Bill Text: MI SB0595 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Legislature; legislators; legislator's office account; transfer balance at end of fiscal year to general fund. Amends sec. 442 of 1984 PA 431 (MCL 18.1442).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-20 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB0595 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-SB0595-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 595

 

 

May 20, 2009, Introduced by Senators GLEASON, CHERRY, WHITMER, JACOBS, SCOTT, ANDERSON, CLARK-COLEMAN, SWITALSKI, CLARKE, BRATER and PRUSI and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled

 

"The management and budget act,"

 

by amending section 442 (MCL 18.1442), as added by 1991 PA 72.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 442. (1) Funds Except as otherwise provided in subsection

 

(2), money appropriated to an entity within the legislative branch

 

of state government shall be expended or be transferred to another

 

account only with the written approval of the authorized agent of

 

the legislative entity. When the authorized agent of the

 

legislative entity notifies the department of its approval of an

 

expenditure or transfer within the existing level of

 

appropriations, the department shall immediately make the

 

expenditure or transfer. The authorized legislative entity agents

 

shall be designated by the speaker of the house for house entities,

 

the senate majority leader for senate entities, and the legislative

 

council for library of Michigan and legislative council entities.

 

     (2) Any money remaining in a legislator's individual

 

legislative office account at the end of a fiscal year shall revert

 

back to the general fund of this state.