Bill Text: MI HB4289 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: State financing and management: other; sale of certain surplus equipment; modify. Amends sec. 267 of 1984 PA 431 (MCL 18.1267).
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-06 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/05/2019 [HB4289 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-HB4289-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4289
March 5, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Markkanen, LaFave, Cambensy, Paquette, Bellino, Allor, Berman and Wozniak and referred to the Committee on Transportation.
A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled
"The management and budget act,"
by amending section 267 (MCL 18.1267), as amended by 2016 PA 245.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 267. (1) The department shall issue directives to provide
for the disclosure, transfer, and disposal of surplus personal
property of state agencies. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection (4), the department may dispose of surplus personal
property by donating the surplus personal property to a nonprofit
entity, or selling it to a unit of local government, or selling it
at a public sale.
(2) The department may sell surplus personal property at fair
market value. The department may also exchange surplus personal
property for goods and services at fair market value with a private
company that is contracted to provide state services, and the
surplus personal property is essential to providing those services.
(3) The department may pay necessary costs incurred in the
conduct of the transfers or sale of surplus personal property
including the necessary warehousing and reconditioning costs from
the proceeds of the sale or by assessing a handling fee for surplus
personal property being donated.
(4) Beginning October 1, 2016, prior to donating, disposing
of, or selling surplus snow removal equipment or surplus road
construction or maintenance equipment that was owned by the state
transportation department, the department shall make that equipment
available for sale at fair market value to local road agencies in
this state. However, beginning October 1, 2019, the department
shall make that equipment available for sale at 50% of the fair
market value to local road agencies in this state. The department
shall issue directives to implement this subsection. As used in
this subsection, "local road agencies" means a local road agency as
that term is defined in section 9a of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247.659a.
