Bill Text: MI HB4811 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Military affairs; other; military family relief fund; revised procedure for application and disbursement of funds. Amends secs. 2 & 4 of 2004 PA 363 (MCL 35.1212 & 35.1214).
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2014-03-27 - Assigned Pa 62'14 With Immediate Effect [HB4811 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4811-Chaptered.html
Act No. 62
Public Acts of 2014
Approved by the Governor
March 27, 2014
Filed with the Secretary of State
March 27, 2014
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 27, 2014
STATE OF MICHIGAN
97TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Introduced by Reps. Franz, Zorn, Genetski, Roberts, Kurtz, Brown, Kelly, Potvin, MacMaster, Dianda, Bumstead, Somerville, MacGregor, Tlaib, Lori, Abed, Oakes, Banks, Barnett, Brinks, Brunner, Clemente, Cochran, Cotter, Daley, Darany, Denby, Dillon, Driskell, Durhal, Faris, Farrington, Foster, Glardon, Goike, Graves, Greimel, Haines, Haveman, Heise, Hobbs, Hooker, Hovey-Wright, Howrylak, Jenkins, Kandrevas, Kesto, Kivela, Knezek, Kosowski, Lamonte, Lane, Lauwers, LaVoy, Leonard, Lund, Lyons, McCann, McCready, Muxlow, Nathan, O’Brien, Outman, Pettalia, Poleski, Price, Pscholka, Rendon, Robinson, Rogers, Schmidt, Schor, Segal, Shirkey, Singh, Slavens, Smiley, Stallworth, Stamas, Switalski, Talabi, Townsend, VerHeulen, Victory, Walsh, Yanez and Yonker
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4811
AN ACT to amend 2004 PA 363, entitled “An act to establish the military family relief fund in the department of military and veterans affairs to provide assistance to families of certain members of the reserve components of the United States armed forces on active duty; to provide for the distribution of money from the fund; to prescribe the duties and powers of certain agencies and officials; and to provide for appropriations,” by amending sections 2 and 4 (MCL 35.1212 and 35.1214).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) “Department” means the department of military and veterans affairs.
(b) “Family” or “families” means the military dependents as determined by the qualified individual’s branch of service.
(c) “Fund” means the military family relief fund created in section 3.
(d) “Need” means an unforeseen situation that causes a temporary or short-term financial emergency or hardship that a grant under this act will resolve and for which an applicant can demonstrate the ability to meet expenses in the future.
(e) “Qualified individual” means an individual who meets all of the following criteria:
(i) The individual is or was a member of a reserve component of the United States armed forces or the United States coast guard based in this state or is a resident of this state serving in a reserve component of the United States armed forces or the United States coast guard based in another state and is called to active duty by the president of the United States or the United States secretary of defense as a result of national response to September 11, 2001 or as a response to a national emergency declared by the president of the United States and for which funds are being spent by the federal government.
(ii) The individual’s family can document the need for financial assistance for clothing, food, housing, utilities, medical services or prescriptions, insurance payments, vehicle payments, or other related necessities of daily living in either of the following situations:
(A) The need occurred after a unit received an alert order for active federal service or within 6 months after a unit returned from active federal service.
(B) The need occurred because the individual has incurred a line of duty injury or illness.
(f) “Reserve components of the United States armed forces” means all of the following:
(i) The army national guard of the United States.
(ii) The army, naval, marine corps, air force, and coast guard reserves.
(iii) The air national guard of the United States.
(g) “Unit” means a mobilized unit in which the qualified individual is in active federal service.
Sec. 4. (1) Each year that the contribution designation program administered under section 435 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206.435, is in effect, an amount equal to the cumulative designations, plus interest and dividends earned, made under that section shall be appropriated from the general fund to the fund for use solely in support of the purposes provided in this act. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, no money from the fund shall be used for the purpose of administering the fund or implementing section 438 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206.438. Not more than $50,000.00 shall be allocated annually from the fund to be used for advertising, marketing, and promoting the goals of the fund to the public.
(2) The money in the fund shall not be used by the department to replace funds otherwise designated to support similar programs within the department.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
