Bill Text: MI SB0229 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced

Michigan Senate Bill 229 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Food: licensing; licensing fees for food establishments; provide waiver for 2021 to 2022 licensing year. Amends sec. 4111 of 2000 PA 92 (MCL 289.4111).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-11 - Referred To Committee On Regulatory Reform [SB0229 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2021-SB0229-Introduced.html

SENATE BILL NO. 229

March 11, 2021, Introduced by Senators VANDERWALL, MCBROOM, BARRETT, VICTORY, HORN, STAMAS, BUMSTEAD, JOHNSON, MACDONALD, RUNESTAD, OUTMAN, THEIS and DALEY and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.

A bill to amend 2000 PA 92, entitled

"Food law,"

by amending section 4111 (MCL 289.4111), as amended by 2016 PA 188.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 4111. (1) The Except as provided in subsection (5), the department shall impose the following license fees for each year or portion of a year:

(a) Retail grocery: $106.00 for 2016, $145.00 for 2017, and $183.00 for any subsequent year.

(b) Extended retail food establishment: $271.00 for 2016, $370.00 for 2017, and $468.00 for any subsequent year.

(d) Limited food processor: $106.00 for 2016, $145.00 for 2017, and $183.00 for any subsequent year.

(e) Mobile food establishment: $183.00 for 2016, $186.00 for 2017, and $189.00 for any subsequent year.

(f) Temporary food establishment: $40.00 for 2016, $55.00 for 2017, and $70.00 for any subsequent year.

(g) Special transitory food unit: $150.00 for 2016, $153.00 for 2017, and $156.00 for any subsequent year.

(h) Mobile food establishment commissary: $183.00 for 2016, $186.00 for 2017, and $189.00 for any subsequent year.

(i) Food warehouse or vending company base location: $106.00 for 2016, $145.00 for 2017, and $183.00 for any subsequent year. In addition, the The operator of the vending company base location shall pay an additional fee based on the number of vending machine locations in this state, as follows:

(i) 1 to 20 locations, $500.00.

(ii) 21 to 50 locations, $750.00.

(iii) 51 to 75 locations, $2,000.00.

(iv) More than 75 locations, $3,000.00.

If a person operates more than 1 vending company base location in this state, all vending machine locations served by those vending company base locations shall must be aggregated on 1 of the vending company base location licenses for the purpose of determining the amount of the additional fee for vending machine locations.

(j) Food service establishment: the amounts described in subsection (2).

(2) If a local health department no longer conducts a food service program, the department, in consultation with the commission of agriculture and rural development, shall set the food sanitation fees to be imposed for the conduct of the food service program by the department. The fees imposed must equal, as nearly as possible, 1/2 of the department's cost of providing the service. The department may impose the service fees for up to 12 months after the date of cessation by the local health department. After the 12-month period, the department shall collect the fees only as authorized pursuant to an appropriation.

(3) Any license fee paid on an initial application is nonrefundable.

(4) The department may charge a convenience fee and collect from the applicant any additional costs associated with the method of fee payment for the license or permit fees described in this chapter, not to exceed the costs to the department.

(5) The department shall not charge a license fee described under subsection (1) or a late fee described under section 4113 for an initial license or renewal license application submitted at any time during the licensing year that begins May 1, 2021 and ends at midnight on April 30, 2022.