Bill Text: MI HB5574 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Communications; video services; assessment against video service providers for public service commission costs; modify. Amends 2006 PA 480 (MCL 484.3301 - 484.3314) by adding sec. 15.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2009-12-30 - Assigned Pa 191'09 With Immediate Effect [HB5574 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-HB5574-Chaptered.html
Act No. 191
Public Acts of 2009
Approved by the Governor
December 21, 2009
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 22, 2009
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 22, 2009
STATE OF MICHIGAN
95TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2009
Introduced by Reps. Geiss, Mayes, Scripps, Melton and Horn
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5574
AN ACT to amend 2006 PA 480, entitled “An act to provide for uniform video service local franchises; to promote competition in providing video services in this state; to ensure local control of rights-of-way; to provide for fees payable to local units of government; to provide for local programming; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local agencies and officials; and to provide for penalties,” (MCL 484.3301 to 484.3314) by adding section 15.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 15. (1) Effective January 1, 2010, the commission within 30 days after the enactment into law of any appropriation to it shall ascertain the amount of the appropriation attributable to the actual costs to the commission in exercising its duties under this act and that amount shall be assessed against each video service provider doing business in this state. Each provider shall pay a portion of the total assessment in the same proportion that its number of subscribers for the preceding calendar year bears to the total number of video service subscribers in the state. The total assessment under this section shall not exceed $1,000,000.00 annually.
(2) For the state fiscal year commencing October 1, 2009 and annually thereafter, there shall be deducted from any amount to be assessed under subsection (1) an amount equal to the difference by which the actual expenditures of the commission attributable to exercising its duties under this act for the previous fiscal year are less than the amount assessed against each video service provider in the previous fiscal year. The deductions shall be made in the same proportion as the original assessment in subsection (1).
(3) All money paid into the state treasury by a video service provider under subsection (1) shall be credited to a special account, to be utilized solely to finance the cost to the commission of exercising its duties under this act.
(4) This section does not apply after December 31, 2015.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
