Bill Text: MI HB4937 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Public utilities; other; Michigan public service commission obligation to require utilities to maintain the uncollectibles allowance recovery fund; eliminate. Amends title & sec. 3 of 2000 PA 322 (MCL 285.303) & repeals (See bill).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-11-13 - Assigned Pa 163'13 With Immediate Effect [HB4937 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-HB4937-Engrossed.html
HB-4937, As Passed House, September 25, 2013
SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 4937
A bill to amend 2000 PA 322, entitled
"Julian-Stille value-added act,"
by amending the title and section 3 (MCL 285.303); and to repeal
acts and parts of acts.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
TITLE
An act to create certain committees; to create certain funds
from certain sources and to provide for the disposition of money
from the funds; to provide for the creation of certain funds by
certain private entities; to create incentives and to locate and
maintain value-added agricultural processing, commercialization of
agriculture, and production ventures within this state; to provide
for grants, loans, and loan guarantees to certain private and
governmental entities for certain purposes; to provide for certain
powers and duties for certain private entities, state agencies,
commissions, and departments; to authorize loans, loan guarantees,
expenditures,
and grants from the funds; and to finance the
development of certain programs; and to provide for appropriations.
Sec. 3. (1) As used in this section:
(a) "Department" means the department of environmental
quality.
(b) "Fund" means the Michigan clean air fund created in this
section.
(2) The Michigan clean air fund is created within the
department of treasury to be administered by the department. Money
in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the
fund and shall not lapse to the general fund. The state treasurer
shall
credit to the fund the money from the uncollectibles
allowance
recovery funds established in section 4 as well as money
from
any other source provided by
law.
(3) Money in the fund shall be used by the department to
provide grants and loans to individuals, private or public
corporations, and local units of government for programs or
projects established to reduce oxides of nitrogen and volatile
organic compounds and for the administration of the grant and loan
program.
(4) The director of the department shall have final approval
of grants and loans made under this section. Grants and loans made
under this section are contingent upon the availability of money in
the fund.
(5) The director of the department may impose fiduciary
obligations upon a recipient of a grant, including performance
bonding, and may impose conditions upon the receipt and expenditure
of the grant money.
(6) An application for a grant or loan from the fund shall be
made on a form or in a format prescribed by the department. The
department may require the applicant to provide any information
reasonably necessary to allow the department to make a
determination required under this section.
(7) The department shall promulgate rules under the
administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to
24.328, to implement this section.
Enacting section 1. (1) Section 4 of the Julian-Stille value-
added act, 2000 PA 322, MCL 285.304, is repealed.
(2) R 460.2601 to R 460.2625 of the Michigan administrative
code are rescinded.
Enacting section 2. All money in the Michigan clean air fund
on the effective date of this amendatory act is appropriated and
transferred to the Michigan public service commission for
distribution to utilities in the amounts contributed by the
utilities to the Michigan clean air fund. Money received by the
Michigan public service commission and distributed to utilities
under this enacting section shall be refunded to customers through
the reconciliation process provided in sections 6h and 6j of 1939
PA 3, MCL 460.6h and 460.6j.
