Bill Text: MI HB5701 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered


Bill Title: State financing and management; purchasing; sale of certain state transportation department equipment; require to offer to local units of government first. Amends sec. 267 of 1984 PA 431 (MCL 18.1267).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-13 - Assigned Pa 245'16 With Immediate Effect [HB5701 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB5701-Chaptered.html

Act No. 245

Public Acts of 2016

Approved by the Governor

June 23, 2016

Filed with the Secretary of State

June 24, 2016

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 24, 2016

STATE OF MICHIGAN

98TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2016

Introduced by Rep. Inman

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5701

AN ACT to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled “An act to prescribe the powers and duties of the department of management and budget; to define the authority and functions of its director and its organizational entities; to authorize the department to issue directives; to provide for the capital outlay program; to provide for the leasing, planning, constructing, maintaining, altering, renovating, demolishing, conveying of lands and facilities; to provide for centralized administrative services such as purchasing, payroll, record retention, data processing, and publishing and for access to certain services; to provide for a system of internal accounting and administrative control for certain principal departments; to provide for an internal auditor in certain principal departments; to provide for certain powers and duties of certain state officers and agencies; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the powers, duties, and laws relative to budgeting, accounting, and the regulating of appropriations; to provide for the implementation of certain constitutional provisions; to create funds and accounts; to make appropriations; to prescribe remedies and penalties; to rescind certain executive reorganization orders; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 267 (MCL 18.1267), as amended by 2012 PA 237.

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. 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.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor