not later than March 1 on academic and vocational programs, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(a) The number of instructors and the number of instructor vacancies, by program and facility.

(b) The number of prisoners enrolled in each program, the number of prisoners completing each program, the number of prisoners who do not complete each program, and the number of prisoners on waiting lists for each program.

(d) The steps the department has undertaken to improve programs, track records, accommodate transfers and prisoners with health care needs, and reduce waiting lists.

(e) The number of prisoners paroled without a high school diploma or a high school equivalency.

(f) The number of prisoners not paroled at their earliest release date because of a lack of a high school equivalency and the reason those prisoners have not obtained a high school equivalency.

Sec. 416. From the funds appropriated in part 1, priority may be given to funding reentry or rehabilitation programs, including faith-based initiatives, that have been demonstrated to reduce prison violence and recidivism.

Sec. 417. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for criminal justice reinvestment must be used only to fund data collection and evidence-based programs designed to reduce recidivism among probationers, parolees, and prisoners.

(2) Of the funds appropriated in part 1 for criminal justice reinvestment, not less than $600,000.00 must be allocated to an organization that has received a United States Department of Labor training to work 2-adult reentry grant to provide county jail inmates with programming and services to prepare them to get and keep jobs. Examples of eligible programs and services include, but are not limited to: adult education, tutoring, manufacturing skills training, participation in a simulated work environment, mentoring, cognitive therapy groups, life skills classes, substance use disorder recovery groups, fatherhood programs, classes in understanding the legal system, family literacy, health and wellness, finance management, employer presentations, and classes on job retention. Programming and support services should begin before release and continue after release from the county jail. To be eligible for funding, an organization must show not less than 2 years of data that demonstrate program success.

(3) The department shall report on programs described under this section not later than March 30. The report must include all of the following:

(a) The reincarceration recidivism rate of program participants.

(b) The employment rate of participants who complete the program.

Sec. 418. Revenues appropriated and collected for program and special equipment funds must be considered state restricted revenue. Funding must be used for prisoner programming, special equipment, and security projects. Not less than 75% of funding must be used for prisoner programming. Unexpended funds remaining at the close of the fiscal year must not lapse to the general fund but must be carried forward and made available for appropriation in subsequent fiscal years.

Sec. 419. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall report on the department’s plans to eliminate programming for prisoners. The report must be provided not less than 30 days before program elimination. As used in this section, “programming for prisoners” means a department core program or career and technical education program funded in part 1.

FIELD OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 501. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall prepare individual reports not later than March 1 for the residential reentry program, the electronic monitoring program, and the special alternative to incarceration program. Each program’s report must include information on all of the following:

(a) Monthly new participants by type of offender. Residential reentry program participants must be categorized by reason for placement. For technical rule violators, the report must sort offenders by length of time since release from prison, by the most recent violation, and by the number of violations occurring since release from prison.

(b) Monthly participant unsuccessful terminations, including cause.

(d) End-of-month population by facility and program.

(e) Average length of placement.

(f) Return to prison statistics.

(g) Description of each program location or locations, capacity, and staffing.

(h) Sentencing guideline scores and actual sentence statistics for participants, if applicable.

(i) Comparison with previous year statistics.

(j) Analysis of the impact on prison admissions, jail utilization, and the cost effectiveness of the program.

Sec. 502. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall review and revise as necessary policy proposals that provide alternatives to prison for offenders being sentenced to prison as a result of technical probation violations and technical parole violations. To the extent the department has insufficient policies or resources to affect the continued increase in prison commitments among these offender populations, from the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall explore other policy options to allow for program alternatives, including department or OCC-funded programs, local level programs, and programs available through private agencies that may be used as prison alternatives for these offenders.

(2) Not later than April 1, the department shall provide a report on the number of all parolees returned to prison and probationers sentenced to prison for either a technical violation or new sentence during the previous fiscal year. The report must include the following information for probationers, for parolees after their first parole, and for parolees who have been paroled more than once:

(a) The numbers of parole and probation violators returned to or sent to prison for a new crime with a comparison of original versus new offenses by major offense type: assaultive, nonassaultive, drug, and sex.

(b) The numbers of parole and probation violators returned to or sent to prison for a technical violation and the type of violation, including, but not limited to, zero gun tolerance and substance use disorder violations. For parole technical rule violators, the report must list violations by type, by length of time since release from prison, by the most recent violation, and by the number of violations occurring since release from prison.

(c) The educational history of those offenders, including how many had a high school equivalency or high school diploma before incarceration in prison, how many received a high school equivalency while in prison, and how many received a vocational certificate while in prison.

(d) The number of offenders who participated in the reentry program versus the number of those who did not.

(e) The unduplicated number of offenders who participated in substance use disorder treatment programs, mental health treatment programs, or both, while in prison, itemized by diagnosis.

Sec. 503. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for residential alternative to prison program, the department shall provide vocational, educational, and cognitive programming in a secure environment to enhance existing alternative sentencing options, increase employment readiness and successful placement rates, and reduce new criminal behavior for the west Michigan probation violator population. The department must ensure that all of the following program goals are attained:

(a) Participants successfully complete the program.

(b) Participants completing the program earn a nationally recognized credential for a career or vocational program.

(d) Reduction of the prison commitment rate for probation violators within the impacted geographic area.

Sec. 504. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall issue quarterly reports for the previous 4 quarters detailing outcomes of prisoners who have been reviewed for parole. The report must include all of the following:

(a) How many prisoners in each quarter were reviewed.

(b) How many prisoners were granted parole.

(d) How many parole decisions were deferred.

(e) The distribution of the total number of prisoners reviewed during that quarter grouped by whether the prisoner had been interviewed for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or more than sixth time.

(f) The number of paroles granted, denied, or deferred for each of the parole guideline scores of low, average, and high.

(g) The reason for denying or deferring parole.

HEALTH CARE

Sec. 601. Not later than April 1, the department shall provide a report on all of the following:

(a) Physical and mental health care, pharmaceutical services, and durable medical equipment for prisoners. A report under this section must detail previous fiscal year expenditures itemized by vendor, allocations, status of payments from contractors to vendors, and projected year-end expenditures from accounts. A report under this section must include a breakdown of all payments to the integrated care provider and to other providers itemized by physical health care, mental health care, pharmaceutical services, and durable medical equipment expenditures.

(b) Pharmaceutical prescribing practices, including a detailed accounting of expenditures on antipsychotic medications, and any changes that have been made to the prescription drug formularies.

(c) A status report on efforts to develop measurable data and outcomes for physical and mental health care within the prisoner population.

Sec. 602. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide prisoners with a brochure that explains the purpose and importance of signing a medical release of information form. The department shall ensure that all prisoners, upon any health care treatment funded from appropriations in part 1, are given the opportunity to sign a medical release of information form designating a family member or other individual to whom the department shall release records and information regarding the prisoner upon the request of the prisoner. The prisoner may elect to withdraw or amend the medical release of information form at any time.

(2) The department shall ensure that a signed medical release of information form follows a prisoner upon transfer to another department facility or to the supervision of a parole officer.

(3) The medical release of information form must be placed online, on a public website managed by the department.

Sec. 603. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide a report not later than April 1 on prisoner health care utilization in the previous fiscal year, by facility, that includes all of the following:

(a) The number of inpatient hospital days.

(b) The number of outpatient visits.

(d) The number of prisoners receiving off-site inpatient medical care.

(e) The top 10 most common chronic care conditions.

Sec. 604. Funds appropriated in part 1 for Hepatitis C treatment must be used only to purchase specialty medication for Hepatitis C treatment in the prison population. In addition to the above appropriation, any rebates received from the medications used must be used only to purchase specialty medication for Hepatitis C treatment. Not later than February 15, the department shall issue a report for the previous fiscal year that includes all of the following:

(a) The total amount spent on specialty medication for the treatment of Hepatitis C.

(b) The number of prisoners who were treated for Hepatitis C.

(c) The amount of any rebates that were received from the purchase of specialty medication, and what, if any, outstanding rebates are expected to be received.

(d) The Hepatitis C status of all incoming prisoners and the number of prisoners who are reinfected while incarcerated and require retreatment for Hepatitis C.

(e) The number of those treated and released and then retreated upon reincarceration.

Sec. 605. Not later than March 1, the department shall provide an annual report on the utilization of Medicaid benefits for prisoners.

Sec. 606. Not later than March 1, the department shall report on the number of prisoners who received medication-assisted therapies. The report must include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(a) The length of time each prisoner received those therapies.

(b) The number of prisoners who have discontinued treatment while incarcerated.

(d) The number of prisoners prescribed each medication listed in subdivision (c).

Sec. 607. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for mental health and substance use disorder treatment, the department must maintain not less than 3 medication-assisted treatment clinics at correctional facilities that allow the department to treat the highest number of prisoners with opioid use disorder as possible. Funding must be used by the department to support costs of staff, including nurses, qualified mental health professionals, recovery coaches, and corrections officers, and costs of medication and supplies. Participating prisoners must be provided with the option of receiving 1 injection of medication immediately before being released from prison into the community.

(2) The department shall submit quarterly reports on the establishment and operation of medication-assisted treatment clinics. A report under this subsection must include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(a) Clinic site locations.

(b) Staffing levels.

(d) Number of prisoners treated.

(e) Number of prisoners requiring treatment but not yet receiving treatment.

CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 701. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for prison food service, the department shall report not later than January 15 on the following:

(a) Average per-meal cost for prisoner food service. Per-meal cost includes all costs directly related to the provision of food for the prisoner population, including, but not limited to, actual food costs, total compensation for all food service workers, including benefits and legacy costs, and inspection and compliance costs for food service.

(b) Food service-related contracts, including goods or services to be provided and the vendor.

Sec. 702. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall calculate the cost per prisoner per day for each security custody level. This calculation must include all actual direct and indirect costs for the previous fiscal year. To calculate the cost per prisoner per day, the department shall divide the prisoner-related costs by the total number of prisoner days for each custody level and correctional facility. For multilevel facilities, costs that cannot be accurately allocated to each custody level may be included in the calculation on a per-prisoner basis for each facility. A report summarizing these calculations must be submitted not later than January 15. Prisoner-related costs included in the cost per prisoner per day calculation must include all expenditures for the following, from all fund sources:

(a) New custody staff training.

(b) Prison industries operations.

(d) Enhanced food technology program.

(e) Offender success programming.

(f) Central records.

(g) Correctional facilities administration.

(h) Housing inmates in federal institutions.

(i) Inmate legal services.

(j) Leased beds and alternatives to leased beds.

(k) Prison food service.

(l) Prison store operations.

(m) Transportation.

(n) Health care.

(o) Correctional facilities.

(p) Northern and southern region administration and support.

Sec. 703. Any local unit of government or private nonprofit organization that contracts with the department for public works services is responsible for financing the entire cost of such an agreement.

Sec. 704. The department shall allow the Michigan Braille transcribing fund program to operate at designated locations. The department shall continue to encourage the Michigan Braille transcribing fund program to produce high-quality materials for use by the visually impaired.

Sec. 705. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall report all of the following regarding critical incidents by facility:

(a) Within 72 hours of occurrence, any critical incident occurring at a correctional facility. The report must identify the facility at which the incident occurred.

(b) Not later than March 1, the number of critical incidents occurring each month at each facility during the previous calendar year, categorized by type and severity of each incident.

(2) As used in this section, “critical incident” includes a prisoner assault on staff that results in a serious physical injury to staff, an escape or attempted escape, a prisoner disturbance that causes facility operation concerns, a drug overdose or suspected overdose that results in inpatient hospitalization, and an unexpected death of a prisoner.

Sec. 706. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall report not later than March 1 on all of the following ratios for each correctional facility:

(a) Corrections officers to prisoners.

(b) Shift command staff to line custody staff.

Sec. 707. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall focus on providing required programming to prisoners who are past their earliest release date and have not been paroled because of not having received the required programming. Programming includes, but is not limited to, violence prevention programming, sexual abuse prevention programming, substance use disorder programming, thinking for a change programming, and any other programming that is required as a condition of parole.

(2) To the extent feasible, the department shall consistently provide prisoner programming with the goal of having prisoners complete recommended cognitive programming as early as possible during the prisoner’s sentence to impact the prisoner’s behavior while incarcerated. Nothing in this section makes parole denial appealable in court.

(3) The department shall submit a quarterly report detailing enrollment in sex abuse prevention programming, violence prevention programming, and thinking for a change programming. At a minimum, the report must include all of the following:

(a) A full accounting, from the date of entrance to prison, of the number of individuals who are required to complete the programming, but have not yet done so.

(b) The number of individuals who have reached their earliest release date, but who have not completed required programming.

Sec. 708. If a pregnant prisoner in a facility funded from appropriations in part 1 consents to a visitor being present, the department shall allow that 1 person to be present during the prisoner’s labor and delivery, in addition to a doula being present if the pregnant prisoner wants to work with a doula. The person allowed to accompany the prisoner must be an immediate family member, legal guardian, spouse, or domestic partner. The department is authorized to deny access to a visitor if the department has a safety concern with that visitor’s access. The department is authorized to conduct a criminal background check on the visitor.

Sec. 709. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall evaluate all prisoners at intake for substance use disorders, serious developmental disorders, serious mental illness, and other mental health disorders. Prisoners with serious mental illness or serious developmental disorders must not be removed from the general population as a punitive response to behavior caused by their serious mental illness or serious developmental disorder. A prisoner with serious mental illness or serious developmental disorder that is unresponsive to treatment who presents a persistent high violence risk or engages in severe disruptive behavior may be placed in secure residential housing programs that facilitate access to institutional programming and ongoing mental health services funded from appropriations in part 1. A prisoner with serious mental illness or serious developmental disorder who is confined in these specialized housing programs must be evaluated or monitored by a medical professional at a frequency of not less than every 12 hours.

Sec. 710. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall report not later than March 1 on the annual number of prisoners during the previous fiscal year in administrative segregation and, of those, the number who at any time during the current or previous prison term were diagnosed with serious mental illness or have a developmental disorder and the number of days each of the prisoners with serious mental illness or a developmental disorder have been confined to administrative segregation.

(2) The report required in subsection (1) must include a chart listing the number of prisoners housed in administrative segregation for each of the following time periods:

(a) A continuous period exceeding 3 months but less than 6 months.

(b) A continuous period exceeding 6 months but less than 12 months.

(3) For any prisoner housed in administrative segregation for 12 months or longer, an explanation of the circumstances surrounding the prisoner’s placement in administrative segregation.

Sec. 711. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall do all of the following:

(a) Ensure that any inmate care and control staff in contact with prisoners less than 18 years of age are adequately trained with regard to the developmental and mental health needs of prisoners less than 18 years of age. Not later than April 1, the department shall report on the training curriculum used and the number and types of staff receiving annual training under that curriculum.

(b) Provide appropriate placement for prisoners less than 18 years of age who have serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder and need to be housed separately from the general population. Prisoners less than 18 years of age who have serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder must not be removed from an existing placement as a punitive response to behavior caused by their serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder. A prisoner who is less than 18 years of age with serious mental illness or a serious developmental disorder that is unresponsive to treatment who presents a persistent high violence risk or engages in severe disruptive behavior may be placed in secure residential housing programs that facilitate services. A prisoner less than 18 years of age with serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder who is confined in these specialized housing programs must be evaluated or monitored by a medical professional at a frequency of not less than every 12 hours.

(c) Implement a specialized offender success program that recognizes the needs of prisoners less than 18 years of age for supervised offender success.

Sec. 712. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall submit quarterly reports on the number of youth in prison. The report must include, but not be limited to, all of the following information:

(a) The total number of inmates under age 18 who are not on Holmes youthful trainee act status.

(b) The total number of inmates under age 18 who are on Holmes youthful trainee act status.

Sec. 713. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department must submit a report on the number of prisoners who lost visiting privileges. The report required under this section must be submitted not later than November 15 and include data for the previous fiscal year. The report must include all of the following information:

(a) The number of prisoners who lost visiting privileges by race and by violation type.

(b) The number of cumulative days visitation rights were lost since the start of the fiscal year.

(d) The number of prisoners who had visiting privileges restored.

(e) The number of prisoners who had visiting restrictions extended.

Sec. 714. Funds appropriated in part 1 for intelligence unit must be used by the department to maintain an intelligence unit to conduct investigatory and intelligence operations for the department. Intelligence operations must include, but not be limited to, intelligence operations for prisoner phone services. Savings that result from transferring responsibility for intelligence operations from the contractor to the department must be passed on to prisoners and prisoners’ families as the department continues to negotiate lower phone call rates in all future contracts. The department must continue to pursue all opportunities for reducing further the cost of phone calls for prisoners and prisoners’ families.

Sec. 715. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department must submit a preliminary report on the department’s plans to close, consolidate, or relocate any correctional facility in the state. The preliminary report must be provided not less than 30 days before the effective date of the closure, consolidation, or relocation. The preliminary report must include the projected savings to the state from closure, consolidation, or relocation of the facility and must include a projection of the potential impact on staff positions.

(2) After a prison closure, consolidation, or relocation, the department must submit a report on the actual savings achieved by the department and the impact on staff positions. Savings amounts and impact on staff positions must be itemized by facility. The report required under this subsection must be submitted 6 months after the prison closure, consolidation, or relocation.

(3) If the department is planning to close a correctional facility, the department must complete an analysis of the potential economic impact of the correctional facility closure on the local community where the facility is located. The analysis must be submitted within 30 days of the department’s announcement regarding closure of the facility.

Sec. 716. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall consult with the legislature and other appropriate state agencies to develop a framework to provide investment in communities that have formerly operational state correctional facilities that have been closed. This framework must include plans to ensure that vacant state correctional facilities do not become a nuisance or danger to the community.

Sec. 717. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall make an information packet for the families of incoming prisoners available on the department’s website. The information packet must be reviewed not later than February 1 and updated as necessary. The department may partner with external advocacy groups and actual families of prisoners in the packet-writing process to ensure that the information is useful and complete. The packet must provide information on topics including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(a) How to put money into prisoner accounts.

(b) How to make telephone calls or create Jpay email accounts.

(d) Proper procedures for filing complaints or grievances.

(e) The rights of prisoners to physical and mental health care.

(f) The purpose and importance of prisoners signing a medical release of information form.

(g) How to utilize the offender tracking information system (OTIS).

(h) Truth in sentencing and how it applies to minimum sentences.

(i) The parole process.

(j) Guidance on the importance of the role of families in the reentry process.

Sec. 718. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department must pursue all opportunities to reduce costs for prisoners and prisoners’ families for financial deposit fees and commissary fees when the department negotiates or renews any contract to provide these services.

ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

Sec. 801. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for breast milk program must be used to fund a program to provide breast milk to the newborns of postpartum prisoners.

(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall work in collaboration with Mama’s Mobile Milk to develop a contract for delivery services to ensure that every incarcerated individual who has given birth within the last 18 months has an opportunity to express breast milk for delivery to the child. Funds appropriated in part 1 must be used by the department to ensure that participating incarcerated individuals have access to necessary supplies, including a breast pump and appropriate, sanitary containers, and suitable sanitary storage of expressed milk while milk is in the department’s possession.

(3) The department, its officials, and employees are immune from criminal and civil liability arising out of their involvement with the process set forth in this program.

(4) Mama’s Mobile Milk shall submit quarterly reports on all of the following:

(a) The number of incarcerated individuals participating in the program.

(b) The length of time incarcerated individuals participate.

(d) The location of infants served.

(e) The custodial responsibility of infants served.

(5) Unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for breast milk program are designated as a work project appropriation. Unencumbered or unallotted funds must not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and must be available for expenditure until the project has been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to fund a program to provide breast milk to the newborns of postpartum prisoners.

(b) The project will be accomplished by utilizing state employees or contracts with service providers, or both.

(d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2028.

Sec. 802. In addition to the $900,000.00 in ongoing funding appropriated in part 1 for offender success services to provide in-reach services, the department must allocate $500,000.00 in 1-time funding for the same purpose. Funding must be used to expand the provision of in-reach parole planning services to all parolees prior to release from prison.

Sec. 803. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for Nation Outside must be used by the department to support a contract with the goal of supporting statewide peer-led reentry programming. The contract must include peer-led group mentoring, along with 1-on-1 peer mentoring for referred parolees to improve housing, civic engagement, transportation, education, employment, and access to health care and insurance.

(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for Nation Outside, the program must enlist Wayne State University to perform an independent program evaluation of the pilot program.

(3) By July 1, Nation Outside must submit a report that includes all of the following information, as applicable:

(a) A list of program expenditures.

(b) The number of enrollees.

(d) The rate of 30-day, 90-day, and 2-year employment retention post release.

(e) The number of individuals who successfully complete a court-ordered sentence.

(f) The 1-, 2-, and 3-year return to prison rates, if available.

(g) Outcomes and performance measures.

Sec. 804. In addition to the $1,500,000.00 in ongoing funding appropriated in part 1 for offender success community partners to provide peer-led reentry services, the department must allocate $500,000.00 in 1-time funding for the same purpose. Funding must be used to expand the provision of peer-led reentry services to parolees.

Sec. 805. (1) Unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for Thumb education center are designated as a work project appropriation. Unencumbered or unallotted funds must not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and must be available for expenditures under this section until the project has been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to provide education and vocational training at the Thumb Correctional Facility.

(b) The project will be accomplished by utilizing state employees, contracts with service providers, or both.

(d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2028.

ARTICLE 3

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

part 1

line-item appropriations

Sec. 101. There is appropriated for the department of education for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025 from the following funds:

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Full-time equated unclassified positions	6.0
Full-time equated classified positions	568.5
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	164,975,100
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental transfers			0
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	164,975,100
Federal revenues:
Total federal revenues			82,550,500
Special revenue funds:
Total local revenues			5,868,500
Total private revenues			2,542,200
Total other state restricted revenues			10,117,800
State general fund/general purpose		$	63,896,100
Sec. 102. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION/OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT
Full-time equated unclassified positions	6.0
Full-time equated classified positions	11.0
Unclassified salaries—FTE positions	6.0	$	1,155,600
Education commission of the states			120,800
State board of education, per diem payments			24,400
State board/superintendent operations—FTEs	11.0		2,527,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	3,827,800
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues		$	306,600
Special revenue funds:
Private foundations			80,000
Certification fees			835,100
State general fund/general purpose		$	2,606,100
Sec. 103. DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT
Full-time equated classified positions	44.6
Central support operations—FTEs	41.6	$	6,742,600
Federal and private grants			3,000,000
Grant and contract operations—FTEs	3.0		2,029,900
Property management			3,985,000
Terminal leave payments			353,300
Training and orientation workshops			150,000
Worker’s compensation			6,200
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	16,267,000
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal indirect revenues			2,296,800
Federal revenues			5,539,100
Special revenue funds:
Private foundations			1,000,000
Certification fees			616,800
Teacher testing fees			80,600
Training and orientation workshop fees			150,000
State general fund/general purpose		$	6,583,700
Sec. 104. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Information technology services and projects		$	4,783,400
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	4,783,400
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal indirect revenues			2,421,500
Federal revenues			70,600
Special revenue funds:
Certification fees			977,400
State general fund/general purpose		$	1,313,900
Sec. 105. SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES
Full-time equated classified positions	47.0
Special education operations—FTEs	47.0	$	9,555,600
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	9,555,600
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues			8,955,700
Special revenue funds:
Private foundations			111,800
Certification fees			49,200
State general fund/general purpose		$	438,900
Sec. 106. MICHIGAN SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND
Full-time equated classified positions	82.0
ASL literacy resources		$	1,000,000
Camp Tuhsmeheta—FTE	1.0		1,000,400
Low incidence outreach program			1,000,000
Michigan schools for the deaf and blind operations—FTEs	81.0		16,714,000
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
Private gifts - blind		$	200,000
Private gifts - deaf			150,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	20,064,400
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues			7,639,400
Special revenue funds:
Local cost sharing (schools for deaf/blind)			5,868,500
Gifts, bequests, and donations			1,350,400
Low incidence outreach fund			1,000,000
Student insurance revenue			206,100
State general fund/general purpose		$	4,000,000
Sec. 107. EDUCATOR EXCELLENCE
Full-time equated classified positions	53.0
Educator excellence operations—FTEs	52.0	$	10,480,000
Educator recruitment and preparation programs—FTE	1.0		1,675,600
Teacher license renewals			280,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	12,435,600
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues			3,173,000
Special revenue funds:
Certification fees			4,190,100
Teacher testing fees			203,300
State general fund/general purpose		$	4,869,200
Sec. 108. SYSTEMS, EVALUATION, AND TECHNOLOGY
Full-time equated classified positions	18.0
Office of systems, evaluation, and technology operations—FTEs	18.0	$	3,132,900
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	3,132,900
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal indirect revenues			145,500
Federal revenues			1,656,800
Special revenue funds:
Certification fees			11,000
State general fund/general purpose		$	1,319,600
Sec. 109. STRATEGIC PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION
Full-time equated classified positions	6.0
Strategic planning and implementation operations—FTEs	6.0	$	1,194,100
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	1,194,100
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues			643,100
State general fund/general purpose		$	551,000
Sec. 110. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW SERVICES
Full-time equated classified positions	2.0
Administrative law operations—FTEs	2.0	$	1,424,500
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	1,424,500
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues			573,300
Special revenue funds:
Certification fees			745,800
State general fund/general purpose		$	105,400
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
Sec. 111. ACCOUNTABILITY SERVICES
Full-time equated classified positions	63.6
Accountability services operations—FTEs	63.6	$	14,921,300
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	14,921,300
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues			12,981,800
State general fund/general purpose		$	1,939,500
Sec. 112. SCHOOL SUPPORT SERVICES
Full-time equated classified positions	82.6
Adolescent and school health		$	334,100
School support services operations—FTEs	82.6		15,969,300
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	16,303,400
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues			13,127,300
Special revenue funds:
Commodity distribution fees			150,000
State general fund/general purpose		$	3,026,100
Sec. 113. EDUCATIONAL SUPPORTS
Full-time equated classified positions	84.7
Educational supports operations—FTEs	84.7	$	17,696,000
Michigan core curriculum			750,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	18,446,000
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues			13,175,600
Special revenue funds:
Certification fees			602,400
State general fund/general purpose		$	4,668,000
Sec. 114. CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Full-time equated classified positions	25.0
Career and technical education operations—FTEs	25.0	$	5,668,700
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	5,668,700
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues			4,099,200
State general fund/general purpose		$	1,569,500
Sec. 115. LIBRARY OF MICHIGAN
Full-time equated classified positions	33.0
Library of Michigan operations—FTEs	31.0	$	5,173,000
Library services and technology program—FTE	1.0		5,630,700
Michigan eLibrary—FTE	1.0		1,740,800
Renaissance zone reimbursements			2,200,000
State aid to libraries			16,567,700
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	31,312,200
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues			5,630,700
Special revenue funds:
Library fees			300,000
State general fund/general purpose		$	25,381,500
Sec. 116. PARTNERSHIP DISTRICT SUPPORT
Full-time equated classified positions	13.0
Partnership district support operations—FTEs	13.0	$	3,638,200
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	3,638,200
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
Federal revenues			114,500
State general fund/general purpose		$	3,523,700
Sec. 118. ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS
Full-time equated classified positions	3.0
Charter school transparency database—FTE	1.0	$	150,000
Community health worker career center			325,000
Mental health training			275,000
Michigan test for teacher certification reimbursement			1,100,000
School infrastructure and consolidation administration—FTEs	2.0		150,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	2,000,000
Appropriated from:
State general fund/general purpose		$	2,000,000

part 2

provisions concerning appropriations

for fiscal year 2024-2025

general sections

Sec. 201. In accordance with section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, total state spending under part 1 from state sources is $74,013,900.00 and state spending under part 1 from state sources to be paid to local units of government is $19,242,700.00. The following itemized statement identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will occur:

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Community health worker career center		325,000
Renaissance zone reimbursements		2,200,000
School support services operations		150,000
State aid to libraries		16,567,700
TOTAL	$	19,242,700

Sec. 202. The appropriations under this part and part 1 are subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

Sec. 203. As used in this part and part 1:

(a) “Department” means the department of education.

(b) “DHHS” means the department of health and human services.

(c) “District” means a local school district as that term is defined in section 6 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.6, or a public school academy as that term is defined in section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.5.

(d) “FTE” means full-time equated.

(e) “HHS” means the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

(f) “Standard report recipients” means the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the senate and house policy offices, and the state budget office.

Sec. 205. To the extent permissible under section 261 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1261, all of the following apply to the expenditure of funds appropriated in part 1:

(a) The funds must not be used for the purchase of foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality American goods or services, or both, are available.

(b) Preference must be given to goods or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are competitively priced and of comparable quality.

(a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

Sec. 209. Not later than December 15, the state budget office shall prepare and submit a report that provides estimates of the total general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the previous fiscal year. The report must summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by major departmental program or program areas. The state budget office shall transmit the report to the standard report recipients and to the chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees.

Sec. 210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $5,000,000.00 for federal contingency authorization. Amounts appropriated under this subsection are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

(2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $400,000.00 for state restricted contingency authorization. Amounts appropriated under this subsection are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

(3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $250,000.00 for local contingency authorization. Amounts appropriated under this subsection are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

(4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $1,500,000.00 for private contingency authorization. Amounts appropriated under this subsection are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

(a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

(b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

(c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name, payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

(d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

(e) Job specifications and wage rates.

Sec. 214. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 must not be used to restrict or impede a marginalized community’s access to government resources, programs, or facilities.

(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, local governments shall report any action or policy that attempts to restrict or interfere with the duties of the local health officer.

Sec. 215. To the extent permissible under the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594, the state superintendent of public instruction shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that geographically disadvantaged business enterprises compete for and perform contracts to provide services, supplies, or both. The state superintendent of public instruction shall strongly encourage firms with which the department contracts to subcontract with certified geographically disadvantaged business enterprises for services, supplies, or both. As used in this section, “geographically disadvantaged business enterprises” means that term as defined in Executive Directive No. 2023-1.

Sec. 216. On a quarterly basis, the department shall report on the number of full-time equated positions in pay status by civil service classification, including a comparison by line item of the number of full-time equated positions authorized from funds appropriated in part 1 to the actual number of full-time equated positions employed by the department at the end of the reporting period. The report must be submitted to the senate and house appropriations committees and to the standard report recipients.

Sec. 219. Not later than April 1, the department shall report on each specific policy change made to implement a public act affecting the department that took effect during the previous calendar year. The department shall submit the report to the standard report recipients, to the senate and house appropriations committees, and to the joint committee on administrative rules.

Sec. 222. To the extent possible, the department shall not expend appropriations under part 1 until all existing authorized work project funds available for the same purposes are exhausted.

(a) To reclassify general fund/general purpose appropriations for payroll and covered benefits for eligible public health and safety employees at the department of corrections.

(b) To reclassify general fund/general purpose appropriations for payroll and covered benefits for eligible public health and safety employees at the department of state police.

(2) All applicable guidance, implementation, and reporting provisions of Public Law 117-2 must be followed for state fiscal recovery funds reallocated and reappropriated under subsection (1).

department-specific general sections

Sec. 301. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide through the internet the state board of education agenda and all supporting documents, and shall notify the state budget director and the senate and house fiscal agencies that the agenda and supporting documents are available on the internet, at the time the agenda and supporting documents are provided to state board of education members.

Sec. 302. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department may assist DHHS, other departments, intermediate school districts, and local school districts to secure reimbursement for eligible services provided in Michigan schools from the federal Medicaid program. The department may submit reports of direct expenses related to this effort to DHHS for reimbursement.

Sec. 303. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall do both of the following:

(a) Post on its website a link to the federal Institute of Education Sciences’ What Works Clearinghouse.

(b) Disseminate knowledge about the What Works Clearinghouse to districts and intermediate school districts so that it may be used to improve reading proficiency for pupils in grades K to 3.

Sec. 304. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall coordinate with the other departments to streamline state services and resources, reduce duplication, and increase efficiency, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(a) Working with the department of treasury to coordinate with the financial independence team and overseeing deficit districts.

(b) Working with DHHS and the department of lifelong education, advancement, and potential to coordinate with early childhood programs and overseeing child care providers.

Sec. 305. (1) As a condition of receiving appropriations in part 1, the department shall, in collaboration with DHHS, promote and support initiatives in schools and other educational organizations that include, but are not limited to, training for educators, teachers, and other personnel in school settings for all of the following:

(a) Using trauma-informed practices.

(b) Age-appropriate education and information on human trafficking.

(2) If requested by the department, the department of state police and the department of attorney general shall consult with the department in the promotion and support of initiatives in schools and other educational organizations under subsection (1).

Sec. 306. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall ensure that the most recently issued report of regional in-demand occupations issued by the department of technology, management, and budget is distributed in electronic or paper form to all high schools in each school district, intermediate school district, and public school academy.

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION/OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT

Sec. 351. (1) The department may use the appropriations from the state board of education, per diem payments in part 1 for per diem payments to the state board members for meetings at which a quorum is present or for performing official business authorized by the state board. The per diem payments are set at the following rates:

(a) State board of education - president - $110.00 per day.

(b) State board of education - member other than president - $100.00 per day.

(2) The department shall not pay a state board of education member a per diem for more than 30 days per year.

SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES

Sec. 401. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for special education operations, the department shall use $100,000.00 to design and distribute to all parents and legal guardians of a student with a disability the following information:

(a) Federal and state mandates regarding the rights and protections of students with disabilities, including, but not limited to, individualized education programs to ensure that parents and legal guardians are fully informed about laws, rules, procedural safeguards, and problem-solving options.

(b) Any other information the department determines is necessary to allow parents and legal guardians to provide meaningful input in collaboration with districts to develop and implement an individualized education program.

MICHIGAN SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND

Sec. 451. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the employees at the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and Blind who work on a school-year basis are considered annual employees for purposes of service credits, retirement, and insurance benefits.

Sec. 452. For each student enrolled at the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and Blind, the department shall assess the intermediate school district of residence 100% of the cost of operating the student’s instructional program, excluding room and board related costs and the cost of weekend transportation between the school and the student’s home.

Sec. 456. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and Blind may promote its residential program as a possible appropriate option for children who are deaf or hard of hearing or who are blind or visually impaired. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and Blind shall distribute information detailing its services to all intermediate school districts in this state.

(2) If an intermediate school district knows that a child in the district is deaf or hard of hearing or blind or visually impaired, the intermediate school district shall provide to the parents of the child the literature distributed by the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and Blind to intermediate school districts under subsection (1).

(3) Parents will continue to have a choice regarding the educational placement of their deaf or hard-of-hearing children.

Sec. 457. Revenue received by the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and Blind from gifts, bequests, and donations that is unexpended at the end of the state fiscal year may be carried over to the succeeding fiscal year and does not revert to the general fund.

Sec. 458. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for the low incidence outreach fund are appropriated from money collected by the Michigan Schools for the Deaf and Blind and the low incidence outreach program for providing qualified services and may be used for any expenses necessary to provide the qualified services. Any money that is unexpended at the end of the current fiscal year does not revert to the general fund and may be carried forward into the succeeding fiscal year.

(2) As used in this section, “qualified services” means any of the following:

(a) Document reproduction and services.

(b) Conducting conferences, workshops, and training classes.

Sec. 459. When conducting a due process hearing resulting from a parent’s appeal of that parent’s child’s individualized education program team’s decision on the child’s educational placement, a state administrative law judge shall consider designating the Michigan School for the Deaf as 1 of the options for the least restrictive environment under federal law for the parent’s child who is deaf, deafblind, or hard of hearing.

Sec. 460. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for ASL literacy resources, the department shall expend the funds to comply with all requirements in section 1705 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1705.

EDUCATOR EXCELLENCE

Sec. 501. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for educator excellence, the department shall maintain certificate revocation and felony conviction files of educational personnel.

Sec. 502. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for teacher license renewals, the department shall implement a program to waive fees or associated costs for the recruitment and retention of educators.

Sec. 503. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall, if requested by the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, consult with the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute and external stakeholders in connection with the department’s implementation and administration of professional development training described in section 35a of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1635a, including, but not limited to, the online training of educators of pupils in grades K to 3 described in that section.

Sec. 504. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for educator recruitment and preparation programs, the department shall award $1,000,000.00 to districts for both of the following:

(a) Educator preparation program tuition, program fees, testing fees, and substitute permit costs for any individual employed in grades pre-k to 12 working toward certification or an additional endorsement.

(b) Program costs associated with hands-on learning experiences for students in grades 6 to 12 interested in the field of education, with supervision and mentoring from educators who are champions of, and committed to, the success of the profession.

Sec. 505. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for educator recruitment and preparation programs, not less than $190,000.00 and not fewer than 1.0 FTE position is allocated for educator recruitment and preparation programs.

Sec. 506. Revenue received from teacher testing fees that is unexpended at the end of the current fiscal year may be carried over to the succeeding fiscal year and does not revert to the general fund.

Sec. 507. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall adopt a teacher certification test that ensures that all newly certified elementary teachers have the skills to deliver evidence-based literacy instruction grounded in the science of reading. The department may use teacher certification or teacher testing fee revenue to the extent allowable under law to implement this section, or may pass along increased testing fees to teachers as allowable and appropriate.

SCHOOL SUPPORT SERVICES

Sec. 601. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for adolescent and school health, the department shall use the funds to replace federal funding reductions from the HHS - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the department and section 39a(2)(a) of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1639a.

Sec. 602. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for school support services operations, there is appropriated $150,000.00 for school board member training. The department shall approve 1 or more training programs for school board members that include courses of instruction for school board members in 1 or more of the following topic areas:

(a) Conflicts of interest, including, but not limited to, the application of section 1203 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1203.

(b) Labor relations, including, but not limited to, a school board’s role in collective bargaining agreements in 1947 PA 336, MCL 423.201 to 423.217, and in other laws related to employment.

(c) Education law, including, but not limited to, the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1 to 380.1852, the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1601 to 388.1896, the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275, and 1937 (Ex Sess) PA 4, MCL 38.71 to 38.191, dealing with teacher tenure.

(d) School finance, including, but not limited to, the creation and management of school district budgets.

(e) Board governance, including, but not limited to, roles and responsibilities, parliamentary procedure, and best practices.

(f) Implicit bias training.

(g) Rater reliability training.

(2) On completion of an eligible training program, a school board member may apply for reimbursement for the cost of the eligible training program through the board member’s local district, up to $100.00 per course. The department may determine the form and manner of the application to reimburse the district for the cost.

(3) The department shall create a process for the provider of a course in a topic listed in subsection (1) to apply to the department to have the course approved and be eligible for a school board member to be reimbursed for completing that course as provided under subsection (2).

(4) As used in this section:

(a) “Eligible training program” means a training program that is approved under subsection (1).

(b) “School board member” means a member of the board of a school district or intermediate school district or a member of the board of directors of a public school academy in this state.

Sec. 604. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for school support services, not less than $159,500.00 and not fewer than 1.0 FTE position shall provide technical assistance to all eligible districts to make them effective at using Medicaid dollars for mental health.

(2) As used in this section, “eligible district” means a school district or intermediate school district that receives funding under section 31n of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1631n.

EDUCATIONAL SUPPORTS

Sec. 701. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for educational supports, the department shall produce a report detailing the progress made by districts with grades K to 12 receiving at-risk funding under section 31a of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1631a, in doing both of the following:

(a) Implementing multitiered systems of supports in the previous school fiscal year for grades K to 12.

(b) Providing reading intervention services described in section 1280f of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1280f, for pupils in grades K to 12.

(2) The department shall include, at a minimum, all of the following in the report described in subsection (1):

(a) A description of the training, coaching, and technical assistance offered by the department to districts to support the implementation of effective multitiered systems of supports and reading intervention programs.

(b) A list of districts determined by the department to have successfully implemented multitiered systems of supports and reading intervention programs.

(c) A list of best practices that the department has identified that may be used by districts to implement multitiered systems of supports and reading intervention programs.

(d) Other information the department determines would be useful to understanding the status of districts’ implementation of effective multitiered systems of supports and reading intervention programs.

(3) The department shall provide the report described in subsection (1) to the state budget director, the house and senate subcommittees that oversee the department and school aid budgets, and the house and senate fiscal agencies by September 30 of the current fiscal year.

Sec. 702. From the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an amount not less than $1,000,000.00 for implementation costs associated with programs for early childhood literacy funded under section 35a of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1635a.

Sec. 703. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for Michigan core curriculum, the department shall, in collaboration with the confederation of Michigan tribal education department, continuously design, implement, and evaluate professional learning and optional curriculum modules for the purpose of teaching Michigan Indigenous tribal history including the history of Indian boarding schools in Michigan as described in the Michigan core curriculum standards for grades 8 to 12.

LIBRARY OF MICHIGAN

Sec. 801. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for library fees are appropriated from money collected by the library of Michigan for providing qualified services and may be used for any expenses necessary to provide the qualified services. Any money that is unexpended at the end of the current fiscal year does not lapse to the general fund and may be carried forward into the succeeding fiscal year.

(2) As used in this section, “qualified services” means any of the following:

(a) Document reproduction and services.

(b) Conducting conferences, workshops, and training classes.

Sec. 804. (1) The department shall use the funds appropriated in part 1 for renaissance zone reimbursements to reimburse public libraries under section 12 of the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2692, for taxes levied in 2024. The department shall allocate the funds not later than 60 days after the department of treasury certifies to the department and to the state budget director that the department of treasury has received all necessary information to properly determine the amounts due to each eligible recipient.

(2) If the amount appropriated under this section is not sufficient to fully pay obligations under this section, the department shall prorate payments on an equal basis among all eligible recipients.

Sec. 805. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the Library of Michigan, there is appropriated $100,000.00 for Michigan’s poet laureate to support the Michigan poet laureate program to promote poetry, the spoken word, and literary arts across this state.

one-time appropriations

Sec. 1100. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for charter school transparency database, the department shall develop and maintain an interactive website where parents and community members can access information about their charter schools.

Sec. 1101. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for mental health training, the department shall allocate no less than $110,000.00 to DHHS to deliver training to mental health providers, administrators, and superintendents in eligible districts.

(2) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for mental health training, all money remaining after the money allocated in subsection (1) shall be used to support activities and FTE position in section 604.

(3) The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for mental health training are designated as a work project appropriation, and any unencumbered or unallotted funds do not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and are available for expenditures for projects under this section until the projects have been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to provide technical assistance and training to intermediate school districts and local school districts for mental health administration.

(b) The project will be accomplished by the department or through a contractor.

(d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2029.

(4) As used in this section, “eligible district” means an intermediate school district or school district that receives funding under section 31n of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1631n.

Sec. 1102. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for community health worker career center, the department shall allocate funds to local school districts or intermediate school districts to develop an ongoing CHW certification program.

(2) Recipients of these funds shall develop a CHW certification program that can be duplicated by other districts or intermediate districts.

(3) Allowable expenditures of funds under subsection (2) include, but are not limited to, the following:

(a) Hiring or contracting staff to develop or administer the CHW certification program.

(b) Costs associated with curriculum development.

(d) Costs associated with career and technical education accreditation fees.

(e) Any other service or product necessary to develop a CHW certification program as approved by the department.

(4) Districts or intermediate districts must apply for the funding in a form and manner as determined by the department.

(5) The department shall make payments under this section on a schedule determined by the department.

(6) The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for community health worker career center are designated as a work project appropriation, and any unencumbered or unallotted funds do not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and are available for expenditures for projects under this section until the projects have been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to create a CHW certification program.

(b) The project will be accomplished by the department, districts, and ISDs.

(d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2026.

(7) From the funds appropriated in this section, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $50,000.00 for the department to create a grant application and cover other administrative requirements to support the program funded under this section.

(8) As used in this section, “CHW” means community health worker.

Sec. 1103. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for school infrastructure and consolidation administration, not less than $150,000.00 and not fewer than 2.0 FTE positions must be allocated to administer funding for school consolidation, infrastructure, and the Healthy Schools Program.

(2) The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for school infrastructure and consolidation administration are designated as a work project appropriation, and any unencumbered or unallocated funds do not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and are available for expenditures for projects under this section until the projects have been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to administer funding for school consolidation, infrastructure, and the Healthy Schools Program.

(b) The project will be accomplished by utilizing state resources, contracts, or grants.

(d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2029.

Sec. 1104. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for the Michigan test for teacher certification reimbursement shall be used for grants to reimburse eligible applicants who have taken a subject area test or subject area tests required under the Michigan test for teacher certification during the 2024-2025 academic year. Grant awards must be equal to 100% of the fees associated with any test or tests under the Michigan test for teacher certification necessary for the eligible applicant to be certified to teach in Michigan. As used in this subsection, “eligible applicant” means any of the following:

(a) The applicant was not a certified teacher in any state and took a required subject area test or subject area tests under the Michigan test for teacher certification for the first time.

(b) The applicant was a certified teacher in another state and took a required test or tests under the Michigan test for teacher certification for the first time.

(c) The applicant was a Michigan certified teacher and took a required subject area test or subject area tests under the Michigan test for teacher certification for an additional endorsement for the first time.

(2) The department shall develop, and publish on the department website, program guidelines, an application process, and the associated application materials for grants under subsection (1).

(3) The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for the Michigan test for teacher certification reimbursement are designated as a work project appropriation, and any unencumbered or unallocated funds do not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and are available for expenditures for projects under this section until the projects have been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

(a) The purpose of the project is to reimburse applicants who are taking a required test for the Michigan test for teacher certification for the first time.

(b) The project will be accomplished by utilizing state resources, contracts, or grants.

(d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2029.

ARTICLE 4

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, GREAT LAKES, AND ENERGY

part 1

line-item appropriations

Sec. 101. There is appropriated for the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, from the following funds:

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, GREAT LAKES, AND ENERGY
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Full-time equated unclassified positions	6.0
Full-time equated classified positions	1,646.0
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	1,039,098,600
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental transfers			4,085,900
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	1,035,012,700
Federal revenues:
Total federal revenues			463,788,900
Special revenue funds:
Total local revenues			0
Total private revenues			1,364,200
Total other state restricted revenues			309,149,300
State general fund/general purpose		$	260,710,300
Sec. 102. DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT
Full-time equated unclassified positions	6.0
Full-time equated classified positions	106.0
Unclassified salaries—FTEs	6.0	$	964,100
Accounting service center			1,487,100
Administrative hearings officers			906,600
Environmental investigations—FTEs	12.0		2,419,800
Environmental support—FTEs	56.0		9,295,800
Executive direction—FTEs	20.0		4,459,500
Facilities management			1,000,000
Financial support—FTEs	18.0		10,347,100
Michigan geological survey			3,000,000
Property management			8,222,500
GROSS APPROPRIATION		$	42,102,500
Appropriated from:
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
For Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 2025
IDG from department of state police		$	82,700
IDG from state transportation department			108,300
Federal revenues:
Federal funds			766,700
Special revenue funds:
Private funds			711,600
Air emissions fees			1,050,700
Aquatic nuisance control fund			79,400
Campground fund			25,900
Cleanup and redevelopment fund			2,800,700
Coal ash care fund			17,100
Electronic waste recycling fund			36,200
Environmental education fund			184,100
Environmental pollution prevention fund			553,900
Fees and collections			19,800
Financial instruments			8,528,500
Great Lakes protection fund			545,400
Groundwater discharge permit fees			123,600
Infrastructure construction fund			2,700
Laboratory services fees			665,500
Land and water permit fees