Bill Text: MI SB0084 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Natural resources; funding; recreation improvement account; authorize to receive portion of 2% sales tax dedicated to transportation. Amends secs. 2020 & 71101 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.2020 & 324.71101) & repeals secs. 71102 - 71106 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.71102 - 324.71106). TIE BAR WITH: SJR J'13
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-20 - Referred To Committee On Infrastructure Modernization [SB0084 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2013-SB0084-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 84
January 30, 2013, Introduced by Senators CASPERSON and KAHN and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled
"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"
by amending sections 2020 and 71101 (MCL 324.2020 and 324.71101),
section 2020 as added and section 71101 as amended by 2004 PA 587;
and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 2020. (1) The recreation improvement account is
established as an account within the legacy fund.
(2) The recreation improvement account shall consist of both
of the following:
(a) All money in the recreation improvement fund, formerly
created
in section 71105, immediately prior to the effective date
of
the amendatory act that added this section, December 23, 2006,
which money is hereby transferred to the recreation improvement
account.
(b) Revenue from the following sources:
(i) Two percent of the gasoline sold in this state
for
consumption
in internal combustion engines.Seven-tenths
of 1% of
the revenue from the additional 2% sales and use taxes dedicated
exclusively for transportation purposes under section 8 of article
IX of the state constitution of 1963.
(ii) Other revenues as provided by law.
(3) Money in the recreation improvement account shall be used
only as provided for in part 711 and for the administration of the
recreation improvement account.
(4) Money in the recreation improvement account may be
expended pursuant to subsection (3) for grants to state colleges
and universities to implement programs funded by the recreation
improvement account.
Sec. 71101. As used in this part:
(a) "Associated facilities" means restrooms, shelters,
campgrounds, and parking lots directly related to trails or
waterways projects.
(b)
"Off-road vehicle" means an
ORV as it is defined in part
811 , and which
is required by section 81115 to be registered under
part
811.that part.
(c)
"Off-road vehicle account" means the off-road vehicle
account
of the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund
provided
for in section 2015.
(c) (d)
"Recreation improvement
account" means the recreation
improvement account of the Michigan conservation and recreation
legacy fund provided for in section 2020.
(d) (e)
"Recreational projects"
means, in addition to the
activities provided for in this part, the construction,
maintenance, and operation of trails and associated facilities that
may be used by off-road vehicles, cross-country skiers, horseback
riders, and hikers, and inland lake cleanup grants as provided by
part 309.
(e) (f)
"Snowmobile account"
means the snowmobile account of
the Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for
in section 2025.
(g)
"Vessel" means all watercraft except the following:
(i) Watercraft used for commercial fishing.
(ii) Watercraft used by the sea scout department of the
boy
scouts
of America chiefly for training scouts in seamanship.
(iii) Watercraft owned by this state, any political
subdivision
of
this state, or the federal government.
(iv) Watercraft when used in interstate or foreign
commerce and
watercraft
used or owned by any railroad company or railroad car
ferry
company.
(v) Watercraft when used in trade, including
watercraft when
used
in connection with an activity that constitutes a person's
chief
business or means of livelihood.
(h)
"Watercraft" means any contrivance that is used or
designed
for navigation on water, including, but not limited to,
any
vessel, ship, boat, motor vessel, steam vessel, vessel operated
by
machinery, motorboat, sailboat, barge, scow, tugboat, and
rowboat,
but does not include watercraft used or owned by the
United
States.
(f) (i)
"Waterways account" means
the waterways account of the
Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund provided for in
section 2035.
Enacting section 1. Sections 71102 to 71106 of the natural
resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL
324.71102 to 324.71106, are repealed.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act takes effect October
1, 2013.
Enacting section 3. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless Senate Joint Resolution J ____
of the 97th Legislature becomes a part of
the state constitution of 1963 as provided in section 1 of article
XII of the state constitution of 1963.
