Bill Text: MI HB6255 | 2025-2026 | 103rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Legislature: reports; fiscal note on the financial impact of legislation to local governments; require. Amends secs. 502 & 602 of 1986 PA 268 (MCL 4.1502 & 4.1602).
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 6)
Status: (Introduced) 2026-08-27 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 08/26/2026 [HB6255 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2025-HB6255-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 6255
A bill to amend 1986 PA 268, entitled
"Legislative council act,"
by amending sections 502 and 602 (MCL 4.1502 and 4.1602), as added by 2018 PA 340.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 502. (1) The senate fiscal agency shall prepare, for each bill that is scheduled for a hearing before a standing committee of the senate, a fiscal analysis that contains all of the following:
(a) A summary that explains the changes the bill would make to existing law.
(b) An estimate of the potential impact or amount by which the bill would increase or decrease governmental revenues and expenditures, and which funds the bill would affect. If federal funding received by the state would be affected by the bill, the analysis must include an estimate of that effect.
(c) An estimate of the direct and indirect costs likely to be incurred by local units of government to provide activities and services required by state government as a result of those units complying with the bill or state departments' or agencies' rules and regulations relating to the bill. The estimated costs must be derived in part from consultations with representatives of the affected local units of government with knowledge of the direct and indirect costs likely to be incurred in providing the activities and services.
(d) (c) If the bill would increase or decrease state taxes or fees, the analysis may include an estimate of the impact on payers of the taxes or fees.
(e) (d) Any other information the senate fiscal agency considers necessary to explain the fiscal effect of the bill including, but not limited to, potential impacts to local units of government.
(2) The senate fiscal agency shall provide the fiscal analysis prepared under subsection (1) to the clerk of the committee and to the public on the internet.
(3) The senate fiscal agency shall prepare a revised fiscal analysis, as necessary, that incorporates any change to a bill described in subsection (1).
Sec. 602. (1) The house fiscal agency shall prepare, for each bill that is scheduled for a hearing before a standing committee of the house of representatives, a fiscal analysis that contains all of the following:
(a) A summary that explains the changes the bill would make to existing law.
(b) An estimate of the potential impact or amount by which the bill would increase or decrease governmental revenues and expenditures, and which funds the bill would affect. If federal funding received by the state would be affected by the bill, the analysis must include an estimate of that effect.
(c) An estimate of the direct and indirect costs likely to be incurred by local units of government to provide activities and services required by state government as a result of those units complying with the bill or state departments' or agencies' rules and regulations relating to the bill. The estimated costs must be derived in part from consultations with representatives of the affected local units of government with knowledge of the direct and indirect costs likely to be incurred in providing the activities and services.
(d) (c) If the bill would increase or decrease state taxes or fees, the analysis may include an estimate of the impact on payers of the taxes or fees.
(e) (d) Any other information the house fiscal agency considers necessary to explain the fiscal effect of the bill including, but not limited to, potential impacts to local units of government.
(2) The house fiscal agency shall provide the fiscal analysis prepared under subsection (1) to the clerk of the committee and to the public on the internet.
(3) The house fiscal agency shall prepare a revised fiscal analysis, as necessary, that incorporates any change to a bill described in subsection (1).
