Bill Text: MI SB0823 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Appropriations; other; executive recommendation; provide for omnibus bill. Creates appropriation act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-01 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB0823 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0823-Introduced.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SENATE BILL No. 823

 

 

EXECUTIVE BUDGET BILL

 

 

March 1, 2016, Introduced by Senator HILDENBRAND and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

 

 

       A bill to make appropriations for various state departments and agencies; the

 

judicial branch, and the legislative branch for the fiscal years ending September 30,

 

2017; to provide anticipated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30,

 

2018; to provide a nonbinding schedule of programs; to provide for certain conditions

 

on appropriations; to provide for the expenditure of the appropriations.

 

 

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS

                                                                  For Fiscal        For Fiscal

                                                                 Year Ending       Year Ending

                                                              Sept. 30, 2017    Sept. 30, 2018

 

  APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $ 38,711,935,000  $ 38,272,050,300

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and

 


   intradepartmental transfers...........................        867,312,100       864,462,100

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $ 37,844,622,900  $ 37,407,588,200

 

  Total federal revenues..................................     20,586,209,100    20,298,418,600

 

  Total local revenues....................................        220,598,300       215,598,300

 

  Total private revenues..................................        174,703,200       174,703,200

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................      8,462,277,600     8,487,385,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $  8,400,834,700  $  8,231,482,400


Article 1

 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 1-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of agriculture and rural development are

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated

 

in this part. The following is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated

 

appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              473.0             473.0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     91,591,300  $     91,591,300

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................            323,200           323,200

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $     91,268,100  $     91,268,100

 

  Total federal revenues..................................         10,471,200        10,471,200

 

  Total private revenues..................................            130,700           130,700

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................         32,629,300        31,429,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     48,036,900  $     49,236,900

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........         48,036,900        49,236,900

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........                  0                 0

 

   Sec. 1-102.  DEPARTMENTWIDE

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0


   Full-time equated classified positions................               32.0              32.0

 

  Commissions and boards..................................   $         23,800  $         23,800

 

  Unclassified positions..................................            545,900           545,900

 

  Executive direction-9.0 FTE positions...................          1,413,500         1,413,500

 

  Operational services-19.0 FTE positions.................          1,882,700         1,882,700

 

  Statistical reporting services-1.0 FTE position.........            153,600           153,600

 

  Emergency management-3.0 FTE positions..................            614,600           614,600

 

  Accounting service center...............................          1,141,600         1,141,600

 

  Building occupancy charges..............................            631,200           631,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      6,406,900  $      6,406,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  HHS, multiple grants....................................            331,900           331,900

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private-commodity group revenue.........................             79,100            79,100

 

  Agricultural preservation fund..........................             15,200            15,200

 

  Agriculture licensing and inspection fees...............            263,900           263,900

 

  Commodity inspection fees...............................              1,100             1,100

 

  Dairy and food safety fund..............................            416,900           416,900

 

  Feed control fund.......................................             38,900            38,900

 

  Fertilizer control fund.................................             24,000            24,000

 

  Freshwater protection fund..............................             67,500            67,500

 

  Gasoline inspection and testing fund....................             80,000            80,000

 

  Grain dealers fee fund..................................              7,900             7,900

 

  Industry support funds..................................             54,300            54,300

 

  Migratory labor housing fund............................             28,600            28,600

 

  Nonretail liquor fees...................................             28,100            28,100


  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      4,969,500  $      4,969,500

 

   Sec. 1-103.  INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY

 

  Information technology services and projects............   $       1,768,500  $       1,768,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      1,768,500  $      1,768,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from LARA, liquor quality testing fees..............              3,200             3,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Agricultural preservation fund..........................                200               200

 

  Agriculture licensing and inspection fees...............             93,800            93,800

 

  Dairy and food safety fund..............................             61,200            61,200

 

  Freshwater protection fund..............................                100               100

 

  Gasoline inspection and testing fund....................             31,800            31,800

 

  Nonretail liquor fees...................................                500               500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,577,700  $      1,577,700

 

   Sec. 1-104.  FOOD AND DAIRY

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              123.0             123.0

 

  Food safety and quality assurance-93.0 FTE positions....   $     14,755,400  $     14,755,400

 

  Milk safety and quality assurance-30.0 FTE positions....          4,260,100         4,260,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     19,015,500  $     19,015,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  USDA, multiple grants...................................            136,300           136,300

 

  HHS, multiple grants....................................          1,193,800         1,193,800

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Consumer and industry food safety education fund........            355,400           355,400

 

  Dairy and food safety fund..............................          4,434,500         4,434,500


  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     12,895,500  $     12,895,500

 

   Sec. 1-105.  ANIMAL INDUSTRY

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               60.0              60.0

 

  Animal disease prevention and response-60.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $      9,054,500  $      9,054,500

 

  Indemnification – livestock depredation.................             50,000            50,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      9,104,500  $      9,104,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  USDA, multiple grants...................................            527,900           527,900

 

  Department of interior..................................             50,800            50,800

 

  HHS, multiple grants....................................             46,600            46,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private-commodity group revenue.........................             30,500            30,500

 

  Agriculture licensing and inspection fees...............             59,300            59,300

 

  Animal welfare fund.....................................            193,300           193,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      8,196,100  $      8,196,100

 

   Sec. 1-106.  PESTICIDE AND PLANT PEST MANAGEMENT

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               92.0              92.0

 

  Pesticide and plant pest management–86.0 FTE positions..   $     13,672,000  $     13,672,000

 

  Producer security/grain dealers–6.0 FTE positions.......            653,500           653,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     14,325,500  $     14,325,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  USDA, multiple grants...................................            843,800           843,800

 

  Department of interior..................................            101,700           101,700

 

  EPA, multiple grants....................................            533,100           533,100


  HHS, multiple grants....................................            325,000           325,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private-slow-the-spread foundation......................             21,100            21,100

 

  Agriculture licensing and inspection fees...............          3,611,600         3,611,600

 

  Commodity inspection fees...............................            514,900           514,900

 

  Feed control fund.......................................            948,600           948,600

 

  Fertilizer control fund.................................            738,600           738,600

 

  Freshwater protection fund..............................            153,900           153,900

 

  Grain dealers fee fund..................................            607,100           607,100

 

  Horticulture fund.......................................             38,800            38,800

 

  Industry support funds..................................            246,400           246,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      5,640,900  $      5,640,900

 

    Sec. 1-107.  ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               55.0              55.0

 

  MAEAP - environmental stewardship–23.0 FTE positions....   $      9,146,800  $      9,146,800

 

  Farmland and open space preservation–7.0 FTE positions..          1,422,100         1,422,100

 

  Qualified forest program–9.0 FTE positions..............          2,582,700         2,582,700

 

  Migrant labor housing–9.0 FTE positions.................          1,199,400         1,199,400

 

  Right-to-farm–3.0 FTE positions.........................            577,600           577,600

 

  Intercounty drain–4.0 FTE positions.....................            484,400           484,400

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     15,413,000  $     15,413,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from MDEQ, biosolids................................            103,100           103,100

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  USDA, multiple grants...................................            922,300           922,300

 

  Department of interior..................................            121,300           121,300


  EPA, multiple grants....................................            608,300           608,300

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Agricultural preservation fund..........................            594,400           594,400

 

  Freshwater protection fund..............................          6,179,800         6,179,800

 

  Migratory labor housing fund............................            139,200           139,200

 

  Private forestland enhancement fund.....................            288,200           288,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      6,456,400  $      6,456,400

 

    Sec. 1-108.  LABORATORY PROGRAM

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               96.0              96.0

 

  Laboratory services–42.0 FTE positions..................   $      6,611,000  $      6,611,000

 

  USDA monitoring–13.0 FTE positions......................          1,616,500         1,616,500

 

  Consumer protection program–41.0 FTE positions..........          6,637,400         6,637,400

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     14,864,900  $     14,864,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from LARA, liquor quality testing fees..............            216,900           216,900

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  USDA, multiple grants...................................          1,617,400         1,617,400

 

  EPA, multiple grants....................................            171,700           171,700

 

  HHS, multiple grants....................................            623,300           623,300

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Agriculture licensing and inspection fees...............             78,800            78,800

 

  Dairy and food safety fund..............................             71,200            71,200

 

  Feed control fund.......................................            147,700           147,700

 

  Gasoline inspection and testing fund....................          1,878,400         1,878,400

 

  Refined petroleum fund..................................          2,373,200         1,173,200

 

  Testing fees............................................            293,100           293,100


  Weights and measures regulation fees....................            793,500           793,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      6,599,700  $      7,799,700

 

   Sec. 1-109.  AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               15.0              15.0

 

  Agriculture development–11.0 FTE positions..............   $      3,604,300  $      3,604,300

 

  Grape and wine program–3.0 FTE positions................            921,000           921,000

 

  Rural development fund grant program-1.0 FTE position...          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

  Value-added grants......................................            500,000           500,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      7,025,300  $      7,025,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  USDA, multiple grants...................................          2,316,000         2,316,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Industry support funds..................................            132,600           132,600

 

  Nonretail liquor fees...................................            875,600           875,600

 

  Rural development fund..................................          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,701,100  $      1,701,100

 

   Sec. 1-110.  FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS

 

  Fairs and racing........................................   $        256,600  $        256,600

 

  Purses and supplements - fairs/licensed tracks..........            708,300           708,300

 

  Licensed tracks - light horse racing....................             40,300            40,300

 

  Light horse racing – breeders’ awards...................             20,000            20,000

 

  Standardbred breeders’ awards...........................            345,900           345,900

 

  Standardbred purses and supplements-licensed tracks.....            671,800           671,800

 

  Standardbred sire stakes................................            275,000           275,000

 

  Thoroughbred supplements - licensed tracks..............            601,900           601,900

 

  Thoroughbred breeders’ awards...........................            368,600           368,600


  Thoroughbred sire stakes................................            378,800           378,800

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      3,667,200  $      3,667,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Agriculture equine industry development fund............          3,667,200         3,667,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 1-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $80,666,200.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $4,750,000.00. The itemized statement below

 

identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

 

  MAEAP - environmental stewardship.....................................   $           3,250,000

 

  Qualified forest program..............................................              1,500,000

 

  TOTAL                                                                    $           4,750,000

 

       Sec. 1-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 1-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "Department" means the department of agriculture and rural development.

 

       (b) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (c) "EPA" means the United States environmental protection agency.

 


       (d) "FDA" means United States food and drug administration.

 

       (e) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (f) "HHS" means the United States department of health and human services.

 

       (g) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

       (h) "LARA" means the Michigan department of licensing and regulatory affairs.

 

       (i) "MAEAP" means Michigan agriculture environmental assurance program.

 

       (j) "MDEQ" means the Michigan department of environmental quality.

 

       (k) "MOU" means memorandum of understanding.

 

       (l) "USDA" means the United States department of agriculture.

 

       Sec. 1-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 1-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 1-206. The director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in

 

deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide

 

services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which

 

the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.


       Sec. 1-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of each

 

year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 1-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 1-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare and

 

transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 1-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $5,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.


These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $6,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These funds

 

are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line

 

item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA

 

431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 1-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.


       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 1-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 1-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 1-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $11,911,300.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $6,604,500.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care legacy

 

costs are estimated at $5,306,800.00.

 

 

 

DEPARTMENTWIDE

 

       Sec. 1-301. (1) Pursuant to the appropriations in part 1, the department may

 

receive and expend revenue and use that revenue to cover necessary expenses related to

 

publications, audit and licensing functions, livestock sales, certification of nursery

 

stock, and laboratory analyses as specified in the following:

 

       (a) Management services publications.

 

       (b) Management services audit and licensing functions.

 

       (c) Pesticide and plant pest management propagation and certification of virus-

 

free foundation stock.

 

       (d) Pesticide and plant pest management grading services.

 


       (e) Laboratory support testing for testing horses in draft horse pulling contests

 

at county fairs when local jurisdictions request state assistance.

 

       (f) Laboratory support analyses to determine foreign substances in horses engaged

 

in racing or pulling contests at tracks.

 

       (g) Laboratory support analyses of food, livestock, and agricultural products for

 

disease, foreign products for disease, toxic materials, foreign substances, and

 

quality standards.

 

       (h) Laboratory support test samples for other agencies and organizations.

 

       (i) Fruit and vegetable inspection at shipping and termination points and

 

processing plants.

 

       (2) The department shall notify the subcommittees and the fiscal agencies 30 days

 

prior to proposing changes in fees authorized under this section or under section 5 of

 

1915 PA 91, MCL 285.35.

 

       (3) The department shall post on its website a list of all the fees charged by

 

the department under the authorization provided in this section, including, but not

 

limited to, rates, number of individuals paying each fee, and the revenue generated by

 

each fee in the previous fiscal year. Notification of the location of the report on

 

the website shall be sent to the subcommittees, fiscal agencies, and state budget

 

office by February 1 each year.

 

       Sec. 1-303. It is the intent of the legislature that the department use revenue

 

from licensing and inspection fees to increase the use of technology in licensing and

 

inspection activities to make licensing and inspection functions, including reporting,

 

more efficient. The department shall work to ensure that all license and registration

 

applications can be completed online through a secure web portal.

 

 

 

FOOD AND DAIRY

 

       Sec. 1-402. The department shall provide information on significant food-borne

 


outbreaks and emergencies, including any enforcement actions taken related to food

 

safety during the immediately preceding fiscal year in the food and dairy annual

 

report and post that report on the department’s website no later than April 1. The

 

department shall provide electronic notification of where the report can be found on

 

the department’s website to the appropriation subcommittees, fiscal agencies, and

 

state budget office.

 

       Sec. 1-403. The department will establish an on-farm food safety program to

 

assist farmers impacted by the new FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

 

requirements. The purpose of this new program is to create a state and local

 

partnership to provide training, education and technical assistance to Michigan

 

farmers in order for them to be compliant with these federal requirements. The

 

department will track the outcomes of the program to determine the number of farmers

 

that were provided assistance and the number of farms that complete a food safety plan

 

as a result of this program.

 

 

 

ANIMAL INDUSTRY

 

       Sec. 1-453. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department may provide

 

for indemnity as provided for pursuant to the animal industry act, 1988 PA 466, MCL

 

287.701 to 287.746.

 

       (2) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for indemnification – livestock

 

depredation, the department may provide for indemnity as provided for pursuant to the

 

wildlife depredations indemnification act, 2012 PA 487, MCL 285.361 to 285.365.

 

       Sec. 1-457. The animal industry division shall include in their annual report the

 

department’s progress toward meeting the USDA requirements as outlined in the March

 

2014 bovine tuberculosis program MOU with USDA. Notification as to the location of

 

that report on the website shall be sent to the senate and house agriculture

 

committees, the subcommittees, the fiscal agencies, and the state budget office.

 


       Sec. 1-458. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for animal industry, the

 

department shall provide inspection and testing of aquaculture facilities and

 

aquaculture researchers as provided under section 7 of the Michigan aquaculture

 

development act, 1996 PA 199, MCL 286.877.

 

 

 

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

 

       Sec. 1-601. The funds appropriated in part 1 for MAEAP-environmental stewardship

 

shall be used to support department agriculture pollution prevention programs,

 

including groundwater and freshwater protection programs under part 87 of the Michigan

 

natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.8701 to

 

324.8717, and technical assistance in implementing conservation grants available under

 

the federal farm bill of 2014.

 

       Sec. 1-604. (1) Federal revenues authorized by and available from the federal

 

government in excess of the appropriation in part 1 under section 107 are appropriated

 

and may be received and expended by the department for purposes authorized under state

 

law and subject to federal requirements.

 

       (2) The department shall notify the subcommittees and fiscal agencies prior to

 

expending federal revenues received and appropriated under subsection (1).

 

       Sec. 1-608. (1) The appropriations in part 1 for the qualified forest affidavit

 

program are for the purpose of increasing the knowledge of nonindustrial private

 

forestland owners of sound forest management practices and increasing the amount of

 

commercial timber production from those lands.

 

       (2) The department shall work in partnership with stakeholder groups and other

 

state and federal agencies to increase the active management of nonindustrial private

 

forestland to foster the growth of Michigan’s timber product industry.

 

 

 

LABORATORY PROGRAM

 


       Sec. 1-701. The program will increase turnaround times in the Geagley laboratory

 

from 30-50% to 75-80% and implement a risk based inspection program on devices and

 

package content in the consumer protection program in the current fiscal year. The

 

purpose of these programs is to ensure the protection of consumers from economic harm

 

due to labeling or measurement fraud and to ensure the safety of the food supply. The

 

department will track the outcome of the program by measuring sample analysis

 

turnaround times and the percentage of compliant measurement devices inspected in the

 

fiscal year.

 

 

 

AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT

 

       Sec. 1-801. (1) The department shall establish and administer a value-added grant

 

program. The program shall promote the expansion of value-added agricultural

 

production, processing, and access within the state.

 

       (2) The department shall award grants on a competitive basis from the funds

 

appropriated in part 1 for value-added grants. Grantees will be required to provide a

 

cash match and identify measurable project outcomes. Eligible grantees may include,

 

but are not limited to, individuals, partnerships, cooperatives, private or public

 

corporations, and local units of government. Grantees will be required to identify

 

measurable project outcomes.

 

       (3) A joint evaluation committee shall be selected by the director with

 

representatives with agriculture, business, and economic development expertise. The

 

joint evaluation committee shall identify criteria, evaluate applications, and provide

 

recommendations to the director for final approval of grant awards.

 

       (4) The department may expend money from the funds appropriated in part 1 for

 

value-added grants for administering the program.

 

       (5) The unexpended portion of the value-added grant program is considered a work

 

project appropriation in accordance with the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431,

 


MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       (6) The department shall make available on the agency’s website a list of the

 

grantees, award amount, match funding, and project outcomes. The department shall

 

electronically notify the appropriations subcommittees, fiscal agencies, and the state

 

budget office of the location of this list.

 

       Sec. 1-802. The department will work with the rural development fund board to

 

establish a process and criteria for funding projects as well as establishing metrics

 

and measurable outcomes for the program. The funds appropriated from the rural

 

development fund must be used in accordance with the provisions outlined in PA 411 of

 

2012.

 

 

 

FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS

 

       Sec. 1-902. All appropriations from the agriculture equine industry development

 

fund, except for the Michigan gaming control board’s regulatory expenses and the

 

department’s expenses to administer horse racing programs, shall be reduced

 

proportionately if revenues to the agriculture equine industry development fund

 

decline during the preceding fiscal year to a level lower than the amounts

 

appropriated in part 1.


Article 2

 

DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 2-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of attorney general are appropriated for the

 

fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for the

 

fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part. The

 

following is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this

 

part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              527.0             522.5

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     95,185,800  $     94,485,800

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................         28,989,700        28,989,700

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $     66,196,100  $     65,496,100

 

  Total federal revenues..................................          9,476,700         9,476,700

 

  Total local revenues....................................                  0                 0

 

  Total private revenues..................................                  0                 0

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................         17,578,900        17,578,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     39,140,500  $     38,440,500

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........         38,440,500        38,440,500

 

     One-time general fund/general purpose...............            700,000                 0

 

   Sec. 2-102.  ATTORNEY GENERAL OPERATIONS


   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              522.5             522.5

 

  Attorney general........................................   $        112,500  $        112,500

 

  Unclassified positions-5.0 FTE positions................            754,000           754,000

 

  Attorney general operations-479.5 FTE positions.........         83,800,000        83,800,000

 

  Child support enforcement-25.0 FTE positions............          3,503,800         3,503,800

 

  Prosecuting attorneys coordinating council-12.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          2,142,600         2,142,600

 

  Public safety initiative-1.0 FTE position...............            905,800           905,800

 

  Sexual assault law enforcement-5.0 FTE positions........          1,713,500         1,713,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     92,932,200  $     92,932,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from MDHHS, health policy...........................            206,900           206,900

 

  IDG from MDHHS, medical services administration.........            691,200           691,200

 

  IDG from MDHHS, WIC.....................................            152,500           152,500

 

  IDG from department of corrections......................            660,300           660,300

 

  IDG from MDE............................................            595,600           595,600

 

  IDG from MDEQ...........................................          2,009,000         2,009,000

 

  IDG from MDHHS, human services..........................          5,932,500         5,932,500

 

  IDG from MDIFS, financial and insurance services........          1,213,000         1,213,000

 

  IDG from TED, workforce development agency..............             89,600            89,600

 

  IDG from MDLARA, fireworks safety fund..................             83,000            83,000

 

  IDG from MDLARA, health professions.....................          3,037,400         3,037,400

 

  IDG from MDLARA, licensing and regulation fees..........            335,600           335,600

 

  IDG from MDLARA, Michigan occupational safety and health

 

   administration........................................            107,700           107,700


  IDG from MDLARA, remonumentation fees...................            106,100           106,100

 

  IDG from MDLARA, securities fees........................            188,300           188,300

 

  IDG from MDLARA, unlicensed builders....................            334,700           334,700

 

  IDG from MDMVA..........................................            164,900           164,900

 

  IDG from MDOS, children’s protection registry...........             45,000            45,000

 

  IDG from MDOT, comprehensive transportation fund........            204,500           204,500

 

  IDG from MDOT, state aeronautics fund...................            177,600           177,600

 

  IDG from MDOT, state trunkline fund.....................          2,429,200         2,429,200

 

  IDG from MDSP...........................................            257,300           257,300

 

  IDG from DTMB...........................................            463,800           463,800

 

  IDG from DTMB, civil service commission.................            305,900           305,900

 

  IDG from DTMB, risk management revolving fund...........          1,468,400         1,468,400

 

  IDG from Michigan state housing development authority...            676,600           676,600

 

  IDG from treasury.......................................          6,874,000         6,874,000

 

  IDG from TED, strategic fund............................            179,100           179,100

 

     Federal revenues:

 

  DAG, state administrative match grant/food stamps.......            137,000           137,000

 

  Federal funds...........................................          3,145,100         3,145,100

 

  HHS, medical assistance, medigrant......................            384,800           384,800

 

  HHS-OS, state Medicaid fraud control units..............          5,688,600         5,688,600

 

  National criminal history improvement program...........            121,200           121,200

 

     Special revenue funds:

 

  Antitrust enforcement collections.......................            762,600           762,600

 

  Attorney general’s operations fund......................            767,000           767,000

 

  Auto repair facilities fees.............................            327,400           327,400

 

  Franchise fees..........................................            382,400           382,400

 

  Game and fish protection fund...........................            751,100           751,100


  Human trafficking commission fund.......................            390,000           390,000

 

  Liquor purchase revolving fund..........................          1,459,200         1,459,200

 

  Manufactured housing fees...............................            250,600           250,600

 

  Merit award trust fund..................................            495,700           495,700

 

  Michigan employment security act – administrative fund..          2,241,500         2,241,500

 

  Prisoner reimbursement..................................            625,200           625,200

 

  Prosecuting attorneys training fees.....................            411,500           411,500

 

  Public utility assessments..............................          2,077,300         2,077,300

 

  Real estate enforcement fund............................            100,700           100,700

 

  Reinstatement fees......................................            257,700           257,700

 

  Retirement funds........................................          1,042,200         1,042,200

 

  Second injury fund......................................            821,700           821,700

 

  Self-insurers security fund.............................            571,200           571,200

 

  Silicosis and dust disease fund.........................            225,700           225,700

 

  State building authority revenue........................            120,900           120,900

 

  State casino gaming fund................................          1,861,900         1,861,900

 

  State lottery fund......................................            345,100           345,100

 

  Utility consumers fund..................................            780,800           780,800

 

  Waterways fund..........................................            140,000           140,000

 

  Worker’s compensation administrative revolving fund.....            369,500           369,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     36,886,900  $     36,886,900

 

   Sec. 2-103.  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

  Information technology service and projects.............   $       1,553,600  $       1,553,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      1,553,600  $      1,553,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,553,600  $      1,553,600


   Sec. 2-104.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                4.5               0.0

 

  Prescription drug abuse enforcement.....................   $         700,000  $               0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $        700,000  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        700,000  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 2-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $56,719,400.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $0.00.

 

       Sec. 2-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 2-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "DAG" means the United States department of agriculture.

 

       (b) "Department" means the department of attorney general.

 

       (c) "DTMB" means the department of technology, management and budget.

 

       (d) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (e) "HHS" means the United States department of health and human services.

 

       (f) "HHS-OS" means the HHS – office of the secretary.

 

       (g) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 


       (h) "MDE" means the Michigan department of education.

 

       (i) "MDEQ" means the Michigan department of environmental quality.

 

       (j) "MDHHS" means the Michigan department of health and human services.

 

       (k) "MDIFS" means the Michigan department of insurance and financial services.

 

       (l) "MDLARA" means the Michigan department of licensing and regulatory affairs.

 

       (m) "MDMVA" means the Michigan department of military and veterans affairs.

 

       (n) "MDOS" means the Michigan department of state.

 

       (o) "MDOT" means the Michigan department of transportation.

 

       (p) "MDSP" means the Michigan department of state police.

 

       (q) "TED" means the department of talent and economic development.

 

       (r) "WIC" means women, infants and children.

 

       Sec. 2-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 2-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 2-206. The director of each department receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in deprived and depressed

 

communities compete for and perform contracts to provide services or supplies, or


both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which the department contracts

 

to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and deprived communities for

 

services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 2-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of each

 

year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 2-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those activities that the

 

attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 2-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare and

 

transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and


house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 2-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $ 1,500,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $ 1,500,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These

 

funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another

 

line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $ 100,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 2-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.


       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 2-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 2-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 2-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 are $18,361,000.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $10,096,700.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $8,264,300.00.

 

 

 

DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL

 

       Sec. 2-302. (1) The attorney general shall perform all legal services, including

 

representation before courts and administrative agencies rendering legal opinions and

 

providing legal advice to a principal executive department or state agency. A

 

principal executive department or state agency shall not employ or enter into a

 

contract with any other person for services described in this section.

 

       (2) The attorney general shall defend judges of all state courts if a claim is

 


made or a civil action is commenced for injuries to persons or property caused by the

 

judge through the performance of the judge’s duties while acting within the scope of

 

his or her authority as a judge.

 

       (3) The attorney general shall perform the duties specified in 1846 RS 12, MCL

 

14.28 to 14.35, and 1919 PA 232, MCL 14.101 to 14.102, and as otherwise provided by

 

law.

 

       Sec. 2-303. The attorney general may sell copies of the biennial report in excess

 

of the 350 copies that the attorney general may distribute on a gratis basis. Gratis

 

copies shall not be provided to members of the legislature. Electronic copies of

 

biennial reports shall be made available on the department of attorney general’s

 

website. The attorney general shall sell copies of the report at not less than the

 

actual cost of the report and shall deposit the money received into the general fund.

 

       Sec. 2-304. The department of attorney general is responsible for the legal

 

representation for state of Michigan state employee worker’s disability compensation

 

cases. The risk management revolving fund revenue appropriation in part 1 is to be

 

satisfied by billings from the department of attorney general for the actual costs of

 

legal representation, including salaries and support costs.

 

       Sec. 2-305. In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, not more than

 

$400,000.00 shall be reimbursed per fiscal year for food stamp fraud cases heard by

 

the third circuit court of Wayne County that were initiated by the department of

 

attorney general pursuant to the existing contract between the department of human

 

services, the prosecuting attorneys association of Michigan, and the department of

 

attorney general. The source of this funding is money earned by the department of

 

attorney general under the agreement after the allowance for reimbursement to the

 

department of attorney general for costs associated with the prosecution of food stamp

 

fraud cases. It is recognized that the federal funds are earned by the department of

 

attorney general for its documented progress on the prosecution of food stamp fraud


cases according to the United States department of agriculture regulations and that,

 

once earned by this state, the funds become state funds.

 

       Sec. 2-306. Any proceeds from a lawsuit initiated by or settlement agreement

 

entered into on behalf of this state against a manufacturer of tobacco products by the

 

attorney general are state funds and are subject to appropriation as provided by law.

 

       Sec. 2-307. (1) In addition to the antitrust revenues in part 1, antitrust,

 

securities fraud, consumer protection or class action enforcement revenues, or

 

attorney fees recovered by the department, not to exceed $250,000.00, are appropriated

 

to the department for antitrust, securities fraud, and consumer protection or class

 

action enforcement cases.

 

       (2) Any unexpended funds from antitrust, securities fraud, or consumer protection

 

or class action enforcement revenues at the end of the fiscal year, including

 

antitrust funds in part 1, may be carried forward for expenditure in the following

 

fiscal year up to the maximum authorization of $250,000.00.

 

       Sec. 2-308. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated up to $1,500,000.00 from litigation expense reimbursements awarded to the

 

state.

 

       (2) The funds may be expended for the payment of court judgments, settlements,

 

arbitration awards or other administrative and litigation decisions, attorney fees,

 

and litigation costs, assessed against the office of the governor, the department of

 

the attorney general, the governor, or the attorney general when acting in an official

 

capacity as the named party in litigation against the state. The funds may also be

 

expended for the payment of state costs incurred under section 16 of chapter X of the

 

code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 770.16.

 

       (3) Unexpended funds at the end of the fiscal year may be carried forward for

 

expenditure in the following year, up to a maximum authorization of $1,500,000.00.

 

       Sec. 2-309. From the prisoner reimbursement funds appropriated in part 1, the


department may spend up to $625,200.00 on activities related to the state correctional

 

facility reimbursement act, 1935 PA 253, MCL 800.401 to 800.406. In addition to the

 

funds appropriated in part 1, if the department collects in excess of $1,131,000.00 in

 

gross annual prisoner reimbursement receipts provided to the general fund, the excess,

 

up to a maximum of $1,000,000.00, is appropriated to the department of attorney

 

general and may be spent on the representation of the department of corrections and

 

its officers, employees, and agents, including, but not limited to, the defense of

 

litigation against the state, its departments, officers, employees, or agents in civil

 

actions filed by prisoners.

 

       Sec. 2-310. (1) For the purposes of providing title IV-D child support

 

enforcement funding, the department of human services, as the state IV-D agency, shall

 

maintain a cooperative agreement with the attorney general for federal IV-D funding to

 

support the child support enforcement activities within the office of the attorney

 

general.

 

       (2) The attorney general or his or her designee shall, to the extent allowable

 

under federal law, have access to any information used by the state to locate parents

 

who fail to pay court-ordered child support.

 

       Sec. 2-312. The department of attorney general shall not receive and expend funds

 

in addition to those authorized in part 1 for legal services provided specifically to

 

other state departments or agencies except for costs for expert witnesses, court

 

costs, or other nonsalary litigation expenses associated with a pending legal action.

 

       Sec. 2-313. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for attorney general

 

operations, the department shall allocate $600,000.00 for the investigation and

 

prosecution of mortgage fraud.


Article 3

 

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 3-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of civil rights are appropriated for the fiscal

 

year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for the fiscal

 

year ending September 30, 2018 from the funds indicated in this part. The following is

 

a summary of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL RIGHTS

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              132.0             129.0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     16,721,900  $     16,371,900

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................            293,600           293,600

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $     16,428,300  $     16,078,300

 

  Total federal revenues..................................          2,763,000         2,763,000

 

  Total private revenues..................................             18,700            18,700

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................            151,900           151,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     13,494,700  $     13,144,700

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........         13,144,700        13,144,700

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........            350,000                 0

 

   Sec. 3-102.  CIVIL RIGHTS OPERATIONS

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              129.0             129.0


  Unclassified positions-6.0 FTE positions................   $        660,300  $        660,300

 

  Civil rights operations-121.0 FTE positions.............         13,831,700        13,831,700

 

  Division on deaf and hard of hearing-6.0 FTE positions..            798,600           798,600

 

  Hispanic/Latino commission of Michigan-1.0 FTE position.    261,000           261,000

 

  Asian Pacific American affairs commission-1.0 FTE

 

   position..............................................            112,400           112,400

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     15,664,000  $     15,664,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from DTMB...........................................            293,600           293,600

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  EEOC, state and local antidiscrimination agency

 

   contracts.............................................          1,211,500         1,211,500

 

  HUD grant...............................................          1,536,500         1,536,500

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private revenues........................................             18,700            18,700

 

  Division on deafness fund...............................             93,400            93,400

 

  State restricted indirect funds.........................             58,500            58,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     12,451,800  $     12,451,800

 

   Sec. 3-103.  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

  Information technology services and projects............   $         707,900  $         707,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $        707,900  $        707,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  EEOC, state and local antidiscrimination agency

 

   contracts.............................................             15,000            15,000

 

   Special revenue funds:


  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        692,900   $       692,900

 

   Sec. 3-104.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                3.0               0.0

 

  Civil rights operations-2.0 FTE positions...............   $        250,000  $              0

 

  Commission on Middle Eastern American affairs-1.0 FTE

 

   position..............................................            100,000                 0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $        350,000  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        350,000   $             0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 3-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $13,646,600.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $0.

 

       Sec. 3-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 3-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "Department" means the department of civil rights.

 

       (b) "Director" means the director of the department of civil rights.

 

       (c) "DTMB" means the department of technology, management and budget.

 

       (d) "EEOC" means the United States equal employment opportunity commission.

 


       (e) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (f) "HUD" means the United States department of housing and urban development.

 

       (g) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

       Sec. 3-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 3-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 3-206. The director of each department receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in deprived and depressed

 

communities compete for and perform contracts to provide services or supplies, or

 

both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which the department contracts

 

to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and deprived communities for

 

services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 3-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of each

 

year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s


budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 3-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 3-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare and

 

transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 3-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $2,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $750,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not


available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 3-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 3-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 3-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 3-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $3,062,000.00. From this

 

amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are estimated at

 

$1,697,800.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care legacy costs are


estimated at $1,364,200.00.

 

 

 

CIVIL RIGHTS OPERATIONS

 

       Sec. 3-402. (1) In addition to the appropriations contained in part 1, the

 

department of civil rights may receive and expend funds from local or private sources

 

for all of the following purposes:

 

       (a) Developing and presenting training for employers on equal employment

 

opportunity law and procedures.

 

       (b) The publication and sale of civil rights related informational material.

 

       (c) The provision of copy material made available under freedom of information

 

requests.

 

       (d) Other copy fees, subpoena fees, and witness fees.

 

       (e) Developing, presenting, and participating in mediation processes for certain

 

civil rights cases.

 

       (f) Workshops, seminars, and recognition or award programs consistent with the

 

programmatic mission of the individual unit sponsoring or coordinating the programs.

 

       (g) Staffing costs for all activities included in this subsection.

 

       (2) The department of civil rights shall annually report to the state budget

 

director, the senate and house of representatives standing committees on

 

appropriations, and the senate and house fiscal agencies the amount of funds received

 

and expended for purposes authorized under this section.

 

       Sec. 3-403. The department of civil rights may contract with local units of

 

government to review equal employment opportunity compliance of potential contractors

 

and may charge for and expend amounts received from local units of government for the

 

purpose of developing and providing these contractual services.


Article 4

 

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 4-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of corrections are appropriated for the fiscal

 

year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for the fiscal

 

year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part. The following

 

is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Average population....................................             44,493            44,493

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............               16.0              16.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................           14,049.6          14,049.6

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $  2,029,386,100  $  2,019,898,700

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................                  0                 0

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $  2,029,386,100  $  2,019,898,700

 

  Total federal revenues..................................          5,523,700         5,523,700

 

  Total local revenues....................................          8,692,800         8,692,800

 

  Total private revenues..................................                  0                 0

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................         35,711,700        35,711,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $  1,979,457,900  $  1,969,970,500

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........      1,969,970,500     1,969,970,500

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........          9,487,400                 0

 

   Sec. 4-102.  EXECUTIVE


   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............               16.0              16.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               20.0              20.0

 

  Unclassified positions-16.0 FTE positions ..............   $      1,793,800  $       1,793,800

 

  Executive direction–20.0 FTE positions..................          4,208,600         4,208,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      6,002,400  $      6,002,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      6,002,400  $      6,002,400

 

   Sec. 4-103.  PRISONER RE-ENTRY AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              343.4             343.4

 

  Prisoner re-entry local service providers...............   $     13,208,600  $     13,208,600

 

  Prisoner re-entry MDOC programs.........................          9,124,100         9,124,100

 

  Prisoner re-entry federal grants........................            750,000           750,000

 

  Public safety initiative................................          4,500,000         4,500,000

 

  Re-entry services-70.0 FTE positions....................         21,755,100        21,755,100

 

  Education program-273.4 FTE positions...................         36,555,500        36,555,500

 

  Community corrections comprehensive plans and services..         12,158,000        12,158,000

 

  Felony drunk driver jail reduction and community

 

   treatment program.....................................          1,440,100         1,440,100

 

  Residential services....................................         15,475,500        15,475,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    114,966,900  $    114,966,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  DOJ, prisoner reintegration.............................            250,000           250,000

 

  DOJ, second chance act reentry initiative...............            500,000           500,000

 

  Federal education funding...............................          1,757,300         1,757,300

 

   Special revenue funds:


  Program and special equipment fund......................          5,213,200         5,213,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    107,246,400  $    107,246,400

 

   Sec. 4-104.  BUDGET AND OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              247.0             247.0

 

  Budget and operations administration–185.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $     24,696,700  $     24,696,700

 

  Prison industries operations-62.0 FTE positions.........          9,837,400         9,837,400

 

  New custody staff training..............................          9,216,500         9,216,500

 

  Compensatory buyout and union leave bank................                100               100

 

  Worker’s compensation...................................         14,171,300        14,171,300

 

  Rent ..................................................          2,349,100         2,349,100

 

  Equipment and special maintenance.......................          1,559,700         1,559,700

 

  Administrative hearings officers........................          3,407,100         3,407,100

 

  Judicial data warehouse user fees.......................             50,000            50,000

 

  Sheriffs’ coordinating and training office..............            100,000           100,000

 

  Prosecutorial and detainer expenses.....................          5,001,000         5,001,000

 

  County jail reimbursement program.......................         13,597,100        13,597,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     83,986,000  $     83,986,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  DOJ, prison rape elimination act grant..................            674,700           674,700

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Jail reimbursement program fund.........................          5,900,000         5,900,000

 

  Local corrections officer training fund.................            100,000           100,000

 

  Correctional industries revolving fund..................         10,451,800        10,451,800

 

  Program and special equipment fund......................                100               100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     66,859,400  $     66,859,400


   Sec. 4-105.  FIELD OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            2,194.6           2,194.6

 

  Field operations–1,881.9 FTE positions..................   $    213,669,400  $    213,669,400

 

  Detroit detention center-63.1 FTE positions.............          8,487,400         8,487,400

 

  Detroit re-entry center-216.6 FTE positions.............         27,073,900        27,073,900

 

  Parole board operations–33.0 FTE positions..............          3,812,000         3,812,000

 

  Parole/probation services...............................            940,000           940,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    253,982,700  $    253,982,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local – community tether program reimbursement..........            205,400           205,400

 

  Local revenues..........................................          8,487,400         8,487,400

 

  Re-entry center offender reimbursements.................             24,300            24,300

 

  Parole and probation oversight fees.....................          4,428,600         4,428,600

 

  Parole and probation oversight fees set-aside...........            940,000           940,000

 

  Tether program participant contributions................          2,480,900         2,480,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    237,416,100  $    237,416,100

 

   Sec. 4-106.  CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ADMINISTRATION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              319.0             319.0

 

  Correctional facilities administration–21.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $      5,046,600  $      5,046,600

 

  Prison food service.....................................         54,455,900        54,455,900

 

  Transportation–211.0 FTE positions......................         25,113,200        25,113,200

 

  Central records–52.0 FTE positions......................          6,015,600         6,015,600

 

  Inmate legal services...................................            790,900           790,900

 

  Housing inmates in federal institutions.................            611,000           611,000

 

  Prison store operations–35.0 FTE positions..............          3,372,600         3,372,600


  Leased beds and alternatives to leased beds.............                100               100

 

  Cost-effective housing initiative.......................                100               100

 

  Public works programs...................................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  Inmate housing fund.....................................                100               100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     96,406,100  $     96,406,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  DOJ-BOP, federal prisoner reimbursement.................            411,000           411,000

 

  SSA-SSI, incentive payment..............................            272,000           272,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Correctional industries revolving fund..................            569,000           569,000

 

  Public works user fees..................................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  Resident stores.........................................          3,372,600         3,372,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     90,781,500  $     90,781,500

 

   Sec. 4-107.  HEALTH CARE

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            1,491.9           1,491.9

 

  Prisoner health care services...........................   $     71,380,400  $     71,380,400

 

  Vaccination program.....................................            691,200           691,200

 

  Interdepartmental grant to human services, eligibility

 

   specialists...........................................            100,000           100,000

 

  Substance abuse testing and treatment services-8.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         22,340,600        22,340,600

 

  Healthy Michigan plan administration-12.0 FTE positions.    1,100,700         1,100,700

 

  Clinical and mental health services and support-1,471.9

 

   FTE positions.........................................        232,759,700       232,759,700

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    328,372,600   $   328,372,600

 

     Appropriated from:


   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues and reimbursements.....................            373,700           373,700

 

  DOJ, office of justice programs, RSAT...................            250,200           250,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Prisoner health care copayments.........................            257,200           257,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    327,491,500  $    327,491,500

 

   Sec. 4-108.  CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES

 

   Average population....................................             44,493            44,493

 

     Full-time equated classified positions..............            9,433.7           9,433.7

 

  Alger correctional facility – Munising-260.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $     30,602,300  $     30,602,300

 

  Baraga correctional facility – Baraga-294.8 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         35,306,500        35,306,500

 

  Bellamy Creek correctional facility – Ionia-390.2

 

   FTE positions.........................................         43,850,900        43,850,900

 

  Earnest C. Brooks correctional facility – Muskegon-

 

   440.9 FTE positions...................................         50,797,100        50,797,100

 

  Carson City correctional facility – Carson City-

 

   425.4 FTE positions...................................         46,557,100        46,557,100

 

  Central Michigan correctional facility – St. Louis-

 

   391.6 FTE positions...................................         46,105,600        46,105,600

 

  Chippewa correctional facility – Kincheloe-435.1 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         50,450,800        50,450,800

 

  Cooper Street correctional facility – Jackson-263.1

 

   FTE positions.........................................         29,792,800        29,792,800

 

  G. Robert Cotton correctional facility – Jackson-

 

   392.3 FTE positions...................................         44,232,800        44,232,800


  Charles E. Egeler correctional facility – Jackson-

 

   374.6 FTE positions...................................         43,525,500        43,525,500

 

  Richard A. Handlon correctional facility – Ionia-

 

   252.7 FTE positions...................................         29,843,400        29,843,400

 

  Gus Harrison correctional facility – Adrian-442.6

 

   FTE positions.........................................         49,475,100        49,475,100

 

  Ionia correctional facility – Ionia-286.3 FTE . positions        33,696,600        33,696,600

 

  Kinross correctional facility – Kincheloe-268.1 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         33,170,000        33,170,000

 

  Lakeland correctional facility – Coldwater-279.4 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         33,339,500        33,339,500

 

  Macomb correctional facility – New Haven-294.8 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         34,675,200        34,675,200

 

  Marquette branch prison – Marquette-321.7 FTE positions.    38,109,600        38,109,600

 

  Michigan reformatory – Ionia-311.7 FTE positions........         35,442,700        35,442,700

 

  Muskegon correctional facility – Muskegon-205.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         25,467,100        25,467,100

 

  Newberry correctional facility – Newberry-200.1 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         24,402,400        24,402,400

 

  Oaks correctional facility – Eastlake-290.4 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         34,091,800        34,091,800

 

  Ojibway correctional facility – Marenisco-203.1 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         23,545,600        23,545,600

 

  Parnall correctional facility – Jackson-260.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         28,461,800        28,461,800

 

  Pugsley correctional facility – Kingsley-209.9 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         24,996,100        24,996,100


  Saginaw correctional facility – Freeland-274.9 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         32,952,700        32,952,700

 

  Special alternative incarceration program – (Camp

 

   Cassidy Lake)-119.0 FTE positions.....................         13,733,700        13,733,700

 

  St. Louis correctional facility – St. Louis-303.6 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         36,687,100        36,687,100

 

  Thumb correctional facility – Lapeer-283.6 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         33,052,400        33,052,400

 

  Women’s Huron Valley correctional complex – Ypsilanti-

 

   501.9 FTE positions...................................         59,117,400        59,117,400

 

  Woodland correctional facility – Whitmore Lake-284.9

 

   FTE positions.........................................         33,279,200        33,279,200

 

  Northern region administration and support-48.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          4,509,900         4,509,900

 

  Southern region administration and support-124.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         24,098,000        24,098,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $  1,107,368,700  $  1,107,368,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  DOJ, state criminal alien assistance program............          1,034,800         1,034,800

 

    Special revenue funds:

 

   State restricted revenues and reimbursements..........            102,100           102,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $  1,106,231,800  $  1,106,231,800

 

   Sec. 4-109.  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

  Information technology services and projects............   $      28,813,300  $      28,813,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     28,813,300  $     28,813,300

 

     Appropriated from:


   Special revenue funds:

 

  Correctional industries revolving fund..................            177,100           177,100

 

  Parole and probation oversight fees set-aside...........            694,800           694,800

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     27,941,400  $     27,941,400

 

   Sec. 4-110.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

  New custody training staff-one-time.....................   $      8,506,100  $              0

 

  Ballistic vests-one-time................................            981,300                 0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      9,487,400  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      9,487,400  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 4-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $2,015,169,600.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 

of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $110,420,700.00. The itemized statement

 

below identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will

 

occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

 

  Field operations – assumption of county probation staff...............   $          61,749,900

 

  Community corrections comprehensive plans and services................             12,158,000

 

  Re-entry services - intensive detention re-entry program..............              1,500,000

 

  Residential services..................................................             15,475,500

 


  County jail reimbursement program.....................................             13,597,100

 

  Felony drunk driver jail reduction and community treatment program....              1,440,100

 

  Leased beds and alternatives to leased beds...........................                    100

 

  Public safety initiative..............................................              4,500,000

 

  TOTAL                                                                    $         110,420,700

 

       Sec. 4-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 4-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "Administrative segregation" means confinement for maintenance of order or

 

discipline to a cell or room apart from accommodations provided for inmates who are

 

participating in programs of the facility.

 

       (b) "Department" or "MDOC" means the Michigan department of corrections.

 

       (c) "DOJ" means the United States department of justice.

 

       (d) "DOJ-BOP" means the DOJ bureau of prisons.

 

       (e) "EPIC program" means the department’s effective process improvement and

 

communication program.

 

       (f) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (g) "Goals" means the intended or projected result of a comprehensive corrections

 

plan or community corrections program to reduce repeat offending, criminogenic and

 

high-risk behaviors, prison commitment rates, to reduce the length of stay in a jail,

 

or to improve the utilization of a jail.

 

       (h) "Jail" means a facility operated by a local unit of government for the

 

physical detention and correction of persons charged with or convicted of criminal

 

offenses.

 

       (i) "MDHHS" means the Michigan department of health and human services.

 

       (j) "Objective risk and needs assessment" means an evaluation of an offender’s

 

criminal history; the offender’s noncriminal history; and any other factors relevant


to the risk the offender would present to the public safety, including, but not

 

limited to, having demonstrated a pattern of violent behavior, and a criminal record

 

that indicates a pattern of violent offenses.

 

       (k) "Offender eligibility criteria" means particular criminal violations, state

 

felony sentencing guidelines descriptors, and offender characteristics developed by

 

advisory boards and approved by local units of government that identify the offenders

 

suitable for community corrections programs funded through the office of community

 

corrections.

 

       (l) "Offender target populations" means felons or misdemeanants who would likely

 

be sentenced to imprisonment in a state correctional facility or jail, who would not

 

likely increase the risk to the public safety based on an objective risk and needs

 

assessment that indicates that the offender can be safely treated and supervised in

 

the community.

 

       (m) "Offender who would likely be sentenced to imprisonment" means either of the

 

following:

 

       (i) A felon or misdemeanant who receives a sentencing disposition that appears to

 

be in place of incarceration in a state correctional facility or jail, according to

 

historical local sentencing patterns.

 

       (ii) A currently incarcerated felon or misdemeanant who is granted early release

 

from incarceration to a community corrections program or who is granted early release

 

from incarceration as a result of a community corrections program.

 

       (n) "RSAT" means residential substance abuse treatment.

 

       (o) "Serious emotional disturbance" means that term as defined in section 100d(2)

 

of the mental health code, 1974 PA 328, MCL 330.1100d.

 

       (p) "Serious mental illness" means that term as defined in section 100d(3) of the

 

mental health code, 1974 PA 328, MCL 330.1100d.

 

       (q) "SSA" means the United States Social Security Administration.


       (r) "SSA-SSI" means SSA supplemental security income.

 

       Sec. 4-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 4-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 4-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of each

 

year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.


       Sec. 4-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 4-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare and

 

transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 4-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These

 

funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another

 

line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $2,000,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.


       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $2,000,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 4-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 4-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 4-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 4-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $337,858,200.00. From


this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $187,327,100.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $150,531,100.00.

 

       Sec. 4-215. The department may charge fees and collect revenues in excess of

 

appropriations in part 1 not to exceed the cost of offender services and programming,

 

employee meals, parolee loans, academic/vocational services, custody escorts,

 

compassionate visits, union steward activities, and public works programs and services

 

provided to local units of government or private nonprofit organizations. The revenues

 

and fees collected are appropriated for all expenses associated with these services

 

and activities.

 

       Sec. 4-216. (1) Any contract for prisoner telephone services entered into after

 

the effective date of this section shall include a condition that fee schedules for

 

prisoner telephone calls, including rates and any surcharges other than those

 

necessary to meet program and special equipment costs, be the same as fee schedules

 

for calls placed from outside of correctional facilities.

 

       (2) Revenues appropriated and collected for program and special equipment funds

 

shall be considered state restricted revenue. Funding will be used for prisoner

 

programming and special equipment and security projects. Unexpended funds remaining at

 

the close of the fiscal year shall not lapse to the general fund but shall be carried

 

forward and be available for appropriation in subsequent fiscal years.

 

       (3) The department shall submit a report to the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative

 

corrections ombudsman, and the state budget director by February 1 outlining revenues

 

and expenditures from program and special equipment funds. The report shall include

 

all of the following:

 

       (a) A list of all individual projects and purchases financed with program and

 

special equipment funds in the immediately preceding fiscal year, the amounts expended


on each project or purchase, and the name of each vendor the products or services were

 

purchased from.

 

       (b) A list of planned projects and purchases to be financed with program and

 

special equipment funds during the current fiscal year, the amounts to be expended on

 

each project or purchase, and the name of each vendor for which the products or

 

services were purchased.

 

       (c) A review of projects and purchases planned for future fiscal years from

 

program and special equipment funds.

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE

 

       Sec. 4-301. For 3 years after a felony offender is released from the department’s

 

jurisdiction, the department shall maintain the offender’s file on the offender

 

tracking information system and make it publicly accessible in the same manner as the

 

file of the current offender. However, the department shall immediately remove the

 

offender’s file from the offender tracking information system upon determination that

 

the offender was wrongfully convicted and the offender’s file is not otherwise

 

required to be maintained on the offender tracking information system.

 

       Sec. 4-304. The department shall maintain a staff savings initiative program in

 

conjunction with the EPIC program for employees to submit suggestions for efficiencies

 

for the department. The department shall consider each suggestion in a timely manner.

 

The department shall report by March 1 to the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on corrections, the legislative corrections ombudsman, the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on process improvements that were

 

implemented based on suggestions that were recommended for the implementation from the

 

staff savings initiative and EPIC programs.

 

 

 

PRISONER RE-ENTRY AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT

 


       Sec. 4-401. The department shall submit 3-year and 5-year prison population

 

projection updates concurrent with submission of the executive budget to the senate

 

and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the legislative corrections

 

ombudsman, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include explanations of the methodology and assumptions used in

 

developing the projection updates.

 

       Sec. 4-405. By March 1, the department shall report to the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the legislative corrections ombudsman,

 

the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on substance abuse

 

testing and treatment program objectives, outcome measures, and results, including

 

program impact on offender success and programmatic success.

 

       Sec. 4-407. By June 30, the department shall place the statistical report from

 

the immediately preceding calendar year on an Internet site. The statistical report

 

shall include, but not be limited to, the information as provided in the 2004

 

statistical report.

 

       Sec. 4-408. The department shall measure the recidivism rates of offenders.

 

       Sec. 4-410. (1) The funds included in part 1 for community corrections

 

comprehensive plans and services are to encourage the development through technical

 

assistance grants, implementation, and operation of community corrections programs

 

that enhance offender success and that also may serve as an alternative to

 

incarceration in a state facility or jail. The comprehensive corrections plans shall

 

include an explanation of how the public safety will be maintained, the goals for the

 

local jurisdiction, offender target populations intended to be affected, offender

 

eligibility criteria for purposes outlined in the plan, and how the plans will meet

 

the following objectives, consistent with section 8(4) of the community corrections

 

act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.408:

 

       (a) Reduce admissions to prison of offenders who would likely be sentenced to


imprisonment, including probation violators.

 

       (b) Improve the appropriate utilization of jail facilities, the first priority of

 

which is to open jail beds intended to house otherwise prison-bound felons, and the

 

second priority being to appropriately utilize jail beds so that jail crowding does

 

not occur.

 

       (c) Open jail beds through the increase of pretrial release options.

 

       (d) Reduce the readmission to prison of parole violators.

 

       (e) Reduce the admission or readmission to prison of offenders, including

 

probation violators and parole violators, for substance abuse violations.

 

       (f) Contribute to offender success.

 

       (2) The award of community corrections comprehensive plans and residential

 

services funds shall be based on criteria that include, but are not limited to, the

 

prison commitment rate by category of offenders, trends in prison commitment rates and

 

jail utilization, historical trends in community corrections program capacity and

 

program utilization, and the projected impact and outcome of annual policies and

 

procedures of programs on offender success, prison commitment rates, and jail

 

utilization.

 

       (3) Funds awarded for residential services in part 1 shall provide for a per diem

 

reimbursement of not more than $47.50 for nonaccredited facilities, or of not more

 

than $48.50 for facilities that have been accredited by the American corrections

 

association or a similar organization as approved by the department.

 

       Sec. 4-411. The comprehensive corrections plans shall also include, where

 

appropriate, descriptive information on the full range of sanctions and services that

 

are available and utilized within the local jurisdiction and an explanation of how

 

jail beds, residential services, the special alternative incarceration program,

 

probation detention centers, the electronic monitoring program for probationers, and

 

treatment and rehabilitative services will be utilized to support the objectives and


priorities of the comprehensive corrections plans and the purposes and priorities of

 

section 8(4) of the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.408, that

 

contribute to the success of offenders. The plans shall also include, where

 

appropriate, provisions that detail how the local communities plan to respond to

 

sentencing guidelines found in chapter XVII of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA

 

175, MCL 777.1 to 777.69, and use the county jail reimbursement program under section

 

414. The state community corrections board shall encourage local community corrections

 

advisory boards to include in their comprehensive corrections plans strategies to

 

collaborate with local alcohol and drug treatment agencies of the MDHHS for the

 

provision of alcohol and drug screening, assessment, case management planning, and

 

delivery of treatment to alcohol- and drug-involved offenders.

 

       Sec. 4-414. (1) The department shall administer a county jail reimbursement

 

program from the funds appropriated in part 1 for the purpose of reimbursing counties

 

for housing in jails certain felons who otherwise would have been sentenced to prison.

 

       (2) The county jail reimbursement program shall reimburse counties for convicted

 

felons in the custody of the sheriff if the conviction was for a crime committed on or

 

after January 1, 1999 and 1 of the following applies:

 

       (a) The felon’s sentencing guidelines recommended range upper limit is more than

 

18 months, the felon’s sentencing guidelines recommended range lower limit is 12

 

months or less, the felon’s prior record variable score is 35 or more points, and the

 

felon’s sentence is not for commission of a crime in crime class G or crime class H or

 

a nonperson crime in crime class F under chapter XVII of the code of criminal

 

procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 777.1 to 777.69.

 

       (b) The felon’s minimum sentencing guidelines range minimum is more than 12

 

months under the sentencing guidelines described in subdivision (a).

 

       (c) The felon was sentenced to jail for a felony committed while he or she was on

 

parole and under the jurisdiction of the parole board and for which the sentencing


guidelines recommended range for the minimum sentence has an upper limit of more than

 

18 months.

 

       (3) State reimbursement under this subsection shall be $60.00 per diem per

 

diverted offender for offenders with a presumptive prison guideline score, $50.00 per

 

diem per diverted offender for offenders with a straddle cell guideline for a group 1

 

crime, and $35.00 per diem per diverted offender for offenders with a straddle cell

 

guideline for a group 2 crime. Reimbursements shall be paid for sentences up to a 1-

 

year total.

 

       (4) As used in this subsection:

 

       (a) "Group 1 crime" means a crime in 1 or more of the following offense

 

categories: arson, assault, assaultive other, burglary, criminal sexual conduct,

 

homicide or resulting in death, other sex offenses, robbery, and weapon possession as

 

determined by the department of corrections based on specific crimes for which

 

counties received reimbursement under the county jail reimbursement program in fiscal

 

year 2007 and fiscal year 2008, and listed in the county jail reimbursement program

 

document titled "FY 2007 and FY 2008 Group One Crimes Reimbursed", dated March 31,

 

2009.

 

       (b) "Group 2 crime" means a crime that is not a group 1 crime, including larceny,

 

fraud, forgery, embezzlement, motor vehicle, malicious destruction of property,

 

controlled substance offense, felony drunk driving, and other nonassaultive offenses.

 

       (c) "In the custody of the sheriff" means that the convicted felon has been

 

sentenced to the county jail and is either housed in the county jail or has been

 

released from jail and is being monitored through the use of the sheriff’s electronic

 

monitoring system.

 

       (5) County jail reimbursement program expenditures shall not exceed the amount

 

appropriated in part 1 for the county jail reimbursement program. Payments to counties

 

under the county jail reimbursement program shall be made in the order in which


properly documented requests for reimbursements are received. A request shall be

 

considered to be properly documented if it meets MDOC requirements for documentation.

 

By October 15, the department shall distribute the documentation requirements to all

 

counties.

 

       (6) Any county that receives funding under this section for the purpose of

 

housing in jails certain felons who otherwise would have been sentenced to prison

 

shall, as a condition of receiving the funding, report by September 30 an annual

 

average jail capacity and annual average jail occupancy for the immediately preceding

 

fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 4-416. Allowable uses for the felony drunk driver jail reduction and

 

community treatment program funding shall include reimbursing counties for

 

transportation, treatment costs, and housing felony drunk drivers during a period of

 

assessment for treatment and case planning. Reimbursements for housing during the

 

assessment process shall be at the rate of $43.50 per day per offender, up to a

 

maximum of 5 days per offender.

 

       Sec. 4-418. (1) The department shall collaborate with the state court

 

administrative office on facilitating changes to Michigan court rules that would

 

require the court to collect at the time of sentencing the state operator’s license,

 

state identification card, or other documentation used to establish the identity of

 

the individual to be admitted to the department. The department shall maintain those

 

documents in the prisoner’s personal file.

 

       (2) The department shall cooperate with MDHHS to create and maintain a process by

 

which prisoners can obtain their Michigan birth certificates if necessary. The

 

department shall describe a process for obtaining birth certificates from other

 

states, and in situations where the prisoner’s effort fails, the department shall

 

assist in obtaining the birth certificate.

 

       (3) The department shall collaborate with the department of military and veterans


affairs to create and maintain a process by which prisoners can obtain a copy of their

 

DD Form 214 or other military discharge documentation if necessary.

 

       Sec. 4-419. (1) The department shall provide monthly electronic mail reports to

 

the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the legislative

 

corrections ombudsman, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget

 

director on prisoner populations by security levels by facility, prison facility

 

capacities, and parolee and probationer populations.

 

       (2) The department shall provide quarterly electronic mail reports to the senate

 

and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the legislative corrections

 

ombudsman, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

reports shall include information on end-of-month prisoner populations in county

 

jails, the net operating capacity according to the most recent certification report,

 

identified by date, and end-of-month data, year-to-date data, and comparisons to the

 

prior year for the following:

 

       (a) Community residential program populations, separated by centers and

 

electronic monitoring.

 

       (b) Parole populations.

 

       (c) Probation populations, with identification of the number in special

 

alternative incarceration.

 

       (d) Prison and camp populations, with separate identification of the number in

 

special alternative incarceration and the number of lifers.

 

       (e) Prisoners classified as past their earliest release date.

 

       (f) Parole board activity, including the numbers and percentages of parole grants

 

and parole denials.

 

       (g) Prisoner exits, identifying transfers to community placement, paroles from

 

prisons and camps, paroles from community placement, total movements to parole, prison

 

intake, prisoner deaths, prisoners discharging on the maximum sentence, and other


prisoner exits.

 

       (h) Prison intake and returns, including probation violators, new court

 

commitments, violators with new sentences, escaper new sentences, total prison intake,

 

returns from court with additional sentences, community placement returns, technical

 

parole violator returns, and total returns to prison and camp.

 

 

 

BUDGET AND OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION

 

       Sec. 4-501. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for prosecutorial and detainer

 

expenses, the department shall reimburse counties for housing and custody of parole

 

violators and offenders being returned by the department from community placement who

 

are available for return to institutional status and for prisoners who volunteer for

 

placement in a county jail.

 

       Sec. 4-502. Funds included in part 1 for the sheriffs’ coordinating and training

 

office are appropriated for and may be expended to defray costs of continuing

 

education, certification, recertification, decertification, and training of local

 

corrections officers, the personnel and administrative costs of the sheriffs’

 

coordinating and training office, the local corrections officers advisory board, and

 

the sheriffs’ coordinating and training council under the local corrections officers

 

training act, 2003 PA 125, MCL 791.531 to 791.546.

 

 

 

FIELD OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION

 

       Sec. 4-603. (1) All prisoners, probationers, and parolees involved with the

 

curfew monitoring program shall reimburse the department for costs associated with

 

their participation in the program. The department may require community service work

 

reimbursement as a means of payment for those able-bodied individuals unable to pay

 

for the costs of the equipment.

 

       (2) Program participant contributions and local program reimbursement for the

 


curfew monitoring program appropriated in part 1 are related to program expenditures

 

and may be used to offset expenditures for this purpose.

 

       (3) Included in the appropriation in part 1 is adequate funding to implement the

 

curfew monitoring program to be administered by the department. The curfew monitoring

 

program is intended to provide sentencing judges and county sheriffs in coordination

 

with local community corrections advisory boards access to the state’s curfew

 

monitoring program to reduce prison admissions and improve local jail utilization. The

 

department shall determine the appropriate distribution of the curfew monitor units

 

throughout the state based upon locally developed comprehensive corrections plans

 

under the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.401 to 791.414.

 

       (4) For a fee determined by the department, the department shall provide counties

 

with the curfew monitor equipment, replacement parts, administrative oversight of the

 

equipment’s operation, notification of violators, and periodic reports regarding

 

county program participants. Counties are responsible for curfew monitor equipment

 

installation and service. For an additional fee as determined by the department, the

 

department shall provide staff to install and service the equipment. Counties are

 

responsible for the coordination and apprehension of program violators.

 

       (5) Any county with curfew monitor charges outstanding over 60 days shall be

 

considered in violation of the community curfew monitor program agreement and lose

 

access to the program.

 

       Sec. 4-615. The department shall submit a report containing a list detailing the

 

number of prisoners who have received life imprisonment sentences with the possibility

 

of parole and who are currently eligible for parole to the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the

 

legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget director by January 1.

 

       Sec. 4-616. The parole board shall review its policies related to the review and

 

parole of those offenders serving a parolable life sentence with consideration given


to those that do not pose an ongoing risk to society.

 

 

 

HEALTH CARE

 

       Sec. 4-804. The department shall report quarterly to the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the legislative corrections ombudsman,

 

the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on prisoner health

 

care utilization. The report shall include the number of inpatient hospital days,

 

outpatient visits, emergency room visits, and prisoners receiving off-site inpatient

 

medical care in the previous quarter, by facility.

 

       Sec. 4-805. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for substance abuse testing and

 

treatment services, the department shall implement the living in recovery program

 

serving at least 500 offenders in the current fiscal year. The purpose of this new

 

program is to cost effectively target relapse prevention and help develop sobriety

 

support systems to deter further criminal behavior and recidivism. The department will

 

track the outcome of the program to determine the number of participants that

 

succeeded, the number that failed and were returned to prison, and the number that

 

failed, but were not returned to prison.

 

       Sec. 4-806. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for clinical and mental health

 

services and support, the department shall expand its mental health treatment and sex

 

offender treatment programs. The purpose of this enhancement is to address increased

 

caseloads, reduce the number of prisoners on the waiting list of prisoners who are

 

past their earliest release date, and reduce the percentage of prisoners readmitted to

 

mental health programs at their previous level of care.

 

 

 

CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ADMINISTRATION

 

       Sec. 4-906. Any local unit of government or private nonprofit organization that

 

contracts with the department for public works services shall be responsible for

 


financing the entire cost of such an agreement.

 

       Sec. 4-907. The department shall report by March 1 to the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the legislative corrections ombudsman,

 

the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on academic and

 

vocational programs. The report shall provide information relevant to an assessment of

 

the department’s academic and vocational programs, including, but not limited to, all

 

of the following:

 

       (a) The number of instructors and the number of instructor vacancies, by program

 

and facility.

 

       (b) The number of prisoners enrolled in each program, the number of prisoners

 

completing each program, the number of prisoners transferred to another facility while

 

enrolled in a program and the reason for transfer, the number of prisoners enrolled

 

who repeat the program, and the number of prisoners on waiting lists for each program,

 

all itemized by facility.

 

       (c) The steps the department has undertaken to improve programs, track records,

 

accommodate transfers and prisoners with health care needs, and reduce waiting lists.

 

       (d) The number of prisoners paroled without a high school diploma and the number

 

of prisoners paroled without a high school equivalency.

 

       (e) An explanation of the value and purpose of each program, for example, to

 

improve employability, reduce recidivism, reduce prisoner idleness, or some

 

combination of these and other factors.

 

       (f) An identification of program outcomes for each academic and vocational

 

program.

 

       (g) An explanation of the department’s plans for academic and vocational

 

programs.

 

       (h) The number of prisoners not paroled at their earliest release date due to

 

lack of a high school equivalency, and the reason those prisoners have not obtained a


high school equivalency.

 

       Sec. 4-910. The department shall allow the Michigan Braille transcribing fund

 

program to operate at its current location. The donation of the building by the

 

Michigan Braille transcribing fund at the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility in

 

Jackson is acknowledged and appreciated. The department shall continue to encourage

 

the Michigan Braille transcribing fund program to produce high-quality materials for

 

use by the visually impaired.

 

       Sec. 4-913. (1) Any prisoner required to complete a violence prevention program,

 

sexual offender program, or other program as a condition of parole shall be

 

transferred to a facility where that program is available in order to accomplish

 

timely completion of that program prior to the expiration of his or her minimum

 

sentence and eligibility for parole. Nothing in this section should be deemed to make

 

parole denial appealable in court.

 

       (2) The department shall submit a biannual report to the members of the senate

 

and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies, the state budget director, and the legislative corrections ombudsman

 

detailing enrollment in sex offender programming, assaultive offender programming,

 

violent offender programming, and thinking for change. At a minimum, the report shall

 

include the following:

 

       (a) A full accounting of the number of individuals who are required to complete

 

the programming, but have not yet done so.

 

       (b) The number of individuals who have reached their earliest release date, but

 

who have not completed required programming.

 

       (c) A plan of action for addressing any waiting lists or backlogs for programming

 

that may exist.

 

       Sec. 4-924. The department shall evaluate all prisoners at intake for substance

 

abuse disorders, serious developmental disorders, serious mental illness, and other


mental health disorders. Prisoners with serious mental illness or serious

 

developmental disorders shall not be removed from the general population as a punitive

 

response to behavior caused by their serious mental illness or serious developmental

 

disorder. Due to persistent high violence risk or severe disruptive behavior that is

 

unresponsive to treatment, prisoners with serious mental illness or serious

 

developmental disorders may be placed in secure residential housing programs that will

 

facilitate access to institutional programming and ongoing mental health services. A

 

prisoner with serious mental illness or serious developmental disorder who is confined

 

in these specialized housing programs shall be evaluated or monitored by a medical

 

professional at a frequency of not less than every 12 hours.

 

       Sec. 4-925. By March 1, the department shall report to the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the

 

legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget director on the annual number

 

of prisoners in administrative segregation between October 1, 2016 and September 30,

 

2017, and the annual number of prisoners in administrative segregation between October

 

1, 2016 and September 30, 2017 who at any time during the current or prior prison term

 

were diagnosed with serious mental illness or have a developmental disorder and the

 

number of days each of the prisoners with serious mental illness or a developmental

 

disorder have been confined to administrative segregation.

 

       Sec. 4-929. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall do all of

 

the following:

 

       (a) Ensure that any inmate care and control staff in contact with prisoners less

 

than 18 years of age are adequately trained with regard to the developmental and

 

mental health needs of prisoners less than 18 years of age. By April 1, the department

 

shall report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the

 

senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on the training

 

curriculum used and the number and types of staff receiving annual training under that


curriculum.

 

       (b) Provide appropriate placement for prisoners less than 18 years of age who

 

have serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or a serious developmental

 

disorder and need to be housed separately from the general population. Prisoners less

 

than 18 years of age who have serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance,

 

or a serious developmental disorder shall not be removed from an existing placement as

 

a punitive response to behavior caused by their serious mental illness, serious

 

emotional disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder. Due to persistent high

 

violence risk or severe disruptive behavior that is unresponsive to treatment,

 

prisoners less than 18 years of age with serious emotional disturbance, serious mental

 

illness, or serious developmental disorders may be placed in secure residential

 

housing programs that will facilitate access to institutional programming and ongoing

 

mental health services. A prisoner less than 18 years of age with serious mental

 

illness, serious emotional disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder who is

 

confined in these specialized housing programs shall be evaluated or monitored by a

 

medical professional at a frequency of not less than every 12 hours.

 

       (c) Implement a specialized re-entry program that recognizes the needs of

 

prisoners less than 18 years old for supervised re-entry.

 

 

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

       Sec. 4-1000. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for information technology

 

services and projects, the department shall expand bandwidth in 27 correctional

 

facilities and 113 field operations offices. The purpose of this bandwidth expansion

 

is to support critical information technology systems that provide platforms for

 

several mandated programs and department cost savings efforts.

 

 

 

ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 


       Sec. 4-1100. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for new custody staff

 

training, the department will increase the training capacity for new custody staff by

 

350 officers. The purpose of this academy is to address higher than normal attrition

 

of correction officers and decrease overtime costs.


Article 5

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 5-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of education and certain state purposes related

 

to education are appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are

 

anticipated to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the

 

funds indicated in this part. The following is a summary of the appropriations and

 

anticipated appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              596.5             596.5

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    316,917,400  $    308,367,300

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................                  0                 0

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $    316,917,400  $    308,367,300

 

  Total federal revenues..................................        225,164,100       217,114,100

 

  Total local revenues....................................          5,557,200         5,557,200

 

  Total private revenues..................................          2,034,200         2,034,200

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................          7,780,700         7,780,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     76,381,200  $     75,881,200

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

    Ongoing state general fund/general purpose............         75,881,200        75,881,200

 

   One-time state general fund/general purpose...........            500,000                 0

 

   Sec. 5-102.  STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION/OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT


   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               10.0              10.0

 

  State board of education, per diem payments.............   $         24,400  $         24,400

 

  Unclassified positions-6.0 FTE positions................            827,200           827,200

 

  State board/superintendent operations-10.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          1,888,700         1,888,700

 

  Education commission of the states......................            120,800           120,800

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      2,861,100  $      2,861,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................            227,000           227,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private foundations.....................................             28,100            28,100

 

  Certification fees......................................            771,400           771,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,834,600  $      1,834,600

 

    Sec. 5-103.  CENTRAL SUPPORT

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               23.6              23.6

 

  Central support operations-23.6 FTE positions...........   $      6,686,700  $      6,686,700

 

  Worker’s compensation...................................             24,300            24,300

 

  Building occupancy charges – property management

 

   services..............................................          3,196,200         3,196,200

 

  Training and orientation workshops......................            150,000           150,000

 

  Terminal leave payments.................................            353,300           353,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     10,410,500  $     10,410,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          3,690,100         3,690,100


  Federal indirect funds..................................          2,430,700         2,430,700

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Certification fees......................................            399,300           399,300

 

  Teacher testing fees....................................              4,000             4,000

 

  Training and orientation workshop fees..................            150,000           150,000

 

  Private foundations.....................................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      2,736,400  $      2,736,400

 

   Sec. 5-104.  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

 

  Information technology operations.......................   $       4,192,600  $       4,192,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      4,192,600  $      4,192,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................            616,900           616,900

 

  Federal indirect funds..................................          1,824,300         1,824,300

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Certification fees......................................            397,500           397,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,353,900  $      1,353,900

 

   Sec. 5-105.  SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES

 

     Full-time equated classified positions..............               47.0              47.0

 

  Special education operations-47.0 FTE positions.........   $       9,320,500  $       9,320,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      9,320,500  $      9,320,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          8,544,000         8,544,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private foundations.....................................            110,100           110,100

 

  Certification fees......................................             44,700            44,700


  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        621,700  $        621,700

 

   Sec. 5-106.  MICHIGAN SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               77.0              77.0

 

  Michigan schools for the deaf and blind operations-76.0

 

   FTE positions.........................................   $     12,812,700  $     12,812,700

 

  Camp Tuhsmeheta-1.0 FTE position........................            296,000           296,000

 

  Private gifts – blind...................................            200,000           200,000

 

  Private gifts – deaf....................................            150,000           150,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     13,458,700  $     13,458,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          7,048,600         7,048,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local cost sharing (schools for blind/deaf).............          5,233,000         5,233,000

 

  Local school district service fees......................            312,500           312,500

 

  Gifts, bequests, and donations..........................            646,000           646,000

 

  Student insurance revenue...............................            218,600           218,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 5-107.  PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               33.0              33.0

 

  Professional preparation operations-33.0 FTE positions..   $       5,653,900  $       5,653,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      5,653,900  $      5,653,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          1,464,100         1,464,100

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Certification fees......................................          3,602,000         3,602,000


  Teacher testing fees....................................            364,100           364,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        223,700  $        223,700

 

   Sec. 5-108.  MICHIGAN OFFICE OF GREAT START

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               66.0              66.0

 

  Office of great start operations-65.0 FTE positions.....   $     23,177,400  $     23,177,400

 

  Child development and care external support.............         27,182,800        27,182,800

 

  Head start collaboration office-1.0 FTE position........            309,900           309,900

 

  Child development and care public assistance............        124,200,000       124,200,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    174,870,100  $    174,870,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................        136,964,800       136,964,800

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private foundations.....................................            250,000           250,000

 

  Certification fees......................................             64,600            64,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     37,590,700  $     37,590,700

 

   Sec. 5-109.  STATE AID AND SCHOOL FINANCE SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               11.5              11.5

 

  State aid and school finance operations-11.5 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $       1,638,600  $       1,638,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      1,638,600  $      1,638,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,638,600  $      1,638,600

 

   Sec. 5-110.  AUDIT SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                4.5               4.5

 

  Audit operations-4.5 FTE positions......................   $         612,500  $         612,500


  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $        612,500  $        612,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal indirect funds..................................            486,800           486,800

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Certification fees......................................             62,300            62,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $         63,400  $         63,400

 

   Sec. 5-111.  ADMINISTRATIVE LAW SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                2.0               2.0

 

  Administrative law operations-2.0 FTE positions.........   $       1,364,300  $       1,364,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      1,364,300  $      1,364,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................            564,200           564,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Certification fees......................................            701,500           701,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $         98,600  $         98,600

 

   Sec. 5-112.  ACCOUNTABILITY SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               64.6              64.6

 

  Accountability services operations-64.6 FTE positions...   $      14,619,400  $      14,619,400

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     14,619,400  $     14,619,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................         13,476,200        13,476,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,143,200  $      1,143,200

 

   Sec. 5-113.  SCHOOL SUPPORT SERVICES


   Full-time equated classified positions................               83.6              83.6

 

  School support services operations-83.6 FTE positions...   $      15,495,200  $      15,495,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     15,495,200  $     15,495,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................         14,455,700        14,455,700

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local school district service fees......................             11,700            11,700

 

  Certification fees......................................             86,900            86,900

 

  Commodity distribution fees.............................             71,700            71,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        869,200  $        869,200

 

   Sec. 5-114.  FIELD SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               45.0              45.0

 

  Field services operations-45.0 FTE positions............   $       9,349,200  $       9,349,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      9,349,200  $      9,349,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          8,599,200         8,599,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Certification fees......................................             37,300            37,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        712,700  $        712,700

 

   Sec. 5-115.  EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT AND INNOVATION SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               49.7              49.7

 

  Educational improvement and innovation operations-49.7

 

   FTE positions.........................................   $       9,689,900  $       9,689,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      9,689,900  $      9,689,900

 

     Appropriated from:


   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          6,596,600         6,596,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Certification fees......................................            565,100           565,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      2,528,200  $      2,528,200

 

   Sec. 5-116.  CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               29.0              29.0

 

  Career and technical education operations-29.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $       5,220,800  $       5,220,800

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      5,220,800  $      5,220,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          3,887,400         3,887,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,333,400  $      1,333,400

 

   Sec. 5-117.  LIBRARY OF MICHIGAN

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               33.0              33.0

 

  Library of Michigan operations-31.0 FTE positions.......   $      4,497,400  $      4,497,400

 

  Library services and technology program-1.0 FTE

 

   position..............................................          5,610,100         5,610,100

 

  State aid to libraries..................................          9,876,000         9,876,000

 

  Michigan eLibrary-1.0 FTE position......................          1,752,300         1,752,300

 

  Renaissance zone reimbursements.........................          5,300,000         5,300,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     27,035,800  $     27,035,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          5,610,100         5,610,100


   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     21,425,700  $     21,425,700

 

   Sec. 5-118.  EDUCATOR TALENT AND POLICY COORDINATION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               17.0              17.0

 

  Educator talent and policy coordination operations-17.0

 

   FTE positions.........................................   $       2,574,200  $       2,574,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      2,574,200  $      2,574,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................            627,400           627,400

 

  Certification fees......................................            239,600           239,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,707,200  $      1,707,200

 

   Sec. 5-119.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

  Certification fees subsidy..............................   $        500,000  $              0

 

  Flint declaration of emergency..........................          8,050,100                 0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      8,550,100  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          8,050,000                 0

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Flint emergency reserve fund............................                100                 0

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        500,000  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 


GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 5-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $84,161,900.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $15,176,000.00. The itemized statement below

 

identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

 

  State aid to libraries................................................   $           9,876,000

 

  Renaissance zone reimbursements.......................................              5,300,000

 

  TOTAL                                                                    $          15,176,000

 

       Sec. 5-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 5-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "Department" means the Michigan department of education.

 

       (b) "District" means a local school district as defined in section 6 of the

 

revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.6, or a public school academy as defined in

 

section 5 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.5.

 

       (c) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       Sec. 5-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 5-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are


competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 5-206. The state superintendent of public instruction shall take all

 

reasonable steps to ensure businesses in deprived and depressed communities compete

 

for and perform contracts to provide services or supplies, or both. The state

 

superintendent of public instruction shall strongly encourage firms with which the

 

department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 5-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of each

 

year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 5-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that


the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 5-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare and

 

transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 5-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $700,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These funds

 

are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line

 

item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA

 

431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $250,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $3,000,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL


18.1393.

 

       Sec. 5-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 5-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 5-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 5-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $16,971,500.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $9,410,700.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care legacy

 

costs are estimated at $7,560,800.00.

 

       Sec. 5-215. The department shall provide through the Internet the state board of


education agenda and all supporting documents, and shall notify the state budget

 

director and the senate and house fiscal agencies that the agenda and supporting

 

documents are available on the Internet, at the time the agenda and supporting

 

documents are provided to state board of education members.

 

       Sec. 5-216. To the extent the state continues to identify schools as meeting

 

proficiency targets, before publishing a list of schools or districts determined to

 

have failed to make adequate yearly progress as required by the no child left behind

 

act of 2001, Public Law 107-110, the department shall allow a school or district to

 

appeal that determination. Those appeals shall be addressed before designations may be

 

published.

 

       Sec. 5-217. The department may assist the department of health and human

 

services, other departments, and local school districts to secure reimbursement for

 

eligible services provided in Michigan schools from the federal Medicaid program. The

 

department may submit reports of direct expenses related to this effort to the

 

department of health and human services for reimbursement.

 

       Sec. 5-218. The department shall not seek a federal waiver from the no child left

 

behind act of 2001, Public Law 107-110, or an amendment to the federal waiver, until

 

after notification of the content to both the house and senate appropriations

 

committees and the state budget director.

 

       Sec. 5-219. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall ensure

 

that kindergarten benchmark data includes a method for information to be provided

 

regarding a child’s participation in the great start readiness program.

 

       Sec. 5-220. The department shall post on its website a link to the federal

 

Institute of Education Sciences’ What Works Clearinghouse. The department also shall

 

work to disseminate knowledge about the What Works Clearinghouse to districts and

 

intermediate districts so that it may be used to improve reading proficiency for

 

pupils in grades K to 3.


STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION/OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT

 

       Sec. 5-301. (1) The appropriations in part 1 may be used for per diem payments to

 

the state board for meetings at which a quorum is present or for performing official

 

business authorized by the state board. The per diem payments shall be at a rate as

 

follows:

 

       (a) State board of education - president - $110.00 per day.

 

       (b) State board of education - member other than president - $100.00 per day.

 

       (2) A state board of education member shall not be paid a per diem for more than

 

30 days per year.

 

       Sec. 5-302. From the amount appropriated in part 1 to the state board of

 

education, not more than $35,000.00 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017

 

shall be expended for in-state travel and out-of-state travel directly related to the

 

duties of the state board of education.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND

 

       Sec. 5-401. The employees at the Michigan schools for the deaf and blind who work

 

on a school year basis are considered annual employees for purposes of service

 

credits, retirement, and insurance benefits.

 

       Sec. 5-402. For each student enrolled at the Michigan schools for the deaf and

 

blind, the department shall assess the intermediate school district of residence 100%

 

of the cost of operating the student's instructional program. The amount shall exclude

 

room and board related costs and the cost of weekend transportation between the school

 

and the student's home.

 

       Sec. 5-406. (1) The Michigan schools for the deaf and blind may promote its

 

residential program as a possible appropriate option for children who are deaf or hard

 

of hearing or who are blind or visually impaired. The Michigan schools for the deaf

 

and blind shall distribute information detailing its services to all intermediate

 


school districts in the state.

 

       (2) Upon knowledge of or recognition by an intermediate school district that a

 

child in the district is deaf or hard of hearing or blind or visually impaired, the

 

intermediate school district shall provide to the parents of the child the literature

 

distributed by the Michigan schools for the deaf and blind to intermediate school

 

districts under subsection (1).

 

       (3) Parents will continue to have a choice regarding the educational placement of

 

their deaf or hard-of-hearing children.

 

       Sec. 5-407. Revenue received by the Michigan schools for the deaf and blind from

 

gifts, bequests, donations and local district service fees that is unexpended at the

 

end of the state fiscal year may be carried over to the succeeding fiscal year and

 

shall not revert to the general fund.

 

       Sec. 5-408. In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, the funds collected

 

by the Michigan schools for the deaf and the low incidence outreach program for

 

document reproduction and services; conferences, workshops, and training classes; and

 

the use of specialized equipment, facilities, and software are appropriated for all

 

expenses necessary to provide the required services. These funds are available for

 

expenditure when they are received and may be carried forward into the next succeeding

 

fiscal year.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION SERVICES

 

       Sec. 5-501. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for professional preparation

 

services, the department shall maintain certificate revocation/felony conviction files

 

of educational personnel.

 

       Sec. 5-506. Revenue received from teacher testing fees that is unexpended at the

 

end of the state fiscal year may be carried over to the succeeding fiscal year and

 

shall not revert to the general fund.

 


FIELD SERVICES

 

       Sec. 5-701. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for field services

 

operations, the department shall produce a report detailing the progress made by

 

districts with grades K-3 receiving at-risk funding under section 31a of the state aid

 

act, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1631a in implementing multi-tiered systems of supports in the

 

prior school fiscal year.

 

       (2) The report shall include, at a minimum:

 

       (a) A description of the training, coaching, and technical assistance offered by

 

the department to districts to support the implementation of effective multi-tiered

 

systems of supports.

 

       (b) A list of district determined by the department to have successfully

 

implemented multi-tiered systems of supports.

 

       (c) A list of best practices that the department has identified that may be used

 

by districts to implement multi-tiered systems of supports.

 

       (d) Other information the department determines would be useful to understanding

 

the status of districts’ implementation of effective multi-tiered systems of supports.

 

       (3) The report shall be provided to the state budget director, the house and

 

senate subcommittees that oversee the department of education and school aid budgets,

 

and the house and senate fiscal agencies by September 30, 2017.

 

 

 

LIBRARY OF MICHIGAN

 

       Sec. 5-801. In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, the funds collected

 

by the department for document reproduction and services; conferences, workshops, and

 

training classes; and the use of specialized equipment, facilities, and software are

 

appropriated for all expenses necessary to provide the required services. These funds

 

are available for expenditure when they are received and may be carried forward into

 

the next succeeding fiscal year.

 


       Sec. 5-804. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for renaissance zone

 

reimbursements shall be used to reimburse public libraries under section 12 of the

 

Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2692, for taxes levied in 2016.

 

The allocations shall be made not later than 60 days after the department of treasury

 

certifies to the department and to the state budget director that the department of

 

treasury has received all necessary information to properly determine the amounts due

 

to each eligible recipient.

 

       (2) If the amount appropriated under this section is not sufficient to fully pay

 

obligations under this section, payments shall be prorated on an equal basis among all

 

eligible public libraries.

 

 

 

SPECIAL EDUCATION SERVICES

 

       Sec. 5-901. From the increased funds in part 1 for special education operations,

 

the department shall perform the following activities:

 

       (a) Design and distribute information about federal and state mandates regarding

 

the rights and protections of students with disabilities including but not limited to

 

individualized education programs to ensure that parents and legal guardians are fully

 

informed about laws, rules, procedural safeguards, problem-solving options and any

 

other information the department determines is necessary so that parents and legal

 

guardians may be able to provide meaningful input in collaboration with districts to

 

develop and implement an individualized education program.

 

       (b) Train mediators who are knowledgeable about the dispute resolution system and

 

state and federal mandates pertaining to the rights and protections of students with

 

disabilities outlined in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the

 

Michigan Administrative Rules for Special Education. This annual training will include

 

coursework, resources and materials.

 

 

 


MICHIGAN OFFICE OF GREAT START

 

       Sec. 5-1007. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for child development and

 

care - external support, the department shall create progress reports that shall

 

include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

       (a) Both the on-site and off-site activities that are intended to improve child

 

care provider quality and the number of times those activities are performed by the

 

licensing consultants.

 

       (b) How many on-site visits a single licensing consultant has made since the

 

start of the 2016-2017 fiscal year.

 

       (c) The types of on-site visits and the number of visits for each type that a

 

single consultant has made since the start of fiscal year 2016-2017.

 

       (d) The number of providers that have improved their quality rating since the

 

start of fiscal year 2016-2017 compared to the same time period in fiscal year 2015-

 

2016.

 

       (e) The types of activities that are intended to improve licensing consultant

 

performance and child care provider quality and the number of times those activities

 

are performed by the managers and administrators.

 

       (2) The progress reports shall be sent to the state budget director, the house

 

and senate subcommittees that oversee the department of education, and the house and

 

senate fiscal agencies by April 1, 2017 and September 30, 2017.

 

 

 

ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 5-1101. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the Flint declaration

 

of emergency, the department shall allocate funding to address the childcare needs in

 

the city in which a declaration of emergency was issued on January 5, 2016. Funds

 

shall be used to support the following activities in the city:

 

       (a) Pilot the expansion of child development and care eligibility to children

 


ages birth to three for half-day childcare services by removing household income as a

 

determinate of eligibility.

 

       (b) Provide information to childcare providers on identification and intervention

 

services for children demonstrating potential developmental delays associated with

 

exposure to lead.

 

       (2) The department shall amend definitions and eligibility requirements in the

 

child care and development fund state plan as necessary to implement this section.


Article 6

 

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 6-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of environmental quality are appropriated for

 

the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for

 

the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part. The

 

following is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this

 

part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            1,232.0           1,222.0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    513,499,400  $    486,749,300

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................          9,225,700         9,225,700

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $    504,273,700  $    477,523,600

 

  Total federal revenues..................................        138,687,200       138,687,200

 

  Total local revenues....................................                  0                 0

 

  Total private revenues..................................            555,300           555,300

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................        317,344,800       302,944,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     47,686,400  $     35,336,400

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........         35,336,400        35,366,400

 

     One-time general fund/general purpose ..............         12,350,000                 0

 

   Sec. 6-102.  EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS


   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               13.0              13.0

 

  Unclassified salaries...................................   $        754,000  $        754,000

 

  Executive direction-13.0 FTE positions..................          2,099,400         2,099,400

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      2,853,400  $      2,853,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................             27,600            27,600

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          1,317,500         1,317,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,508,300  $      1,508,300

 

    Sec. 6-103.  OFFICE OF THE GREAT LAKES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               12.0              12.0

 

  Office of the Great Lakes-12.0 FTE positions............   $      2,170,700  $      2,170,700

 

  Coastal management grants...............................          1,250,000         1,250,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      3,420,700  $      3,420,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          2,037,900         2,037,900

 

  State restricted revenues...............................            483,100           483,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        899,700  $        899,700

 

   Sec. 6-104.  GREAT LAKES RESTORATION INITIATIVE

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                6.0               6.0

 

  Great Lakes restoration initiative-6.0 FTE positions....   $      15,090,700  $      15,090,700

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     15,090,700  $     15,090,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................         15,090,700        15,090,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 6-105.  DEPARTMENT SUPPORT SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               34.0              34.0


  Central support services-34.0 FTE positions.............   $      4,147,800  $      4,147,800

 

  Accounting service center...............................          1,391,400         1,391,400

 

  Administrative hearings.................................            381,200           381,200

 

  Automated data processing...............................          2,053,400         2,053,400

 

  Building occupancy charges..............................          4,582,800         4,582,800

 

  Environmental support projects..........................          5,000,000         5,000,000

 

  Rent ..................................................          2,240,600         2,240,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     19,797,200  $      19,797,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................          2,266,800         2,266,800

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         15,441,600        15,441,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      2,088,800  $      2,088,800

 

   Sec. 6-106.  OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSISTANCE

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               38.0              38.0

 

  Office of environmental assistance-38.0 FTE positions...   $      6,257,700  $      6,257,700

 

  Pollution prevention local grants.......................            250,000           250,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      6,507,700  $      6,507,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................            704,800           704,800

 

  Private revenues........................................            364,200           364,200

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          2,571,200         2,571,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      2,867,500  $      2,867,500

 

   Sec. 6-107.  WATER RESOURCE DIVISION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              316.0             316.0

 

  Land and water interface permit programs-82.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $     11,659,600  $     11,659,600

 

  Program direction and project assistance-27.0 FTE


   positions.............................................          3,030,700         3,030,700

 

  Water withdrawal assessment programs-4.0 FTE positions..          1,423,500         1,423,500

 

  Expedited water/wastewater permits-1.0 FTE position.....             50,900            50,900

 

  Fish contaminant monitoring.............................            316,100           316,100

 

  Groundwater discharge permit program-22.0 FTE positions.    3,215,900         3,215,900

 

  Aquatic nuisance control program-6.0 FTE positions......            913,200           913,200

 

  NPDES nonstormwater program-83.0 FTE positions..........         13,003,900        13,003,900

 

  Surface water-86.0 FTE positions........................         15,871,800        15,871,800

 

  Water quality and use initiative-5.0 FTE positions......          1,645,700         1,645,700

 

  Real-time beach monitoring program......................            500,000           500,000

 

  Wetlands program........................................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  Federal – Great Lakes remedial action plan grants.......            583,800           583,800

 

  Federal – nonpoint source water pollution grants........          4,083,300         4,083,300

 

  Contaminated lake and river sediment cleanup program....          1,565,000         1,565,000

 

  Nonpoint source pollution prevention and control project

 

   program...............................................          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

  Wetland mitigation banking grants and loans.............          3,000,000         3,000,000

 

  Water quality protection grants.........................            100,000           100,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     63,963,400  $     63,963,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................          1,249,000         1,249,000

 

  Federal revenues........................................         19,479,100        19,479,100

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         25,039,200        25,039,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     18,196,100  $     18,196,100

 

   Sec. 6-108.  LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               14.0              14.0

 

  Environmental investigations-14.0 FTE positions.........   $       2,837,200  $       2,837,200


  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      2,837,200  $      2,837,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................             15,800            15,800

 

  Federal revenues........................................            575,700           575,700

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          1,675,700         1,675,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        570,000  $        570,000

 

   Sec. 6-109.  AIR QUALITY DIVISION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              188.0             188.0

 

  Air quality programs-188.0 FTE positions................   $      27,231,500  $      27,231,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     27,231,500  $     27,231,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          7,450,200         7,450,200

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         15,377,000        15,377,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      4,404,300  $      4,404,300

 

   Sec. 6-110.  RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DIVISION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              305.0             305.0

 

  Drinking water and environmental health-106.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $     14,901,900  $     14,901,900

 

  Hazardous waste management program-45.0 FTE positions...          6,946,100         6,946,100

 

  Low-level radioactive waste authority-2.0 FTE positions.    232,600           232,600

 

  Medical waste program-2.0 FTE positions.................            302,300           302,300

 

  Municipal assistance-29.0 FTE positions.................          4,800,500         4,800,500

 

  Radiological protection program-12.0 FTE positions......          1,966,500         1,966,500

 

  Recycling initiative-3.0 FTE positions..................          1,008,700         1,008,700

 

  Scrap tire regulatory program-10.0 FTE positions........          1,334,700         1,334,700

 

  Oil, gas and mineral services-59.0 FTE positions........          6,794,800         6,794,800

 

  Solid waste management program-37.0 FTE positions.......          5,026,400         5,026,400


  Scrap tire grants.......................................          3,500,000         3,500,000

 

  Drinking water program grants...........................            830,000           830,000

 

  Noncommunity water grants...............................          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

  Septage waste compliance grants.........................            275,000           275,000

 

  Strategic water quality initiative grants and loans.....         97,000,000        97,000,000

 

  Water pollution control and drinking water revolving fund   84,993,000        84,993,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    231,912,500  $    231,912,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................          1,658,600         1,658,600

 

  Federal revenues........................................         86,027,300        86,027,300

 

  State restricted revenues...............................        139,860,500       139,860,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      4,366,100  $      4,366,100

 

   Sec. 6-111.  REMEDIATION AND REDEVELOPMENT DIVISION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              291.0             291.0

 

  Contaminated site investigation, cleanup, and

 

   revitalization-127.0 FTE positions....................   $     13,859,200  $     13,859,200

 

  Federal cleanup project management-40.0 FTE positions...          6,934,500         6,934,500

 

  Laboratory services-39.0 FTE positions..................          6,175,300         6,175,300

 

  Emergency cleanup actions...............................          4,000,000         4,000,000

 

  Environmental cleanup support...........................          1,840,000         1,840,000

 

  Environmental cleanup and redevelopment program.........         29,900,000        15,000,000

 

  Refined petroleum product cleanup program-85.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         34,475,700        35,675,700

 

  Superfund cleanup.......................................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     98,184,700  $     84,484,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................          3,858,800         3,858,800


  Federal revenues........................................          6,305,400         6,305,400

 

  Private revenues........................................            191,100           191,100

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         87,829,400        74,129,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 6-112.  UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK AUTHORITY

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                5.0               5.0

 

  Underground storage tank cleanup program-5.0 FTE

 

   position..............................................   $      20,011,400  $      20,011,400

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     20,011,400  $     20,011,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         20,011,400        20,011,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 6-113.  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

  Information technology services and projects............   $       8,638,900  $       8,638,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      8,638,900  $      8,638,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................            176,700           176,700

 

  Federal revenues........................................            988,500           988,500

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          7,038,100         7,038,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        435,600  $        435,600

 

   Sec. 6-114.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               10.0               0.0

 

  Contaminated lake and river sediment cleanup program

 

   (one-time)............................................   $        700,000  $              0

 

  Flint declaration of emergency-10.0 FTE positions.......          5,400,100                 0

 

  Oil, gas and mineral services (one-time)................          4,000,000                 0

 

  Water pollution control and drinking water revolving


   fund..................................................          2,950,000                  0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     13,050,100  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  State restricted revenues...............................            700,100                 0

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     12,350,000  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 6-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $365,031,200.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 

of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $3,750,000.00. The itemized statement below

 

identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 

  Drinking water and environmental health...............................    $           212,000

 

  Drinking water program grants.........................................                157,000

 

  Emergency cleanup actions.............................................                106,000

 

  Noncommunity water grants.............................................              1,700,000

 

  Scrap tire grants.....................................................                500,000

 

  Pollution prevention local grants.....................................                250,000

 

  Real-time beach monitoring program....................................                500,000

 

  Septage waste compliance grants.......................................                100,000

 

  Solid waste management program........................................                 65,000

 

  Surface water.........................................................                160,000

 


  TOTAL                                                                      $         3,750,000

 

       Sec. 6-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 6-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "Department" means the department of environmental quality.

 

       (b) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (c) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (d) "NPDES" means national pollution discharge elimination system.

 

       Sec. 6-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 6-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 6-206. The director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in

 

deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide

 

services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which

 

the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 6-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall


prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of each

 

year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 6-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 6-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare and

 

transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 6-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $30,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to


another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $5,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These funds

 

are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line

 

item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA

 

431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $500,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 6-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.


       Sec. 6-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 6-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 6-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $33,238,200.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $18,429,800.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $14,808,400.00.

 

       Sec. 6-216. (1) The department shall report all of the following information

 

relative to allocations made from appropriations for the environmental cleanup and

 

redevelopment program, state cleanup, emergency actions, superfund cleanup, the

 

revitalization revolving loan program, the brownfield grants and loans program, the

 

leaking underground storage tank cleanup program, the contaminated lake and river

 

sediments cleanup program, the refined petroleum product cleanup program, and the

 

environmental protection bond projects under section 19508(7) of the natural resources

 

and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.19508, to the state budget

 

director, the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on environmental quality,

 

and the senate and house fiscal agencies:

 

       (a) The name and location of the site for which an allocation is made.

 

       (b) The nature of the problem encountered at the site.


       (c) A brief description of how the problem will be resolved if the allocation is

 

made for a response activity.

 

       (d) The estimated date that site closure activities will be completed.

 

       (e) The amount of the allocation, or the anticipated financing for the site.

 

       (f) A summary of the sites and the total amount of funds expended at the sites at

 

the conclusion of the fiscal year.

 

       (g) The number of brownfield projects that were successfully redeveloped.

 

       (2) The report prepared under subsection (1) shall also include all of the

 

following:

 

       (a) The status of all state-owned facilities that are on the list compiled under

 

part 201 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL

 

324.20101 to 324.20142.

 

       (b) The report shall include the total amount of funds expended during the fiscal

 

year and the total amount of funds awaiting expenditure.

 

       (c) The total amount of bonds issued for the environmental protection bond

 

program pursuant to part 193 of the natural resources and environmental protection

 

act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.19301 to 324.19306, and bonds issued pursuant to the clean

 

Michigan initiative act, 1998 PA 284, MCL 324.95101 to 324.95108.

 

       (3) The report shall be made available by March 31 of each year.

 

       Sec. 6-217. (1) The department may expend amounts remaining from the current and

 

prior fiscal year appropriations to meet funding needs of legislatively approved sites

 

for the environmental cleanup and redevelopment program, the refined petroleum product

 

cleanup program, brownfield grants and loans, waterfront grants, and the environmental

 

bond site reclamation program.

 

       (2) Unexpended and unencumbered amounts remaining from appropriations from the

 

environmental protection bond fund contained in 2003 PA 173, 2005 PA 109, 2006 PA 343,

 

2011 PA 63, and 2012 PA 236 are appropriated for expenditure for any site listed in


this part and part 1 and any site listed in the public acts referenced in this

 

section.

 

       (3) Unexpended and unencumbered amounts remaining from appropriations from the

 

clean Michigan initiative fund - response activities contained in 2000 PA 52, 2004 PA

 

309, 2005 PA 11, 2006 PA 343, 2007 PA 121, 2011 PA 63, 2013 PA 59, 2014 PA 252 and

 

2015 PA 84 are appropriated for expenditure for any site listed in this part and part

 

1 and any site listed in the public acts referenced in this section.

 

       (4) Unexpended and unencumbered amounts remaining from appropriations from the

 

refined petroleum fund activities contained in 2007 PA 121, 2008 PA 247, 2009 PA 118,

 

2010 PA 189, 2012 PA 200, 2013 PA 59, 2014 PA 252 and 2015 PA 84 are appropriated for

 

expenditure for any site listed in this part and part 1 and any site listed in the

 

public acts referenced in this section.

 

       (5) Unexpended and unencumbered amounts remaining from the appropriations from

 

the strategic water quality initiatives fund contained in 2011 PA 50, 2011 PA 63, 2012

 

PA 200, 2013 PA 59, 2014 PA 252 and 2015 PA 84 are appropriated for expenditure for

 

any site listed in this part and part 1 and any site listed in the public acts

 

referenced in this section.

 

       Sec. 6-219. Unexpended settlement revenues at the end of the fiscal year may be

 

carried forward into the settlement fund in the succeeding fiscal year up to a maximum

 

carryforward of $2,500,000.00.

 

 

 

REMEDIATION AND REDEVELOPMENT DIVISION

 

       Sec. 6-301. Revenues remaining in the interdepartmental transfers, laboratory

 

services at the end of the fiscal year shall carry forward into the succeeding fiscal

 

year.

 

       Sec. 6-302. The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for emergency cleanup

 

actions, the environmental cleanup and redevelopment program, and the refined

 


petroleum product cleanup program are considered work project appropriations and any

 

unencumbered or unallotted funds are carried forward into the succeeding fiscal year.

 

The following is in compliance with section 451a(1) of the management and budget act,

 

1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

 

       (a) The purpose of the projects to be carried forward is to provide contaminated

 

site cleanup.

 

       (b) The projects will be accomplished by contract.

 

       (c) The total estimated cost of all projects is identified in each line-item

 

appropriation.

 

       (d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2021.

 

       Sec. 6-303. Effective October 1, 2016, surplus funds not to exceed $1,000,000.00

 

in the cleanup and redevelopment trust fund are appropriated to the environmental

 

protection fund created in section 503a of the natural resources and environmental

 

protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.503a.

 

       Sec. 6-304. Effective October 1, 2016, surplus funds not to exceed $1,000,000.00

 

in the community pollution prevention fund created in section 3f of 1976 initiated law

 

1, MCL 445.573f, are appropriated to the environmental protection fund created in

 

section 503a of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451,

 

MCL 324.503a.

 

       Sec. 6-310. (1) Upon approval by the state budget director, the department may

 

expend from the general fund of the state an amount to meet the cash-flow requirements

 

of projects funded under any of the following that are financed from bond proceeds and

 

for which bonds have been authorized but not yet issued:

 

       (a) Part 52 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA

 

451, MCL 324.5201 to 324.5206.

 

       (b) Part 193 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA

 

451, MCL 324.19301 to 324.19306.


       (c) Part 196 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA

 

451, MCL 324.19601 to 324.19616.

 

       (2) Upon the sale of bonds for projects described in subsection (1), the

 

department shall credit the general fund of the state an amount equal to that expended

 

from the general fund.

 

 

 

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DIVISION

 

       Sec. 6-405. If a certified health department does not exist in a city, county, or

 

district or does not fulfill its responsibilities under part 117 of the natural

 

resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.11701 to 324.11720,

 

then the department may spend funds appropriated in part 1 under the septage waste

 

compliance program in accordance with section 11716 of the natural resources and

 

environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.11716.

 

       Sec. 6-407. The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for the contaminated lake

 

and river sediment cleanup program are considered work project appropriations and any

 

unencumbered or unallotted funds are carried forward into the succeeding fiscal year.

 

The following is in compliance with section 451a(1) of the management and budget act,

 

1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

 

       (a) The purpose of the projects to be carried forward is to provide contaminated

 

sediment cleanup.

 

       (b) The projects will be accomplished by contract.

 

       (c) The total estimated cost of all projects is $2,265,000.

 

       (d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2021.

 

 

 

UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK AUTHORITY

 

       Sec. 6-701. The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for the underground

 

storage tank cleanup program are considered work project appropriations and any

 


unencumbered or unallotted funds are carried forward into the succeeding fiscal year.

 

The following is in compliance with section 451a(1) of the management and budget act,

 

1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

 

       (a) The purpose of the projects to be carried forward is to provide contaminated

 

site cleanup.

 

       (b) The projects will be accomplished by contract.

 

       (c) The total estimated cost of all projects is $20,000,000.00.

 

       (d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2021.

 

 

 

ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 6-801. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the Flint declaration of

 

emergency, the department shall allocate funds to address needs related to the

 

declaration of emergency issued on January 5, 2016. These funds may support, but are

 

not limited to the following activities:

 

(a) Funding to keep Flint on Detroit water system.

 

(b) Staff, lab and testing, and contract costs.


Article 7

 

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 7-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the executive office are appropriated for the fiscal year

 

ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for the fiscal year

 

ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part. The following is a

 

summary of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this part:

 

EXECUTIVE OFFICE

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............               10.0              10.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               74.2              74.2

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      5,636,300  $      5,636,300

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................                  0                 0

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $      5,636,300  $      5,636,300

 

  Total federal revenues..................................                  0                 0

 

  Total local revenues....................................                  0                 0

 

  Total private revenues..................................                  0                 0

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................                  0                 0

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      5,636,300  $      5,636,300

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........          5,636,300         5,636,300

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........                  0                 0

 

   Sec. 7-102.  EXECUTIVE OFFICE OPERATIONS

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............               10.0              10.0


   Full-time equated classified positions................               74.2              74.2

 

  Governor................................................   $        159,300  $        159,300

 

  Lieutenant governor.....................................            111,600           111,600

 

  Executive office-74.2 FTE positions.....................          4,108,100         4,108,100

 

  Unclassified positions-8.0 FTE positions................          1,257,300         1,257,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      5,636,300  $      5,636,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      5,636,300  $      5,636,300

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 7-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $5,636,300.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $0.00.


Article 8

 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 8-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of health and human services are appropriated

 

for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated

 

for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part.

 

The following is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in

 

this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................           15,554.5          15,553.5

 

   Unclassified positions................................                6.0               6.0

 

   Total full-time equated positions.....................           15,560.5          15,559.5

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $ 24,707,967,700  $ 24,434,360,300

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................         13,513,700        13,513,700

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $ 24,694,454,000  $ 24,420,846,600

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Social security act, temporary assistance for needy

 

   families..............................................        556,929,300       533,947,800

 

  Federal supplemental security income....................          8,588,600         8,588,600

 

  Total other federal revenues............................     17,169,165,700    16,923,106,700

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total private revenues..................................        156,279,300       156,279,300


  Total local revenues....................................        123,892,300       123,892,300

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................      2,328,831,500     2,362,899,800

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $  4,350,767,300  $  4,312,132,100

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........      4,310,548,100     4,312,132,100

 

     One-time general fund/general purpose...............         40,219,200                 0

 

   Sec. 8-102.  DEPARTMENTWIDE ADMINISTRATION

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              714.2             714.2

 

  Director and other unclassified-6.0 FTE positions.......   $      1,119,300  $      1,119,300

 

  Departmental administration and management-520.2 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         82,269,600        82,269,600

 

  Demonstration projects—7.0 FTE positions................          6,905,100         6,905,100

 

  Developmental disabilities council and projects-10.0

 

   FTE positions.........................................          3,067,000         3,067,000

 

  Information technology projects and services............        158,998,300       158,998,300

 

  Michigan Medicaid information system....................         50,634,400        50,634,400

 

  Office of inspector general—177.0 FTE positions.........         21,633,000        21,633,000

 

  Rent and state office facilities........................         62,783,800        62,783,800

 

  State office of administrative hearings and rules.......         11,140,300        11,140,300

 

  Terminal pay and other employee costs...................          5,686,100         5,686,100

 

  Worker’s compensation program...........................          7,956,500         7,956,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    412,193,400  $    412,193,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from department of education........................          2,979,000         2,979,000

 

   Federal revenues:


  Social security act, temporary assistance for needy

 

   families..............................................         33,546,800        33,546,800

 

  Total other federal revenues............................        192,558,400       192,558,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total local revenues....................................             16,400            16,400

 

  Total private revenues..................................         23,842,000        23,842,000

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................          2,836,300         2,836,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    156,414,500  $    156,414,500

 

   Sec. 8-103.  CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              185.7             185.7

 

  Child support enforcement operations—179.7 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $     22,151,300  $     22,151,300

 

  Legal support contracts.................................        113,359,100       113,359,100

 

  Child support incentive payments........................         24,409,600        24,409,600

 

  State disbursement unit—6.0 FTE positions...............          8,101,700         8,101,700

 

  Child support automation................................         41,877,600        41,877,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    209,899,300  $    209,899,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................        175,393,000       175,393,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     34,506,300  $     34,506,300

 

   Sec. 8-104.  COMMUNITY SERVICES AND OUTREACH

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               70.6              70.6

 

  Bureau of community services and outreach—16.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $      2,103,700  $      2,103,700

 

  Community services block grants.........................         25,840,000        25,840,000

 

  Weatherization assistance...............................         16,340,000        16,340,000


  School success partnership program......................            450,000           450,000

 

  Homeless programs.......................................         15,721,900        15,721,900

 

  Domestic violence prevention and treatment-14.6 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         15,766,200        15,766,200

 

  Rape prevention and services-0.5 FTE position...........          5,097,300         5,097,300

 

  Child advocacy centers-0.5 FTE position.................          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

  Michigan community service commission-15.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         11,621,300        11.621,300

 

  Housing and support services............................         13,031,000        13,031,000

 

  Grants administration services-13.0 FTE positions.......          2,165,100         2,165,100

 

  Justice assistance grants...............................         59,279,300        59,279,300

 

  Crime victim rights services grants.....................         16,870,000        16,870,000

 

  Community services and outreach administration-11.0

 

   FTE positions.........................................          1,459,100         1,459,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    187,744,900  $    187,744,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Social security act, temporary assistance for needy

 

   families..............................................         11,673,100        11,673,100

 

  Total other federal revenues............................        142,139,000       142,139,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private - collections...................................             44,100            44,100

 

  Child advocacy centers fund.............................          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

  Sexual assault victims’ prevention and treatment fund...          3,000,000         3,000,000

 

  Compulsive gambling prevention fund.....................          1,043,100         1,043,100

 

  Crime victims rights fund...............................         15,327,200        15,327,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     12,518,400  $     12,518,400


   Sec. 8-105.  CHILDREN’S SERVICES AGENCY – CHILD WELFARE

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            3,848.2           3,848.2

 

  Children’s services administration-169.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $     19,513,200  $     19,513,200

 

  Title IV-E compliance and accountability office-4.0

 

   FTE positions.........................................            421,300           421,300

 

  Child welfare field staff - caseload compliance-

 

   2,511.0 FTE positions.................................        230,862,600       230,862,600

 

  Child welfare field staff – noncaseload compliance-

 

   320.0 FTE positions...................................         33,671,400        33,671,400

 

  Education planners-15.0 FTE positions...................          1,521,100         1,521,100

 

  Peer coaches-45.5 FTE positions.........................          5,702,100         5,702,100

 

  Child welfare first line supervisors-578.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         72,313,800        72,313,800

 

  Second line supervisors and technical staff-54.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          8,833,600         8,833,600

 

  Permanency resources managers-28.0 FTE positions........          3,170,200         3,170,200

 

  Contractual services, supplies, and materials...........          9,280,000         9,280,000

 

  Settlement monitor......................................          1,885,800         1,885,800

 

  Foster care payments....................................        184,213,500       184,213,500

 

  Guardianship assistance program.........................         11,966,500        11,966,500

 

  Child care fund.........................................        180,201,700       180,201,700

 

  Child care fund administration-4.2 FTE positons.........            592,900           592,900

 

  Adoption subsidies......................................        223,365,400       223,365,400

 

  Adoption support services-10.0 FTE positions............         26,926,700        26,926,700

 

  Youth in transition-4.5 FTE positions...................         15,021,900        15,021,900

 

  Child welfare medical/psychiatric evaluations...........         10,435,500        10,435,500


  Psychotropic oversight..................................            618,200           618,200

 

  Performance based funding implementation-3.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          1,778,900         1,778,900

 

  Family support subsidy..................................         16,951,400        16,951,400

 

  Interstate compact......................................            179,600           179,600

 

  Strong families/safe children...........................         12,350,100        12,350,100

 

  Family preservation programs-23.0 FTE positions.........         38,872,800        38,872,800

 

  Family preservation and prevention services

 

   administration—9.0 FTE positions......................          1,291,300         1,291,300

 

  Child abuse and neglect – children’s justice act—1.0

 

   FTE position..........................................            621,800           621,800

 

  Children’s trust fund-12.0 FTE positions................          3,323,400         3,323,400

 

  Attorney general contract...............................          4,321,800         4,321,800

 

  Prosecuting attorney contracts..........................          3,061,700         3,061,700

 

  Child protection........................................            800,300           800,300

 

  Child welfare licensing-57.0 FTE positions..............          6,549,800         6,549,800

 

  Child welfare administration travel.....................            375,000           375,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $  1,130,995,300  $  1,130,995,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from department of education........................             90,200            90,200

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Social security act, temporary assistance for needy

 

   families..............................................        312,560,100       312,560,100

 

  Total other federal revenues............................        365,783,600       365,783,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private – collections...................................          2,424,000         2,424,000


  Local funds – county chargeback.........................         14,194,000        14,194,000

 

  Children’s trust fund...................................          2,090,500         2,090,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    433,852,900  $    433,852,900

 

   Sec. 8-106.  CHILDREN’S SERVICES AGENCY – JUVENILE JUSTICE

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              111.5             111.5

 

  W.J. Maxey training school..............................   $      1,000,000  $     1,000,0000

 

  Bay pines center-42.0 FTE positions.....................          4,933,300         4,933,300

 

  Shawono center-42.0 FTE positions.......................          5,021,400         5,021,400

 

  County juvenile officers................................          3,904,300         3,904,300

 

  Community support services-3.0 FTE positions............          2,110,500         2,110,500

 

  Juvenile justice, administration and maintenance-22.0

 

   FTE positions.........................................          3,543,700         3,543,700

 

  Committee on juvenile justice administration-2.5 FTE

 

   positions.............................................            350,700           350,700

 

  Committee on juvenile justice grants....................          3,000,000         3,000,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     23,863,900  $     23,863,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................          8,028,400         8,028,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local funds – state share education funds...............          1,324,200         1,324,200

 

  Local funds – county chargeback.........................          4,512,000         4,512,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      9,999,300  $      9,999,300

 

   Sec. 8-107.  PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                8.0               8.0

 

  Family independence program.............................   $    115,224,600  $    115,224,600

 

  State disability assistance payments....................         12,353,900        12,353,900


  Food assistance program benefits........................      2,348,117,400     2,348,117,400

 

  State supplementation...................................         63,357,400        63,357,400

 

  State supplementation administration....................          2,381,100         2,381,100

 

  Low-income home energy assistance program...............        174,951,600       174,951,600

 

  Food bank funding.......................................          1,795,000         1,795,000

 

  Multicultural integration funding.......................         13,303,800        13,303,800

 

  Indigent burial.........................................          4,300,000         4,300,000

 

  Emergency services local office allocations.............         10,357,500        10,357,500

 

  Michigan energy assistance program—1.0 FTE position.....         50,000,000        50,000,000

 

  Refugee assistance program—7.0 FTE positions............         27,986,100        27,986,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $  2,824,128,400  $  2,824,128,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Social security act, temporary assistance for needy

 

   families..............................................         69,267,600        69,267,600

 

  Total other federal revenues............................      2,545,749,600     2,545,749,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Child support collections...............................         10,863,700        10,863,700

 

  Supplemental security income recoveries.................          5,470,900         5,470,900

 

  Public assistance recoupment revenue....................          6,290,000         6,290,000

 

  Low-income energy assistance fund.......................         50,000,000        50,000,000

 

  Michigan merit award trust fund.........................         30,100,000        30,100,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    106,386,600  $    106,386,600

 

   Sec. 8-108.  FIELD OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            6,546.5           6,546.5

 

  Public assistance field staff-5,349.5 FTE positions.....   $    533,255,500  $    533,255,500

 

  Contractual services, supplies, and materials...........         16,282,000        16,282,000


  Medical/psychiatric evaluations.........................          1,420,100         1,420,100

 

  Donated funds positions-538.0 FTE positions.............         60,878,700        60,878,700

 

  Training and program support-65.0 FTE positions.........         10,252,400        10,252,400

 

  Volunteer services and reimbursement....................            942,400           942,400

 

  Field policy and administration-66.0 FTE positions......         10,262,400        10,262,400

 

  Nutrition education-2.0 FTE positions...................         23,042,700        23,042,700

 

  Employment and training support services................          4,219,100         4,219,100

 

  Michigan rehabilitation services-526.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................        131,171,800       131,171,800

 

  Independent living......................................         12,031,600        12,031,600

 

  Electronic benefit transfer (EBT).......................          8,509,000         8,509,000

 

  Elder law of Michigan MiCAFE contract...................            350,000           350,000

 

  Field staff travel......................................          8,103,900         8,103,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    820,721,600  $    820,721,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from department of corrections......................            101,200           101,200

 

  IDG from department of education........................          7,678,800         7,678,800

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Social security act, temporary assistance for needy

 

   families..............................................        102,539,700       102,539,700

 

  Federal supplemental security income....................          8,588,600         8,588,600

 

  Total other federal revenues............................        410,322,600       410,322,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local funds – donated funds.............................         11,137,600        11,137,600

 

  Local vocational rehabilitation match...................          6,534,600         6,534,600

 

  Private funds – donated funds...........................         18,440,200        18,440,200


  Private funds – gifts, bequests, and donations..........          1,854,600         1,854,600

 

  Rehabilitation service fees.............................            400,000           400,000

 

  Second injury fund......................................             40,000            40,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    253,083,700  $    253,083,700

 

   Sec. 8-109.  DISABILITY DETERMINATION SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              587.4             587.4

 

  Disability determination operations—583.3 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $    111,392,700  $    111,392,700

 

  Retirement disability determination—4.1 FTE

 

   positions.............................................            602,900           602,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    111,995,600  $    111,995,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from DTMB – office of retirement services...........            778,300           778,300

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................        107,784,000       107,784,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      3,433,300  $      3,433,300

 

    Sec. 8-110.  BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              100.0             100.0

 

  Behavioral health program administration—99.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $     60,084,200  $     60,084,200

 

  Gambling addiction—1.0 FTE position.....................          3,005,900         3,005,900

 

  Protection and advocacy services support................            194,400           194,400

 

  Federal and other special projects......................          2,535,600         2,535,600

 

  Office of recipient rights..............................          2,700,000         2,700,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     68,520,100  $     68,520,100

 

     Appropriated from:


   Federal revenues:

 

  Social security act, temporary assistance for needy

 

   families..............................................            180,500           180,500

 

  Total other federal revenues............................         36,493,600        36,493,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total private revenues..................................          1,004,700         1,004,700

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................          3,005,900         3,005,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     27,835,400  $     27,835,400

 

   Sec. 8-111.  BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                9.5               9.5

 

  Medicaid mental health services.........................   $  2,287,190,100  $  2,287,190,100

 

  Community mental health non-Medicaid services...........        117,050,400       117,050,400

 

  Medicaid substance abuse disorder services..............         49,964,500        49,964,500

 

  Civil service charges...................................          1,499,300         1,499,300

 

  Federal mental health block grant—2.5 FTE positions.....         15,454,600        15,454,600

 

  State disability assistance program substance use

 

   disorder services.....................................          2,018,800         2,018,800

 

  Community substance use disorder, prevention,

 

   education, and treatment..............................         73,811,800        73,811,800

 

  Children’s waiver home care program.....................         20,000,000        20,000,000

 

  Nursing home PAS/ARR-OBRA—7.0 FTE positions.............         12,272,000        12,272,000

 

  Children with serious emotional disturbance waiver......         12,647,900        12,647,900

 

  Health homes............................................          3,369,000         3,369,000

 

  Healthy Michigan Plan – behavioral health...............        226,210,300       226,210,300

 

  Autism services.........................................         63,036,800        63,036,800

 

  University autism programs..............................          2,500,000         2,500,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $  2,887,025,500  $  2,887,025,500


     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................      1,894,552,800     1,889,805,800

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total local revenues....................................         25,475,800        25,475,800

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................         22,512,700        22,512,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    944,484,200  $    949,231,200

 

   Sec. 8-112.  STATE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS AND FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

 

   Total average population..............................              770.0             770.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            2,181.9           2,181.9

 

  Caro regional mental health center-psychiatric

 

   hospital-adult—461.3 FTE positions....................   $     57,270,900  $     57,270,900

 

   Average population....................................              145.0             145.0

 

  Kalamazoo psychiatric hospital-adult—466.1 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         65,674,600        65,674,600

 

   Average population....................................              170.0             170.0

 

  Walter P. Reuther psychiatric hospital-adult—420.8

 

   FTE positions.........................................         56,872,000        56,872,000

 

   Average population....................................              160.0             160.0

 

  Hawthorn center-psychiatric hospital-children and

 

   adolescents—226.4 FTE positions.......................         29,142,500        29,142,500

 

  Average population......................................               55.0              55.0

 

  Center for forensic psychiatry—607.3 FTE positions......         81,702,000        81,702,000

 

   Average population....................................              240.0             240.0

 

  Revenue recapture.......................................            750,000           750,000

 

  IDEA, federal special education.........................            120,000           120,000

 

  Special maintenance.....................................            924,600           924,600


  Purchase of medical services for residents of

 

   hospitals and centers.................................            445,600           445,600

 

  Gifts and bequests for patient living and treatment

 

   environment...........................................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    293,902,200  $    293,902,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................         35,545,300        35,545,300

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Other local revenues....................................         19,886,700        19,886,700

 

  Total private revenues..................................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................         19,238,100        19,238,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    218,232,100  $    218,232,100

 

    Sec. 8-113.  HEALTH POLICY                 

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               32.8              32.8

 

  Bone marrow transplant registry.........................   $        250,000  $        250,000

 

  Certificate of need program administration-12.3 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          2,803,800         2,803,800

 

  Health innovation grants................................          1,500,000         1,500,000

 

  Health policy administration-15.1 FTE positions.........         26,564,000        26,564,000

 

  Human trafficking intervention services.................            200,000           200,000

 

  Michigan essential health provider......................          3,591,300         3,591,300

 

  Minority health grants and contracts....................            612,700           612,700

 

  Nurse education and research program-3.0 FTE positions..            780,900           780,900

 

  Primary care services-1.4 FTE positions.................          4,068,500         4,068,500

 

  Rural health services-1.0 FTE position..................          1,555,500         1,555,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     41,926,700  $     41,926,700


     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  Interdepartmental grant from the department of licensing

 

   and regulatory affairs................................            780,900           780,900

 

  Interdepartmental grant from the department of treasury,

 

   Michigan state hospital finance authority.............            117,700           117,700

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................         31,631,200        31,631,200

 

   Special revenues funds:

 

  Total private revenues..................................            865,000           865,000

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................          2,686,100         2,686,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      5,845,800  $      5,845,800

 

    Sec. 8-114.  LABORATORY SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              100.0             100.0

 

  Laboratory services-100.0 FTE positions.................   $      20,520,500  $      20,520,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     20,520,500  $     20,520,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  Interdepartmental grant from the department of

 

   environmental quality.................................            987,600           987,600

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................          2,326,300         2,326,300

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................         10,403,900        10,403,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      6,802,700  $      6,802,700

 

    Sec. 8-115.  DISEASE CONTROL, PREVENTION, AND EPIDEMIOLOGY

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               74.9              74.9


  Epidemiology administration-43.6 FTE positions..........   $     16,044,500  $     16,044,500

 

  Healthy homes program-8.0 FTE positions.................          4,254,900         4,254,900

 

  Immunization program-12.8 FTE positions.................         19,372,100        19,372,100

 

  Newborn screening follow-up and treatment services-

 

   10.5 FTE positions....................................          7,253,500         7,253,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     46,925,000  $     46,925,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................         28,704,900        28,704,900

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total private revenues..................................          2,339,400         2,339,400

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................          9,501,300         9,501,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      6,379,400  $      6,379,400

 

    Sec. 8-116.  LOCAL HEALTH AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              236.2             236.2

 

  AIDS prevention, testing, and care programs-47.7 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $     70,605,900  $     70,605,900

 

  Cancer prevention and control program-13.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         15,051,600        15,051,600

 

  Chronic disease control and health promotion

 

   administration-27.4 FTE positions.....................          6,044,800         6,044,800

 

  Dental programs-3.8 FTE positions.......................          1,949,800         1,949,800

 

  Diabetes and kidney program-8.0 FTE positions...........          3,049,100         3,049,100

 

  Essential local public health services-8.3 FTE positions    42,905,400        42,905,400

 

  Health and wellness initiatives-11.7 FTE positions......          8,994,100         8,994,100

 

  Implementation of 1993 PA 133, MCL 333.17015............             20,000            20,000

 

  Medicaid outreach cost reimbursement to local health


   departments...........................................          9,000,000         9,000,000

 

  Sexually transmitted disease control program-20.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          6,279,600         6,279,600

 

  Smoking prevention program-12.0 FTE positions...........          2,142,100         2,142,100

 

  Violence prevention-2.9 FTE positions...................          2,122,500         2,122,500

 

  Vital records and health statistics-81.4 FTE positions..         11,932,300         11,932,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    180,097,200  $    180,097,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................         71,477,800        71,477,800

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total local revenues....................................          5,150,000         5,150,000

 

  Total private revenues..................................         39,028,400        39,028,400

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................         20,164,900        20,164,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     44,276,100  $     44,276,100

 

   Sec. 8-117.  FAMILY, MATERNAL, AND CHILD HEALTH

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              110.8             110.8

 

  Childhood lead program-2.5 FTE positions................   $      1,571,400  $      1,571,400

 

  Family, maternal, and child health administration-49.3

 

   FTE positions.........................................          8,460,900         8,460,900

 

  Family planning local agreements........................          8,912,800         8,912,800

 

  Local MCH services......................................          7,018,100         7,018,100

 

  Prenatal care outreach and service delivery support-

 

   14.0 FTE positions....................................         18,422,600        18,422,600

 

  Special projects........................................          6,289,100         6,289,100

 

  Sudden infant death syndrome program ...................            321,300           321,300

 

  Women, infants, and children program administration


   and special projects-45.0 FTE positions...............         18,014,400        18,014,400

 

  Women, infants, and children program local agreements

 

   and food costs .......................................        256,285,000       256,285,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    325,295,600  $    325,295,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................        254,324,000       254,324,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total local revenues....................................             75,000            75,000

 

  Total private revenues..................................         61,702,400        61,702,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      9,194,200  $      9,194,200

 

   Sec. 8-118.  EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, TRAUMA, AND PREPAREDNESS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               75.0              75.0

 

  Emergency medical services program-23.0 FTE positions...   $      6,563,600  $      6,563,600

 

  Bioterrorism preparedness-52.0 FTE positions............         30,207,700        30,207,700

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     36,771,300  $     36,771,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................         31,332,300        31,332,300

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................          4,004,900         4,004,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,434,100  $      1,434,100

 

   Sec. 8-119.  CHILDREN’S SPECIAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               46.8              46.8

 

  Children’s special health care services

 

   administration-44.0 FTE positions.....................   $      5,990,100  $      5,990,100

 

  Bequests for care and services-2.8 FTE positions........          1,534,800         1,534,800


  Outreach and advocacy...................................          5,510,000         5,510,000

 

  Nonemergency medical transportation.....................            905,900           905,900

 

  Medical care and treatment .............................        232,655,300       232,655,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    246,596,100  $    246,596,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................        112,529,500       112,529,500

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total private revenues..................................          1,013,200         1,013,200

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................          3,383,000         3,383,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    129,670,400  $    129,670,400

 

   Sec. 8-120.  AGING AND ADULT SERVICES AGENCY

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               48.0              48.0

 

  Aging and adult services administration-48.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $      9,344,100  $      9,344,100

 

  Community services......................................         39,163,900        39,163,900

 

  Nutrition services......................................         39,044,000        39,044,000

 

  Employment assistance...................................          3,500,000         3,500,000

 

  Respite care program....................................          5,868,700         5,868,700

 

  Senior volunteer service programs.......................          4,465,300         4,465,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    101,386,000  $    101,386,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................         58,561,800        58,561,800

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total private revenues..................................            520,000           520,000

 

  Merit award trust fund..................................          4,068,700         4,068,700


  Total other state restricted revenues...................          1,400,000         1,400,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     36,835,500  $     36,835,500

 

   Sec. 8-121.  MEDICAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              465.5             465.5

 

  Medical services administration-395.5 FTE positions.....   $     83,565,600  $     83,565,600

 

  Healthy Michigan plan administration-31.0 FTE positions.    68,412,400        68,412,400

 

  Electronic health record incentive program-24.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................        144,297,800       144,297,800

 

  Technology supporting integrated service delivery-15.0

 

   FTE positions.........................................         12,307,500        12,307,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    308,583,300  $    308,583,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................        253,134,200       253,134,200

 

  Social security act, temporary assistance for needy

 

   families..............................................          4,180,000         4,180,000

 

   Special revenues funds:

 

  Total local revenues....................................            107,300           107,300

 

  Total private revenues..................................            101,300           101,300

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................            336,300           336,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     50,724,200  $     50,724,200

 

   Sec. 8-122.  MEDICAL SERVICES

 

  Hospital services and therapy...........................   $  1,150,265,400  $  1,150,265,400

 

  Hospital disproportionate share payments................         45,000,000        45,000,000

 

  Physician services......................................        314,884,100       314,884,100

 

  Medicare premium payments...............................        458,763,500       458,763,500

 

  Pharmaceutical services.................................        617,729,900       617,729,900


  Home health services....................................          6,287,800         6,287,800

 

  Hospice services........................................         96,732,000        96,732,000

 

  Transportation..........................................         20,094,000        20,094,000

 

  Auxiliary medical services..............................          5,489,200         5,489,200

 

  Dental services.........................................        250,790,000       250,790,000

 

  Ambulance services......................................         17,604,500        17,604,500

 

  Long-term care services.................................      1,665,789,800     1,665,789,800

 

  Integrated care organization services...................        220,300,000       220,300,000

 

  Medicaid home-and community-based services waiver.......        342,650,500       342,650,500

 

  Adult home help services................................        327,364,500       327,364,500

 

  Personal care services..................................          9,639,800         9,639,800

 

  Program of all-inclusive care for the elderly...........         92,524,400        92,524,400

 

  Health plan services....................................      4,668,657,900     4,560,308,000

 

  Federal Medicare pharmaceutical program.................        261,845,200       261,845,200

 

  Maternal and child health...............................         20,279,500        20,279,500

 

  Healthy Michigan Plan...................................      3,193,386,100     3,188,936,000

 

       Subtotal basic medical services program...........     13,786,078,100    13,673,278,100

 

  School-based services...................................        112,102,700       112,102,700

 

  Dental clinic program...................................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  Special Medicaid reimbursement..........................        368,887,600       368,887,600

 

       Subtotal special medical services payments........        481,990,300       481,990,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $ 14,268,068,400  $ 14,155,268,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Total other federal revenues............................     10,313,660,600    10,169,481,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Total local revenues....................................         35,478,700        35,478,700


  Total private revenues..................................          2,100,000         2,100,000

 

  Merit awards trust fund.................................         40,604,100        16,563,600

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................      2,057,586,000     2,116,168,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $  1,818,639,000  $  1,815,476,000

 

   Sec. 8-123.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                1.0               0.0

 

  Family preservation programs-1.0 FTE position...........   $     10,000,000  $              0

 

  Integrated service delivery.............................         36,922,500                 0

 

  Flint declaration of emergency..........................         15,138,100                 0

 

  MiSACWIS implementation.................................         11,538,600                 0

 

  Pharmacy reserve........................................         86,083,200                 0

 

  Autism navigator........................................          1,125,000                 0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    160,807,400  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:                  

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Social security act, temporary assistance for needy

 

   families..............................................         22,981,500                 0

 

  Total other federal revenues............................         97,132,800                 0

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................            473,900                 0

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     40,219,200  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 8-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 


1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $6,679,598,800.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 

of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $1,259,438,500.00. The itemized statement

 

below identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will

 

occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

COMMUNITY SERVICES AND OUTREACH

 

  Housing and support services..........................................   $             638,300

 

  Crime victim rights services grants...................................              6,825,000

 

CHILDREN’S SERVICES AGENCY-CHILD WELFARE

 

  Child care fund.......................................................            137,512,800

 

CHILDREN’S SERVICES AGENCY-JUVENILE JUSTICE

 

  County juvenile officers..............................................              3,525,200

 

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

 

  Family independence program...........................................                  8,500

 

  State disability assistance payments..................................                948,400

 

  Multicultural integration funding.....................................              5,478,200

 

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES

 

  Medicaid mental health services.......................................            769,585,300

 

  Community mental health non-Medicaid services.........................            117,050,400

 

  Medicaid substance use disorder services..............................             16,661,100

 

  State disability assistance program substance use disorder services...              1,914,000

 

  Community substance use disorder prevention, education, and treatment.             13,547,400

 

  Children’s waiver home care program...................................              4,579,800

 

  Nursing home PAS/ARR-OBRA.............................................              2,407,300

 

HEALTH POLICY

 

  Primary care services.................................................                 87,700


LABORATORY SERVICES

 

  Laboratory services...................................................                  5,200

 

DISEASE CONTROL, PREVENTION, AND EPIDEMIOLOGY

 

  Immunization program..................................................              1,042,700

 

LOCAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION AND GRANTS

 

  Essential local public health services................................             32,304,800

 

  Implementation of 1993 PA 133, MCL 333.17015..........................                    300

 

  Health and wellness initiatives.......................................              1,918,300

 

  Sexually transmitted disease control program..........................                194,300

 

  Cancer prevention and control program.................................                102,700

 

  Chronic disease control and health promotion administration...........                  7,100

 

  AIDS prevention, testing, and care programs...........................                929,400

 

FAMILY, MATERNAL, AND CHILDREN’S HEALTH SERVICES

 

  Prenatal care outreach and service delivery support...................              3,469,800

 

CHILDREN’S SPECIAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES

 

  Outreach and advocacy.................................................              2,440,900

 

  Medical care and treatment............................................                949,800

 

AGING AND ADULT SERVICES AGENCY

 

  Community services....................................................             16,533,500

 

  Nutrition services....................................................             11,087,000

 

  Respite care program..................................................              6,500,300

 

  Senior volunteer service programs.....................................                963,600

 

MEDICAL SERVICES

 

  Hospital services and therapy.........................................              2,449,500

 

  Physician services....................................................             12,504,900

 

  Transportation........................................................                949,800

 

  Dental services.......................................................              1,402,400


  Long-term care services...............................................             82,912,800

 

  TOTAL OF PAYMENTS TO LOCAL UNITS OF GOVERNMENT........................   $       1,259,438,500

 

       Sec. 8-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 8-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "AFC" means adult foster care.

 

       (b) "AIDS" means acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

 

       (c) "CMHSP" means a community mental health services program as that term is

 

defined in section 100a of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1100a.

 

       (d) "Department" means the department of health and human services.

 

       (e) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (f) "DSH" means disproportionate share hospital.

 

       (g) "EPSDT" means early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment.

 

       (h) "Federal poverty level" means the poverty guidelines published annually in

 

the Federal Register by the United States Department of Health and Human Services

 

under its authority to revise the poverty line under 42 USC 9902.

 

       (i) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (j) "GME" means graduate medical education.

 

       (k) "Health plan" means, at a minimum, an organization that meets the criteria

 

for delivering the comprehensive package of services under the department’s

 

comprehensive health plan.

 

       (l) "HEDIS" means healthcare effectiveness data and information set.

 

       (m) "HMO" means health maintenance organization.

 

       (n) "IDEA" means the individuals with disabilities education act, 20 USC 1400 to

 

1482.

 

       (o) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

       (p) "MCH" means maternal and child health.


       (q) "Medicare" means subchapter XVIII of the social security act, 42 USC 1395 to

 

1395lll.

 

       (r) "MiCAFE" means Michigan’s coordinated access to food for the elderly.

 

       (s) "MIChild" means the program described in section 1670.

 

       (t) "MiSACWIS" means Michigan Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information

 

System.

 

       (u) "MMIS" means the Medicaid Management Information System.

 

       (v) "PAS/ARR-OBRA" means the preadmission screening and annual resident review

 

required under the omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1987, section 1919(e)(7) of

 

the social security act, 42 USC 1396r.

 

       (w) "PIHP" means an entity designated by the department as a regional entity or a

 

specialty prepaid inpatient health plan for Medicaid mental health services, services

 

to individuals with developmental disabilities, and substance use disorder services.

 

Regional entities are described in section 204b of the mental health code, 1974 PA

 

258, MCL 330.1204b. Specialty prepaid inpatient health plans are described in section

 

232b of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1232b.

 

       (x) "Settlement" means the settlement agreement entered in the case of Dwayne B.

 

v Snyder, docket no. 2:06–cv-13548 in the United States district court for the eastern

 

district of Michigan.

 

       (y) "SSI" means supplemental security income.

 

       (z) "Temporary assistance for needy families" or "TANF" or "title IV-A" means

 

part A of subchapter IV of the social security act, 42 USC 601 to 619.

 

       (aa) "Title IV-B" means part B of title IV of the social security act, 42 USC 620

 

to 629 M.

 

       (bb) "Title IV-D" means part D of title IV of the social security act, 42 USC 651

 

to 669b.

 

       (cc) "Title IV-E" means part E of title IV of the social security act, 42 USC 670


to 679c.

 

       (dd) "Title X" means title X of the public health service act, 42 USC 300 to

 

300a-8, which establishes grants to states for family planning services.

 

       (ee) "Title XIX" and "Medicaid" mean subchapter XIX of the social security act,

 

42 USC 1396 to 1396w-5.

 

       Sec. 8-206. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $400,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393. These funds shall not be made available to increase

 

TANF authorization.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $45,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These

 

funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another

 

line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $40,000,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $60,000,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 8-207. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a


department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 8-208. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 8-209. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 8-210. The director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in

 

deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide

 

services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which

 

the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 8-211. If the revenue collected by the department from fees and collections

 

exceeds the amount appropriated in part 1, the revenue may be carried forward with the

 

approval of the state budget director into the subsequent fiscal year. The revenue

 

carried forward under this section shall be used as the first source of funds in the

 

subsequent fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 8-212. (1) On or before February 1 of the current fiscal year, the

 

department shall report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the


department budget, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director

 

on the detailed name and amounts of estimated federal, restricted, private, and local

 

sources of revenue that support the appropriations in each of the line items in part

 

1.

 

       (2) Upon the release of the next fiscal year executive budget recommendation, the

 

department shall report to the same parties in subsection (1) on the amounts and

 

detailed sources of federal, restricted, private, and local revenue proposed to

 

support the total funds appropriated in each of the line items in part 1 of the next

 

fiscal year executive budget proposal.

 

       Sec. 8-213. The state departments, agencies, and commissions receiving tobacco

 

tax funds and Healthy Michigan fund revenue from part 1 shall report by April 1 of the

 

current fiscal year to the senate and house appropriations committees, the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on the following:

 

       (a) Detailed spending plan by appropriation line item including description of

 

programs and a summary of organizations receiving these funds.

 

       (b) Description of allocations or bid processes including need or demand

 

indicators used to determine allocations.

 

       (c) Eligibility criteria for program participation and maximum benefit levels

 

where applicable.

 

       (d) Outcome measures used to evaluate programs, including measures of the

 

effectiveness of these programs in improving the health of Michigan residents.

 

       (e) Any other information considered necessary by the house of representatives or

 

senate appropriations committees or the state budget director.

 

       Sec. 8-215. If a legislative objective of this part or of a bill or amendment to

 

a bill to amend the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.1 to 400.119b, cannot be

 

implemented because implementation would conflict with or violate federal regulations,

 

the department shall notify the state budget director, the chairs of the house and


senate subcommittees on the department budget, and the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies and policy offices of that fact.

 

       Sec. 8-216. (1) In addition to funds appropriated in part 1 for all programs and

 

services, there is appropriated for write-offs of accounts receivable, deferrals, and

 

for prior year obligations in excess of applicable prior year appropriations, an

 

amount equal to total write-offs and prior year obligations, but not to exceed amounts

 

available in prior year revenues.

 

       (2) The department's ability to satisfy appropriation fund sources in part 1

 

shall not be limited to collections and accruals pertaining to services provided in

 

the current fiscal year, but shall also include reimbursements, refunds, adjustments,

 

and settlements from prior years.

 

       Sec. 8-217. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of each

 

year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 8-219. (1) The department may contract with the Michigan Public Health

 

Institute for the design and implementation of projects and for other public health-

 

related activities prescribed in section 2611 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368,


MCL 333.2611. The department may develop a master agreement with the Institute to

 

carry out these purposes for up to a 3-year period. The department shall report to the

 

house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the house and

 

senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on or before January 1 of the

 

current fiscal year all of the following:

 

       (a) A detailed description of each funded project.

 

       (b) The amount allocated for each project, the appropriation line item from which

 

the allocation is funded, and the source of financing for each project.

 

       (c) The expected project duration.

 

       (d) A detailed spending plan for each project, including a list of all

 

subgrantees and the amount allocated to each subgrantee.

 

       (2) On or before September 30 of the current fiscal year, the department shall

 

provide to the same parties listed in subsection (1) a copy of all reports, studies,

 

and publications produced by the Michigan Public Health Institute, its subcontractors,

 

or the department with the funds appropriated in part 1 and allocated to the Michigan

 

Public Health Institute.

 

       Sec. 8-220. The department shall ensure that faith-based organizations are able

 

to apply and compete for services, programs, or contracts that they are qualified and

 

suitable to fulfill. The department shall not disqualify faith-based organizations

 

solely on the basis of the religious nature of their organization or their guiding

 

principles or statements of faith.

 

       Sec. 8-223. The department may establish and collect fees for publications,

 

videos and related materials, conferences, and workshops. Collected fees shall be used

 

to offset expenditures to pay for printing and mailing costs of the publications,

 

videos and related materials, and costs of the workshops and conferences. The

 

department shall not collect fees under this section that exceed the cost of the

 

expenditures.


       Sec. 8-224. The department may retain all of the state's share of food assistance

 

overissuance collections as an offset to general fund/general purpose costs. Retained

 

collections shall be applied against federal funds deductions in all appropriation

 

units where department costs related to the investigation and recoupment of food

 

assistance overissuances are incurred. Retained collections in excess of such costs

 

shall be applied against the federal funds deducted in the departmentwide

 

administration appropriation unit.

 

       Sec. 8-225. (1) Sanctions, suspensions, conditions for provisional license

 

status, and other penalties shall not be more stringent for private service providers

 

than for public entities performing equivalent or similar services.

 

       (2) Neither the department nor private service providers or licensees shall be

 

granted preferential treatment or considered automatically to be in compliance with

 

administrative rules based on whether they have collective bargaining agreements with

 

direct care workers. Private service providers or licensees without collective

 

bargaining agreements shall not be subjected to additional requirements or conditions

 

of licensure based on their lack of collective bargaining agreements.

 

       Sec. 8-233. By the end of the current fiscal year, the department shall report to

 

the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the senate

 

and house fiscal agencies, the senate and house policy offices, and the state budget

 

office on the status of the merger, executed according to Executive Order No. 2015-4,

 

of the department of community health and the department of human services to create

 

the department of health and human services. The report must indicate changes from the

 

prior report and shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following

 

information:

 

       (a) The impact on client service delivery or access to services, including the

 

restructuring or consolidation of services.

 

       (b) Any cost increases or reductions that resulted from rent or building


occupancy changes.

 

       (c) Facilities in use, including any office closures or consolidations, or new

 

office locations, including hoteling stations.

 

       (d) Current status of FTE positions, including the number of FTE positions that

 

were eliminated or added due to duplication of efforts.

 

       (e) Any other efficiencies, costs, or savings associated with the merger.

 

       Sec. 8-234. The department shall include specific outcome and performance

 

reporting requirements in the interagency agreement with the Michigan talent

 

investment agency for TANF funding to provide job readiness and welfare-to-work

 

programming. TANF funding provided to the Michigan talent investment agency in the

 

current fiscal year is contingent on compliance with the data and reporting

 

requirements described in this section. The interagency agreement must require the

 

Michigan talent investment agency to provide all of the following items by January 1

 

of the current fiscal year for the previous year to the senate and house

 

appropriations committees and the state budget office:

 

       (a) An itemized spending report on TANF funding, including all of the following:

 

       (i) Direct services to clients.

 

       (ii) Administrative expenditures.

 

       (b) The number of family independence program (FIP) clients served through the

 

TANF funding, including all of the following:

 

       (i) The number and percentage who obtained employment through Michigan Works!

 

       (ii) The number and percentage who fulfilled their TANF work requirement through

 

other job readiness programming.

 

       (iii) Average TANF spending per client.

 

       (iv) The number and percentage of clients who were referred to Michigan Works!

 

but did not receive a job or job readiness placement and the reasons why.

 

       Sec. 8-263. (1) Upon submission of a Medicaid waiver, a Medicaid state plan


amendment, or a similar proposal to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,

 

the department shall notify the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the

 

department budget, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget office

 

of the submission.

 

       (2) The department shall provide written or verbal biannual reports to the senate

 

and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and house

 

fiscal agencies, and the state budget office summarizing the status of any new or

 

ongoing discussions with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or the United

 

States Department of Health and Human Services regarding potential or future Medicaid

 

waiver applications.

 

       Sec. 8-265. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 8-270. The department shall advise the legislature of the receipt of a

 

notification from the attorney general’s office of a legal action in which expenses

 

had been recovered pursuant to section 106(4) of the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280,

 

MCL 400.106, or any other statute under which the department has the right to recover

 

expenses. By November 1 and May 1 of the current fiscal year, the department shall

 

submit a written report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the

 

department budget, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget office

 

which includes, at a minimum, all of the following:

 

       (a) The total amount recovered from the legal action.

 

       (b) The program or service for which the money was originally expended.


       (c) Details on the disposition of the funds recovered such as the appropriation

 

or revenue account in which the money was deposited.

 

       (d) A description of the facts involved in the legal action.

 

       Sec. 8-274. The department, in collaboration with the state budget office, shall

 

submit to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the department budget,

 

the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the house and senate policy offices 1 week

 

after the day the governor submits to the legislature the budget for the ensuing

 

fiscal year a report on spending and revenue projections for each of the capped

 

federal funds listed below. The report shall contain actual spending and revenue in

 

the previous fiscal year, spending and revenue projections for the current fiscal year

 

as enacted, and spending and revenue projections within the executive budget proposal

 

for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2016 for each individual line item for the

 

department budget. The report shall also include federal funds transferred to other

 

departments. The capped federal funds shall include, but not be limited to, all of the

 

following:

 

       (a) TANF.

 

       (b) Title XX social services block grant.

 

       (c) Title IV-B part I child welfare services block grant.

 

       (d) Title IV-B part II promoting safe and stable families funds.

 

       (e) Low-income home energy assistance program.

 

       Sec. 8-276. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 8-279. (1) All master contracts relating to human services as funded by the

 

appropriations in section 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, and 109 of part 1 shall be


performance-based contracts that employ a client-centered results-oriented process

 

that is based on measurable performance indicators and desired outcomes and includes

 

the annual assessment of the quality of services provided.

 

       (2) By February 1 of the current fiscal year, the department shall provide the

 

senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies and policy offices, and the state budget office a report

 

detailing measurable performance indicators, desired outcomes, and an assessment of

 

the quality of services provided by the department during the previous fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 8-287. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare and

 

transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 8-292. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 8-294. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the Michigan Medicaid

 

information system line item, $20,000,000.00 in private revenue may be received from


and allocated for other states interested in participating as part of the broader

 

Michigan Medicaid MMIS Initiative.

 

       Sec. 8-295. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 to agencies providing

 

physical and behavioral health services to multicultural populations, the department

 

shall competitively award grants in accordance with the requirements of subsection

 

(2). The state shall not be liable for any spending above the contract amount.

 

       (2) The department shall require each contractor described in subsection (1) that

 

receives greater than $1.0 million in state grant funding to comply with performance

 

related metrics to maintain their eligibility for funding. The organizational metrics

 

shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

 

       (a) Each contractor or subcontractor shall have accreditations that attest to

 

their competency and effectiveness as behavioral health and social service agencies.

 

       (b) Each contractor or subcontractor shall have a mission that is consistent with

 

the purpose of the multicultural agency.

 

       (c) Each contractor shall validate that any subcontractors utilized within these

 

appropriations share the same mission as the lead agency receiving funding.

 

       (d) Each contractor or subcontractor shall demonstrate cost-effectiveness.

 

       (e) Each contractor or subcontractor shall ensure their ability to leverage

 

private dollars to strengthen and maximize service provision.

 

       (f) Each contractor or subcontractor shall provide timely and accurate reports

 

regarding the number of clients served, units of service provision and ability to meet

 

their stated goals.

 

       (3) The department shall require an annual report from the contractors described

 

in subsection (2). The annual report, due 60 days following the end of the contract

 

period, shall include specific information on services and programs provided, the

 

client base to which the services and programs were provided, information on any

 

wraparound services provided, and the expenditures for those services. The department


shall provide the annual reports to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees

 

on health and human services, the senate and house fiscal agencies and the state

 

budget office.

 

       Sec. 8-297. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 are $364,972,800.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $202,368,400.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $162,604,400.00.

 

       Sec.8-298. (1) The department shall transfer the service funds appropriated in

 

part 1 currently provided to PIHPs through the Medicaid mental health services,

 

Medicaid substance use disorder services, Healthy Michigan plan – behavioral health

 

and Autism services lines to the Health plan services line by September 30, 2017. To

 

implement this change the department shall:

 

       (a) Amend the contracts for the Medicaid health plans to include responsibility

 

for covering the full array of specialty services and supports for eligible Medicaid

 

beneficiaries with a serious mental illness, developmental disability, serious

 

emotional disturbance, or substance use disorder upon completion of a plan to

 

integrate these specialty services and supports in to the comprehensive health plan

 

contract.

 

       (b) Engage external stakeholders in the development of the integration plan. This

 

process shall include, but not be limited to the Michigan association of community

 

mental health boards, the Michigan association of health plans and advocates for

 

consumers of behavioral health services.

 

       (c) Contract with an administrative service organization to provide oversight of

 

the Medicaid health plans and the CMHSPs and ensure continuity of care for the served

 

populations.  This organization would be responsible for, at a minimum, conducting

 

analytics on claims from the Medicaid health plans and CMHSPs, reducing duplicative


administrative functions at the CMHSP and the service delivery level, and advising

 

state on performance outliers and population health status. The department may issue a

 

request for information to identify potential administrative service organizations. 

 

The department is authorized to conduct a competitive direct solicitation to procure

 

services in accordance with state procurement policy.

 

       (2) The contract amendment described in (1) shall require Medicaid health plans

 

to contract with the existing CMHSPs for the provision of specialty services and

 

supports.

 

       (3) Sixty days prior to completing the contract amendment detailed in (1), the

 

department shall provide a report describing the integration plan to the state budget

 

office, senate and house appropriations committees and senate and house fiscal

 

agencies. This report shall, at minimum, detail the following:

 

       (a) An assumed timeline for completion of the integration of behavioral health

 

services into Medicaid health plan contracts.

 

       (b) Information on the assumed change in rates that will be provided to Medicaid

 

health plans as a result of the integration of behavioral health services into the

 

Medicaid health plan contracts.

 

       (c) Information on the projected fiscal impact of this change including any

 

administrative savings that may be generated through the integration of behavioral

 

health services into the Medicaid health plan contracts.

 

       (d) A detailed plan describing steps that will be taken to ensure that current

 

consumers of behavioral health service currently funded through PIHPs will not

 

experience any disruption to their services and supports.

 

       (e) A detailed plan describing how the department shall ensure the readiness of

 

Medicaid health plans to take responsibility for services previously funded through

 

PIHPs.

 

 

 


DEPARTMENTWIDE ADMINISTRATION

 

       Sec. 8-307. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for demonstration projects,

 

$500,000.00 shall be distributed as provided in subsection (2). The amount distributed

 

under this subsection shall not exceed 50% of the total operating expenses of the

 

program described in subsection (2), with the remaining 50% paid by local United Way

 

organizations and other nonprofit organizations and foundations.

 

       (2) Funds distributed under subsection (1) shall be distributed to Michigan 2-1-

 

1, a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of this state that is exempt from

 

federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, 26 USC

 

501(c)(3), and whose mission is to coordinate and support a statewide 2-1-1 system.

 

Michigan 2-1-1 shall use the funds only to fulfill the Michigan 2-1-1 business plan

 

adopted by Michigan 2-1-1 in January 2005.

 

       (3) Michigan 2-1-1 shall refer to the department any calls received reporting

 

fraud, waste, or abuse of state-administered public assistance.

 

       (4) Michigan 2-1-1 shall report annually to the department and the house and

 

senate standing committees with primary jurisdiction over matters relating to human

 

services and telecommunications on 2-1-1 system performance, including, but not

 

limited to, call volume by health and human service needs and unmet needs identified

 

through caller data and customer satisfaction metrics.

 

       Sec. 8-316. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for terminal leave pay outs and

 

other employee costs, the department shall not spend in excess of its annual gross

 

appropriation unless it identifies and requests a legislative transfer from another

 

budgetary line item supporting administrative costs, as provided by section 393(2) of

 

the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

 

 

CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT

 

       Sec. 8-401. (1) The appropriations in part 1 assume a total federal child support

 


incentive payment of $26,500,000.00.

 

       (2) From the federal money received for child support incentive payments,

 

$12,000,000.00 shall be retained by the state and expended for child support program

 

expenses.

 

       (3) From the federal money received for child support incentive payments,

 

$14,500,000.00 shall be paid to the counties based on each county’s performance level

 

for each of the federal performance measures as established in 45 CFR 305.2.

 

       (4) If the child support incentive payment to the state from the federal

 

government is greater than $26,500,000.00, then 100% of the excess shall be retained

 

by the state and is appropriated until the total retained by the state reaches

 

$15,397,400.00.

 

       (5) If the child support incentive payment to the state from the federal

 

government is greater than the amount needed to satisfy the provisions identified in

 

subsections (1), (2), (3), and (4), the additional funds shall be subject to

 

appropriation by the legislature.

 

       (6) If the child support incentive payment to the state from the federal

 

government is less than $26,500,000.00, then the state and county share shall each be

 

reduced by 50% of the shortfall.

 

       Sec. 8-409. (1) If statewide retained child support collections exceed

 

$38,300,000.00, 75% of the amount in excess of $38,300,000.00 is appropriated to legal

 

support contracts. This excess appropriation may be distributed to eligible counties

 

to supplement and not supplant county title IV-D funding.

 

       (2) Each county whose retained child support collections in the current fiscal

 

year exceed its fiscal year 2004-2005 retained child support collections, excluding

 

tax offset and financial institution data match collections in both the current year

 

and fiscal year 2004-2005, shall receive its proportional share of the 75% excess.

 

       Sec. 8-410. (1) If title IV-D-related child support collections are escheated,


the state budget director is authorized to adjust the sources of financing for the

 

funds appropriated in part 1 for legal support contracts to reduce federal

 

authorization by 66% of the escheated amount and increase general fund/general purpose

 

authorization by the same amount. This budget adjustment is required to offset the

 

loss of federal revenue due to the escheated amount being counted as title IV-D

 

program income in accordance with federal regulations at 45 CFR 304.50.

 

       (2) The department shall notify the chairs of the house and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on the department budget and the house and senate fiscal agencies within

 

15 days of the authorization adjustment in subsection (1).

 

 

 

COMMUNITY SERVICES AND OUTREACH

 

       Sec. 8-450. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for school success

 

partnership program, the department shall allocate $450,000.00 by December 1 of the

 

current fiscal year to support the Northeast Michigan Community Service Agency

 

programming, which will take place in each county in the Governor’s Prosperity Region

 

3. The department shall require the following performance objectives be measured and

 

reported for the duration of the state funding for the school success partnership

 

program:

 

       (a) Increasing school attendance and decreasing chronic absenteeism.

 

       (b) Increasing academic performance based on grades with emphasis on math and

 

reading.

 

       (c) Identifying barriers to attendance and success and connecting families with

 

resources to reduce these barriers.

 

       (d) Increasing parent involvement with the parent’s child’s school and community.

 

       (2) The Northeast Michigan Community Service Agency shall provide reports to the

 

department on January 31 and June 30 of the current fiscal year on the number of

 

children and families served and the services that were provided to families to meet

 


the performance objectives identified in this section. The department shall distribute

 

the reports within 1 week after receipt to the house and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on the department budget, house and senate fiscal agencies, house and

 

senate policy offices, and the state budget office.

 

 

 

CHILDREN’S SERVICES AGENCY - CHILD WELFARE

 

       Sec. 8-501. A goal is established that not more than 27% of all children in

 

foster care at any given time during the current fiscal year will have been in foster

 

care for 24 months or more.

 

       Sec. 8-502. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for foster care, the department

 

shall provide 50% reimbursement to Indian tribal governments for foster care

 

expenditures for children who are under the jurisdiction of Indian tribal courts and

 

who are not otherwise eligible for federal foster care cost sharing.

 

       Sec. 8-503. (1) In accordance with the final report of the Michigan child welfare

 

performance-based funding task force issued in response to section 503 of article X of

 

2013 PA 59, the department shall continue to develop actuarially sound case rates for

 

necessary out-of-home child welfare services that achieve permanency by the department

 

and private child placing agencies in a prospective payment system under a

 

performance-based funding model.

 

       (2) The department shall continue to develop a prospective rate payment system

 

for private agencies that includes funding for adoption incentive payments. The full

 

cost prospective rate payment system will identify and cover contractual costs paid

 

through the case rate developed by an independent actuary.

 

       (3) In accordance with the final report of the Michigan child welfare

 

performance-based funding task force issued in response to section 503 of article X of

 

2013 PA 59, the department shall implement a 5-year independent, third-party

 

evaluation of the performance-based funding model. The evaluator shall be selected

 


through a competitive process by a rating committee that includes, but is not limited

 

to, representatives from the department and private child placing agencies.

 

       (4) The department, in conjunction with members from both the house of

 

representatives and senate, private child placing agencies, the courts, and counties

 

shall implement the recommendations that are described in the workgroup report that

 

was provided in section 503 of article X of 2013 PA 59 to establish a performance-

 

based funding for public and private child welfare services providers. The department

 

shall provide a quarterly report on the status of the performance-based contracting

 

model to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget,

 

the senate and house standing committees on families and human services, the senate

 

and house fiscal agencies and policy offices, and the state budget office.

 

       Sec. 8-504. (1) The department may establish a master agreement with a consortium

 

in Kent county for a performance-based child welfare contracting pilot program. The

 

consortium must be recognized by this state as a nonprofit organization and must have

 

submitted an application to the Internal Revenue Service for 501(c)(3) status. The

 

consortium shall consist of a network of affiliated child welfare service providers

 

that will accept and comprehensively assess referred youth, assign cases to members of

 

its continuum or leverage services from other entities, and make appropriate case

 

management decisions during the duration of a case.

 

       (2) The consortium shall operate an integrated continuum of care structure, with

 

services provided by private or public agencies, based on individual case needs. The

 

consortium shall demonstrate significant organizational capacity and competencies,

 

including financial strength, experienced staff and leadership, and appropriate

 

governance structure.

 

       (3) By March 1 of the current fiscal year, the consortium shall provide to the

 

department, the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the department

 

budget, and the state budget office, a report on the status of the implementation of


the consortium, including, but not limited to, actual expenditures.

 

       Sec. 8-505. By March 1 of the current fiscal year, the department and Wayne

 

county shall provide to the senate and house appropriations committees on the

 

department budget, the senate and house fiscal agencies and policy offices, and the

 

state budget office a report for youth served in the previous fiscal year and in the

 

first quarter of the current fiscal year outlining the number of youth served within

 

each juvenile justice system, the type of setting for each youth, performance

 

outcomes, and financial costs or savings.

 

       Sec. 8-507. The department's ability to satisfy appropriation deducts in part 1

 

for foster care private collections shall not be limited to collections and accruals

 

pertaining to services provided only in the current fiscal year but may include

 

revenues collected during the current fiscal year for services provided in prior

 

fiscal years.

 

       Sec. 8-508. (1) In addition to the amount appropriated in part 1 for children's

 

trust fund grants, money granted or money received as gifts or donations to the

 

children's trust fund created by 1982 PA 249, MCL 21.171 to 21.172, is appropriated

 

for expenditure.

 

       (2) The department and the child abuse neglect and prevention board shall

 

collaborate to ensure that administrative delays are avoided and the local grant

 

recipients and direct service providers receive money in an expeditious manner. The

 

department and board shall make available the children’s trust fund contract funds to

 

grantees within 31 days of the start date of the funded project.

 

       Sec. 8-513. (1) The department shall not expend funds appropriated in part 1 to

 

pay for the direct placement by the department of a child in an out-of-state facility

 

unless all of the following conditions are met:

 

       (a) There is no appropriate placement available in this state as determined by

 

the department interstate compact office.


       (b) An out-of-state placement exists that is nearer to the child’s home than the

 

closest appropriate in-state placement as determined by the department interstate

 

compact office.

 

       (c) The out-of-state facility meets all of the licensing standards of this state

 

for a comparable facility.

 

       (d) The out-of-state facility meets all of the applicable licensing standards of

 

the state in which it is located.

 

       (e) The department has done an on-site visit to the out-of-state facility,

 

reviewed the facility records, reviewed licensing records and reports on the facility,

 

and believes that the facility is an appropriate placement for the child.

 

       (2) The department shall submit an annual report to the state court

 

administrative office, the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the

 

department budget, the house and senate fiscal agencies, the house and senate policy

 

offices, and the state budget office, on the number of Michigan children residing in

 

out-of-state facilities at the time of the report, the total cost and average per diem

 

cost of these out-of-state placements to this state, and a list of each such placement

 

arranged by the Michigan county of residence for each child.

 

       Sec. 8-522. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for youth in transition,

 

the department shall allocate $750,000.00 for college scholarships through the

 

fostering futures scholarship program in the Michigan education trust to youths who

 

were in foster care because of child abuse or neglect and are attending a college

 

located in this state. Of the funds appropriated, 100% shall be used to fund

 

scholarships for the youths described in this section.

 

       (2) Not later than March 1 of the current fiscal year, the department shall

 

provide a report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the

 

department budget, the house and senate fiscal agencies, the house and senate policy

 

offices, and the state budget office that includes the number of youths who received


scholarships and the amount of each scholarship, and the total amount of funds spent

 

or encumbered in the current fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 8-523. (1) By February 15 of the current fiscal year, the department shall

 

report on the families first, family reunification, and families together building

 

solutions family preservation programs to the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the

 

senate and house policy offices, and the state budget office. The report shall provide

 

an estimate of total cost savings as a result of avoiding placement of children in

 

foster care for families who received family preservation services.

 

       (2) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for youth in transition and domestic

 

violence prevention and treatment, the department is authorized to make allocations of

 

TANF funds only to agencies that report necessary data to the department for the

 

purpose of meeting TANF eligibility reporting requirements.

 

       Sec. 8-524. As a condition of receiving funds appropriated in part 1 for strong

 

families/safe children, counties must submit the service spending plan to the

 

department by October 1 of the current fiscal year for approval. The department shall

 

approve the service spending plan within 30 calendar days after receipt of a properly

 

completed service spending plan.

 

       Sec. 8-526. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for foster care payments and

 

related administrative costs, the department may implement the federally approved

 

title IV-E child welfare waiver demonstration project. As required under the waiver,

 

any savings resulting from the demonstration project must be quantified and reinvested

 

into child welfare programming.

 

       Sec. 8-534. (1) The department shall report to the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies, the senate and house policy offices, and the state budget office by November

 

1 of the current fiscal year an implementation plan regarding the appropriation in


part 1 to implement the Michigan statewide automated child welfare information system.

 

The plan shall include, but not be limited to, efforts to bring the system in

 

compliance with the Dwayne B. v Snyder modified settlement agreement and other federal

 

guidelines set forth by the United States Department of Health and Human Services

 

Administration for Children and Families.

 

       (2) The department shall report to the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the

 

senate and house policy offices, and the state budget office by June 1 of the current

 

fiscal year a status report regarding the appropriation in part 1 to implement the

 

Michigan statewide automated child welfare information system. The report shall

 

provide details on the planning, implementation, and operation of the system

 

including, but not limited to, all of the following:

 

       (a) Areas where implementation went as planned.

 

       (b) The number of known issues.

 

       (c) Any additional overtime or other staffing costs to address known issues.

 

       (d) Any contract revisions to address known issues.

 

       (e) Other strategies undertaken to improve implementation.

 

       (f) Progress developing cross-system trusted data exchanges with MiSACWIS.

 

       (g) Progress moving away from a statewide/tribal automated child welfare

 

information system (SACWIS/TACWIS) to a comprehensive child welfare information system

 

(CCWIS).

 

       (h) Progress developing and implementing a program to monitor data quality.

 

       (i) Progress developing and implementing custom integrated systems for private

 

agencies and tribal governments.

 

       Sec. 8-546. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for foster care payments

 

and from child care fund, the department shall pay providers of foster care services

 

not less than a $37.00 administrative rate.


       (2) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for foster care payments and from child

 

care fund, the department shall pay providers of general independent living services

 

not less than a $28.00 administrative rate.

 

       (3) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall pay providers of

 

independent living plus services statewide per diem rates for staff-supported housing

 

and host-home housing based on proposals submitted in response to a solicitation for

 

pricing. The independent living plus program provides staff-supported housing and

 

services for foster youth ages 16 through 19 who, because of their individual needs

 

and assessments, are not initially appropriate for general independent living foster

 

care.

 

       (4) If required by the federal government to meet title IV-E requirements,

 

providers of foster care services shall submit quarterly expenditure reports to the

 

department to identify actual costs of providing foster care services.

 

       Sec. 8-558. The department shall explore ways to maximize use of training

 

programs or courses provided through the child welfare training institute accessible

 

online and in service areas throughout the state, provided the delivery is an

 

appropriate option for achieving specific learning objectives. These training programs

 

and courses shall be made available to employees of private child placing agencies and

 

child caring institutions.

 

       Sec. 8-569. The department shall reimburse private child placing agencies that

 

complete adoptions at the rate according to the date on which the petition for

 

adoption and required support documentation was accepted by the court and not

 

according to the date the court’s order placing for adoption was entered.

 

       Sec. 8-574. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for foster care payments,

 

$2,500,000.00 is allocated to support performance-based contracts with child placing

 

agencies to facilitate the licensure of relative caregivers as foster parents.

 

Agencies shall receive $2,300.00 for each facilitated licensure if completed within


180 days after a child’s placement or, if a waiver was previously approved, 180 days

 

from the application date. If the facilitated licensure, or approved waiver, is

 

completed after 180 days, the agency shall receive up to $2,300.00. The agency

 

facilitating the licensure would retain the placement and continue to provide case

 

management services for at least 50% of the newly licensed cases for which the

 

placement was appropriate to the agency. Up to 50% of the newly licensed cases would

 

have direct foster care services provided by the department.

 

       (2) From the funds appropriated for foster care payments, $375,000.00 is

 

allocated to support family incentive grants to private and community-based foster

 

care service providers to assist with home improvements or payment for physical exams

 

for applicants needed by foster families to accommodate foster children.

 

       Sec. 8-583. By February 1 of the current fiscal year, the department shall

 

provide to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget,

 

the senate and house standing committees on families and human services, the senate

 

and house fiscal agencies and policy offices, and the state budget office a report

 

that includes:

 

       (a) The number and percentage of foster parents that dropped out of the program

 

in the previous fiscal year and the reasons the foster parents left the program and

 

how those figures compare to prior fiscal years.

 

       (b) The number and percentage of foster parents successfully retained in the

 

previous fiscal year and how those figures compare to prior fiscal years.

 

       Sec. 8-588. (1) Concurrently with public release, the department shall transmit

 

all reports from the court-appointed settlement monitor, including, but not limited

 

to, the needs assessment and period outcome reporting, to the state budget office, the

 

senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, and the senate

 

and house fiscal agencies, without revision.

 

       (2) The department shall report quarterly to the state budget office, the senate


and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies, on the number of children enrolled in the guardianship

 

assistance and foster care - children with serious emotional disturbance waiver

 

programs.

 

 

 

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

 

       Sec. 8-601. Whenever a client agrees to the release of his or her name and

 

address to the local housing authority, the department shall request from the local

 

housing authority information regarding whether the housing unit for which vendoring

 

has been requested meets applicable local housing codes. Vendoring shall be terminated

 

for those units that the local authority indicates in writing do not meet local

 

housing codes until such time as the local authority indicates in writing that local

 

housing codes have been met.

 

       Sec. 8-604. (1) The department shall operate a state disability assistance

 

program. Except as provided in subsection (3), persons eligible for this program shall

 

include needy citizens of the United States or aliens exempted from the supplemental

 

security income citizenship requirement who are at least 18 years of age or

 

emancipated minors meeting 1 or more of the following requirements:

 

       (a) A recipient of supplemental security income, social security, or medical

 

assistance due to disability or 65 years of age or older.

 

       (b) A person with a physical or mental impairment which meets federal

 

supplemental security income disability standards, except that the minimum duration of

 

the disability shall be 90 days. Substance abuse alone is not defined as a basis for

 

eligibility.

 

       (c) A resident of an adult foster care facility, a home for the aged, a county

 

infirmary, or a substance abuse treatment center.

 

       (d) A person receiving 30-day post residential substance abuse treatment.

 


       (e) A person diagnosed as having acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

 

       (f) A person receiving special education services through the local intermediate

 

school district.

 

       (g) A caretaker of a disabled person who meets the requirements specified in

 

subdivision (a), (b), (e), or (f).

 

       (2) Applicants for and recipients of the state disability assistance program

 

shall be considered needy if they:

 

       (a) Meet the same asset test as is applied for the family independence program.

 

       (b) Have a monthly budgetable income that is less than the payment standards.

 

       (3) Except for a person described in subsection (1)(c) or (d), a person is not

 

disabled for purposes of this section if his or her drug addiction or alcoholism is a

 

contributing factor material to the determination of disability. "Material to the

 

determination of disability" means that, if the person stopped using drugs or alcohol,

 

his or her remaining physical or mental limitations would not be disabling. If his or

 

her remaining physical or mental limitations would be disabling, then the drug

 

addiction or alcoholism is not material to the determination of disability and the

 

person may receive state disability assistance. Such a person must actively

 

participate in a substance abuse treatment program, and the assistance must be paid to

 

a third party or through vendor payments. For purposes of this section, substance

 

abuse treatment includes receipt of inpatient or outpatient services or participation

 

in alcoholics anonymous or a similar program.

 

       Sec. 8-605. The level of reimbursement provided to state disability assistance

 

recipients in licensed adult foster care facilities shall be the same as the

 

prevailing supplemental security income rate under the personal care category.

 

       Sec. 8-606. County department offices shall require each recipient of family

 

independence program and state disability assistance who has applied with the social

 

security administration for supplemental security income to sign a contract to repay


any assistance rendered through the family independence program or state disability

 

assistance program upon receipt of retroactive supplemental security income benefits.

 

       Sec. 8-607. (1) The department's ability to satisfy appropriation deductions in

 

part 1 for state disability assistance/supplemental security income recoveries and

 

public assistance recoupment revenues shall not be limited to recoveries and accruals

 

pertaining to state disability assistance, or family independence assistance grant

 

payments provided only in the current fiscal year, but may include revenues collected

 

during the current year that are prior year related and not a part of the department’s

 

accrued entries.

 

       (2) The department may use supplemental security income recoveries to satisfy the

 

deduct in any line in which the revenues are appropriated, regardless of the source

 

from which the revenue is recovered.

 

       Sec. 8-608. Adult foster care facilities providing domiciliary care or personal

 

care to residents receiving supplemental security income or homes for the aged serving

 

residents receiving supplemental security income shall not require those residents to

 

reimburse the home or facility for care at rates in excess of those legislatively

 

authorized. To the extent permitted by federal law, adult foster care facilities and

 

homes for the aged serving residents receiving supplemental security income shall not

 

be prohibited from accepting third-party payments in addition to supplemental security

 

income provided that the payments are not for food, clothing, shelter, or result in a

 

reduction in the recipient’s supplemental security income payment.

 

       Sec. 8-609. The state supplementation level under the supplemental security

 

income program for the personal care/adult foster care and home for the aged

 

categories shall not be reduced during the current fiscal year. The legislature shall

 

be notified not less than 30 days before any proposed reduction in the state

 

supplementation level.

 

       Sec. 8-610. (1) In developing good cause criteria for the state emergency relief


program, the department shall grant exemptions if the emergency resulted from

 

unexpected expenses related to maintaining or securing employment.

 

       (2) For purposes of determining housing affordability eligibility for state

 

emergency relief, a group is considered to have sufficient income to meet ongoing

 

housing expenses if their total housing obligation does not exceed 75% of their total

 

net income.

 

       (3) State emergency relief payments shall not be made to individuals who have

 

been found guilty of fraud in regard to obtaining public assistance.

 

       (4) State emergency relief payments shall not be made available to persons who

 

are out-of-state residents or illegal immigrants.

 

       (5) State emergency relief payments for rent assistance shall be distributed

 

directly to landlords and shall not be added to Michigan bridge cards.

 

       Sec. 8-611. The state supplementation level under the supplemental security

 

income program for the living independently or living in the household of another

 

categories shall not exceed the minimum state supplementation level as required under

 

federal law or regulations.

 

       Sec. 8-613. The department shall provide reimbursements for the final disposition

 

of indigent persons. The reimbursements shall include the following:

 

       (a) The maximum allowable reimbursement for the final disposition is $800.00.

 

       (b) The adult burial with services allowance is $720.00.

 

       (c) The adult burial without services allowance is $485.00.

 

       (d) The infant burial allowance is $165.00.

 

       Sec. 8-615. Except as required by federal law or regulations, funds appropriated

 

in part 1 shall not be used to provide public assistance to a person who is an illegal

 

alien. This section shall not prohibit the department from entering into contracts

 

with food banks, emergency shelter providers, or other human services agencies who

 

may, as a normal part of doing business, provide food or emergency shelter.


       Sec. 8-616. The department shall require retailers that participate in the

 

electronic benefits transfer program to charge no more than $2.50 in fees for cash

 

back as a condition of participation.

 

       Sec. 8-619. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the department shall exempt from the

 

denial of title IV-A assistance and food assistance benefits under 21 USC 862a any

 

individual who has been convicted of a felony that included the possession, use, or

 

distribution of a controlled substance, after August 22, 1996, provided that the

 

individual is not in violation of his or her probation or parole requirements.

 

Benefits shall be provided to such individuals as follows:

 

       (a) A third-party payee or vendor shall be required for any cash benefits

 

provided.

 

       (b) An authorized representative shall be required for food assistance receipt.

 

       (2) Subject to federal approval, an individual is not entitled to the exemption

 

in this section if the individual was convicted in 2 or more separate cases of a

 

felony that included the possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance

 

after August 22, 1996.

 

       Sec. 8-620. (1) The department shall make a determination of Medicaid eligibility

 

not later than 90 days if disability is an eligibility factor. For all other Medicaid

 

applicants, including patients of a nursing home, the department shall make a

 

determination of Medicaid eligibility within 45 days of application.

 

       (2) The department shall report on a quarterly basis to the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and house standing

 

committees on families and human services, the senate and house fiscal agencies and

 

policy offices, and the state budget office on the average Medicaid eligibility

 

standard of promptness for each of the required standards of promptness under

 

subsection (1) and for medical review team reviews achieved statewide and at each

 

local office.


       Sec. 8-630. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for family independence

 

program, the department shall conduct a suspicion-based drug testing pilot program for

 

the family independence program according to sections 57y and 57z of the social

 

welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.57y and 400.57z.

 

       Sec. 8-642. The department shall allocate the full amount of funds appropriated

 

in part 1 for homeless programs to provide services for homeless individuals and

 

families, including, but not limited to, third-party contracts for emergency shelter

 

services.

 

       Sec. 8-643. As a condition of receipt of federal TANF funds, homeless shelters

 

and human services agencies shall collaborate with the department to obtain necessary

 

TANF eligibility information on families as soon as possible after admitting a family

 

to the homeless shelter. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for homeless programs,

 

the department is authorized to make allocations of TANF funds only to the agencies

 

that report necessary data to the department for the purpose of meeting TANF

 

eligibility reporting requirements. Homeless shelters or human services agencies that

 

do not report necessary data to the department for the purpose of meeting TANF

 

eligibility reporting requirements will not receive reimbursements which exceed the

 

per diem amount they received in fiscal year 2000. The use of TANF funds under this

 

section should not be considered an ongoing commitment of funding.

 

       Sec. 8-645. An individual or family is considered homeless, for purposes of

 

eligibility for state emergency relief, if living temporarily with others in order to

 

escape domestic violence. For purposes of this section, domestic violence is defined

 

and verified in the same manner as in the department’s policies on good cause for not

 

cooperating with child support and paternity requirements.

 

       Sec. 8-653. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for food assistance, an

 

individual who is the victim of domestic violence and does not qualify for any other

 

exemption may be exempt from the 3-month in 36-month limit on receiving food


assistance under 7 USC 2015. This exemption can be extended an additional 3 months

 

upon demonstration of continuing need.

 

       Sec. 8-654. The department shall notify recipients of food assistance program

 

benefits that their benefits can be spent with their bridge cards at many farmers’

 

markets in the state. The department shall also notify recipients about the Double Up

 

Food Bucks program that is administered by the Fair Food Network. Recipients shall

 

receive information about the Double Up Food Bucks program, including information that

 

when the recipient spends $20.00 at participating farmers’ markets through the

 

program, the recipient can receive an additional $20.00 to buy Michigan produce.

 

       Sec. 8-655. Within 14 days after the spending plan for low-income home energy

 

assistance program is approved by the state budget office, the department shall

 

provide the spending plan, including itemized projected expenditures, to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department

 

budget, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the senate and house policy offices, and

 

the state budget office.

 

       Sec. 8-660. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for food bank funding, the

 

department is authorized to make allocation of TANF funds only to the agencies that

 

report necessary data to the department for the purpose of meeting TANF eligibility

 

reporting requirements. The agencies that do not report necessary data to the

 

department for the purpose of meeting TANF eligibility reporting requirements will not

 

receive allocations in excess of those received in fiscal year 2000. The use of TANF

 

funds under this section should not be considered an ongoing commitment of funding.

 

       Sec. 8-669. (1) The department shall allocate $9,000,000.00 for the annual

 

clothing allowance. The allowance shall be granted to all eligible children in the

 

family independence program.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance measures for

 

this initiative, including, but not limited to increasing school readiness for


economically disadvantaged students.

 

       Sec. 8-677. (1) The department shall establish a state goal for the percentage of

 

family independence program cases involved in employment activities. The percentage

 

established shall not be less than 50%. The goal for long-term employment shall be 15%

 

of cases for 6 months or more.

 

       (2) On a quarterly basis, the department shall report to the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies and policy offices, and the state budget director on the number of cases

 

referred to Partnership, Accountability, Training, and Hope (PATH), the current

 

percentage of family independence program cases involved in PATH employment

 

activities, an estimate of the current percentage of family independence program cases

 

that meet federal work participation requirements on the whole, and an estimate of the

 

current percentage of the family independence program cases that meet federal work

 

participation requirements for those cases referred to PATH.

 

       (3) The department shall submit to the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the

 

senate and house policy offices, and the state budget office a quarterly report that

 

includes all of the following:

 

       (a) The number and percentage of nonexempt family independence program recipients

 

who are employed.

 

       (b) The average and range of wages of employed family independence program

 

recipients.

 

       (c) The number and percentage of employed family independence program recipients

 

who remain employed for 6 months or more.

 

       Sec. 8-686. (1) The department shall ensure that program policy requires

 

caseworkers to confirm that individuals presenting personal identification issued by

 

another state seeking assistance through the family independence program, food


assistance program, state disability assistance program, or medical assistance program

 

are not receiving benefits from any other state.

 

       (2) The department shall require caseworkers to confirm the address provided by

 

any individual seeking family independence program benefits or state disability

 

assistance benefits.

 

       (3) The department shall prohibit individuals with property assets assessed at a

 

value higher than $200,000.00 from accessing assistance through department-

 

administered programs, unless such a prohibition would violate federal rules and

 

guidelines.

 

       (4) The department shall require caseworkers to obtain an up-to-date telephone

 

number during the eligibility determination or redetermination process for individuals

 

seeking medical assistance benefits.

 

       Sec. 8-687. (1) The department shall, on a quarterly basis by February 1, May 1,

 

August 1, and November 1, compile and make available on its website all of the

 

following information about the family independence program, state disability

 

assistance, the food assistance program, Medicaid, and state emergency relief:

 

       (a) The number of applications received.

 

       (b) The number of applications approved.

 

       (c) The number of applications denied.

 

       (d) The number of applications pending and neither approved nor denied.

 

       (e) The number of cases opened.

 

       (f) The number of cases closed.

 

       (g) The number of cases at the beginning of the quarter and the number of cases

 

at the end of the quarter.

 

       (2) The information provided under subsection (1) shall be compiled and made

 

available for the state as a whole and for each county and reported separately for

 

each program listed in subsection (1).


       (3) The department shall, on a quarterly basis by February 1, May 1, August 1,

 

and November 1, compile and make available on its website the family independence

 

program information listed as follows:

 

       (a) The number of new applicants who successfully met the requirements of the 21-

 

day assessment period for PATH.

 

       (b) The number of new applicants who did not meet the requirements of the 21-day

 

assessment period for PATH.

 

       (c) The number of cases sanctioned because of the school truancy policy.

 

       (d) The number of cases closed because of the 48-month and 60-month lifetime

 

limits.

 

       (e) The number of first-, second-, and third-time sanctions.

 

       (f) The number of children ages 0-5 living in FIP-sanctioned households.

 

 

 

CHILDREN’S SERVICES AGENCY – JUVENILE JUSTICE

 

       Sec. 8-706. Counties shall be subject to 50% chargeback for the use of

 

alternative regional detention services, if those detention services do not fall under

 

the basic provision of section 117e of the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL

 

400.117e, or if a county operates those detention services programs primarily with

 

professional rather than volunteer staff.

 

       Sec. 8-707. In order to be reimbursed for child care fund expenditures, counties

 

are required to submit department-developed reports to enable the department to

 

document potential federally claimable expenditures. This requirement is in accordance

 

with the reporting requirements specified in section 117a(7) of the social welfare

 

act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.117a.

 

       Sec. 8-708. As a condition of receiving funds appropriated in part 1 for the

 

child care fund line item, by December 15 of the current fiscal year, counties shall

 

have an approved service spending plan for the current fiscal year. Counties must

 


submit the service spending plan to the department by October 1 of the current fiscal

 

year for approval. The department shall approve within 30 calendar days after receipt

 

a properly completed service plan that complies with the requirements of the social

 

welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.1 to 400.119b, and shall notify a county within 30

 

days after approval that its service plan was approved.

 

       Sec. 8-709. (1) The department’s master contract for juvenile justice residential

 

foster care services shall prohibit contractors from denying a referral for placement

 

of a youth, or terminating a youth’s placement, if the youth’s assessed treatment

 

needs are in alignment with the facility’s residential program type, as identified by

 

the court or the department. In addition, the master contract shall require that youth

 

placed in juvenile justice residential foster care facilities must have regularly

 

scheduled treatment sessions with a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist, or both,

 

and access to the licensed psychologist or psychiatrist as needed.

 

       (2) The rates established for private residential juvenile justice facilities

 

that were in effect on October 1, 2015 remain in effect for the current fiscal year.

 

 

 

FIELD OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT SERVICES

 

       Sec. 8-801. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for independent living shall be used

 

to support centers for independent living in delivering mandated independent living

 

core services in compliance with federal rules and regulations for the centers, by

 

existing centers for independent living to serve underserved areas, and for projects

 

to build the capacity of centers for independent living to deliver independent living

 

services. Applications for the funds shall be reviewed in accordance with criteria and

 

procedures established by the department. The funds appropriated in part 1 may be used

 

to leverage federal vocational rehabilitation innovation and expansion funds

 

consistent with 34 CFR 361.35 up to $5,543,000.00, if available. If the possibility of

 

matching federal funds exists, the centers for independent living network will

 


negotiate a mutually beneficial contractual arrangement with Michigan rehabilitation

 

services. Funds shall be used in a manner consistent with the state plan for

 

independent living. Services provided should assist people with disabilities to move

 

toward self-sufficiency, including support for accessing transportation and health

 

care, obtaining employment, community living, nursing home transition, information and

 

referral services, education, youth transition services, veterans, and stigma

 

reduction activities and community education. This includes the independent living

 

guide project that specifically focuses on economic self-sufficiency.

 

       (2) The Michigan centers for independent living shall provide a report by March 1

 

of the current fiscal year to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the

 

department budget, the house and senate fiscal agencies, the house and senate policy

 

offices, and the state budget office on direct customer and system outcomes and

 

performance measures.

 

       Sec. 8-802. The Michigan rehabilitation services shall work collaboratively with

 

the bureau of services for blind persons, service organizations, and government

 

entities to identify qualified match dollars to maximize use of available federal

 

vocational rehabilitation funds.

 

       Sec. 8-803. The department shall provide an annual report by February 1 to the

 

house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the house and

 

senate fiscal agencies, and house and senate policy offices on the efforts taken to

 

improve Michigan rehabilitation services. The report shall include all of the

 

following items:

 

       (a) Reductions and changes in administration costs and staffing.

 

       (b) Service delivery plans and implementation steps achieved.

 

       (c) Reorganization plans and implementation steps achieved.

 

       (d) Plans to integrate Michigan rehabilitative services programs into other

 

services provided by the department.


       (e) Quarterly expenditures by major spending category.

 

       (f) Employment and job retention rates from both Michigan rehabilitation services

 

and its nonprofit partners.

 

       (g) Success rate of each district in achieving the program goals.

 

       Sec. 8-806. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for Michigan rehabilitation

 

services, the department shall allocate $6,100,300.00, including federal matching

 

funds, to service contracts with community-based rehabilitation organizations for job

 

development and other community employment-related support services.

 

       Sec. 8-825. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide

 

individuals not more than $500.00 for vehicle repairs, including any repairs done in

 

the previous 12 months. However, the department may in its discretion pay for repairs

 

up to $900.00. Payments under this section shall include the combined total of

 

payments made by the department and work participation program.

 

       Sec. 8-850. (1) The department shall maintain out-stationed eligibility

 

specialists in community-based organizations, community mental health agencies,

 

nursing homes, adult placement and independent living settings, federal qualified

 

health clinics, and hospitals unless a community-based organization, community mental

 

health agency, nursing home, or hospital requests that the program be discontinued at

 

its facility.

 

       (2) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for donated funds positions, the

 

department shall enter into contracts with agencies that are able and eligible under

 

federal law to provide the required matching funds for federal funding, as determined

 

by federal statute and regulations.

 

       (3) A contract for a donated funds position must include, but not be limited to,

 

the following performance metrics:

 

       (a) Meeting a standard of promptness for processing applications for Medicaid and

 

other public assistance programs under state law.


       (b) Meeting required standards for error rates in determining programmatic

 

eligibility as determined by the department.

 

       (4) The department shall only fill additional donated funds positions after a new

 

contract has been signed. That position shall also be abolished when the contract

 

expires or is terminated.

 

       (5) The department shall classify as limited-term FTEs any new employees who are

 

hired to fulfill the donated funds position contracts or are hired to fill any

 

vacancies from employees who transferred to a donated funds position.

 

 

 

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES

 

       Sec. 8-901. Funds appropriated in part 1 are intended to support a system of

 

comprehensive community mental health services under the full authority and

 

responsibility of local CMHSPs or PIHPs in accordance with the mental health code,

 

1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1001 to 330.2106, the Medicaid provider manual, federal Medicaid

 

waivers, and all other applicable federal and state laws.

 

       Sec. 8-902. (1) From funds appropriated in part 1, final authorizations to CMHSPs

 

or PIHPs shall be made upon the execution of contracts between the department and

 

CMHSPs or PIHPs. The contracts shall contain an approved plan and budget as well as

 

policies and procedures governing the obligations and responsibilities of both parties

 

to the contracts. Each contract with a CMHSP or PIHP that the department is authorized

 

to enter into under this subsection shall include a provision that the contract is not

 

valid unless the total dollar obligation for all of the contracts between the

 

department and the CMHSPs or PIHPs entered into under this subsection for the current

 

fiscal year does not exceed the amount of money appropriated in part 1 for the

 

contracts authorized under this subsection.

 

       (2) The department shall immediately report to the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and house fiscal

 


agencies, and the state budget director if either of the following occurs:

 

       (a) Any new contracts with CMHSPs or PIHPs that would affect rates or

 

expenditures are enacted.

 

       (b) Any amendments to contracts with CMHSPs or PIHPs that would affect rates or

 

expenditures are enacted.

 

       (3) The report required by subsection (2) shall include information about the

 

changes and their effects on rates and expenditures.

 

       Sec. 8-904. (1) Not later than May 31 of the current fiscal year, the department

 

shall provide a report on the CMHSPs, PIHPs, regional entities designated by the

 

department as PIHPs, and managing entities for substance use disorders to the members

 

of the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the

 

house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director that includes the

 

information required by this section.

 

       (2) The report shall contain information for each CMHSP, PIHP, regional entity

 

designated by the department as a PIHP, and managing entity for substance use

 

disorders and a statewide summary, each of which shall include at least the following

 

information:

 

       (a) A demographic description of service recipients which, minimally, shall

 

include reimbursement eligibility, client population, age, ethnicity, housing

 

arrangements, and diagnosis.

 

       (b) Per capita expenditures by client population group and cultural and ethnic

 

groups of the services area, including the deaf and hard of hearing population.

 

       (c) Financial information that, minimally, includes a description of funding

 

authorized; expenditures by client group and fund source; and cost information by

 

Medicaid and Healthy Michigan plan service category, including administration and

 

funds specified for all outside contracts for services and products. Financial

 

information must include the amount of funding, from each fund source, used to cover


clinical services and supports. Service category includes all department-approved

 

services. General fund expenditures should reflect those funds used to cover uninsured

 

individuals including Medicaid spenddowns.

 

       (d) Data describing service outcomes that include, but are not limited to, an

 

evaluation of consumer satisfaction, consumer choice, and quality of life concerns

 

including, but not limited to, housing and employment.

 

       (e) Information about access to community mental health services programs that

 

includes, but is not limited to, the following:

 

       (i) The number of people receiving requested services.

 

       (ii) The number of people who requested services but did not receive services.

 

       (f) The number of second opinions requested under the code and the determination

 

of any appeals.

 

       (g) An analysis of information provided by CMHSPs in response to the needs

 

assessment requirements of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1001 to

 

330.2106.

 

       (h) Lapses and carryforwards during the immediately preceding fiscal year for

 

CMHSPs, PIHPs, regional entities designated by the department as PIHPs, and managing

 

entities for substance use disorders.

 

       (i) Information about contracts for both administrative and mental health

 

services entered into by CMHSPs, PIHPs, regional entities designated by the department

 

as PIHPs, and managing entities for substance use disorders with providers and others,

 

including, but not limited to, all of the following:

 

       (i) The amount of the contract, organized by type of service provided.

 

       (ii) Payment rates, organized by the type of service provided.

 

       (iii) Administrative costs, including contract and consultant costs, for services

 

provided to CMHSPs, PIHPs, regional entities designated by the department as PIHPs,

 

and managing entities for substance use disorders.


       (j) Information on the community mental health Medicaid managed care and Healthy

 

Michigan plan programs, including, but not limited to, the following:

 

       (i) Expenditures by each CMHSP, PIHP, regional entity designated by the

 

department as a PIHP, and managing entity for substance use disorders organized by

 

Medicaid eligibility group, including per eligible individual expenditure averages.

 

       (ii) Expenditures on, and utilization of, each Medicaid and Healthy Michigan plan

 

service category by each CMHSP, PIHP, regional entity designated by the department as

 

a PIHP, and managing entity for substance use disorders.

 

       (iii) Performance indicator information required to be submitted to the

 

department in the contracts with CMHSPs, PIHPs, regional entities designated by the

 

department as PIHPs, and managing entities for substance use disorders.

 

       (k) Administrative expenditures of each CMHSP, PIHP, regional entity designated

 

by the department as a PIHP, and managing entity for substance use disorders that

 

includes a breakout of the salary, benefits, and pension of each executive level staff

 

and shall include the director, chief executive, and chief operating officers and

 

other members identified as executive staff.

 

       (l) Substance use disorder, prevention, education and treatment program

 

expenditures stratified by department-designated community mental health entity, by

 

central diagnosis and referral agency, by fund source, by subcontractor, by population

 

served, and by service type. Additionally, data on administrative expenditures by

 

department-designated community mental health entity shall be reported.

 

       (m) Substance use disorder prevention, education, and treatment program

 

expenditures per state client, with data on the distribution of expenditures reported

 

using a histogram approach.

 

       (n) Substance use disorder prevention, education, and treatment program number of

 

services provided by central diagnosis and referral agency, by subcontractor, and by

 

service type. Additionally, data on length of stay, referral source, and participation


in other state programs.

 

       (o) Substance use disorder prevention, education, and treatment program

 

collections from other first- or third-party payers, private donations, or other state

 

or local programs, by department-designated community mental health entity, by

 

subcontractor, by population served, and by service type for substance abuse services.

 

       (3) The department shall include data reporting requirements listed in subsection

 

(2) in the annual contract with each individual CMHSP, PIHP, regional entity

 

designated by the department as a PIHP, and managing entity for substance use

 

disorders.

 

       (4) The department shall take all reasonable actions to ensure that the data

 

required are complete and consistent among all CMHSPs, PIHPs, regional entities

 

designated by the department as PIHPs, and managing entities for substance use

 

disorders.

 

       Sec. 8-906. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for the state disability

 

assistance substance use disorder services program shall be used to support per diem

 

room and board payments in substance use disorder residential facilities. Eligibility

 

of clients for the state disability assistance substance use disorder services program

 

shall include needy persons 18 years of age or older, or emancipated minors, who

 

reside in a substance use disorder treatment center.

 

       (2) The department shall reimburse all licensed substance use disorder programs

 

eligible to participate in the program at a rate equivalent to that paid by the

 

department to adult foster care providers. Programs accredited by department-approved

 

accrediting organizations shall be reimbursed at the personal care rate, while all

 

other eligible programs shall be reimbursed at the domiciliary care rate.

 

       Sec. 8-907. (1) The amount appropriated in part 1 for substance use disorder

 

prevention, education, and treatment grants shall be expended to coordinate care and

 

services provided to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness and


substance use disorder diagnoses.

 

       (2) The department shall approve managing entity fee schedules for providing

 

substance use disorder services and charge participants in accordance with their

 

ability to pay.

 

       (3) The managing entity shall continue current efforts to collaborate on the

 

delivery of services to those clients with mental illness and substance use disorder

 

diagnoses with the goal of providing services in an administratively efficient manner.

 

       Sec. 8-910. The department shall assure that substance use disorder treatment is

 

provided to applicants and recipients of public assistance through the department who

 

are required to obtain substance use disorder treatment as a condition of eligibility

 

for public assistance.

 

       Sec. 8-911. (1) The department shall ensure that each contract with a CMHSP or

 

PIHP requires the CMHSP or PIHP to implement programs to encourage diversion of

 

individuals with serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, or

 

developmental disability from possible jail incarceration when appropriate.

 

       (2) Each CMHSP or PIHP shall have jail diversion services and shall work toward

 

establishing working relationships with representative staff of local law enforcement

 

agencies, including county prosecutors’ offices, county sheriffs’ offices, county

 

jails, municipal police agencies, municipal detention facilities, and the courts.

 

Written interagency agreements describing what services each participating agency is

 

prepared to commit to the local jail diversion effort and the procedures to be used by

 

local law enforcement agencies to access mental health jail diversion services are

 

strongly encouraged.

 

       Sec. 8-918. On or before the twenty-fifth of each month, the department shall

 

report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget,

 

the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on the amount of

 

funding paid to PIHPs to support the Medicaid managed mental health care program in


the preceding month. The information shall include the total paid to each PIHP, per

 

capita rate paid for each eligibility group for each PIHP, and number of cases in each

 

eligibility group for each PIHP, and year-to-date summary of eligibles and

 

expenditures for the Medicaid managed mental health care program.

 

       Sec. 8-928. Each PIHP shall provide, from internal resources, local funds to be

 

used as part of the state match required under the Medicaid program in order to

 

increase capitation rates for PIHPs. These funds shall not include either state funds

 

received by a CMHSP for services provided to non-Medicaid recipients or the state

 

matching portion of the Medicaid capitation payments made to a PIHP.

 

       Sec. 8-935. A county required under the provisions of the mental health code,

 

1974 PA 258, MCL 330.1001 to 330.2106, to provide matching funds to a CMHSP for mental

 

health services rendered to residents in its jurisdiction shall pay the matching funds

 

in equal installments on not less than a quarterly basis throughout the fiscal year,

 

with the first payment being made by October 1 of the current fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 8-958. Medicaid services shall include treatment for autism spectrum

 

disorders as defined in the federally approved Medicaid state plan. These services may

 

be coordinated with the Medicaid health plans and the Michigan Association of Health

 

Plans.

 

       Sec. 8-960. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for university autism

 

programs, the department shall continue a grant process for autism programs. These

 

grants are intended to increase the number of applied behavioral analysts, increase

 

the number of autism diagnostic services provided, or increase employment of those

 

that are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

 

       (2) Outcomes and performance measures related to this initiative include, but are

 

not limited to, the following.

 

       (a) Increase in applied behavioral analysts certified from a program.

 

       (b) Autism diagnostic services provided.


       (c) Employment rate of employment program participants.

 

       Sec. 8-995. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for behavioral health program

 

administration, $4,350,000.00 is intended to address the recommendations of the mental

 

health diversion council.

 

       Sec. 8-1003. The department shall notify the Michigan Association of Community

 

Mental Health Boards when developing policies and procedures that will impact PIHPs or

 

CMHSPs.

 

       Sec. 8-1004. The department shall report on implementation of recommendations to

 

achieve more uniformity in capitation payments made to the PIHPs by March 1st of the

 

current fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 8-1005. For the purposes of special projects involving high-need children or

 

adults, including the not guilty by reason of insanity population, the department may

 

contract directly with providers of services to these identified populations.

 

       Sec. 8-1006. No later than June 1 of the current fiscal year, the department

 

shall provide the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the department

 

budget, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget office with the

 

most recent cost data information submitted by the CMHSPs on how the funds

 

appropriated in part 1 for the community mental health services non-Medicaid services

 

line item were expended by each CMHSP. At a minimum, the information must include

 

CMHSPs general fund/general purpose costs for each of the following categories:

 

administration, prevention, jail diversion and treatment services, MIChild program,

 

children’s waiver home care program, children with serious emotional disturbance

 

waiver program, services provided to individuals with mental illness and developmental

 

disabilities who are not eligible for Medicaid, and the Medicaid spenddown population.

 

       Sec. 8-1007. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for behavioral health

 

program administration, the department shall maintain a psychiatric residential

 

treatment facility and children’s behavioral action team. These services will augment


the continuum of behavioral health services for high-need youth and provide additional

 

continuity of care and transition into supportive community-based services.

 

       (2) Outcomes and performance measures for this initiative include, but are not

 

limited to, the following:

 

       (a) The rate of rehospitalization for youth served through the program at 30 and

 

180 days.

 

       (b) Measured change in the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale for

 

children served through the program.

 

       Sec. 8-1008. The PIHP shall do all of the following:

 

       (a) Work to reduce administration costs by ensuring that PIHP responsible

 

functions are efficient to allow optimal transition of dollars to direct services.

 

This process must include limiting duplicate layers of administration and minimizing

 

PIHP-delegated services that may result in higher costs or inconsistent service

 

delivery, or both.

 

       (b) Take an active role in managing mental health care by ensuring consistent and

 

high-quality service delivery throughout its network and promote a conflict-free care

 

management environment.

 

       (c) Ensure that direct service rate variances are related to the level of need or

 

other quantifiable measures to ensure that the most money possible reaches direct

 

services.

 

       (d) Promote fair and adequate direct care reimbursement, including fair wages for

 

direct service workers.

 

       Sec. 8-1009. The department shall provide a progress report on implementation of

 

recommendations from work with PIHP network providers to analyze the workforce

 

challenges of recruitment and retention of staff who provide Medicaid-funded community

 

living supports, personal care services, respite services, skill building services,

 

and other similar supports and services by May 1 of the current fiscal year.


       Sec. 8-1010. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for behavioral health program

 

administration, $2,000,000.00 shall be allocated to address the implementation of

 

court ordered Assisted Outpatient Treatment associated with Public Act 497 of 2004.

 

 

 

STATE PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS AND FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

 

       Sec. 8-1051. The department shall continue a revenue recapture project to

 

generate additional revenues from third parties related to cases that have been closed

 

or are inactive. A portion of revenues collected through project efforts may be used

 

for departmental costs and contractual fees associated with these retroactive

 

collections and to improve ongoing departmental reimbursement management functions.

 

       Sec. 8-1052. The purpose of gifts and bequests for patient living and treatment

 

environments is to use additional private funds to provide specific enhancements for

 

individuals residing at state-operated facilities. Use of the gifts and bequests shall

 

be consistent with the stipulation of the donor. The expected completion date for the

 

use of gifts and bequests donations is within 3 years unless otherwise stipulated by

 

the donor.

 

       Sec. 8-1055. (1) The department shall not implement any closures or

 

consolidations of state hospitals, centers, or agencies until CMHSPs or PIHPs have

 

programs and services in place for those individuals currently in those facilities and

 

a plan for service provision for those individuals who would have been admitted to

 

those facilities.

 

       (2) All closures or consolidations are dependent upon adequate department-

 

approved CMHSP and PIHP plans that include a discharge and aftercare plan for each

 

individual currently in the facility. A discharge and aftercare plan shall address the

 

individual’s housing needs. A homeless shelter or similar temporary shelter

 

arrangements are inadequate to meet the individual’s housing needs.

 

       (3) Four months after the certification of closure required in section 19(6) of

 


the state employees’ retirement act, 1943 PA 240, MCL 38.19, the department shall

 

provide a closure plan to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the

 

department budget and the state budget director.

 

       (4) Upon the closure of state-run operations and after transitional costs have

 

been paid, the remaining balances of funds appropriated for that operation shall be

 

transferred to CMHSPs or PIHPs responsible for providing services for individuals

 

previously served by the operations.

 

       Sec. 8-1056. The department may collect revenue for patient reimbursement from

 

first- and third-party payers, including Medicaid and local county CMHSP payers, to

 

cover the cost of placement in state hospitals and centers. The department is

 

authorized to adjust financing sources for patient reimbursement based on actual

 

revenues earned. If the revenue collected exceeds current year expenditures, the

 

revenue may be carried forward with approval of the state budget director. The revenue

 

carried forward shall be used as a first source of funds in the subsequent year.

 

       Sec. 8-1058. Effective October 1 of the current fiscal year, the department, in

 

consultation with the department of technology, management and budget may maintain a

 

bid process to identify 1 or more private contractors to provide food service and

 

custodial services for the administrative areas at any state hospital identified by

 

the department as capable of generating savings through the outsourcing of such

 

services.

 

       Sec. 8-1059. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for center for

 

forensic psychiatry, the department shall open an additional wing at the center for

 

forensic psychiatry in the current fiscal year. The purpose of this program is to

 

provide additional capacity for specialized services to criminal defendants who are

 

adjudicated as incompetent to stand trial and not guilty by reason of insanity.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance measures for

 

this initiative, including, but not limited to the following:


       (a) The average wait time for person ruled incompetent to stand trial before

 

admission to the center for forensic psychiatry.

 

       (b) The average wait time for persons ruled incompetent to stand trial before

 

admission to other state operated psychiatric facilities.

 

       (c) The number of persons waiting to receive services at the center for forensic

 

psychiatry.

 

       (d) The number of persons waiting to receive services at other state operated

 

hospitals and centers.

 

 

 

HEALTH POLICY

 

       Sec. 8-1143. The department may award health innovation grants to address

 

emerging issues and encourage cutting edge advances in health care including strategic

 

partners in both the public and private sectors.

 

       Sec. 8-1144. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for health policy

 

administration, the department shall allocate the federal state innovation model grant

 

funding that supports implementation of the health delivery system innovations

 

detailed in this state’s "Reinventing Michigan’s Health Care System: Blueprint for

 

Health Innovation" document. This initiative will test new payment methodologies,

 

support improved population health outcomes, and support improved infrastructure for

 

technology and data sharing and reporting. The funds will be used to provide financial

 

support directly to regions participating in the model test and to support statewide

 

stakeholder guidance and technical support.

 

       (2) Outcomes and performance measures for the initiative under subsection (1)

 

include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

       (a) Increasing the number of physician practices fulfilling patient-centered

 

medical home functions.

 

       (b) Reducing inappropriate health utilization, specifically reducing preventable

 


emergency department visits, reducing the proportion of hospitalizations for

 

ambulatory sensitive conditions, and reducing this state’s 30-day hospital readmission

 

rate.

 

       (3) By March 1 and September 1 of the current fiscal year, the department shall

 

submit a written report to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the

 

department budget, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget office

 

on the status of the program and progress made since the prior report.

 

       Sec. 8-1146. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for bone marrow transplant

 

registry, $250,000.00 shall be allocated to Michigan Blood, the partner of the match

 

registry of the national marrow donor program. The funds shall be used to offset

 

ongoing tissue typing expenses associated with donor recruitment and collection

 

services and to expand those services to better serve the citizens of this state.

 

 

 

DISEASE CONTROL, PREVENTION, AND EPIDEMIOLOGY

 

       Sec. 8-1180. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the healthy homes program,

 

no less than $1,750,000.00 shall be allocated for lead abatement of homes.

 

       Sec. 8-1181. The department shall implement a plan designed to improve Michigan’s

 

childhood and adolescent immunization rates. The department shall engage organizations

 

working to provide immunizations and education about the value of vaccines, including,

 

but not limited to, statewide organizations representing health care providers, local

 

public health departments, child health interest groups, and private foundations with

 

a mission to increase immunization rates.

 

       Sec. 8-1182. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for immunization programs, for

 

every $4.00 in private matching funds received, this state shall allocate $1.00, up to

 

$500,000.00 in state contributions, to provide and promote education about the value

 

of vaccines for infants and toddlers.

 

 

 


LOCAL HEALTH AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

 

       Sec. 8-1220. The amount appropriated in part 1 for implementation of the 1993

 

additions of or amendments to sections 9161, 16221, 16226, 17014, 17015, and 17515 of

 

the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.9161, 333.16221, 333.16226, 333.17014,

 

333.17015, and 333.17515, shall be used to reimburse local health departments for

 

costs incurred related to implementation of section 17015(18) of the public health

 

code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17015.

 

       Sec. 8-1221. If a county that has participated in a district health department or

 

an associated arrangement with other local health departments takes action to cease to

 

participate in such an arrangement after October 1 of the current fiscal year, the

 

department shall have the authority to assess a penalty from the local health

 

department’s operational accounts in an amount equal to no more than 6.25% of the

 

local health department’s essential local public health services funding. This penalty

 

shall only be assessed to the local county that requests the dissolution of the health

 

department.

 

       Sec. 8-1222. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for essential local public health

 

services shall be prospectively allocated to local health departments to support

 

immunizations, infectious disease control, sexually transmitted disease control and

 

prevention, hearing screening, vision services, food protection, public water supply,

 

private groundwater supply, and on-site sewage management. Food protection shall be

 

provided in consultation with the department of agriculture and rural development.

 

Public water supply, private groundwater supply, and on-site sewage management shall

 

be provided in consultation with the department of environmental quality.

 

       (2) Local public health departments shall be held to contractual standards for

 

the services in subsection (1).

 

       (3) Distributions in subsection (1) shall be made only to counties that maintain

 

local spending in the current fiscal year of at least the amount expended in fiscal


year 1992-1993 for the services described in subsection (1).

 

       Sec. 8-1223. (1) From the amounts appropriated in part 1 for dental programs,

 

funds shall be allocated to the Michigan Dental Association for the administration of

 

a volunteer dental program that provides dental services to the uninsured.

 

        (2) Not later than December 1 of the current fiscal year, the department shall

 

report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget,

 

the senate and house standing committees on health policy and the state budget office

 

the number of individual patients treated, number of procedures performed, and

 

approximate total market value of those procedures from the immediately preceding

 

fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 8-1224. The department shall use revenue from mobile dentistry facility

 

permit fees received under section 21605 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL

 

333.21605, to offset the cost of the permit program.

 

 

 

FAMILY, MATERNAL, AND CHILD HEALTH

 

       Sec. 8-1302. Each family planning program receiving federal title X family

 

planning funds under 42 USC 300 to 300a-8 shall be in compliance with all performance

 

and quality assurance indicators that the office of population affairs within the

 

United States Department of Health and Human Services specifies in the program

 

guidelines for project grants for family planning services. An agency not in

 

compliance with the indicators shall not receive supplemental or reallocated funds.

 

       Sec. 8-1303. The department shall not contract with an organization which

 

provides elective abortions, abortion counseling, or abortion referrals, for services

 

that are to be funded with state restricted or state general fund/general purpose

 

funds appropriated in part 1 for family planning local agreements. An organization

 

under contract with the department shall not subcontract with an organization which

 

provides elective abortions, abortion counseling, or abortion referrals, for services

 


that are to be funded with state restricted or state general fund/general purpose

 

funds appropriated in part 1 for family planning local agreements.

 

       Sec. 8-1304. The department shall not use state restricted funds or state general

 

funds appropriated in part 1 in the family planning local agreements appropriation

 

line item for abortion counseling, referrals, or services.

 

       Sec. 8-1308. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for prenatal care outreach and

 

service delivery support, not less than $500,000.00 of funding shall be allocated for

 

evidence-based programs to reduce infant mortality including nurse family partnership

 

programs. The funds shall be used for enhanced support and education to nursing teams

 

or other teams of qualified health professionals, client recruitment in areas

 

designated as underserved for obstetrical and gynecological services and other high-

 

need communities, strategic planning to expand and sustain programs, and marketing and

 

communications of programs to raise awareness, engage stakeholders, and recruit

 

nurses.

 

       Sec. 8-1309. The department shall allocate funds appropriated in section 119 of

 

part 1 for family, maternal, and child health pursuant to section 1 of 2002 PA 360,

 

MCL 333.1091.

 

       Sec. 8-1310. The department shall continue to work jointly with the Michigan

 

state housing development authority and the joint task force established under article

 

IV of 2014 PA 252 to review housing rehabilitation, energy and weatherization, and

 

hazard abatement program policies and to make recommendations for integrating and

 

coordinating project delivery with the goals of serving more families and achieving

 

better outcomes by maximizing state and federal resources. The joint task force may

 

provide recommendations to the department. Recommendations of the joint task force

 

must give consideration to best practices and cost effectiveness.

 

       Sec. 8-1313. (1) The department shall continue developing an outreach program on

 

fetal alcohol syndrome services.


       (2) The department shall explore federal grant funding to address prevention

 

services for fetal alcohol syndrome and reduce alcohol consumption among pregnant

 

women.

 

 

 

CHILDREN’S SPECIAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES

 

       Sec. 8-1360. The department may do 1 or more of the following:

 

       (a) Provide special formula for eligible clients with specified metabolic and

 

allergic disorders.

 

       (b) Provide medical care and treatment to eligible patients with cystic fibrosis

 

who are 21 years of age or older.

 

       (c) Provide medical care and treatment to eligible patients with hereditary

 

coagulation defects, commonly known as hemophilia, who are 21 years of age or older.

 

       (d) Provide human growth hormone to eligible patients.

 

       Sec. 8-1361. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for medical care and

 

treatment, the department is authorized to spend those funds for the continued

 

development and expansion of telemedicine capacity to allow families with children in

 

the children’s special health care services program to access specialty providers more

 

readily and in a more timely manner.

 

 

 

AGING AND ADULT SERVICES AGENCY

 

       Sec. 8-1403. (1) By February 1 of the current fiscal year, the aging and adult

 

services agency shall require each region to report to the aging and adult services

 

agency and to the legislature home-delivered meals waiting lists based upon standard

 

criteria. Determining criteria shall include all of the following:

 

       (a) The recipient’s degree of frailty.

 

       (b) The recipient’s inability to prepare his or her own meals safely.

 

       (c) Whether the recipient has another care provider available.

 


       (d) Any other qualifications normally necessary for the recipient to receive

 

home-delivered meals.

 

       (2) Data required in subsection (1) shall be recorded only for individuals who

 

have applied for participation in the home-delivered meals program and who are

 

initially determined as likely to be eligible for home-delivered meals.

 

       Sec. 8-1417. The department shall provide to the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on the department budget, senate and house fiscal agencies, and state

 

budget director a report by March 30 of the current fiscal year that contains all of

 

the following:

 

       (a) The total allocation of state resources made to each area agency on aging by

 

individual program and administration.

 

       (b) Detail expenditure by each area agency on aging by individual program and

 

administration including both state-funded resources and locally-funded resources.

 

       Sec. 8-1421. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for community services,

 

$1,100,000.00 shall be allocated to area agencies on aging for locally determined

 

needs.

 

       Sec. 8-1422. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for aging and adult services

 

administration, the department shall contract with the Prosecuting Attorneys

 

Association of Michigan to provide the support and services necessary to increase the

 

capability of the state’s prosecutors, adult protective service system, and criminal

 

justice system to effectively identify, investigate, and prosecute elder abuse and

 

financial exploitation.

 

       Sec. 8-1423. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for Elder Law of Michigan

 

MiCAFE contract, the department shall allocate not less than $350,000.00 to the Elder

 

Law of Michigan MiCAFE to assist this state’s elderly population to participate in the

 

food assistance program. Of the $350,000.00 allocated under this section, the

 

department shall use $175,000.00, which are general fund/general purpose funds, as


state matching funds for not less than $175,000.00 in United States department of

 

Agriculture funding to provide outreach program activities, such as eligibility screen

 

and information services, as part of a statewide food assistance hotline.

 

       Sec. 8-1424. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for community services,

 

$150,000.00 is appropriated for Alzheimer’s disease services and shall be remitted to

 

the Alzheimer’s association-Michigan chapters for the purpose of carrying out a pilot

 

project in Macomb, Monroe, and St. Joseph counties. The fiduciary for the funds is the

 

Alzheimer’s association-greater Michigan chapter. The Alzheimer’s association shall

 

provide enhanced services, including 24/7 helpline, continued care consultation, and

 

support groups, to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia and their families

 

in the 3 counties, and partner with a Michigan public university to study whether

 

provision of such in-home support services significantly delays the need for

 

residential long-term care services for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease or

 

dementia. The study must also consider potential cost savings related to the delay of

 

long-term care services, if a delay is shown.

 

 

 

MEDICAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

 

       Sec. 8-1501. The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for the electronic

 

health records incentive program are considered work project appropriations, and any

 

unencumbered or unallotted funds are carried forward into the following fiscal year.

 

The following is in compliance with section 451a(1) of the management and budget act,

 

1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

 

       (a) The purpose of the project to be carried forward is to implement the Medicaid

 

electronic health record program that provides financial incentive payments to

 

Medicaid health care providers to encourage the adoption and meaningful use of

 

electronic health records to improve quality, increase efficiency, and promote safety.

 

       (b) The projects will be accomplished according to the approved federal advanced

 


planning document.

 

       (c) The estimated cost of this project phase is identified in the appropriation

 

line item.

 

       (d) The tentative completion date for the work project is September 30, 2020.

 

       Sec. 8-1503. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for Healthy Michigan plan

 

administration, the department shall maintain an accounting structure within the

 

Michigan administrative information network that will allow expenditures associated

 

with the administration of the Healthy Michigan plan to be identified.

 

       Sec. 8-1505. By March 1 and September 1 of the current fiscal year, the

 

department shall submit a report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees

 

on the department budget, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget

 

office including both of the following:

 

       (a) The department’s projected annual reimbursement savings and cost offsets that

 

will result from the funds appropriated in part 1 for the office of inspector general

 

and third party liability efforts.

 

       (b) The actual reimbursement savings and cost offsets that have resulted from the

 

funds appropriated in part 1 for the office of inspector general and third party

 

liability efforts.

 

       Sec. 8-1506. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for technology supporting

 

integrated service delivery, the department shall establish new information technology

 

tools and enhance existing systems to improve the eligibility and enrollment process

 

for citizens accessing department administered programs. This information technology

 

system will consolidate beneficiary information, support department caseworker efforts

 

in building a success plan for beneficiaries and better support department staff in

 

supporting enrollees in assistance programs.

 

       (2) Outcomes and performance measure for the initiative under subsection (1)

 

include, but are not limited to, the following:


       (a) Successful consolidation of date warehouses maintained by the department.

 

       (b) The amount of time a department caseworker devotes to date entry when

 

initiating an enrollee application.

 

       (c) A reduction in wait times for persons enrolled in assistance programs to

 

speak with department staff and get necessary changes made.

 

       (d) A reduction in department caseworker workload.

 

 

 

MEDICAL SERVICES

 

       Sec. 8-1601. The cost of remedial services incurred by residents of licensed

 

adult foster care homes and licensed homes for the aged shall be used in determining

 

financial eligibility for the medically needy. Remedial services include basic self-

 

care and rehabilitation training for a resident.

 

       Sec. 8-1603. (1) The department may establish a program for individuals to

 

purchase medical coverage at a rate determined by the department.

 

       (2) The department may receive and expend premiums for the buy-in of medical

 

coverage in addition to the amounts appropriated in part 1.

 

       (3) The premiums described in this section shall be classified as private funds.

 

       Sec. 8-1605. The protected income level for Medicaid coverage determined pursuant

 

to section 106(1)(b)(iii) of the social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.106, shall

 

be 100% of the related public assistance standard.

 

       Sec. 8-1606. For the purpose of guardian and conservator charges, the department

 

may deduct up to $60.00 per month as an allowable expense against a recipient’s income

 

when determining medical services eligibility and patient pay amounts.

 

       Sec. 8-1607. (1) An applicant for Medicaid, whose qualifying condition is

 

pregnancy, shall immediately be presumed to be eligible for Medicaid coverage unless

 

the preponderance of evidence in her application indicates otherwise. The applicant

 

who is qualified as described in this subsection shall be allowed to select or remain

 


with the Medicaid participating obstetrician of her choice.

 

       (2) An applicant qualified as described in subsection (1) shall be given a letter

 

of authorization to receive Medicaid covered services related to her pregnancy. All

 

qualifying applicants shall be entitled to receive all medically necessary obstetrical

 

and prenatal care without preauthorization from a health plan. All claims submitted

 

for payment for obstetrical and prenatal care shall be paid at the Medicaid fee-for-

 

service rate in the event a contract does not exist between the Medicaid participating

 

obstetrical or prenatal care provider and the managed care plan. The applicant shall

 

receive a listing of Medicaid physicians and managed care plans in the immediate

 

vicinity of the applicant’s residence.

 

       (3) In the event that an applicant, presumed to be eligible pursuant to

 

subsection (1), is subsequently found to be ineligible, a Medicaid physician or

 

managed care plan that has been providing pregnancy services to an applicant under

 

this section is entitled to reimbursement for those services until such time as they

 

are notified by the department that the applicant was found to be ineligible for

 

Medicaid.

 

       (4) If the preponderance of evidence in an application indicates that the

 

applicant is not eligible for Medicaid, the department shall refer that applicant to

 

the nearest public health clinic or similar entity as a potential source for receiving

 

pregnancy-related services.

 

       (5) The department shall develop an enrollment process for pregnant women covered

 

under this section that facilitates the selection of a managed care plan at the time

 

of application.

 

       (6) The department shall mandate enrollment of women, whose qualifying condition

 

is pregnancy, into Medicaid managed care plans.

 

       (7) The department shall encourage physicians to provide women, whose qualifying

 

condition for Medicaid is pregnancy, with a referral to a Medicaid participating


dentist at the first pregnancy-related appointment.

 

       Sec. 8-1611. (1) For care provided to medical services recipients with other

 

third-party sources of payment, medical services reimbursement shall not exceed, in

 

combination with such other resources, including Medicare, those amounts established

 

for medical services-only patients. The medical services payment rate shall be

 

accepted as payment in full. Other than an approved medical services co-payment, no

 

portion of a provider’s charge shall be billed to the recipient or any person acting

 

on behalf of the recipient. Nothing in this section shall be considered to affect the

 

level of payment from a third-party source other than the medical services program.

 

The department shall require a nonenrolled provider to accept medical services

 

payments as payment in full.

 

       (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), medical services reimbursement for hospital

 

services provided to dual Medicare/medical services recipients with Medicare part B

 

coverage only shall equal, when combined with payments for Medicare and other third-

 

party resources, if any, those amounts established for medical services-only patients,

 

including capital payments.

 

       Sec. 8-1620. (1) For fee-for-service recipients who do not reside in nursing

 

homes, the pharmaceutical dispensing fee shall be $2.75 or the pharmacy’s usual or

 

customary cash charge, whichever is less. For nursing home residents, the

 

pharmaceutical dispensing fee shall be $3.00 or the pharmacy’s usual or customary cash

 

charge, whichever is less.

 

       (2) The department shall require a prescription co-payment for Medicaid

 

recipients not enrolled in the Healthy Michigan plan or with an income less than 100%

 

of the federal poverty level of $1.00 for a generic drug and $3.00 for a brand-name

 

drug, except as prohibited by federal or state law or regulation.

 

       (3) The department shall require a prescription co-payment for Medicaid

 

recipients enrolled in the Healthy Michigan plan with an income of at least 100% of


the federal poverty level of $4.00 for a generic drug and $8.00 for a brand-name drug,

 

except as prohibited by federal or state law or regulation. Administration of this co-

 

payment shall be consistent with the terms and conditions established by the centers

 

for Medicare and Medicaid services linked to the section 1115 waiver authorizing the

 

Health Michigan Plan.

 

       Sec. 8-1629. The department shall utilize maximum allowable cost pricing for

 

generic drugs that is based on wholesaler pricing to providers that is available from

 

at least 2 wholesalers who deliver in this state.

 

       Sec. 8-1631. (1) The department shall require co-payments on dental, podiatric,

 

and vision services provided to Medicaid recipients, except as prohibited by federal

 

or state law or regulation.

 

       (2) Except as otherwise prohibited by federal or state law or regulation the

 

department shall require Medicaid recipients not enrolled in the Healthy Michigan Plan

 

or with an income less than 100% of the federal poverty level to pay not less than the

 

following co-payments:

 

       (a) Two dollars for a physician office visit.

 

       (b) Three dollars for a hospital emergency room visit.

 

       (c) Fifty dollars for the first day of an inpatient hospital stay.

 

       (d) One dollar for an outpatient hospital visit.

 

       (3) Except as otherwise prohibited by federal or state law or regulation, and

 

consistent with the terms and conditions established by the centers for the Medicare

 

and Medicaid services linked to the section 1115 waiver authorizing the Healthy

 

Michigan Plan, the department shall require Medicaid recipients enrolled in the

 

Healthy Michigan plan with an income of at least 100% of the federal poverty level to

 

pay the following co-payments:

 

       (a) Four dollars for a physician office visit.

 

       (b) Eight dollars for a hospital emergency room visit.


       (c) One hundred dollars for the first day of an inpatient hospital stay.

 

       (d) Four dollars for an outpatient hospital visit or any other medical provider

 

visit to the extent allowed by federal or state law or regulation.

 

       Sec. 8-1641. An institutional provider that is required to submit a cost report

 

under the medical services program shall submit cost reports completed in full within

 

5 months after the end of its fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 8-1657. (1) Reimbursement for medical services to screen and stabilize a

 

Medicaid recipient, including stabilization of a psychiatric crisis, in a hospital

 

emergency room shall not be made contingent on obtaining prior authorization from the

 

recipient’s HMO. If the recipient is discharged from the emergency room, the hospital

 

shall notify the recipient’s HMO within 24 hours of the diagnosis and treatment

 

received.

 

       (2) If the treating hospital determines that the recipient will require further

 

medical service or hospitalization beyond the point of stabilization, that hospital

 

shall receive authorization from the recipient’s HMO prior to admitting the recipient.

 

       (3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not require an alteration to an existing agreement

 

between an HMO and its contracting hospitals and do not require an HMO to reimburse

 

for services that are not considered to be medically necessary.

 

       Sec. 8-1659. The following sections of this part are the only sections that shall

 

apply to the following Medicaid managed care programs, including the comprehensive

 

plan, MIChoice long-term care plan, and the mental health, substance use disorder, and

 

developmentally disabled services program: 298, 904, 911, 918, 928, 1008, 1607, 1657,

 

1662, 1699, 1764, 1806, 1807, 1810, and 1888.

 

       Sec. 8-1662. (1) The department shall assure that an external quality review of

 

each contracting HMO is performed that results in an analysis and evaluation of

 

aggregated information on quality, timeliness, and access to health care services that

 

the HMO or its contractors furnish to Medicaid beneficiaries.


       (2) The department shall require Medicaid HMOs to provide EPSDT utilization data

 

through the encounter data system, and HEDIS well child health measures in accordance

 

with the National Committee for Quality Assurance prescribed methodology.

 

       (3) The department shall provide a copy of the analysis of the Medicaid HMO

 

annual audited HEDIS reports and the annual external quality review report to the

 

senate and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on the department

 

budget, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director, within 30

 

days of the department’s receipt of the final reports from the contractors.

 

       Sec. 8-1670. (1) The appropriation in part 1 for the MIChild program is to be

 

used to provide comprehensive health care to all children under age 19 who reside in

 

families with income at or below 212% of the federal poverty level, who are uninsured

 

and have not had coverage by other comprehensive health insurance within 6 months of

 

making application for MIChild benefits, and who are residents of this state. The

 

department shall develop detailed eligibility criteria through the medical services

 

administration public concurrence process, consistent with the provisions of this part

 

and part 1.

 

       (2) The department may provide up to 1 year of continuous eligibility to children

 

eligible for the MIChild program unless the family fails to pay the monthly premium, a

 

child reaches age 19, or the status of the children’s family changes and its members

 

no longer meet the eligibility criteria as specified in the state plan.

 

       (3) To be eligible for the MIChild program, a child must be residing in a family

 

with an adjusted gross income of less than or equal to 212% of the federal poverty

 

level. The department’s verification policy shall be used to determine eligibility.

 

       (4) The department may make payments on behalf of children enrolled in the

 

MIChild program as described in the MIChild state plan approved by the United States

 

Department of Health and Human Services, or from other medical services.

 

       Sec. 8-1673. The department may establish premiums for MIChild eligible


individuals in families with income at or below 212% of the federal poverty level. The

 

monthly premiums shall be $10.00 per month.

 

       Sec. 8-1677. The MIChild program shall provide, at a minimum, all benefits

 

available under the Michigan benchmark plan that are delivered through contracted

 

providers and consistent with federal law, including, but not limited to, the

 

following medically necessary services:

 

       (a) Inpatient mental health services, other than substance use disorder treatment

 

services, including services furnished in a state-operated mental hospital and

 

residential or other 24-hour therapeutically planned structured services.

 

       (b) Outpatient mental health services, other than substance use disorder

 

services, including services furnished in a state-operated mental hospital and

 

community-based services.

 

       (c) Durable medical equipment and prosthetic and orthotic devices.

 

       (d) Dental services as outlined in the approved MIChild state plan.

 

       (e) Substance use disorder treatment services that may include inpatient,

 

outpatient, and residential substance use disorder treatment services.

 

       (f) Care management services for mental health diagnoses.

 

       (g) Physical therapy, occupational therapy, and services for individuals with

 

speech, hearing, and language disorders.

 

       (h) Emergency ambulance services.

 

       Sec. 8-1682. (1) In addition to the appropriations in part 1, the department is

 

authorized to receive and spend penalty money received as the result of noncompliance

 

with medical services certification regulations. Penalty money, characterized as

 

private funds, received by the department shall increase authorizations and allotments

 

in the long-term care accounts.

 

       (2) Any unexpended penalty money, at the end of the year, shall carry forward to

 

the following year.


       Sec. 8-1692. (1) The department is authorized to pursue reimbursement for

 

eligible services provided in Michigan schools from the federal Medicaid program. The

 

department and the state budget director are authorized to negotiate and enter into

 

agreements, together with the department of education, with local and intermediate

 

school districts regarding the sharing of federal Medicaid services funds received for

 

these services. The department is authorized to receive and disburse funds to

 

participating school districts pursuant to such agreements and state and federal law.

 

       (2) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for medical services school-based

 

services payments, the department is authorized to do all of the following:

 

       (a) Finance activities within the medical services administration related to this

 

project.

 

       (b) Reimburse participating school districts pursuant to the fund-sharing ratios

 

negotiated in the state-local agreements authorized in subsection (1).

 

       (c) Offset general fund costs associated with the medical services program.

 

       Sec. 8-1693. The special Medicaid reimbursement appropriation in part 1 may be

 

increased if the department submits a medical services state plan amendment pertaining

 

to this line item at a level higher than the appropriation. The department is

 

authorized to appropriately adjust financing sources in accordance with the increased

 

appropriation.

 

       Sec. 8-1694. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for special Medicaid

 

reimbursement, up to $12,600.00 of general fund/general purpose revenue and any

 

associated federal match shall be distributed for poison control services to an

 

academic health care system that includes a children’s hospital that has a high

 

indigent care volume.

 

       Sec. 8-1699. (1) The department may make separate payments in the amount of

 

$45,000,000.00 directly to qualifying hospitals serving a disproportionate share of

 

indigent patients and to hospitals providing GME training programs. If direct payment


for GME and DSH is made to qualifying hospitals for services to Medicaid clients,

 

hospitals shall not include GME costs or DSH payments in their contracts with HMOs.

 

       (2) The department shall allocate $45,000,000.00 in DSH funding using the

 

distribution methodology used in fiscal year 2003-2004.

 

       (3) By September 30 of the current fiscal year, the department shall report to

 

the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the senate

 

and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office on the distribution of funding

 

to each eligible hospital from the GME and DSH pools.

 

       Sec. 8-1730. (1) The department shall work with the department of education to

 

evaluate the feasibility of including an assessment tool to promote literacy

 

development of pregnant women and new mothers in the maternal infant health program.

 

       (2) By March 1 of the current fiscal year, the department shall provide a report

 

to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the

 

house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget office on the findings of the

 

feasibility study on including an assessment tool to promote literacy development of

 

pregnant women and new mothers in the maternal infant health program.

 

       Sec. 8-1764. The department shall annually certify whether rates paid to Medicaid

 

health plans and specialty prepaid inpatient health plans are actuarially sound in

 

accordance with federal requirements and shall provide a copy of the rate

 

certification and approval of rates paid to Medicaid health plans and specialty

 

prepaid inpatient health plans within 5 business days after certification or approval

 

to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the

 

house and senate fiscal agencies and the state budget office. When calculating the

 

annual actuarial soundness adjustment, the department shall take into account all

 

Medicaid policy bulletins affecting Medicaid health plans or specialty prepaid

 

inpatient health plans issued after the most recent actuarial soundness process

 

concluded.


       Sec. 8-1775. (1) By March 1 and September 1 of the current fiscal year, the

 

department shall report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the

 

department budget, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office

 

on progress in implementing the waiver to implement managed care for individuals who

 

are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid, known as MI Health Link, including, but

 

not limited to, a description of how the department intends to ensure that service

 

delivery is integrated, how key components of the proposal are implemented

 

effectively, and any problems and potential solutions as identified by the ombudsman

 

described in subsection (2).

 

       (2) The department shall ensure the existence of an ombudsman program that is not

 

associated with any project service manager or provider to assist MI Health Link

 

beneficiaries with navigating complaint and dispute resolution mechanisms and to

 

identify problems in the demonstrations and in the complaint and dispute resolution

 

mechanisms.

 

       Sec. 8-1800. For the distribution of each of the pools within the $85,000,000.00

 

outpatient disproportionate share hospital payment, the department shall develop a

 

formula for the distribution of each pool based on the quality of care, cost,

 

traditional disproportionate share hospital factors such as Medicaid utilization and

 

uncompensated care, and any other factor that the department determines should be

 

considered. By May 1 of the current fiscal year, the department shall report to the

 

senate and house appropriations subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office on the distribution of each pool.

 

       Sec. 8-1801. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for physician services and

 

health plan services, the department shall use $33,318,800.00 in general fund/general

 

purpose plus associated federal match to continue the increase to Medicaid rates for

 

primary care services provided only by primary care providers. For the purpose of this

 

section, a primary care provider is a physician, or a practitioner working under the


personal supervision of a physician, who is board-eligible or certified with a

 

specialty designation of family medicine, general internal medicine, or pediatric

 

medicine, or a provider who provides the department with documentation of equivalency.

 

The department shall examine including the subspecialty of neonatal medicine in its

 

definition of primary care provider. Providers performing a service and whose primary

 

practice is as a non-primary-care subspecialty is not eligible for the increase. The

 

department shall establish policies that most effectively limit the increase to

 

primary care providers for primary care services only.

 

       Sec. 8-1802. From the funds appropriated in part 1, a lump-sum payment shall be

 

made to hospitals that qualified for rural hospital access payments in fiscal year

 

2013-2014 and that provide obstetrical care in the current fiscal year. The payment

 

shall be calculated as $830.00 for each obstetrical care case payment and each newborn

 

care case payment for all such cases billed by the qualified hospitals for fiscal year

 

2012-2013 and shall be paid through the Medicaid health plan hospital rate adjustment

 

process by January 1 of the current fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 8-1804. The department, in cooperation with the department of military and

 

veterans affairs, shall work with the federal public assistance reporting information

 

system to identify Medicaid recipients who are veterans and who may be eligible for

 

federal veterans health care benefits or other benefits.

 

       Sec. 8-1806. (1) The department may establish performance standards to measure

 

progress in the implementation of the common formulary used by all contracted Medicaid

 

health plans.

 

       (2) The ongoing implementation of the common formulary must include consideration

 

of the department’s preferred drug list.

 

       (3) To achieve the objective of low net cost, the contracted health plans may use

 

evidence-based utilization management techniques in the implementation of the common

 

formulary.


       (4) The contracted health plans and the department shall continue to facilitate

 

and emphasize the value of increased participation in the use of e-prescribing and

 

electronic medical records.

 

       Sec. 8-1810. The department shall enhance encounter data reporting processes and

 

develop rules that would make each health plan’s encounter data as complete as

 

possible, provide a fair measure of acuity for each health plan’s enrolled population

 

for risk adjustment purposes, capitation rate setting, diagnosis-related group rate

 

setting, and research and analysis of program efficiencies while minimizing health

 

plan administrative expense.

 

       Sec. 8-1812. (1) By June 1 of the current fiscal year, the department shall

 

require each hospital that receives funds appropriated in part 1 for graduate medical

 

education to submit a report disclosing all direct and indirect costs associated with

 

the residency training program to the department, the house and senate appropriations

 

subcommittees on the department budget, the house and senate fiscal agencies and the

 

state budget office.

 

       (2) By August 1 of the current fiscal year, the department shall require each

 

hospital that receives funds appropriated in part 1 for graduate medical education to

 

submit a report identifying and explaining the following:

 

       (a) The marginal cost to add 1 additional residency training program slot.

 

       (b) The number of additional slots that would result in the need to add

 

additional administrative costs to oversee the residents in the training program.

 

       (c) The postresidency retention rate for the residency training program.

 

       (3) The department shall hold graduate medical education recipients’ fourth

 

quarter payments until the submission of the information required in subsections (1)

 

and (2).

 

       (4) The department shall convene a workgroup to use the reports submitted under

 

subsections (1) and (2) to assist in the development of metrics for distribution of


graduate medical education funds and shall report to the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on the department budget and the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies on the results of the workgroup by September 30 of the current fiscal year.

 

       (5) If needed, the department shall seek a federal waiver to fulfill the

 

requirements of this section.

 

       Sec. 8-1837. The department shall continue, and expand where appropriate,

 

utilization of telemedicine and telepsychiatry as strategies to increase access to

 

services for Medicaid recipients in medically underserved areas.

 

       Sec. 8-1846. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for graduate medical

 

education, the department shall distribute the funds with an emphasis on the following

 

health care workforce goals:

 

       (a) The encouragement of the training of physicians in specialties, including

 

primary care, that are necessary to meet the future needs of residents of this state.

 

       (b) The training of physicians in settings that include ambulatory sites and

 

rural locations.

 

       Sec. 8-1866. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for hospital services and

 

therapy and health plan services, $12,000,000.00 in general fund/general purpose

 

revenue and any associated federal match shall be awarded to hospitals that meet

 

criteria established by the department for services to low-income rural residents. One

 

of the reimbursement components of the distribution formula shall be assistance with

 

labor and delivery services.

 

       (2) No hospital or hospital system shall receive more than 10.0% of the total

 

funding referenced in subsection (1).

 

       (3) To allow hospitals to understand their rural payment amounts under this

 

section, the department shall provide hospitals with the methodology for distribution

 

under this section and provide each hospital with its applicable data that are used to

 

determine the payment amounts by August 1 of the current fiscal year. The department


shall publish the distribution of payments for the current fiscal year and the

 

immediately preceding fiscal year.

 

       (4) The department shall report to the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on the department budget, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the

 

state budget office on the distribution of funds referenced in subsection (1) by April

 

1 of the current fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 8-1888. The department shall establish contract performance standards

 

associated with the capitation withhold provisions for Medicaid health plans in

 

advance of the implementation of those standards. The determination of whether

 

performance standards have been met shall be based primarily on recognized concepts

 

such as 1-year continuous enrollment and the healthcare effectiveness data and

 

information set, HEDIS, audited data.

 

       Sec. 8-1894. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for dental services, the

 

department shall expand the healthy kids dental program to all children in Kent,

 

Oakland, and Wayne Counties. This program expansion will improve access to necessary

 

dental services for Medicaid-enrolled children.

 

       (2) Outcomes and performance measures for the initiative under subsection (1)

 

include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

       (a) The number of Medicaid-enrolled children in Kent, Oakland, and Wayne Counties

 

who visited the dentist in the prior year.

 

       (b) The number of dentists in Kent, Oakland, and Wayne Counties who will accept

 

Medicaid payment for services to children.

 

       (c) The change in dental utilization in Kent, Oakland, and Wayne Counties, before

 

and after full implementation of the healthy kids dental expansion in these counties.

 

       Sec. 8-1899. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for personal care services,

 

the department shall maintain the personal care services rate at the level in effect

 

October 1, 2014.


ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 8-1909. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for family

 

preservation and support services, the department shall expand the parent partner

 

program and the family reunification program. The purpose of these program expansions

 

will be to enhance family preservation and support services to prevent the need for

 

foster care, shorten the length of time between foster care entry and reunification,

 

and sustain parental progress following reunification.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance measures for

 

this initiative, including, but not limited to, the following:

 

       (a) Percentage of children that were discharged from foster care to reunification

 

in less than 12 months from the date of the latest removal from home.

 

       (b) Median length of stay in months from the date of the latest removal from home

 

until the date of discharge to reunification.

 

       (c) Percentage of children that re-entered foster care in less than 12 months

 

from the date of discharge to reunification.

 

       (d) Percentage of children, who were victims of a substantiated or indicated

 

maltreatment allegation, that were not victims of another substantiated or indicated

 

maltreatment allegation within a six-month period from the date of discharge to

 

reunification.

 

       (e) Measurable effects of this program expansion on reducing the rate of children

 

who live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level.

 

       (3) Unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for family preservation and support

 

services are designated as work project appropriations, and any unencumbered or

 

unalloted funds shall not lapse at the end of the current fiscal year and shall be

 

available for expenditures for the parent partner program and the family reunification

 

program until the projects have been completed.  All of the following are in

 

compliance with section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL


18.1451a:

 

       (a) The purpose of the projects is to expand and enhance family preservation and

 

support services to prevent the need for foster care, shorten the length of time

 

between foster care entry and reunification, and sustain parental progress following

 

reunification.

 

       (b) The projects will be carried out through contracts with private and not-for-

 

profit vendors to expand the parent partner program and family reunification program

 

to additional counties throughout the state.

 

       (c) The estimated cost of this work project is $10,000,000.00.

 

       (d) The estimated work project completion date is September 30, 2019.

 

       Sec. 8-1910. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the Flint declaration of

 

emergency, the department shall allocate funds to address needs related to the

 

declaration of emergency issued on January 5, 2016. These funds may support, but are

 

not limited to the following activities:

 

       (a) Emergency nutrition assistance, nutritional and community education, food

 

bank resources, food inspections.

 

       (b) Epidemiological analysis and case management of individuals at risk of

 

elevated blood lead levels.

 

       (c) Support for child and adolescent health centers, children’s health care

 

access program and pathways to potential programming.

 

       (d) Nursing services, evidence based home visiting programs, intensive services

 

and outreach for children exposed to lead coordinated through local community mental

 

health organizations.

 

       (e) Department field operations costs.

 

       (f) Assessment of potential linkages to other diseases.


Article 9

 

DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 9-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of insurance and financial services are

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated

 

in this part. The following is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated

 

appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              337.0             337.0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     66,307,200  $     66,307,200

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................            707,600           707,600

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $     65,599,600  $     65,599,600

 

  Total federal revenues..................................          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................         63,449,600        63,449,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        150,000  $        150,000

 

      State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........            150,000           150,000

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........                  0                 0

 

   Sec. 9-102.  DEPARTMENT SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               23.0              23.0


  Unclassified salaries...................................   $        746,500  $        746,500

 

  Executive director programs-4.0 FTE positions...........          1,109,200         1,109,200

 

  Department services-19.0 FTE positions..................          3,730,700         3,730,700

 

  Property management.....................................          1,175,700         1,175,700

 

  Worker’s compensation...................................              5,200             5,200

 

  Administrative hearings.................................            182,500           182,500

 

  Information technology services and projects............          2,216,100         2,216,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      9,165,900  $      9,165,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Bank fees...............................................            806,000           806,000

 

  Captive insurance regulation and supervision fund.......              3,900             3,900

 

  Consumer finance fees...................................            358,200           358,200

 

  Credit union fees.......................................          1,062,300         1,062,300

 

  Deferred presentment service transaction fees...........            473,500           473,500

 

  Insurance bureau fund...................................          2,847,600         2,847,600

 

  Insurance continuing education fees.....................             91,100            91,100

 

  Insurance licensing and regulation fees.................          2,549,200         2,549,200

 

  MBLSLA fund.............................................            822,900           822,900

 

  Multiple employer welfare arrangement...................              1,200             1,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        150,000  $        150,000

 

   Sec. 9-103.  INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              314.0             314.0

 

  Insurance evaluation-54.0 FTE positions.................   $     12,908,900  $     12,908,900

 

  Insurance rates and forms-30.0 FTE positions............          5,942,500         5,942,500

 

  Financial institutions evaluation-132.0 FTE positions...         24,212,800        24,212,800

 

  Regulatory compliance, market conduct, and


   licensing-34.0 FTE positions..........................          5,482,000         5,482,000

 

  Consumer services and protection-64.0 FTE positions.....          8,595,100         8,595,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     57,141,300  $     57,141,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG–LARA, for debt management...........................            707,600           707,600

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Bank fees...............................................          6,018,100         6,018,100

 

  Captive insurance regulatory and supervision fund.......            282,900           282,900

 

  Consumer finance fees...................................          3,061,000         3,061,000

 

  Credit union fees.......................................          7,968,800         7,968,800

 

  Deferred presentment service transaction fees...........          3,293,200         3,293,200

 

  Insurance bureau fund...................................         20,988,400        20,988,400

 

  Insurance continuing education fees.....................            995,000           995,000

 

  Insurance licensing and regulation fees.................          6,004,500         6,004,500

 

  MBLSLA fund.............................................          5,540,100         5,540,100

 

  Multiple employer welfare arrangement...................            281,700           281,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................    $             0  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 9-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 


1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $63,599,600.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $0.00.

 

       Sec. 9-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 9-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "Department" means the department of insurance and financial services.

 

       (b) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (c) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (d) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

       (e) "LARA" means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs.

 

       (f) "MBLSLA" means mortgage brokers, lenders, and servicers licensing act.

 

       Sec. 9-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 9-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 9-206. The director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in

 

deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide


services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which

 

the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 9-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1 shall

 

prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of each

 

year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 9-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 9-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare and

 

transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and


house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 9-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $5,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These funds

 

are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line

 

item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA

 

431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       Sec. 9-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 9-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016


and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 9-213. (1) The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website,

 

a department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       (2) The department shall provide a report to the legislature based on the annual

 

rate filings from health insurance issuers that includes all of the following:

 

       (a) The number that are within the applicable statutory time frames.

 

       (b) The average number of calendar days to process rate filings.

 

       (c) An estimated percentage of this state’s population that is without any form

 

of health insurance coverage approved by the department.

 

       (d) The number that are denied by the department.

 

       (e) The percentage of rate filings processed for more than 6 months in any given

 

calendar year.

 

       Sec. 9-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $10,214,700.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $5,663,800.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care legacy

 

costs are estimated at $4,550,900.00.

 

       Sec. 9-215. Unless prohibited by law, the department may accept credit card or

 

other electronic means of payment for licenses, fees, or permits.

 

       Sec. 9-216. The department, in conjunction with the department of health and

 

human services, shall maintain an accounting structure within the Michigan

 

administrative information network that will allow expenditures associated with the

 

administration of the Healthy Michigan plan to be identified.

 

 

 

INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATION

 

       Sec. 9-391. In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, the funds collected

 


by the department in connection with a conservatorship pursuant under section 32 of

 

the mortgage brokers, lenders, and servicers licensing act, 1987 PA 173, MCL 445.1682,

 

and funds collected by the department from corporations being liquidated pursuant to

 

the insurance code of 1956, 1956 PA 218, MCL 500.100 to 500.8302, shall be

 

appropriated for all expenses necessary to provide for the required services. Funds

 

are available for expenditure when they are received by the department of treasury and

 

shall not lapse to the general fund at the end of the fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 9-392. The department may make available to interested entities customized

 

listings of non-confidential information in its possession.  The department may

 

establish and collect a reasonable charge to provide this service. The revenue from

 

this service is appropriated when received and shall be used to offset expenses. Any

 

balance of this revenue collected and unexpended at the end of the fiscal year shall

 

lapse to the appropriate restricted fund.


Article 10

 

JUDICIARY

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 10-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the judiciary are appropriated for the fiscal year ending

 

September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending

 

September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part. The following is a summary

 

of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this part:

 

JUDICIARY

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated exempted positions..................              510.0             499.0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    298,261,400  $    295,762,900

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................          1,550,000         1,550,000

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $    296,711,400  $    294,212,900

 

  Total federal revenues..................................          6,443,500         6,433,500

 

  Total local revenues....................................          7,349,300         7,349,300

 

  Total private revenues..................................            957,800           957,800

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................         92,786,000        92,786,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    189,184,800  $    186,686,300

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........        186,584,800       186,686,300

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........          2,600,000                 0

 

   Sec. 10-102.  SUPREME COURT

 

   Full-time equated exempted positions..................              246.0             246.0

 

  Supreme court administration-92.0 FTE positions.........   $     13,606,300  $     13,606,300


  Judicial institute-13.0 FTE positions...................          1,800,800         1,800,800

 

  State court administrative office-61.0 FTE positions....         12,211,100        12,211,100

 

  Judicial information systems-22.0 FTE positions.........          3,427,500         3,427,500

 

  Direct trial court automation support-44.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          7,349,300         7,349,300

 

  Foster care review board-10.0 FTE positions.............          1,305,700         1,305,700

 

  Community dispute resolution-3.0 FTE positions..........          2,377,200         2,377,200

 

  Other federal grants....................................            275,100           275,100

 

  Drug treatment courts...................................         10,958,000        10,958,000

 

  Mental health courts and diversion services-1.0 FTE

 

   position..............................................          5,337,700         5,337,700

 

  Veterans courts.........................................            500,000           500,000

 

  Swift and sure sanctions program........................          4,250,000         4,250,000

 

  Next generation Michigan court system...................          4,116,000         4,116,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     67,514,700  $     67,514,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from department of state police.....................          1,500,000         1,500,000

 

  IDG from department of corrections......................             50,000            50,000

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  DOJ, drug court training and evaluation.................            300,000           300,000

 

  DOT, national highway traffic safety administration.....          2,210,700         2,210,700

 

  HHS, access and visitation grant........................            621,200           621,200

 

  HHS, children’s justice grant...........................            233,000           233,000

 

  HHS, court improvement project..........................          1,309,700         1,309,700

 

  HHS, title IV-D child support program...................          1,024,700         1,024,700

 

  HHS, title IV-E foster care program.....................            392,500           392,500


  Other federal grant revenues............................            275,100           275,100

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local – user fees.......................................          7,349,300         7,349,300

 

  Private.................................................            190,800           190,800

 

  Private – interest on lawyers trust accounts............            262,600           262,600

 

  Private – state justice institute.......................            420,200           420,200

 

  Community dispute resolution fund.......................          2,377,200         2,377,200

 

  Court filing/motion fees................................          1,641,800         1,641,800

 

  Law exam fees...........................................            649,700           649,700

 

  Drug court fund.........................................          1,920,500         1,920,500

 

  Miscellaneous revenue...................................            273,300           273,300

 

  Justice system fund.....................................            575,200           575,200

 

  State court fund........................................            382,800           382,800

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     43,554,400   $    43,554,400

 

   Sec. 10-103.  COURT OF APPEALS

 

   Full-time equated exempted positions..................              175.0             175.0

 

  Court of appeals operations-175.0 FTE positions.........   $      23,102,700  $      23,102,700

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     23,102,700  $     23,102,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      23,102,700  $     23,102,700

 

   Sec. 10-104.  BRANCHWIDE APPROPRIATIONS

 

   Full-time equated exempted positions..................                4.0               4.0

 

  Branchwide appropriations-4.0 FTE positions.............   $       8,745,300  $       8,745,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      8,745,300  $      8,745,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:


  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      8,745,300  $      8,745,300

 

   Sec. 10-105.  JUSTICES’ AND JUDGES’ COMPENSATION

 

   Full-time judges positions............................              592.0             592.0

 

  Supreme court justices’ salaries-7.0 judges.............   $      1,152,300  $      1,152,300

 

  Court of appeals judges’ salaries-26.0 judges...........          3,974,300         3,936,400

 

  District court judges’ state base salaries-

 

   241.0 judges..........................................         22,281,000        22,304,100

 

  District court judicial salary standardization..........         11,008,100        11,019,500

 

  Probate court judges’ state base salaries-

 

   103.0 judges..........................................          9,627,900         9,627,900

 

  Probate court judicial salary standardization...........          4,669,600         4,669,600

 

  Circuit court judges’ state base salaries-

 

   215.0 judges..........................................         20,181,600        20,252,200

 

  Circuit court judicial salary standardization...........          9,796,400         9,830,700

 

  Judges’ retirement system defined contribution..........          4,480,900         4,480,900

 

  OASI, social security...................................          5,721,200         5,721,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     92,893,300  $     92,994,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Court fee fund..........................................          2,988,100         2,988,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     89,905,200  $     90,006,700

 

    Sec. 10-106.  JUDICIAL AGENCIES

 

   Full-time equated exempted positions..................                7.0               7.0

 

  Judicial tenure commission-7.0 FTE positions............   $       1,137,600  $       1,137,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      1,137,600  $      1,137,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:


  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,137,600  $      1,137,600

 

   Sec. 10-107.  INDIGENT DEFENSE – CRIMINAL

 

   Full-time equated exempted positions..................               67.0              67.0

 

  Appellate public defender program-51.0 FTE positions....   $      7,704,500  $      7,704,500

 

  Michigan indigent defense commission-16.0 FTE positions.     2,345,600         2,345,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     10,050,100  $     10,050,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Other federal grant revenues............................             66,600            66,600

 

   Special revenues funds:

 

  Private-interest on lawyers trusts accounts.............             84,200            84,200

 

  Miscellaneous revenue...................................            135,400           135,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      9,763,900  $      9,763,900

 

   Sec. 10-108.  INDIGENT CIVIL LEGAL ASSISTANCE

 

  Indigent civil legal assistance.........................   $       7,937,000  $       7,937,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      7,937,000  $      7,937,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State court fund........................................          7,937,000         7,937,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 10-109.  TRIAL COURT OPERATIONS

 

  Court equity fund reimbursements........................   $     60,815,700  $     60,815,700

 

  Judicial technology improvement fund....................          4,815,000         4,815,000

 

  Drug case-flow program..................................            250,000           250,000

 

  Drunk driving case-flow program.........................          3,300,000         3,300,000

 

  Juror compensation reimbursement........................          6,600,000         6,600,000

 

  Statewide e-file system.................................          8,500,000         8,500,000


  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     84,280,700  $     84,280,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Court equity fund.......................................         50,440,000        50,440,000

 

  Judicial technology improvement fund....................          4,815,000         4,815,000

 

  Drug fund...............................................            250,000           250,000

 

  Drunk driving fund......................................          3,300,000         3,300,000

 

  Juror compensation fund.................................          6,600,000         6,600,000

 

  Electronic filing fee fund..............................          8,500,000         8,500,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose...................... $     10,375,700  $     10,375,700

 

   Sec. 10-110.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

   Full-time equated exempted positions..................               11.0               0.0

 

  Medication assisted treatment pilot program.............   $        500,000  $              0

 

  Expansion of problem solving courts.....................          1,000,000                 0

 

  Compliance with USSC Montgomery v. Louisiana............          1,100,000                 0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      2,600,000  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      2,600,000  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 10-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $281,970,800.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 


of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $138,718,300.00. The itemized statement

 

below identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will

 

occur:

 

JUDICIARY

 

SUPREME COURT

 

  State court administrative office.....................................   $             711,900

 

  Mental health courts and diversion services...........................              5,222,800

 

  Drug treatment courts.................................................             11,658,000

 

  Veterans courts.......................................................              1,000,000

 

  Swift and sure sanctions program......................................              4,150,000

 

  Next generation Michigan court system.................................              4,116,000

 

TRIAL COURT OPERATIONS

 

  Court equity fund reimbursements......................................   $          60,815,700

 

  Judicial technology improvement fund..................................              4,815,000

 

  Drunk driving case-flow program.......................................              3,300,000

 

  Drug case-flow program................................................                250,000

 

  Juror compensation reimbursement......................................              6,600,000

 

JUSTICES’ AND JUDGES’ COMPENSATION

 

  District court judicial salary standardization........................   $          11,008,100

 

  Probate court judges’ state base salaries.............................              9,627,900

 

  Probate court judicial salary standardization.........................              4,669,600

 

  Circuit court judicial salary standardization.........................              9,796,400

 

  Grant to OASI contribution fund, employers share, social security.....                976,900

 

  TOTAL                                                                    $         138,718,300

 

       Sec. 10-202. (1) The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to

 

the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       (2) Funds appropriated in part 1 to an entity within the judicial branch shall


not be expended or transferred to another account without written approval of the

 

authorized agent of the judicial entity. If the authorized agent of the judicial

 

entity notifies the state budget director of its approval of an expenditure or

 

transfer, the state budget director shall immediately make the expenditure or

 

transfer. The authorized judicial entity agent shall be designated by the chief

 

justice of the supreme court.

 

       Sec. 10-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "DOJ" means the United States department of justice.

 

       (b) "DOT" means the United States department of transportation.

 

       (c) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (d) "HHS" means the United States department of health and human services.

 

       (e) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

       (f) "OASI" means old age survivor’s insurance.

 

       (g) "SADO" means the state appellate defender office.

 

       (h) "Title IV-D" means the section of the federal Social Security Act, 42 USC 301

 

to 1397 mm, pertaining to the child support enforcement program.

 

       (i) "Title IV-E" means the section of the federal Social Security Act, 42 USC 301

 

to 1397 mm, pertaining to the foster care program.

 

       (j) "USSC" means the United State Supreme Court.

 

       Sec. 10-204. The reporting requirements of this article shall be completed with

 

the approval of, and at the direction of, the supreme court, except as otherwise

 

provided in this article. The judicial branch shall use the Internet to fulfill the

 

reporting requirements of this article. This requirement may include transmission of

 

reports via electronic mail to the recipients identified for each reporting

 

requirement, or it may include placement of reports on an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 10-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality


American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 10-207. Not later than January 1 of each year, the state court

 

administrative office shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel listing all travel

 

by judicial branch employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal

 

year that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the budget for the

 

judicial branch. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 10-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare

 

and transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 10-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no


cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 10-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the judicial branch shall cooperate with the state budget office to

 

provide the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an

 

annual report on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund

 

projected revenues, and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending

 

September 30, 2016 and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 10-213. The judiciary shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that are used to

 

monitor and improve the judiciary’s performance.

 

       Sec. 10-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $14,104,600.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $7,820,600.00. Total agency appropriations for judiciary retiree health

 

care legacy costs are estimated at $6,284,000.00.

 

 

 

JUDICIARY

 

       Sec. 10-301. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the direct trial court

 

automation support program of the state court administrative office shall recover

 


direct and overhead costs from trial courts by charging for services rendered. The fee

 

shall cover the actual costs incurred to the direct trial court automation support

 

program in providing the service, including development of future versions of case

 

management systems.

 

       Sec. 10-302. Funds appropriated within the judicial branch shall not be expended

 

by any component within the judicial branch without the approval of the supreme court.

 

       Sec. 10-303. Of the amount appropriated in part 1 for the judicial branch,

 

$711,900.00 is allocated for circuit court reimbursement under section 3 of 1978 PA

 

16, MCL 800.453, and for costs associated with the court of claims.

 

       Sec. 10-307. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for mental health courts and

 

diversion services, $1,730,000.00 is intended to address the recommendations of the

 

mental health diversion council.

 

       Sec. 10-308. If sufficient funds are not available from the court fee fund to pay

 

judges’ compensation, the difference between the appropriated amount from that fund

 

for judges’ compensation and the actual amount available after the amount appropriated

 

for trial court reimbursement is made shall be appropriated from the state general

 

fund for judges’ compensation. If an appropriation is made under this section, the

 

state court administrative office shall notify, within 14 days of the appropriation,

 

the senate and house standing committees on appropriations, the senate and house

 

subcommittees on judiciary, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget

 

office.

 

       Sec. 10-309. By April 1, the state court administrative office shall provide a

 

report on drug treatment, mental health, and veterans court programs in this state.

 

The report shall include information on the number of each type of program that has

 

been established, the number of program participants in each jurisdiction, and the

 

impact of the programs on offender criminal involvement and recidivism. The report

 

shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on judiciary,


the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director.

 

       Sec. 10-311. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for drug treatment courts as

 

that term is defined in section 1060 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA

 

236, MCL 600.1060, shall be administered by the state court administrative office to

 

operate drug treatment court programs. A drug treatment court shall be responsible for

 

handling cases involving substance abusing nonviolent offenders through comprehensive

 

supervision, testing, treatment services, and immediate sanctions and incentives. A

 

drug treatment court shall use all available county and state personnel involved in

 

the disposition of cases including, but not limited to, parole and probation agents,

 

prosecuting attorneys, defense attorneys, and community corrections providers. The

 

funds may be used in connection with other federal, state, and local funding sources.

 

       (2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the chief justice shall allocate

 

sufficient funds for the judicial institute to provide in-state training for those

 

identified in subsection (1), including training for new drug treatment court judges.

 

       (3) For drug treatment court grants, consideration for priority may be given to

 

those courts where higher instances of substance abuse cases are filed.

 

       (4) The judiciary shall receive $1,500,000.00 in Byrne formula grant funding as

 

an interdepartmental grant from the department of state police to be used for

 

expansion of drug treatment courts, to assist in avoiding prison bed space growth for

 

nonviolent offenders in collaboration with the department of corrections.

 

       Sec. 10-317. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the permanent

 

assignment of state-owned vehicles to justices or judges or any other judicial branch

 

employee. This section does not preclude the use of state-owned motor pool vehicles

 

for state business in accordance with approved guidelines.

 

       Sec. 10-320. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the swift and sure

 

sanctions program, created under section 3 of chapter XIA of the code of criminal

 

procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 771A.3, the state court administrative office shall


administer a program to distribute grants to qualifying courts in accordance with the

 

objectives and requirements of the probation swift and sure sanctions act, chapter XIA

 

of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 771A.1 to 771A.8. Of the

 

$4,250,000.00 designated for the program, not more than $100,000.00 shall be available

 

to the state court administrative office to pay for employee costs associated with the

 

administration of the program funds. Courts interested in participating in the swift

 

and sure sanctions program may apply to the state court administrative office for a

 

portion of the funds appropriated in part 1 under this section.

 

       (2) By April 1, the state court administrative office shall provide a report on

 

the courts that receive funding under the swift and sure sanctions program described

 

in subsection (1) to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on judiciary,

 

the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The report shall

 

include all of the following:

 

       (a) The number of offenders who participate in the program.

 

       (b) The criminal history of offenders who participate in the program.

 

       (c) The recidivism rate of offenders who participate in the program, including

 

the rate of return to jail, prison, or both.

 

       (d) A detailed description of the establishment and parameters of the program.

 

       (3) As used in this section, "program" means a swift and sure sanctions program

 

described in subsection (1).

 

       Sec. 10-321. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the judicial branch shall

 

support a statewide legal self-help internet website and local nonprofit self-help

 

centers that use the statewide website to provide assistance to individuals

 

representing themselves in civil legal proceedings. The state court administrative

 

office shall summarize the costs of maintaining the website, provide statistics on the

 

number of people visiting the website, and provide information on content usage, form

 

completion, and user feedback. By March 1, the state court administrative office shall


report this information for the preceding fiscal year to the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on judiciary, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and

 

the state budget director.

 

       Sec. 10-322. If Byrne formula grant funding is awarded to the state appellate

 

defender, the state appellate defender office may receive and expend Byrne formula

 

grant funds in an amount not to exceed $250,000.00 as an interdepartmental grant from

 

the department of state police. If the appellate defender appointed under section 3 of

 

the appellate defender act, 1978 PA 620, MCL 780,713, receives federal grant funding

 

from the United States department of justice in excess of the amount appropriated in

 

part 1, the office of appellate defender may receive and expend grant funds in an

 

amount not to exceed $300,000.00 as other federal grants.

 

       Sec. 10-322a. If Byrne formula grant funding is awarded to the Michigan indigent

 

defense commission, the Michigan indigent defense commission may receive and expend

 

Byrne formula grant funds in an amount not to exceed $250,000.00 as an

 

interdepartmental grant from the department of state police. The Michigan indigent

 

defense commission, created under section 5 of the Michigan indigent defense

 

commission act, 2013 PA 93, MCL 780.985, may receive and expend federal grant funding

 

from the United States Department of Justice in an amount not to exceed $300,000.00 as

 

other federal grants.

 

       Sec. 10-324. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for the Michigan

 

Indigent Defense Commission, the Commission shall increase the total number of staff

 

by 10 FTEs and begin bringing the Michigan criminal defense system into compliance

 

with the right to counsel requirements of the Sixth Amendment of the United States

 

Constitution and Article 1 Section 20 of the Michigan Constitution. The purpose of

 

this program expansion is to implement minimum standards, rules, and procedures to

 

guarantee the right of indigent defendants to the assistance of proficient counsel,

 

collect comprehensive data from all indigent defense systems and attorneys providing


indigent defense, monitor and audit county compliance plans.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance measures for

 

this initiative based on the minimum standards approved by the Michigan Supreme Court,

 

including, but not limited to, the following:

 

       (a) Monitoring the success of approved minimum standards including: increased

 

training and education of trial-level defense attorneys; prompt meetings between

 

attorneys and clients; increased access to and use of experts and investigators; and

 

increased use of counsel at first appearance.

 

       (b) The agency shall collect data on the standards approved by the Michigan

 

Supreme Court and shall work to identify metrics associated with the approved

 

standards.

 

       (c) Monitoring the number of first-time offenders sentenced to serve prison time

 

within the Department of Corrections to determine if there is a measurable decline as

 

a result of the standards the standards approved by the Michigan Supreme Court

 

including training and education requirements; required meetings between client and

 

counsel; increased use of experts and investigators; and the provision of attorneys at

 

first appearance.

 

 

 

ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 10-401. From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for drug treatment

 

courts, the Judiciary shall increase the funding available for establishing problem

 

solving courts. The purpose of this program expansion is increasing the number of

 

participants and decreasing recidivism rates.

 

       Sec. 10-402. The State Appellate Defender Office attorneys and support staff

 

shall increase by 11 FTEs to ensure Michigan compliance with the USSC Montgomery v.

 

Louisiana decision. The purpose of the program expansion is to ensure competent,

 

resourced, and supervised counsel in cases involving the resentencing of juvenile

 


lifers. The representation by SADO counsel will create opportunities for release

 

saving prison costs for the State.


Article 11

 

LEGISLATURE

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 11-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the legislature are appropriated for the fiscal year ending

 

September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending

 

September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part. The following is a summary

 

of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this part:

 

LEGISLATURE

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   GROSS APPROPRIATION...................................   $    164,705,500  $    164,705,500

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

    transfers.............................................          5,558,600         5,558,600

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $    159,146,900  $    159,146,900

 

  Total federal revenues..................................                  0                 0

 

  Total local revenues....................................                  0                 0

 

  Total private revenues..................................            400,000           400,000

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................          6,245,200         6,245,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    152,501,700  $    152,501,700

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........        152,501,700       152,501,700

 

     One-time general fund/general purpose...............                  0                 0

 

   Sec. 11-102.  LEGISLATURE

 

  Senate..................................................   $     34,523,700  $     34,523,700

 

  Senate automated data processing........................          2,500,000         2,500,000

 

  Senate fiscal agency....................................          3,779,600         3,779,600


  House of representatives................................         53,095,900        53,095,900

 

  House automated data processing.........................          2,200,000         2,200,000

 

  House fiscal agency.....................................          3,779,600         3,779,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     99,878,800  $     99,878,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     99,878,800  $     99,878,800

 

   Sec. 11-103.  LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

 

  Legislative council.....................................   $     11,981,200  $     11,981,200

 

  Legislative service bureau automated data processing....          1,426,600         1,426,600

 

  Worker’s compensation...................................            151,400           151,400

 

  National association dues...............................            454,700           454,700

 

  Legislative corrections ombudsman.......................            729,200           729,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     14,743,100  $     14,743,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private – gifts and bequests revenues...................            400,000           400,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     14,343,100  $     14,343,100

 

   Sec. 11-104.  LEGISLATIVE RETIREMENT SYSTEM

 

  General nonretirement expenses..........................   $       4,962,800  $       4,962,800

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      4,962,800  $      4,962,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Court fees..............................................          1,154,600         1,154,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      3,808,200  $      3,808,200

 

   Sec. 11-105.  PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

 

  Cora Anderson building..................................   $     11,426,700  $     11,426,700


  Farnum building and other properties....................          2,851,800         2,851,800

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     14,278,500  $     14,278,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     14,278,500  $     14,278,500

 

   Sec. 11-106.  STATE CAPITOL HISTORIC SITE

 

  General operations......................................   $      4,269,200  $      4,269,200

 

  Restoration, renewal and maintenance....................          3,121,200         3,121,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      7,390,400  $      7,390,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Capitol historic site fund..............................          3,121,200         3,121,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      4,269,200  $      4,269,200

 

   Sec. 11-107.  OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL

 

  Unclassified positions..................................   $        329,400  $        329,400

 

  Field operations........................................         23,122,500        23,122,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     23,451,900  $     23,451,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from MDHHS, human services..........................             30,600            30,600

 

  IDG from MDLARA, liquor purchase revolving fund.........             28,700            28,700

 

  IDG from MDOT, comprehensive transportation fund........             39,000            39,000

 

  IDG from MDOT, Michigan transportation fund.............            315,800           315,800

 

  IDG from MDOT, state aeronautics fund...................             30,300            30,300

 

  IDG from MDOT, state trunkline fund.....................            733,500           733,500

 

  IDG, legislative retirement system......................             29,200            29,200

 

  IDG, single audit act...................................          2,913,100         2,913,100


  IDG, commercial mobile radio system emergency telephone

 

   fund..................................................             36,800            36,800

 

  IDG, contract audit administration fees.................             41,400            41,400

 

  IDG, deferred compensation funds........................             54,400            54,400

 

  IDG, Michigan finance authority.........................            330,800           330,800

 

  IDG, Michigan economic development corporation..........             96,300            96,300

 

  IDG, Michigan education trust fund......................             70,800            70,800

 

  IDG, Michigan justice training commission fund..........             40,900            40,900

 

  IDG, Michigan strategic fund............................            169,100           169,100

 

  IDG, office of retirement services......................            218,400           218,400

 

  IDG, other restricted funding sources...................            379,500           379,500

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  21st Century jobs fund..................................             96,300            96,300

 

  Brownfield development fund.............................             28,100            28,100

 

  Clean Michigan initiative implementation bond fund......             54,500            54,500

 

  Game and fish protection fund...........................             31,300            31,300

 

  DTMB, civil service commission..........................            166,200           166,200

 

  Michigan state housing development authority fees.......            113,500           113,500

 

  Michigan veterans trust fund............................             35,500            35,500

 

  Motor transport revolving fund..........................              7,400             7,400

 

  Office services revolving fund..........................             10,000            10,000

 

  State disbursement unit, office of child support........             57,400            57,400

 

  State services fee fund.................................          1,357,900         1,357,900

 

  Waterways fund..........................................             11,300            11,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     15,923,900  $     15,923,900

 

 

 

PART 2

 


PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 11-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $158,746,900.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 

of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $0.00.

 

       Sec. 11-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 11-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "DTMB" means the department of technology, management and budget.

 

       (b) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (c) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

       (d) "MDHHS" means Michigan department of health and human services.

 

       (e) "MDLARA" means Michigan department of licensing and regulatory affairs.

 

       (f) "MDOT" means Michigan department of transportation.

 

       Sec. 11-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $21,279,600.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $11,998,700.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $9,280,900.00.

 

 

 

LEGISLATURE

 

       Sec. 11-600. The senate, the house of representatives, or an agency within the

 

legislative branch may receive, expend, and transfer funds in addition to those

 

authorized in part 1.

 


       Sec. 11-601. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 to an entity within the legislative

 

branch shall not be expended or transferred to another account without written

 

approval of the authorized agent of the legislative entity. If the authorized agent of

 

the legislative entity notifies the state budget director of its approval of an

 

expenditure or transfer before the year-end book-closing date for that legislative

 

entity, the state budget director shall immediately make the expenditure or transfer.

 

The authorized legislative entity agency shall be designated by the speaker of the

 

house of representatives for house entities, the senate majority leader for senate

 

entities, and the legislative council for legislative council entities.

 

       (2) Funds appropriated within the legislative branch, to a legislative council

 

component, shall not be expended by any agency or other subgroup included in that

 

component without the approval of the legislative council.

 

       Sec. 11-602. The senate may charge rent and assess charges for utility costs. The

 

amounts received for rent charges and utility assessments are appropriated to the

 

senate for the renovation, operation, and maintenance of the Farnum building and other

 

properties.

 

       Sec. 11-603. The appropriation contained in part 1 for national association dues

 

is to be distributed by the legislative council.

 

       Sec. 11-604. (1) The appropriation in part 1 to the Michigan state capitol

 

historic site includes funds to operate the legislative parking facilities in the

 

capitol area. The Michigan state capitol commission shall establish rules regarding

 

the operation of the legislative parking facilities.

 

       (2) The Michigan state capitol commission may collect a fee from state employees

 

and the general public using certain legislative parking facilities. The revenues

 

received from the parking fees are appropriated upon receipt and shall be allocated by

 

the Michigan state capitol commission.

 

       Sec. 11-605. The appropriation in part 1 to the legislative council for


publication of the Michigan manual is a work project account. The unexpended portion

 

remaining on September 30 shall not lapse and shall be carried forward into the

 

subsequent fiscal year for use in paying the associated biennial costs of publication

 

of the Michigan manual.

 

       Sec. 11-606. The appropriations in part 1 to the legislative branch, for property

 

management, shall be used to purchase equipment and services for building maintenance

 

in order to ensure a safe and productive work environment. These funds are designated

 

as work project appropriations and shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year, and

 

shall continue to be available for expenditure until the project has been completed.

 

The total cost is estimated at $2,000,000.00, and the tentative completion date is

 

September 30, 2020.

 

       Sec. 11-607. The appropriations in part 1 to the legislative branch, for

 

automated data processing, shall be used to purchase equipment, software, and services

 

in order to support and implement data processing requirements and technology

 

improvements. These funds are designated as work project appropriations in accordance

 

with section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a, and

 

shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year, and shall continue to be available for

 

expenditure until the project has been completed. The total cost is estimated at

 

$2,000,000.00, and the tentative completion date is September 30, 2020.

 

       Sec. 11-608. In addition to funds appropriated in part 1, the Michigan capitol

 

committee publications save the flags fund account may accept contributions, gifts,

 

bequests, devises, grants, and donations. Those funds that are not expended in the

 

fiscal year ending September 30 shall not lapse at the close of the fiscal year, and

 

shall be carried forward for expenditure in the following fiscal years.

 

 

 

AUDITOR GENERAL OPERATIONS

 

       Sec. 11-620. Pursuant to section 53 of article IV of the state constitution of

 


1963, the auditor general shall conduct audits of the judicial branch. The audits may

 

include the supreme court and its administrative units, the court of appeals, and

 

trial courts.

 

       Sec. 11-621. (1) The auditor general shall take all reasonable steps to ensure

 

that certified minority- and women-owned and operated accounting firms, and accounting

 

firms owned and operated by persons with disabilities participate in the audits of the

 

books, accounts, and financial affairs of each principal executive department, branch,

 

institution, agency, and office of this state.

 

       (2) The auditor general shall strongly encourage firms with which the auditor

 

general contracts to perform audits of the principal executive departments and state

 

agencies to subcontract with certified minority- and women-owned and operated

 

accounting firms, and accounting firms owned and operated by persons with

 

disabilities.

 

       (3) The auditor general shall compile an annual report regarding the number of

 

contracts entered into with certified minority- and women-owned and operated

 

accounting firms, and accounting firms owned and operated by persons with

 

disabilities. The auditor general shall deliver the report to the state budget

 

director and the senate and house of representatives standing committees on

 

appropriations subcommittees on general government by November 1 of each year.

 

       Sec. 11-622. From the funds appropriated in part 1 to the legislative auditor

 

general, the auditor general's salary and the salaries of the remaining 2.0 FTE

 

unclassified positions shall be set by the speaker of the house of representatives,

 

the senate majority leader, the house of representatives minority leader, and the

 

senate minority leader.

 

       Sec. 11-623. Any audits, reviews, or investigations requested of the auditor

 

general by the legislature or by legislative leadership, legislative committees, or

 

individual legislators shall include an estimate of the additional costs involved and,


when those costs exceed $50,000.00, should provide supplemental funding. The auditor

 

general shall determine whether to perform those activities in keeping with Audit

 

Directive No. 29, which describes the office of the auditor general's policy on

 

responding to legislative requests.


Article 12

 

DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 12-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of licensing and regulatory affairs are

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated

 

in this part. The following is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated

 

appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............               57.5              57.5

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            2,177.3           2,177.3

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    416,567,500  $    412,537,500

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................         46,923,800        46,923,800

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $    369,643,700  $    365,613,700

 

  Total federal revenues..................................         63,818,100        63,818,100

 

  Total local revenues....................................            251,600           251,600

 

  Total private revenues..................................            314,100           314,100

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................        262,446,700       260,886,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     42,813,200  $     40,343,200

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........         40,343,200        40,343,200

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........          2,470,000                 0


   Sec. 12-102.  DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............               57.5              57.5

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              115.0             115.0

 

  Unclassified salaries-57.5 FTE positions................   $      4,861,800  $      4,861,800

 

  Executive director programs-24.0 FTE positions..........          3,239,700         3,239,700

 

  Financial and administrative services-74.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          7,918,400         7,918,400

 

  FOIA coordination-2.0 FTE positions.....................            308,200           308,200

 

  Information technology services and projects............         21,424,300        21,424,300

 

  Local community stabilization authority-1.0 FTE

 

   position..............................................            151,600           151,600

 

  Office for new Americans-4.0 FTE positions..............            465,600           465,600

 

  Office of reinventing performance in Michigan-6.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................            715,900           715,900

 

  Office of regulatory reinvention-4.0 FTE positions......            495,500           495,500

 

  Property management.....................................         11,852,400        11,852,400

 

  Worker’s compensation...................................            465,300           465,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     51,898,700  $     51,898,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG-DIFS, accounting services...........................            150,000           150,000

 

  IDG-TED, unemployment hearings..........................            568,900           568,900

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  DED-vocational rehabilitation and independent living....          2,121,500         2,121,500

 

  DOE-heating oil and propane.............................             25,000            25,000

 

  DOL-occupational safety and health......................          1,001,100         1,001,100

 

  EPA-underground storage tanks...........................            128,800           128,800


  HHS-Medicaid, certification of health care providers

 

   and suppliers.........................................            724,600           724,600

 

  HHS-Medicare, certification of health care providers

 

   and suppliers.........................................          1,190,400         1,190,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local stabilization authority contract..................            151,600           151,600

 

  Aboveground storage tank fees...........................            146,500           146,500

 

  Accountancy enforcement fund............................             67,100            67,100

 

  Asbestos abatement fund.................................            182,400           182,400

 

  Boiler inspection fund..................................            643,400           643,400

 

  Builder enforcement fund................................             99,500            99,500

 

  Construction code fund..................................          1,676,600         1,676,600

 

  Corporation fees........................................          8,713,000         8,713,000

 

  Elevator fees...........................................            697,400           697,400

 

  Fire alarm fees.........................................              5,400             5,400

 

  Fire safety standard and enforcement fund...............              1,100             1,100

 

  Fire service fees.......................................            778,300           778,300

 

  Fireworks safety fund...................................             94,100            94,100

 

  Health professions regulatory fund......................          2,736,000         2,736,000

 

  Health systems fees.....................................            454,700           454,700

 

  Licensing and regulation fund...........................          3,122,900         3,122,900

 

  Liquor license revenue..................................            300,000           300,000

 

  Liquor purchase revolving fund..........................          7,187,800         7,187,800

 

  Michigan medical marihuana fund.........................            934,500           934,500

 

  Michigan unarmed combat fund............................             12,700            12,700

 

  Mobile home code fund...................................            616,100           616,100

 

  Nurse professional fund.................................             37,700            37,700


  PMECSEMA fund...........................................            221,600           221,600

 

  Private occupational school license fees................            165,700           165,700

 

  Property development fees...............................              6,100             6,100

 

  Public utility assessments..............................          4,088,100         4,088,100

 

  Radiological health fees................................            304,200           304,200

 

  Real estate appraiser education fund....................              6,300             6,300

 

  Real estate education fund..............................             15,200            15,200

 

  Real estate enforcement fund............................             10,100            10,100

 

  Restructuring mechanism assessments.....................             51,000            51,000

 

  Retired engineers technical assistance program fund.....              7,000             7,000

 

  Safety education and training fund......................          1,442,300         1,442,300

 

  Second injury fund......................................            407,300           407,300

 

  Securities fees.........................................          4,723,700         4,723,700

 

  Securities investor education and training fund.........             14,500            14,500

 

  Security business fund..................................              3,200             3,200

 

  Self-insurers security fund.............................            263,500           263,500

 

  Silicosis and dust disease fund.........................            182,200           182,200

 

  Survey and remonumentation fund.........................            142,200           142,200

 

  Tax tribunal fund.......................................          1,656,900         1,656,900

 

  Underground storage tank fees...........................            356,600           356,600

 

  Utility consumer representation fund....................             54,000            54,000

 

  Worker’s compensation administrative revolving fund.....            101,900           101,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      3,106,000  $      3,106,000

 

    Sec. 12-103.  ENERGY AND UTILITY PROGRAMS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              188.0             188.0

 

  Michigan agency for energy-56.0 FTE positions...........   $     12,929,100  $     12,929,100

 

  Public service commission-132.0 FTE positions...........         22,395,400        22,395,400


  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     35,324,500  $     35,324,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  DOE-heating oil and propane.............................          3,775,000         3,775,000

 

  DOT-gas pipeline safety.................................          1,445,500         1,445,500

 

  EPA-pollution prevention................................             84,000            84,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Public utility assessments..............................         28,186,600        28,186,600

 

  Restructuring mechanism assessments.....................            607,200           607,200

 

  Retired engineers technical assistance program fund.....            669,600           669,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        556,600  $        556,600

 

   Sec. 12-104.  LIQUOR CONTROL COMMISSION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              143.0             143.0

 

  Liquor licensing and enforcement-115.0 FTE positions....   $     15,320,100  $     15,320,100

 

  Management support services-28.0 FTE positions..........          4,419,800         4,419,800

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     19,739,900  $     19,739,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Direct shipper enforcement revolving fund...............            126,800           126,800

 

  Liquor license fee enhancement fund.....................             76,400            76,400

 

  Liquor license revenue..................................          7,416,100         7,416,100

 

  Liquor purchase revolving fund..........................         12,120,600        12,120,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

    Sec. 12-105.  OCCUPATIONAL REGULATION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            1,033.9           1,033.9

 

  Bureau of construction codes-176.0 FTE positions........   $     22,081,800  $     22,081,800

 

  Bureau of community and health services-429.9 FTE


   positions.............................................         61,112,000        61,112,000

 

  Bureau of fire services-80.0 FTE positions..............         11,143,500        11,143,500

 

  Bureau of professional licensing-210.0 FTE positions....         40,182,300        40,182,300

 

  Corporations, securities, and commercial licensing

 

   bureau-118.0 FTE positions............................         15,528,300        15,528,300

 

  Medical marihuana program-20.0 FTE positions............          4,253,300         4,253,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    154,301,200  $    154,301,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG-MDE, child care licensing...........................         16,626,500        16,626,500

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  DHS-fire training systems...............................             28,000            28,000

 

  DOT-hazardous materials training and planning...........             60,000            60,000

 

  EPA-underground storage tanks...........................            800,000           800,000

 

  HHS-Medicaid, certification of health care providers

 

   and suppliers.........................................          9,191,700         9,191,700

 

  HHS-Medicare, certification of health care providers

 

   and suppliers.........................................         12,352,500        12,352,500

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private-civil monetary penalties........................            202,300           202,300

 

  Aboveground storage tank fees...........................            455,900           455,900

 

  Accountancy enforcement fund............................            408,300           408,300

 

  Boiler inspection fund..................................          3,819,200         3,819,200

 

  Builder enforcement fund................................            484,300           484,300

 

  Construction code fund..................................          7,743,900         7,743,900

 

  Corporation fees........................................          7,014,000         7,014,000

 

  Distance education fund.................................            300,000           300,000


  Elevator fees...........................................          4,858,300         4,858,300

 

  Fire alarm fees.........................................            125,400           125,400

 

  Fire safety standard and enforcement fund...............             40,000            40,000

 

  Fire service fees.......................................          2,500,200         2,500,200

 

  Fireworks safety fund...................................            696,200           696,200

 

  Health professions regulatory fund......................         23,805,900        23,805,900

 

  Health systems fees.....................................          3,702,100         3,702,100

 

  Licensing and regulation fund...........................         11,540,800        11,540,800

 

  Liquor purchase revolving fund..........................            143,200           143,200

 

  Michigan medical marihuana fund.........................          4,253,300         4,253,300

 

  Michigan unarmed combat fund............................            145,000           145,000

 

  Mobile home code fund...................................          3,017,100         3,017,100

 

  Nurse professional fund.................................          1,963,800         1,963,800

 

  PMECSEMA fund...........................................          1,847,700         1,847,700

 

  Private occupational school license fees................            706,300           706,300

 

  Property development fees...............................            318,100           318,100

 

  Real estate appraiser education fund....................             64,000            64,000

 

  Real estate education fund..............................            343,900           343,900

 

  Real estate enforcement fund............................            704,400           704,400

 

  Securities fees.........................................          4,982,800         4,982,800

 

  Securities investor education and training fund.........            501,200           501,200

 

  Security business fund..................................            340,100           340,100

 

  Survey and remonumentation fund.........................            850,100           850,100

 

  Underground storage tank fees...........................          2,561,100         2,561,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     24,803,600  $     24,803,600

 

    Sec. 12-106.  EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              464.4             464.4


  Bureau of employment relations-22.0 FTE positions.......   $      4,198,900  $      4,198,900

 

  Bureau of services for blind persons-113.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         24,639,400        24,639,400

 

  Compensation supplement fund............................          1,820,000         1,820,000

 

  Insurance funds administration-23.0 FTE positions.......          5,240,200         5,240,200

 

  Michigan occupational safety and health administration-

 

   197.0 FTE positions...................................         29,052,100        29,052,100

 

  Radiation safety section-21.4 FTE positions.............          3,231,800         3,231,800

 

  Wage and hour program-32.0 FTE positions................          3,728,100         3,728,100

 

  Workers’ compensation agency-56.0 FTE positions.........          7,832,200         7,832,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     79,742,700  $     79,742,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  DED-vocational rehabilitation and independent living....         18,437,600        18,437,600

 

  DOL-occupational safety and health......................         11,785,200        11,785,200

 

  HHS-mammography quality standards.......................            513,300           513,300

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Private revenues........................................            111,800           111,800

 

  Local revenues..........................................            100,000           100,000

 

  Asbestos abatement fund.................................          1,027,500         1,027,500

 

  Corporation fees........................................          9,432,400         9,432,400

 

  Michigan business enterprise program fund...............            400,000           400,000

 

  Radiological health fees................................          2,718,500         2,718,500

 

  Safety education and training fund......................          9,728,600         9,728,600

 

  Second injury fund......................................          2,589,400         2,589,400

 

  Securities fees.........................................          8,634,900         8,634,900

 

  Self-insurers security fund.............................          1,562,500         1,562,500


  Silicosis and dust disease fund.........................          1,088,300         1,088,300

 

  Worker’s compensation administrative revolving fund.....          1,652,900         1,652,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      9,959,800  $      9,959,800

 

    Sec. 12-107.  MICHIGAN ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING SYSTEM

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              233.0             233.0

 

  Michigan administrative hearing system-215.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $     37,948,700  $     37,948,700

 

  Michigan compensation appellate commission-18.0

 

   FTE positions.........................................          4,606,100         4,606,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     42,554,800  $     42,554,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG revenues- administrative hearings and rules.........         29,578,400        29,578,400

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal revenues – administrative hearings and rules....            153,900           153,900

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Corporation fees........................................            202,700           202,700

 

  State restricted revenues - administrative hearings

 

   and rules.............................................         11,793,400        11,793,400

 

  Worker’s compensation administrative revolving fund.....            134,900           134,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        691,500  $        691,500

 

   Sec. 12-108.  DEPARTMENT GRANTS

 

  Fire protection grants..................................   $      9,273,900  $      9,273,900

 

  Firefighter training grants.............................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  Liquor law enforcement grants...........................          7,200,000         7,200,000

 

  Medical marihuana operation and oversight grants........          3,000,000         3,000,000

 

  Remonumentation grants..................................          7,300,000         7,300,000


  Subregional libraries state aid.........................            451,800           451,800

 

  Utility consumer representation.........................            750,000           750,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     28,975,700  $     28,975,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Fire protection fund....................................          8,500,000         8,500,000

 

  Fireworks safety fund...................................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  Liquor license revenue..................................          7,200,000         7,200,000

 

  Michigan medical marihuana fund.........................          3,000,000         3,000,000

 

  Survey and remonumentation fund.........................          7,300,000         7,300,000

 

  Utility consumer representation fund....................            750,000           750,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,225,700  $      1,225,700

 

   Sec. 12-109.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

  Michigan automated prescription system upgrades.........   $      2,470,000  $              0

 

  Michigan liquor control commission IT upgrades..........          1,560,000                 0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      4,030,000  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Liquor purchase revolving fund..........................          1,560,000                 0

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      2,470,000  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 12-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $305,259,900.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 


of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $28,225,700.00. The itemized statement

 

below identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will

 

occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

 

  Fire protection grants................................................   $           9,273,900

 

  Firefighter training grants...........................................              1,000,000

 

  Liquor law enforcement grants.........................................              7,200,000

 

  Medical marihuana operation and oversight grants......................              3,000,000

 

  Remonumentation grants................................................              7,300,000

 

  Subregional libraries state aid.......................................                451,800

 

  TOTAL                                                                    $          28,225,700

 

       Sec. 12-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 12-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "DED" means the United States department of education.

 

       (b) "Department" means the department of licensing and regulatory affairs.

 

       (c) "DHS" means the United States department of homeland security.

 

       (d) "DIFS" means the department of insurance and financial services.

 

       (e) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (f) "DOE" means the United States department of energy.

 

       (g) "DOL" means the United States department of labor.

 

       (h) "DOT" means the United States department of transportation.

 

       (i) "EPA" means the United States environmental protection agency.

 

       (j) "FOIA" means freedom of information act.

 

       (k) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (l) "HHS" means the United States department of health and human services.

 

       (m) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.


       (n) "IT" means information technology.

 

       (o) "MDE" means the Michigan department of education.

 

       (p) "PMECSEMA" means pain management education and controlled substances

 

electronic monitoring and antidiversion.

 

       (q) "TED" means the department of talent and economic development.

 

       Sec. 12-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 12-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 12-206. The director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in

 

deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide

 

services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which

 

the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 12-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of

 

each year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year


that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 12-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 12-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare

 

and transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 12-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $19,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an


amount not to exceed $25,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These

 

funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another

 

line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $7,800,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $400,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 12-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 12-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations


subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 12-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 12-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $53,627,900.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $29,735,200.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $23,892,700.00.

 

       Sec. 12-220. The department may carry into the succeeding fiscal year unexpended

 

federal pass-through funds to local institutions and governments that do not require

 

additional state matching funds. Federal pass-through funds to local institutions and

 

governments that are received in amounts in addition to those included in part 1 and

 

that do not require additional state matching funds are appropriated for the purposes

 

intended. Within 14 days after the receipt of federal pass-through funds, the

 

department shall notify the house and senate chairpersons of the subcommittees, the

 

fiscal agencies, and the state budget director of pass-through funds appropriated

 

under this section.

 

       Sec. 12-225. (1) Grants supported with private revenues received by the

 

department are appropriated upon receipt and are available for expenditure by the

 

department, subject to subsection (3), for purposes specified within the grant

 

agreement and as permitted under state and federal law.

 

       (2) Within 10 days after the receipt of a private grant appropriated in

 

subsection (1), the department shall notify the house and senate chairpersons of the


subcommittees, the fiscal agencies, and the state budget director of the receipt of

 

the grant, including the fund source, purpose, and amount of the grant.

 

       (3) The amount appropriated under subsection (1) shall not exceed $1,500,000.00.

 

       Sec. 12-227. (1) The department shall sell documents at a price not to exceed the

 

cost of production and distribution. Money received from the sale of these documents

 

shall revert to the department. In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, these

 

funds are appropriated for expenditure when they are received by the department of

 

treasury. This subsection applies only for the following documents:

 

       (a) Corporation and securities division documents, reports, and papers required

 

or permitted by law pursuant to section 1060(5) of the business corporation act, 1972

 

PA 284, MCL 450.2060.

 

       (b) The Michigan liquor control code of 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.1101 to

 

436.2303.

 

       (c) The mobile home commission act, 1987 PA 96, MCL 125.2301 to 125.2349; the

 

business corporation act, 1972 PA 284, MCL 450.1101 to 450.2098; the nonprofit

 

corporation act, 1982 PA 162, MCL 450.2101 to 450.3192; and the uniform securities act

 

(2002), 2008 PA 551, MCL 451.2101 to 451.2703.

 

       (d) Worker's compensation health care services rules.

 

       (e) Construction code manuals.

 

       (f) Copies of transcripts from administrative law hearings.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, funds appropriated by the

 

department under sections 55, 57, 58, and 59 of the administrative procedures act of

 

1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.255, 24.257, 24.258, and 24.259, and section 203 of the

 

legislative council act, 1986 PA 268, MCL 4.1203, are appropriated for all expenses

 

necessary to provide for the cost of publication and distribution.

 

       (3) Unexpended funds at the end of the fiscal year shall carry forward to the

 

subsequent fiscal year and not lapse to the general fund.


       Sec. 12-228. Unless prohibited by law, the department may accept credit card or

 

other electronic means of payment for licenses, fees, or permits.

 

       Sec. 12-241. (1) The department may charge registration fees to attendees of

 

informational, training, or special events sponsored by the department.

 

       (2) These fees shall reflect the costs for the department to sponsor the

 

informational, training, or special events.

 

       (3) Revenue generated by the registration fees is appropriated upon receipt and

 

available for expenditure to cover the department’s costs of sponsoring informational,

 

training, or special events.

 

       (4) Revenue generated by registration fees in excess of the department’s costs of

 

sponsoring informational, training, or special events shall carry forward to the

 

subsequent fiscal year and not lapse to the general fund.

 

       (5) The amount appropriated under subsection (3) shall not exceed $500,000.00.

 

       Sec. 12-242. The department may make available to interested entities otherwise

 

unavailable customized listings of nonconfidential information in its possession, such

 

as names and addresses of licensees. The department may establish and collect a

 

reasonable charge to provide this service. The revenue received from this service

 

shall be used to offset expenses to provide the service. Any balance of this revenue

 

collected and unexpended at the end of the fiscal year shall revert to the appropriate

 

restricted fund.

 

       Sec. 12-245. The department, in conjunction with the department of health and

 

human services, shall maintain an accounting structure within the Michigan

 

administrative information network that will allow expenditures associated with the

 

administration of the Healthy Michigan plan to be identified.

 

 

 

OCCUPATIONAL REGULATION

 

       Sec. 12-501. Money appropriated under this part and part 1 for the bureau of fire

 


services shall not be expended unless, in accordance with section 2c of the fire

 

prevention code, 1941 PA 207, MCL 29.2c, inspection and plan review fees will be

 

charged according to the following schedule:

 

 

 

Operation and maintenance inspection fee

 

Facility type                            Facility size                            Fee

 

Hospitals                                       Any                        $8.00 per bed

 

Plan review and construction inspection fees for hospitals and schools

 

Project cost range                                                                FeeMMMM

 

$101,000.00 or less                                                  minimum fee of $155.00

 

$101,001.00 to $1,500,000.00                                         $1.60 per $1,000.00

 

$1,500,001.00 to $10,000,000.00                                      $1.30 per $1,000.00

 

$10,000,001.00 or more                                               $1.10 per $1,000.00

 

or a maximum fee of $60,000.00.

 

       Sec. 12-502. The funds collected by the department for licenses, permits, and

 

other elevator regulation fees set forth in the Michigan administrative code and as

 

determined under section 8 of 1976 PA 333, MCL 338.2158, and section 16 of 1967 PA

 

227, MCL 408.816, that are unexpended at the end of the fiscal year shall carry

 

forward to the subsequent fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 12-503. No later than February 15, the department shall submit a report to

 

the subcommittees, fiscal agencies, and state budget director providing the following

 

information:

 

       (a) The number of honorably discharged veterans, individually or if a majority

 

interest of a corporation or limited liability company, that were exempted from paying

 

licensure, registration, filing, or any other fees collected under each licensure or

 

regulatory program administered by the bureau of construction codes and the

 

corporations, securities, and commercial licensing bureau during the preceding fiscal

 


year.

 

       (b) The specific fees and total amount of revenue exempted under each licensure

 

or regulatory program administered by the bureau of construction codes and the

 

corporations, securities, and commercial licensing bureau during the preceding fiscal

 

year.

 

       (c) The actual costs of providing licensing and other regulatory services to

 

veterans exempted from paying licensure, registration, filing, or any other fees

 

during the preceding fiscal year and a description of how these costs were calculated.

 

       (d) The estimated amount of revenue that will be exempted under each licensure or

 

regulatory program administered by the bureau of construction codes and the

 

corporations, securities, and commercial licensing bureau in both the current and

 

subsequent fiscal years and a description of how the exempted revenue was estimated.

 

       Sec. 12-505. (1) Funds remaining in the homeowner construction lien recovery fund

 

are appropriated to the department for payment of court-ordered homeowner construction

 

lien recovery fund judgments entered prior to August 23, 2010. Pursuant to available

 

funds, the payment of final judgments shall be made in the order in which the final

 

judgments were entered and began accruing interest.

 

       (2) Not later than April 1, the department shall submit to the subcommittees,

 

fiscal agencies, and the state budget director a report on the revenues, expenditures,

 

and balance of the homeowner construction lien recovery fund as of the end of the

 

previous fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 12-507. The department shall submit by January 31 to the standing committees

 

on appropriations of the senate and house of representatives, the fiscal agencies, and

 

the state budget director an annual report for the prior fiscal year regarding the

 

medical marihuana program under the Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL

 

333.26421 to 333.26430.

 

       Sec. 12-508. If the revenue collected by the department for health systems


administration or radiological health administration and projects from fees and

 

collections exceeds the amount appropriated in part 1, the revenue may be carried

 

forward into the subsequent fiscal year. The revenue carried forward under this

 

section shall be used as the first source of funds in the subsequent fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 12-511. No later than February 1, the department shall submit a report to

 

the subcommittees, fiscal agencies, and the state budget director providing the

 

following information:

 

       (a) The total amount of reimbursements made to local units of government for

 

delegated inspections of fireworks retail locations pursuant to section 11 of the

 

Michigan fireworks safety act, 2011 PA 256, MCL 28.461, from the funds appropriated in

 

part 1 for the bureau of fire services during the preceding fiscal year.

 

       (b) The amount of reimbursement for delegated inspections of fireworks retail

 

locations for each local unit of government that received reimbursement from the funds

 

appropriated in part 1 for the bureau of fire services during the preceding fiscal

 

year.

 

       Sec. 12-513. (1) Beginning October 1, for the purpose of defraying the costs

 

associated with responding to false final inspection appointments and to discourage

 

the practice of calling for final inspections when the project is incomplete or

 

noncompliant with a plan of correction previously provided by the bureau of fire

 

services, the bureau of fire services may assess a fee not to exceed $200.00 for

 

responding to confirmed false inspection appointments. Fees collected under this

 

section shall be deposited into the restricted account referenced by section 2c(2) of

 

the fire prevention code, 1941 PA 207, MCL 29.2c, and explicitly identified within the

 

Michigan administrative information network.

 

       (2) Not later than September 30, the department shall prepare a report that

 

provides the amount of the fee assessed under subsection (1), the number of fees

 

assessed and issued per region, the cost allocation for the work performed and reduced


as a result of this section, and any recommendations for consideration by the

 

legislature. The department shall submit this information to the state budget

 

director, the subcommittees, and the fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 12-515. The department shall assess and collect fees in the licensing and

 

regulation of childcare organizations as defined in 1973 PA 116, MCL 722.111 TO

 

722.128, and adult foster care facilities as defined in the adult foster care facility

 

licensing act, 1979 PA 218, MCL 400.701 TO 400.737.

 

 

 

EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

 

       Sec. 12-704. (1) The appropriation in part 1 for the bureau of services for blind

 

persons includes funds for case services. These funds may be used for tuition payments

 

for blind clients.

 

       (2) Revenue collected by the bureau of services for blind persons and from

 

private and local sources that is unexpended at the end of the fiscal year may carry

 

forward to the subsequent fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 12-707. The bureau of services for blind persons may provide and enter into

 

agreements to provide general services, training, meetings, information, special

 

equipment, software, facility use, and technical consulting services to other

 

principal executive departments, state agencies, local units of government, the

 

judicial branch of government, other organizations, and patrons of department

 

facilities. The department may charge fees for these services that are reasonably

 

related to the cost of providing the services. In addition to the funds appropriated

 

in part 1, funds collected by the department for these services are appropriated for

 

all expenses necessary. The funds appropriated under this section are allotted for

 

expenditure when they are received by the department of treasury.

 

 

 

DEPARTMENT GRANTS

 


       Sec. 12-901. The appropriation in part 1 for fire protection grants shall be

 

appropriated to cities, villages, and townships with state-owned facilities for fire

 

services, instead of taxes, in accordance with 1977 PA 289, MCL 141.951 to 141.956.

 

       Sec. 12-902. (1) Not later than January 31, the department shall prepare a report

 

that provides the number of registry identification cards issued to or renewed for

 

patients residing in each county as of September 30 of the preceding fiscal year,

 

under the Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333.26421 to 333.26430. The

 

department shall submit this report to the state budget director, the senate and house

 

appropriations subcommittees on licensing and regulatory affairs, and the fiscal

 

agencies.

 

       (2) The department shall expend the funds appropriated in part 1 for medical

 

marihuana operation and oversight grants for grants to county law enforcement offices

 

for the operation and oversight of the Michigan medical marihuana program pursuant to

 

section 6(l) of the Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333.26426. These

 

grants shall be distributed proportionately based on the number of registry

 

identification cards issued to or renewed for the residents of each county whose

 

county law enforcement office applied for a grant under subsection (3). For the

 

purposes of this subsection, operation and oversight grants are for education,

 

communication, and enforcement of the Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL

 

333.26421 to 333.26430.

 

       (3) No later than December 1, the department shall post a listing of potential

 

grant money available to each county law enforcement agency on its website. In

 

addition, the department shall work collaboratively with county law enforcement

 

agencies, the Michigan sheriff’s association, and other representative law enforcement

 

organizations regarding the availability of these grant funds. A county law

 

enforcement agency requesting a grant shall apply on a form developed by the

 

department and available on the website. The form shall contain the county law


enforcement agency’s specific projected plan for use of the money and its agreement to

 

maintain all records and to submit documentation to the department to support the use

 

of the grant money.

 

       (4) In order to be eligible to receive a grant under subsection (2), a county law

 

enforcement agency shall apply no later than January 1 and agree to report how the

 

grant was expended and provide that report to the department no later than September

 

15. The department shall submit a report no later than October 15 of the subsequent

 

fiscal year to the state budget director, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on licensing and regulatory affairs, and the fiscal agencies detailing

 

the grant amounts by recipient and the reported uses of the grants in the preceding

 

fiscal year.

 

       (5) County law enforcement agencies may distribute discretionary grants made

 

under subsection (2) to municipal law enforcement agencies for the operation and

 

oversight of the Michigan medical marihuana program pursuant to section 6(l) of the

 

Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333.26426. If a county law enforcement

 

agency distributes a discretionary grant in this manner, that county law enforcement

 

agency shall require the receiving municipal law enforcement agency to provide a

 

report on how that grant was spent. Reports from municipal law enforcement agencies

 

shall be included as part of the report submitted to the department as required in

 

subsection (4).

 

       Sec. 12-903. (1) The amount appropriated in part 1 for firefighter training

 

grants shall only be expended for payments to counties to reimburse organized fire

 

departments for firefighter training and other activities required under the

 

firefighters training council act, 1966 PA 291, MCL 29.361 to 29.377.

 

       (2) If the amount appropriated in part 1 for firefighter training grants is

 

expended by the firefighter training council, established in section 3 of the

 

firefighters training council act, 1966 PA 291, MCL 29.363, for payments to counties


under section 14 of the firefighters training council act, 1966 PA 291, MCL 29.374,

 

the amount appropriated in part 1 for firefighter training grants shall be allocated

 

pursuant to section 14(2) of the firefighters training council act, 1966 PA 291, MCL

 

29.374. If the amount allocated to any county is less than $5,000.00, the amounts

 

disbursed to each county shall be adjusted to provide for a minimum payment of

 

$5,000.00 to each county.

 

       (3) No later than February 1, the department shall submit a financial report to

 

the subcommittees and fiscal agencies identifying the following information for the

 

preceding fiscal year:

 

       (a) The amount of the payments that would be made to each county if the

 

distribution formula described by the first sentence of section 14(2) of the

 

firefighters training council act, 1966 PA 291, MCL 29.374, would have been utilized

 

to allocate the total amount appropriated in part 1 for firefighter training grants.

 

       (b) The amount of the payments approved by the firefighter training council for

 

allocation to each county.

 

       (c) The amount of the payments actually expended or encumbered within each

 

county.

 

       (d) A description of any other payments or expenditures made under the authority

 

of the firefighter training council.

 

       (e) The amount of payments approved for allocations to counties that was not

 

expended or encumbered and lapsed back to the fireworks safety fund.

 

       Sec. 12-904. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for a regional or subregional

 

library shall not be released until a budget for that regional or subregional library

 

has been approved by the department for expenditures for library services directly

 

serving the blind and persons with disabilities.

 

       (2) In order to receive subregional state aid as appropriated in part 1, a

 

regional or subregional library's fiscal agency shall agree to maintain local funding


support at the same level in the current fiscal year as in the fiscal agency's

 

preceding fiscal year. If a reduction in expenditures equally affects all agencies in

 

a local unit of government that is the regional or subregional library's fiscal

 

agency, that reduction shall not be interpreted as a reduction in local support and

 

shall not disqualify a regional or subregional library from receiving state aid under

 

part 1. If a reduction in income affects a library cooperative or district library

 

that is a regional or subregional library's fiscal agency or a reduction in

 

expenditures for the regional or subregional library's fiscal agency, a reduction in

 

expenditures for the regional or subregional library shall not be interpreted as a

 

reduction in local support and shall not disqualify a regional or subregional library

 

from receiving state aid under part 1.

 

       Sec. 12-905. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for the Michigan

 

liquor control commission, the department shall maintain customer service standards

 

for authorized distributor agents, licensees, and vendors.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance metrics for

 

this initiative, including, but not limited to, the following:

 

       (a) System availability to licensees.

 

       (b) System order errors.

 

       Sec. 12-906. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for the

 

automated prescription system, the department shall provide improved efficiencies and

 

functionality of the system for dispensers and prescribers as well as improved

 

reporting capabilities.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance metrics for

 

this initiative, including, but not limited to, the following:

 

       (a) Prescribers enrolled in the automated prescription system.

 

       (b) Dispensers enrolled in the automated prescription system.

 

       (c) Utilization of the automated prescription system by prescribers.


       (d) Utilization of the automated prescription system by dispensers.

 

       (e) Number of drug diversion cases the department generates from the automated

 

prescription system.

 

       (f) Number of over-prescribing cases the department generates from the automated

 

prescription system.


Article 13

 

MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 13-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of military and veterans affairs are

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated

 

in this part. The following is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated

 

appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                9.0               9.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              888.5             888.5

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    176,000,200  $    168,500,200

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................            101,800           101,800

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $    175,898,400  $    168,398,400

 

  Total federal revenues..................................         91,793,600        91,793,600

 

  Total local revenues....................................          1,522,400         1,522,400

 

  Total private revenues..................................            742,800           742,800

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................         24,696,000        24,696,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     57,143,600  $     49,643,600

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........         49,643,600        49,643,600

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........          7,500,000                 0

 

   Sec. 13-102.  MILITARY


   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                9.0               9.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              324.0             324.0

 

  Unclassified positions..................................   $      1,425,500  $      1,425,500

 

  Departmental and National Guard operations..............         66,752,900        66,752,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     68,178,400  $     68,178,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................            101,800           101,800

 

  Federal revenues........................................         47,488,100        47,488,100

 

  Local revenues..........................................          1,522,400         1,522,400

 

  Private revenues........................................            202,800           202,800

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          6,551,800         6,551,800

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     12,311,500   $    12,311,500

 

       Schedule of programs:

 

     Unclassified positions..............................          1,425,500         1,425,500

 

     Support services....................................          1,839,100         1,839,100

 

     Armories and joint force readiness..................         17,592,300        17,592,300

 

     National Guard training facilities and air bases....         33,793,000        33,793,000

 

     Michigan youth challeNGe academy....................          4,616,900         4,616,900

 

     Military family relief fund.........................            600,000           600,000

 

     Starbase grant......................................          2,322,000         2,322,000

 

     National Guard tuition assistance program...........          3,505,000         3,505,000

 

     Michigan National Guard tuition assistance fund.....          1,100,000         1,100,000

 

     Information technology services and projects........          1,384,600         1,384,600

 

   Sec. 13-103.  MICHIGAN VETERANS AFFAIRS AGENCY

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              564.5             564.5

 

  Michigan veterans affairs agency........................   $     16,202,100  $     16,202,100

 

  Veterans’ homes.........................................         67,619,700        67,619,700


  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     83,821,800  $     83,821,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................         29,305,500        29,305,500

 

  Private revenues........................................            540,000           540,000

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         17,144,200        17,144,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     36,832,100  $     36,832,100

 

       Schedule of programs:

 

     Veterans affairs agency administration..............          7,057,300         7,057,300

 

     Veterans service grants.............................          3,733,500         3,733,500

 

     Targeted grants.....................................            200,000           200,000

 

     Veterans’ trust fund administration.................          1,464,800         1,464,800

 

     Veterans’ trust fund grants.........................          3,746,500         3,746,500

 

     Grand Rapids home for veterans......................         45,429,100        45,429,100

 

     Boards of managers (GRHV)...........................            665,000           665,000

 

     D.J. Jacobetti home for veterans....................         21,250,600        21,250,600

 

     Board of managers (DJJHV)...........................            275,000           275,000

 

   Sec. 13-104.  CAPITAL OUTLAY

 

  Capital outlay..........................................   $      16,500,000  $      16,500,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     16,500,000  $     16,500,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................         15,000,000        15,000,000

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        500,000  $        500,000

 

       Schedule of programs:

 

     Special maintenance – National Guard................         15,000,000        15,000,000

 

     Special maintenance - veterans’ homes...............            500,000           500,000

 

     Land acquisitions and appraisals....................          1,000,000         1,000,000


   Sec. 13-105.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

  Capital outlay-Grand Rapids home for veterans-medicaid

 

   certification pilot...................................   $      5,000,000  $              0

 

  Armory infrastructure upgrades..........................          2,500,000                 0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      7,500,000  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      7,500,000  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 13-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $81,839,600.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $102,400.00. The itemized statement below

 

identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS

 

  National Guard training facilities and air bases......................   $              52,400

 

  Veterans affairs agency administration................................                  50,000

 

  TOTAL                                                                    $             102,400

 

       Sec. 13-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 13-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "Core services" means that phrase as defined in section 373 of the management

 

and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.373.

 


       (b) "Department" means the department of military and veterans affairs.

 

       (c) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (d) "DJJHV" means the D.J. Jacobetti home for veterans.

 

       (e) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (f) "GRHV" means the Grand Rapids home for veterans.

 

       (g) "HVAC" means heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.

 

       (h) "MVAA" means the Michigan veterans’ affairs agency.

 

       (i) "USDVA" means the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

 

       (j) "USDVA-VHA" means the USDVA Veterans Health Administration.

 

       (j) "VSO" means veterans service organization.

 

       Sec. 13-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 13-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 13-206. The director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in

 

deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide

 

services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which

 

the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and


deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 13-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of

 

each year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 13-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 13-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare

 

and transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 13-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is


appropriated an amount not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $2,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These funds

 

are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line

 

item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA

 

431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 13-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.


       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 13-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 13-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 13-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $18,602,500.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $10,314,600.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $8,287,900.00.

 

       Sec. 13-215. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the schedule

 

of programs in part 1 lists programs which may, but are not required to be, funded

 

under part 1.

 

       (2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this part, the schedule of revenue

 

sources in part 1 may or may not be received from the funding entities listed.

 

       (3) Any funding required by statute is not subject to funding flexibility and

 

shall be funded in accordance with that statute.

 

       Sec. 13-216. The department shall provide quarterly reports to the subcommittees,

 

the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office, which shall provide

 

the following data:


       (a) A list of all major work projects, including a status report of each project.

 

       (b) The department’s financial status, featuring a report of budgeted versus

 

actual expenditures by part 1 line item including a year-end projection of budget

 

requirements. If projected department budget requirements exceed the allocated budget,

 

the report shall include a plan to reduce overall expenses while still satisfying

 

specified service level requirements.

 

       (c) A report on the status of performance metrics cited in this part and

 

information required to be reported in this part.

 

       (d) The number of active employees at the close of the fiscal quarter by job

 

classification and program.

 

       (e) A summary of fund shifts, that have been approved by the state budget office,

 

that have occurred between items listed in the schedule of programs mentioned in part

 

1.

 

       (f) Evidence of efficiencies and management of funds within established

 

appropriations.

 

       Sec. 13-217. The appropriations in part 1 are for the core services, support

 

services, and work projects of the department, including, but not limited to, the

 

following core services:

 

       (a) Armories and joint force readiness.

 

       (b) National guard training facilities and air bases.

 

       (c) Michigan youth ChalleNGe academy.

 

       (d) Military family relief fund.

 

       (e) Starbase grant.

 

       (f) National guard tuition assistance program.

 

       (g) Michigan veterans affairs agency administration.

 

       (h) Veterans service grants.

 

       (i) Veterans’ trust fund administration.


       (j) Veterans’ trust fund grants.

 

       (k) Grand Rapids home for veterans.

 

       (l) Board of managers (Grand Rapids and D.J. Jacobetti).

 

       (m) D.J. Jacobetti home for veterans.

 

       Sec. 13-218. The appropriations in part 1 for capital outlay shall be carried

 

forward at the end of the fiscal year consistent with section 248 of the management

 

and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1248.

 

 

 

UNCLASSIFIED POSITIONS

 

       Sec. 13-300. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, there is funding to

 

support unclassified employee positions as authorized by section 5 of article XI of

 

the state constitution of 1963. These positions include the following: department

 

director - the adjutant general for Michigan; assistant adjutant general - army;

 

assistant adjutant general - installations; assistant adjutant general - air; senior

 

policy executive - Michigan veterans affairs agency; senior deputy director - state

 

operations; director - strategy and policy; chief executive officer for the veteran

 

health system; and director - Michigan veterans affairs agency.

 

       (2) Not less than 30 days prior to the department submitting a request for an

 

additional unclassified employee position from the civil service commission, or for

 

any substantive change to the duties of an existing unclassified employee position,

 

the department shall notify the subcommittees and the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies.

 

 

 

ARMORIES AND JOINT FORCE READINESS

 

       Sec. 13-302. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for military operations,

 

effective and efficient executive direction and administrative leadership shall be

 

provided to the department.

 


       (2) The department shall operate and maintain National Guard armories.

 

       (3) The department shall evaluate armories and submit a quarterly report on the

 

status of the armories.

 

       (4) The department shall maintain a system to measure the condition and adequacy

 

of the armories.

 

       (5) The Michigan Army National Guard and Air National Guard shall work to provide

 

a culture that is free of sexual assault, through an environment of prevention,

 

education and training, response capability, victim support, reporting procedures, and

 

appropriate accountability that enhances the safety and well-being of all guard

 

members.

 

       (6) By December 1, the department shall report the following information to the

 

subcommittees, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office:

 

       (a) An assessment of the grounds and facilities of each armory to objectively

 

measure and determine the current facility condition and capability to support

 

authorized manpower, unit training, and operations.

 

       (b) Recommendations for the placement of new armories, the relocation or

 

consolidation of existing armories, or a change in the mission of units assigned to

 

armories to ideally position the National Guard in current or projected population

 

centers.

 

       (c) Recommendations for the enhanced use of armories to facilitate family support

 

programs during deployments.

 

       (d) An analysis of the feasibility, potential costs, and benefits of use of

 

armories shared with other local, state, or federal agencies to improve responses to

 

local emergencies as well as the community support provided to armories.

 

       (e) An investment strategy and proposed funding amounts in a prioritized project

 

list to correct the most critical facility shortfalls across the inventory of armories

 

in this state.


NATIONAL GUARD TRAINING FACILITIES AND AIR BASES

 

       Sec. 13-304. (1) The department shall provide Army and Air National Guard forces,

 

when directed, for state and local emergencies and in support of national military

 

requirements.

 

       (2) The department shall operate and maintain Army National Guard training

 

facilities, including Fort Custer and Camp Grayling.

 

       (3) The department shall maintain a system that measures the condition and

 

adequacy of air facilities using both quality and functionality criteria.

 

       (4) The department shall operate and maintain Air National Guard air bases,

 

including Selfridge Air National Guard base, Battle Creek Air National Guard base, and

 

Alpena combat readiness training center.

 

       (5) The department shall provide the following information as provided under

 

section 219:

 

       (a) The apportioned and assigned strength of the Michigan Army National Guard.

 

       (b) The apportioned and assigned strength of the Michigan Air National Guard.

 

       (c) Recruiting, retention, and attrition data, including measurement against

 

stated performance goals, for the Michigan Army National Guard.

 

       (d) Recruiting, retention, and attrition data, including measurement against

 

stated performance goals, for the Michigan Air National Guard.

 

       Sec. 13-305. There is hereby created and established under the jurisdiction and

 

control of the department a revolving account to be known as the billeting fund

 

account. All of the fees and other revenues generated from the operation of the

 

chargeable transient quarters program shall be deposited in the billeting fund

 

account. Appropriations will be made from the account for the support of program

 

operations and the maintenance and operations of the chargeable transient quarters

 

program and will not exceed the estimated revenues for the fiscal year in which they

 

are made, together with unexpended balances from prior years. The department shall


submit an annual report of operations and expenditures regarding the billeting fund

 

account to the appropriations committees of the senate and house of representatives,

 

the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget office at the end of the

 

fiscal year.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN YOUTH CHALLENGE ACADEMY

 

       Sec. 13-307. (1) The department shall maintain the Michigan youth challeNGe

 

academy to provide values, skills, education, and self-discipline instruction for at-

 

risk youth as provided under 32 USC 509.

 

       (2) The department shall take steps to recruit candidates to the challeNGe

 

program from economically disadvantaged areas, including those with low-income and

 

high-unemployment backgrounds.

 

       (3) The department shall partner with the department of health and human services

 

to identify youth who may be eligible for the challeNGe program from those youth

 

served by department of health and human services programs. These eligible youth shall

 

be given priority for enrollment in the program.

 

       (4) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to train

 

at least 144 cadets simultaneously at the Michigan youth challeNGe academy.

 

       (5) The department shall ensure that the average grade level increase for

 

Michigan youth challeNGe academy graduates is 2 years as measured with the test adult

 

basic education (TABE) metrics.

 

 

 

MILITARY FAMILY RELIEF FUND

 

       Sec. 13-308. (1) The department shall provide grants for disbursement from the

 

military family relief fund, as provided under the military family relief fund act,

 

2004 PA 363, MCL 35.1211 to 35.1216, and R 200.5 to R 200.95 of the Michigan

 

administrative code.

 


       (2) The department shall provide information on the revenues, expenditures for

 

advertising and assistance grants, and fund balance of the Michigan military family

 

relief fund, as provided under section 219.

 

       (3) The department shall provide sufficient staffing and other resources to

 

provide outreach to the Michigan families of members of the reserve component of the

 

armed forces called into active duty and to support the processing and approval of

 

grant applications this fiscal year under the Michigan military relief fund and report

 

those applications as provided in section 219.

 

 

 

STARBASE GRANT

 

       Sec. 13-309. The department shall maintain the starbase program at Air National

 

Guard facilities, as provided under 10 USC 2193b, to improve the knowledge, skills,

 

and interest of students, primarily in the fifth grade, in math, science, and

 

technology. The starbase program is to specifically target minority and at-risk

 

students for participation.

 

 

 

NATIONAL GUARD TUITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

 

       Sec. 13-310. (1) The department shall establish and maintain a National Guard

 

tuition assistance program for members of the Michigan Air and Army National Guard.

 

       (2) The objective of the National Guard tuition program is to bolster military

 

readiness by increasing recruitment and retention of Michigan Air and Army National

 

Guard service members (and to fill federally authorized strength levels for the

 

state), improve the Michigan Air and Army National Guard’s competitive draw from other

 

military enlistment options in the state, enhance the ability of the Michigan Air and

 

Army National Guard to compete for members and federal dollars with surrounding

 

states, and increase the pool of eligible candidates within the Michigan Air and Army

 

National Guard to become commissioned officers.

 


       (3) The department shall make efforts to increase the number of Michigan Air and

 

Army National Guard members participating in the program to 1,000 during the third

 

year of the program’s existence. To evaluate the effectiveness of the program, the

 

department shall monitor the number of new recruits and new reenlistments and the

 

percentage of those who become participants in the program to determine whether the

 

percentage of authorized Michigan Air and Army National Guard strength obtained and

 

retained is competitive in comparison with the neighboring air and army national

 

guards from the states of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

 

       (4) Of the funds appropriated in Part I, the National Guard Tuition Assistance

 

Program shall be supported with revenue from the Michigan National Guard Tuition

 

Assistance Fund.  Pursuant to PA 259 of 2014, unexpended funds remaining in the

 

Michigan National Guard Tuition Assistance Fund at the end of the fiscal year shall

 

not lapse to the general fund.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN VETERANS AFFAIRS AGENCY ADMINISTRATION

 

       Sec. 13-400. (1) The MVAA agency shall provide outreach services to Michigan

 

veterans that advise them on the benefits to which they are entitled, as provided

 

under Executive Reorganization Order No. 2013-2, MCL 32.92. The MVAA shall also do the

 

following:

 

       (a) Maintain the staffing partnerships and other resources necessary to develop

 

and operate an outreach program that will communicate benefit eligibility information

 

to at least 50% of Michigan’s population of veterans, as assessed by annual census

 

estimates, with a goal of reaching 100% and enabling 100% to access benefit

 

information online.

 

       (b) Communicate veteran benefit information pertaining to the Michigan military

 

family relief fund, Michigan veterans’ trust fund, and USDVA health, financial, and

 

memorial benefits to which they are entitled.

 


       (c) Provide sufficient staffing and other resources to approve requests for

 

military discharge certificates (DD-214) annually.

 

       (d) Continue the process to digitize all medical records, military discharge

 

documents, and burial records that are currently on paper and microfilm.

 

       (e) Provide a report, as provided under section 219, on the MVAA’s performance on

 

the performance measures, outcomes, and initiatives developed by the agency in the

 

strategic plan required by section 501 of 2013 PA 9.

 

       (f) Provide a report to the subcommittees, senate and house fiscal agencies, and

 

the state budget office no later than April 1 providing for the following:

 

       (i) To the extent known, data on the estimated number of homeless veterans, by

 

county, in this state.

 

       (ii) A summary of the activities and strategies developed to date under the MVAA

 

community assessment and regional service delivery model pilot.

 

       (2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the MVAA shall provide for the

 

regional coordination of services, as follows:

 

       (a) Regional coordinators shall be selected by the MVAA through a grant agreement

 

with VSOs or by other means.

 

       (b) Regional coordinators shall provide the following services:

 

       (i) Coordinate veteran benefit counselors’ efforts throughout a specified region.

 

       (ii) Coordinate services with the department of health and human services and the

 

department of corrections.

 

       (iii) Coordinate with regional workforce and economic development agencies.

 

       (iv) Coordinate activities among local foundations, nonprofit organizations, and

 

community groups to improve accessibility, enrollment, and utilization of the array of

 

health care, education, employment assistance, and quality of life services provided

 

at the local level.

 

       (c) The MVAA may work with MVAA service officers, regional coordinators, county


veteran counselors, VSO service officers, and other service providers to incorporate

 

the provision of information relating to mental health care resources into their daily

 

operations to aid veterans in understanding the mental health care support services

 

they may be eligible to receive.

 

       (d) The MVAA shall coordinate with the department of health and human services to

 

identify Medicaid recipients who are veterans and who may be eligible for federal

 

veterans health care benefits or other benefits, to the extent that the identification

 

does not violate applicable confidentiality requirements.

 

       (e) The MVAA shall collaborate with the department of corrections to create and

 

maintain a process by which prisoners can obtain a copy of their DD-214 form or other

 

military discharge documentation if necessary.

 

       (f) The MVAA shall ensure that all MVAA service officers, VSO service officers,

 

and regional coordinators receive appropriate training in processing applications for

 

benefits payable to veterans due to military sexual trauma, post-traumatic stress

 

disorder, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or other mental health issues.

 

       (3) The MVAA shall provide claims processing services to Michigan veterans in

 

support of benefit claims submitted to the USDVA for the health, financial, and

 

memorial benefits for which they are eligible, and shall do all of the following:

 

       (a) Report the following information as provided in section 219:

 

       (i) The number of benefit claims, by type, submitted to the USDVA by MVAA and

 

coalition partner veteran service officers.

 

       (ii) The number of fully developed claims, submitted to the USDVA, with an

 

overall goal of 40% of benefit claims submitted that are considered fully developed by

 

the USDVA.

 

       (b) Maintain the staffing and resources necessary to process a minimum of 500

 

claims per year.

 

       (4) The MVAA shall maintain staffing and resources necessary to develop and


implement a process to ensure that all county counselors receive the training and

 

accreditation necessary to provide quality services to our veterans. The MVAA shall

 

report information as provided in section 219 on the number and percentage of county

 

veterans counselors requesting training by the MVAA, with an overall goal of 100% of

 

county veterans counselors trained.

 

       (5) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for MVAA operations, the MVAA shall

 

provide grant assistance to enhance the capacity and capabilities of counties in

 

providing benefit claims assistance. These funds shall be used to continue the

 

implementation of an Internet-based data system, to increase the number of county

 

veterans counselors, and to increase the number of counties that provide service to

 

veterans through county veterans counselors. The MVAA shall provide a report, as

 

provided in section 219, on the expenditures and activities of the grant funds

 

directed by this subsection.

 

       (6) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for MVAA, the MVAA is authorized to

 

expend up to $50,000.00 to hire legal services to represent veterans benefit cases

 

before federal court to maintain accreditation under 38 CFR 14.628(d)(1)(iv).

 

 

 

VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATION GRANTS

 

       Sec. 13-406. (1) The MVAA shall disburse VSO grants to assist them to achieve

 

agency goals and performance objectives in partnership with the VSOs. Grants to VSOs

 

will be disbursed to fund programs and projects which are determined by the agency to

 

meet agency performance objectives and ensure that VSOs communicate the availability

 

of emergency grants through the Michigan veterans trust fund. In disbursing veterans’

 

service organization grants, the MVAA shall do the following:

 

       (a) Ensure that each VSO that receives grants is issued performance standards.

 

       (b) Ensure that each VSO that receives grant funds uses those funds for veterans

 

advocacy and outreach.

 


       (c) Monitor the performance of each VSO that receives grants.

 

       (2) Veterans services organization grants awarded by the MVAA shall provide for

 

the following, as developed by the MVAA:

 

       (a) The provision of service to veterans statewide, using a regional service

 

delivery model, with services provided at specified locations and times, including

 

service provided in state correctional facilities.

 

       (b) The payment of a fixed hourly service rate.

 

       (c) A specified number of service hours within each geographic region of this

 

state, with a statewide goal based on both current fiscal year appropriations for VSO

 

grant program and the fixed hourly service rate. The statewide goal will include

 

service hours provided to eligible incarcerated veterans within 1 year of their

 

earliest release date.

 

       (d) Use of an MVAA-designated Internet-based claims data system.

 

       (3) The MVAA shall report the following information as provided in section 219:

 

       (a) A summary of activities supported through the appropriation in part 1 for

 

veterans service organization grants, including separately for each service region,

 

the amount of expenditures to date, number of service hours, number of claims for

 

benefits submitted by type of claim, and other information deemed appropriate by the

 

MVAA.

 

       (b) The number of fully developed claims, by type, submitted to the USDVA by

 

veterans service organizations, with an overall goal of 40% of benefit claims

 

submitted that are considered fully developed by the USDVA.

 

 

 

VETERANS’ TRUST FUND ADMINISTRATION

 

       Sec. 13-407. (1) The Michigan veterans’ trust fund board together with the MVAA

 

shall provide emergency grants for disbursement from the Michigan veterans’ trust

 

fund, as provided under the following program authorities:

 


       (a) Sections 37, 38, and 39 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.

 

       (b) 1946 (1st Ex Sess) PA 9, MCL 35.602 to 35.610.

 

       (c) R 35.1 to R 35.7 of the Michigan administrative code.

 

       (d) R 35.621 to R 35.623 of the Michigan administrative code.

 

       (2) No later than December 1, the MVAA shall provide a detailed report of the

 

Michigan veterans’ trust fund that includes, for the prior fiscal year, information on

 

grants provided from the emergency grant program, including details concerning the

 

methodology of allocations, the selection of emergency grant program authorized

 

agents, a description of how the emergency grant program is administered in each

 

county, and a detailed breakdown of trust fund expenditures for that year, including

 

the amount distributed to each county for administrative costs and emergency grants.

 

The report shall also include the number of approved applications, by category of

 

assistance, and the number of denied applications, by reason of denial. The report

 

shall also provide an update on the department’s efforts to reduce program

 

administrative costs and maintain the Michigan veterans’ trust fund corpus to its

 

original amount of at least $50,000,000.00.

 

 

 

VETERANS’ TRUST FUND GRANTS

 

       Sec. 13-408. (1) The MVAA shall provide a report, as provided under section 219,

 

on the financial status of the Michigan veterans’ trust fund, including the number and

 

amount of emergency grants, state administrative expenses, and county administrative

 

expenses.

 

       (2) The Michigan veterans’ trust fund board together with the agency shall

 

maintain the staffing and resources necessary to process a minimum of 2,000

 

applications for veterans’ trust fund emergency grants.

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS AND D.J. JACOBETTI HOMES FOR VETERANS

 


       Sec. 13-501. (1) The MVAA shall provide compassionate and quality nursing and

 

domiciliary care services at the Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for

 

veterans so that members can achieve their highest potential of wellness,

 

independence, self-worth, and dignity.

 

       (2) The department shall provide resources necessary to provide nursing care

 

services to veterans in accordance with federal standards and provide the results of

 

the annual USDVA survey and certification and as proof of compliance.

 

       (3) Appropriations in part 1 for the Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes

 

for veterans shall not be used for any purpose other than for veterans and veterans’

 

families.

 

       (4) All complaints of abusive or neglectful care at the Grand Rapids and the D.J.

 

Jacobetti homes for veterans by a resident member, a resident member’s family or legal

 

guardian, or staff of the veterans’ homes, received by a supervisor shall be referred

 

to the director of nursing upon receipt of such complaint. The director of nursing

 

shall report on not less than a monthly basis, to the home administrator, board of

 

managers, agency, subcommittees, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state

 

budget office the following information:

 

       (a) A description of the process by which resident members and others may file

 

complaints of alleged abuse or neglect at the Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti

 

homes for veterans.

 

       (b) Summary statistics on the number and general nature of complaints of abuse or

 

neglect.

 

       (c) Summary statistics on the final disposition of complaints of abuse or neglect

 

received.

 

       (5) The Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans shall provide an

 

on-site, board-certified psychiatrist for all resident members with mental health

 

disorders in order to ensure that those resident members receive needed services in a


professional and timely manner. The Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for

 

veterans shall provide all members and staff a safe and secure environment.

 

       (6) The Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans shall ensure that

 

it effectively develops, executes, and monitors all comprehensive care plans in

 

accordance with federal regulations and its internal policies, with a goal that a

 

comprehensive care plan is fully developed for all resident members.

 

       (7) The Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans shall implement

 

controls over its food, maintenance supplies, and medical supplies inventories.

 

       (8) The Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans shall implement

 

controls over its pharmaceutical inventory.

 

       (9) The Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans shall establish

 

sufficient controls for calculating resident member maintenance assessments in order

 

to accurately calculate resident member maintenance assessments for each billing

 

cycle. The Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans shall establish

 

sufficient controls to ensure that all past due resident member maintenance

 

assessments are addressed within 30 days.

 

       (10) The Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans shall establish

 

sufficient controls over monetary donations and donated goods.

 

       (11) The Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans shall implement

 

sufficient controls over the handling of resident member funds to ensure the release

 

of funds within 3 business days upon the resident member leaving the home and to

 

ensure that a representative of a resident member is provided a full accounting of

 

that resident member’s funds within 10 business days of the death of that resident

 

member.

 

       (12) The MVAA shall post on its website all policies adopted by the board of

 

managers and the home related to the administrative operations of the home.

 

       (13) The process by which visitors, residents, and employees of the Grand Rapids


and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans may register complaints shall be displayed

 

in high-traffic areas throughout the home.

 

       (14) The MVAA shall report its findings regarding the state veterans’ homes

 

compliance with the requirements and standards under this section in an annual report

 

to the legislature and the state budget office. The annual report shall include, but

 

are not limited to, the following information:

 

       (a) The number of patient care hours and staffing levels measured against USDVA-

 

VHA standards.

 

       (b) The number and dollar value of lost and discarded prescriptions and the

 

number of early prescription refills.

 

       (c) An accounting of resident member populations at the Grand Rapids and the D.J.

 

Jacobetti homes for veterans by period of service, by gender, by care setting, and by

 

bed space available.

 

       (d) The financial status of the Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for

 

veterans, including an accounting of post and posthumous funds, donations, and state-

 

appropriated funds.

 

       (e)Information regarding assessments, reassessments, and admissions at the Grand

 

Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans.

 

       (f) The number of volunteer hours at the Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti

 

homes for veterans.

 

       (15) The Grand Rapids and the D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans shall provide to

 

the subcommittees, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office

 

the results of any annual or for-cause survey conducted by the USDVA-VHA and any

 

corresponding corrective action plan. This information shall also be made available

 

publicly through the department’s or MVAA’s website.

 

       (16) The MVAA shall provide to the legislature and the state budget office

 

quarterly reports regarding the status of Medicaid certification efforts including but


not limited to descriptions of incremental milestones, associated expenditures, and

 

the percent of plan completed.

 

       Sec. 13-501a. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for the D.J.

 

Jacobetti Home for Veterans, the department shall pursue compliance with current

 

Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services certification standards by the end of the

 

current fiscal year. The purpose of this expansion will be to obtain Medicaid

 

certification during the fiscal year 2017, increasing the ability to fully utilize all

 

federal funding available to cover the cost of care of eligible veterans living at

 

DJJHV and improve overall quality of care for all veterans living at DJJHV.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance measures for

 

this initiative, including, but not limited to, the following:

 

       (a) The quality of care to members of DJJHV shall increase as a result of

 

increased direct care staffing ratios.

 

       (b) The quality of the care environment at DJJHV shall increase as a result of

 

facility updates made according to Medicaid specifications to increase members’ access

 

to private and semi-private accommodations.

 

       (c) The quality of care for members of DJJHV shall increase as a result of

 

increased ability efforts to implement long term care evidence-based best practices at

 

DJJHV.

 

       (d) The collection of available federal Medicaid revenue shall increase as a

 

result of Medicaid certification.

 

       (e) The fiscal stability of DJJHV shall improve due to increased efforts to

 

collect available federal revenue.

 

 

 

BOARDS OF MANAGERS (GRAND RAPIDS AND D.J. JACOBETTI)

 

       Sec. 13-502. The board of managers shall exercise certain regulatory and

 

governance authority regarding admission and member affairs at the Grand Rapids and

 


D.J. Jacobetti homes for veterans. The board of managers shall also work to represent

 

the interest of the veterans’ community in both advisory and advocacy roles.

 

 

 

CAPITAL OUTLAY – SPECIAL MAINTENANCE - NATIONAL GUARD

 

       Sec. 13-601. (1) The appropriations in part 1 for special maintenance – National

 

Guard shall be carried forward at the end of the fiscal year consistent with section

 

248 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1248.

 

       (2) The appropriations for special maintenance – National Guard shall be expended

 

in accordance with the requirements of sections 302 and 304 and shall be expended

 

according to the maintenance priorities of the department to repair and modernize

 

military training sites and support facilities, which may include projects such as

 

roof, HVAC, or boiler replacement, interior renovations, facility expansion,

 

improvements to parking facilities, and other projects.

 

       (3) The department shall provide a quarterly report as provided under section 219

 

providing information on the status, projected costs, and projected completion date of

 

current and planned special maintenance projects at the armories and other national

 

guard facilities funded from capital outlay appropriations made in part 1 and in prior

 

appropriation years.

 

 

 

CAPITAL OUTLAY - SPECIAL MAINTENANCE - VETERANS’ HOMES

 

       Sec. 13-603. (1) The appropriations in part 1 for special maintenance – veterans’

 

homes shall be carried forward at the end of the fiscal year consistent with section

 

248 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1248.

 

       (2) The appropriations for special maintenance – veterans’ homes shall be

 

expended in accordance with the requirements of section 501 and shall be expended

 

according to the maintenance priorities of the department to repair and modernize the

 

state’s veterans’ homes, which may include projects such as roof, HVAC, or boiler

 


replacement, interior renovations, facility expansion, improvements to parking

 

facilities, and other projects designed to enhance the quality of life and medical

 

care of members.

 

       (3) The MVAA shall provide a quarterly report as provided under section 219

 

providing information on the status, projected costs, and projected completion date of

 

current and planned special maintenance projects at the Grand Rapids and D.J.

 

Jacobetti veterans’ homes funded from capital outlay appropriations made in part 1 and

 

in prior appropriation years.

 

 

 

CAPITAL OUTLAY - LAND AND ACQUISITIONS

 

       Sec. 13-604. The department shall provide for the acquisition and disposition of

 

National Guard armories, facilities, and lands as provided under sections 368, 382,

 

and 382a of the Michigan military act, 1967 PA 150, MCL 32.768, 32.782, and 32.782a.

 

 

 

ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 13-701. From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for armory

 

infrastructure, the department shall upgrade army National Guard network connections.

 

The purpose of the increased funds for armory infrastructure is for the modernization

 

of armory information technology infrastructure and improvements to best ensure

 

National Guard network capacity and connectivity in times of emergency.


Article 14

 

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 14-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of natural resources are appropriated for the

 

fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for the

 

fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part. The

 

following is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this

 

part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            2,236.8           2,236.8

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    397,904,100  $    388,704,100

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................          1,375,900         1,375,900

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $    396,528,200  $    387,328,200

 

  Total federal revenues..................................         72,365,400        72,265,400

 

  Total local revenues....................................                  0                 0

 

  Total private revenues..................................          7,446,400         7,446,400

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................        277,156,400       269,356,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     39,560,000  $     38,260,000

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........         38,260,000        38,260,000

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........          1,300,000                 0

 

   Sec. 14-102.  EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS


   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               11.6              11.6

 

  Unclassified salaries...................................   $        754,000  $        754,000

 

  Executive direction-11.6 FTE positions..................          2,120,700         2,120,700

 

  Natural resources commission............................             77,100            77,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      2,951,800  $      2,951,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          2,666,200         2,666,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        285,600  $        285,600

 

   Sec. 14-103.  DEPARTMENT INITIATIVES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               16.0              16.0

 

  Great Lakes restoration initiative......................   $      5,500,000  $      5,500,000

 

  Invasive species prevention and control-16.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          5,028,300         5,028,300

 

  Michigan conservation corps.............................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     11,528,300  $     11,528,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          5,500,000         5,500,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      6,028,300  $      6,028,300

 

   Sec. 14-104.  DEPARTMENT SUPPORT SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              109.5             109.5

 

  Accounting service center...............................   $      1,480,400  $      1,480,400

 

  Building occupancy charges..............................          3,126,700         3,126,700

 

  Finance and operations-105.5 FTE positions..............         17,300,200        17,300,200

 

  Gifts and pass-through transactions.....................          5,000,000         5,000,000

 

  Rent ..................................................            488,400           488,400

 

  Legislative and legal affairs-4.0 FTE positions.........            546,900           546,900


  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     27,942,600  $     27,942,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................            232,200           232,200

 

  Federal revenues........................................            329,700           329,700

 

  Private revenues........................................          5,000,000         5,000,000

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         19,779,200        19,779,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      2,601,500  $      2,601,500

 

   Sec. 14-105.  COMMUNICATION AND CUSTOMER SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              132.3             132.3

 

  Marketing and outreach-80.8 FTE positions...............   $     13,653,700  $     13,653,700

 

  Michigan historical center-51.5 FTE positions...........          5,576,300         5,576,300

 

  Michigan wildlife council...............................          1,600,000         1,600,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     20,830,000  $     20,830,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          1,722,600         1,772,600

 

  Private revenues........................................            411,200           411,200

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         14,197,500        14,197,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      4,498,700  $      4,498,700

 

   Sec. 14-106.  WILDLIFE DIVISION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              226.5             226.5

 

  Wildlife management-217.5 FTE positions.................   $     37,007,300  $     37,007,300

 

  Natural resources heritage-9.0 FTE positions............            632,900           632,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     37,640,200  $     37,640,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................         20,326,800        20,326,800

 

  Private revenues........................................            315,700           315,700

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         15,184,600        15,184,600


  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,813,100  $      1,813,100

 

    Sec. 14-107.  FISHERIES DIVISION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              221.5             221.5

 

  Aquatic resource mitigation-2.0 FTE positions...........   $        629,300  $        629,300

 

  Fish production-63.0 FTE positions......................         10,194,000        10,194,000

 

  Cormorant population mitigation program.................            150,000           150,000

 

  Fisheries resource management-156.5 FTE positions.......         20,378,600        20,378,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     31,351,900  $     31,351,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................         11,225,700        11,225,700

 

  Private revenues........................................            136,200           136,200

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         19,580,800        19,580,800

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        409,200  $        409,200

 

    Sec. 14-108.  LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              273.0             273.0

 

  General law enforcement-273.0 FTE positions.............   $      40,506,000  $     40,506,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     40,506,000  $     40,506,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          6,477,500         6,477,500

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         24,630,500        24,630,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      9,398,000  $      9,398,000

 

   Sec. 14-109.  PARKS AND RECREATION DIVISION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              902.9             902.9

 

  Forest recreation and trails-51.0 FTE positions.........   $      6,189,400  $      6,189,400

 

  MacMullan conference center-15.0 FTE positions..........          1,143,700         1,143,700

 

  Recreational boating-163.5 FTE positions................         17,371,300        17,371,300

 

  State parks-673.4 FTE positions.........................         66,487,900        66,487,900


  State park improvement revenue bonds – debt service.....          1,188,800         1,188,800

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     92,381,100  $     92,381,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................          1,143,700         1,143,700

 

  Federal revenues........................................          1,750,500         1,750,500

 

  Private revenues........................................            428,400           428,400

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         86,606,000        86,606,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      2,452,500  $      2,452,500

 

   Sec. 14-110.  MACKINAC ISLAND STATE PARK COMMISSION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               17.0              17.0

 

  Historical facilities system-13.0 FTE positions.........   $      1,573,000  $      1,573,000

 

  Mackinac Island State Park operations-4.0 FTE positions.     352,100           352,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      1,925,100  $      1,925,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          1,721,500         1,721,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        203,600  $        203,600

 

   Sec. 14-111.  FOREST RESOURCES DIVISION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              326.5             326.5

 

  Adopt-a-forest program..................................   $         25,000  $         25,000

 

  Cooperative resource programs-11.0 FTE positions........          1,547,100         1,547,100

 

  Forest fire equipment...................................            581,500           581,500

 

  Forest management and timber market development-176.0

 

   FTE positions.........................................         31,134,300        31,134,300

 

  Forest management initiatives-8.5 FTE positions.........            854,100           854,100

 

  Minerals management-17.0 FTE positions..................          2,828,600         2,828,600

 

  Wildfire protection-114.0 FTE positions.................         13,712,800        13,712,800

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     50,683,400  $     50,683,400


     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          4,273,300         4,273,300

 

  Private revenues........................................          1,054,900         1,054,900

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         38,156,100        38,156,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      7,199,100  $      7,199,100

 

   Sec. 14-112.  GRANTS

 

  Dam management grant program............................   $        350,000  $        350,000

 

  Deer habitat improvement partnership initiative.........            200,000           200,000

 

  Federal – clean vessel act grants.......................            400,000           400,000

 

  Federal – forest stewardship grants.....................          3,000,000         3,000,000

 

  Federal – land and water conservation fund payments.....          2,566,900         2,566,900

 

  Federal – rural community fire protection...............            400,000           400,000

 

  Federal – urban forestry grants.........................          1,600,000         1,600,000

 

  Fisheries habitat improvement grants....................          1,250,000         1,250,000

 

  Grants to communities – federal oil, gas and timber

 

   payments..............................................          3,450,000         3,450,000

 

  Grants to counties – marine safety......................          3,074,700         3,074,700

 

  National recreational trails............................          3,900,000         3,900,000

 

  Non-motorized trail development and maintenance grants..            350,000           350,000

 

  Off-road vehicle safety training grants.................             29,200            29,200

 

  Off-road vehicle trail improvement grants...............          3,356,200         3,356,200

 

  Recreation improvement fund grants......................            657,100           657,100

 

  Recreation passport local grants........................          1,500,000         1,000,000

 

  Snowmobile law enforcement grants.......................            380,100           380,100

 

  Snowmobile local grants program.........................          7,340,400         7,340,400

 

  Trail easements.........................................            700,000           700,000

 

  Wildlife habitat improvement grants.....................          1,500,000         1,500,000


  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     36,004,600  $     35,504,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................         16,884,300        16,884,300

 

  Private revenues........................................            100,000           100,000

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         18,320,300        17,820,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        700,000  $        700,000

 

   Sec. 14-113.  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

  Information technology services and projects............   $      10,284,000  $      10,284,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     10,284,000  $     10,284,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          9,113,600         9,113,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,170,400  $      1,170,400

 

   Sec. 14-114.  CAPITAL OUTLAY

 

     (a) RECREATIONAL LANDS AND INFRASTRUCTURE

 

  State parks repair and maintenance......................   $     13,500,000  $     13,500,000

 

  Forest development infrastructure.......................          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

  State game and wildlife area infrastructure.............          3,600,000         3,600,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     19,100,000  $      19,100,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          2,700,000         2,700,000

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         14,900,000        14,900,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,500,000  $      1,500,000

 

     (b) WATERWAYS BOATING PROGRAM

 

  Infrastructure improvements – state projects............   $      4,575,000  $      4,575,000

 

  Infrastructure improvement – local projects.............            658,000           658,000

 

  Munising marina.........................................            350,000           350,000

 

  Harrisville harbor......................................            492,100           492,100


  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      6,075,100  $      6,075,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................          1,075,000         1,075,000

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          5,000,100         5,000,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 14-115.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

  Forestry investment.....................................   $      2,100,000  $              0

 

  Forest fire equipment (one-time)........................          1,000,000                 0

 

  Land ownership tracking system..........................          4,000,000                 0

 

  Invasive species (one-time).............................          1,000,000                 0

 

  Fisheries resource management (one-time)................            600,000                 0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      8,700,000  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................            100,000                 0

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          7,300,000                 0

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,300,000  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 14-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $316,716,400.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 

of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $6,100,000.00. The itemized statement below

 

identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will occur:

 


DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

 

  Dam management grant program..........................................   $             175,000

 

  Fisheries habitat improvement grants..................................                200,000

 

  Grants to counties – marine safety....................................              1,407,300

 

  Non-motorized trail development and maintenance grants................                262,500

 

  Off-road vehicle safety training grants...............................                 29,200

 

  Off-road vehicle trail improvement grants.............................                530,100

 

  Recreation improvement fund grants....................................                 65,700

 

  Recreation passport local grants......................................              1,500,000

 

  Snowmobile law enforcement grants.....................................                380,100

 

  Waterways boating program.............................................              1,500,100

 

  Wildlife habitat improvement grants...................................                 50,000

 

  TOTAL                                                                    $           6,100,000

 

       Sec. 14-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 14-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "Department" means the department of natural resources.

 

       (b) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (c) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       Sec. 14-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 14-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods


or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 14-206. The director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in

 

deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide

 

services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which

 

the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 14-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of

 

each year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 14-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that


the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 14-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare

 

and transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 14-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $3,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These

 

funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another

 

line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL


18.1393.

 

       Sec. 14-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 14-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 14-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 14-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $47,567,500.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $26,375,000.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $21,192,500.00.

 

       Sec. 14-215. Appropriations of state restricted game and fish protection funds


have been made in the following amounts to the following departments and agencies:

 

       Legislative auditor general......................................   $       31,300

 

       Attorney general.................................................          751,100

 

       Department of technology, management and budget..................          464,500

 

       Department of treasury...........................................        2,925,200

 

       Sec. 14-216. Pursuant to section 43703(3) of the natural resources and

 

environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.43703, there is appropriated from

 

the game and fish protection trust fund to the game and fish protection account of the

 

Michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund, $6,000,000.00 for the fiscal year

 

ending September 30, 2017.

 

 

 

DEPARTMENT SUPPORT SERVICES

 

       Sec. 14-302. The department may charge land acquisition projects appropriated for

 

the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for prior fiscal years, a standard

 

percentage fee to recover actual costs, and may use the revenue derived to support the

 

land acquisition service charges provided for in part 1.

 

       Sec. 14-303. As appropriated in part 1, the department may charge both

 

application fees and transaction fees related to the exchange or sale of state-owned

 

land or rights in land authorized by part 21 of the natural resources and

 

environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.2101 to 324.2162. The fees shall be

 

set by the director of the department at a rate which allows the department to recover

 

its costs for providing these services.

 

 

 

COMMUNICATION AND CUSTOMER SERVICES

 

       Sec. 14-404. For the purposes of administering the museum store as provided in

 

section 7a of 1913 PA 271, MCL 399.7a, the department is exempt from section 261 of

 

the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1261.

 


       Sec. 14-405. As appropriated in part 1, proceeds in excess of costs incurred in

 

the conduct of auctions, sales, or transfers of artifacts no longer considered

 

suitable for the collections of the state historical museum may be expended upon

 

receipt for additional material for the collection. The department shall notify the

 

chairpersons, vice chairpersons, and minority vice chairpersons of the senate and

 

house appropriations subcommittees on natural resources 1 week prior to any auctions

 

or sales. Any unexpended funds may be carried forward into the next succeeding fiscal

 

year.

 

       Sec. 14-406. As appropriated in part 1, funds collected by the department for

 

historical markers; document reproduction and services; conferences, admissions,

 

workshops, and training classes; and the use of specialized equipment, facilities,

 

exhibits, collections, and software shall be used for expenses necessary to provide

 

the required services. The department may charge fees for the aforementioned services,

 

including admission fees. Any unexpended funds may be carried forward into the next

 

succeeding fiscal year.

 

 

 

FISHERIES DIVISION

 

       Sec. 14-601. (1) From the appropriation in part 1 for aquatic resource

 

mitigation, not more than $758,000.00 shall be allocated for grants to watershed

 

councils, resource development councils, soil conservation districts, local

 

governmental units, and other nonprofit organizations for stream habitat stabilization

 

and soil erosion control.

 

       (2) The fisheries division in the department shall develop priority and cost

 

estimates for all projects recommended for grants under subsection (1).

 

       Sec. 14-603. The department shall provide an annual report to the legislature on

 

use of funding provided for cormorant management. The department shall use general

 

fund/general purpose revenue for this purpose and submit revenue appropriated in part

 


1 for cormorant management to the United States Department of Agriculture animal and

 

plant health inspection service to allow for increased taking of cormorants and their

 

nests. If any funds appropriated for cormorant management are retained by the

 

department, or other funds become available for this purpose, the department shall use

 

those funds to harass cormorants with the goal of reducing foraging attempts on fish

 

populations.

 

 

 

PARKS AND RECREATION DIVISION

 

       Sec. 14-706. The department shall work with the state budget office to ensure

 

that the funds appropriated in 2013 PA 102 for the Grand River waterway study continue

 

to be carried forward as a work project per the management and budget act, 1984 PA

 

431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594, or until the project is complete.

 

 

 

FOREST RESOURCES DIVISION

 

       Sec. 14-803. In addition to the money appropriated in part 1, the department may

 

receive and expend money from federal sources for the purpose of providing response to

 

wildfires as required by a compact with the federal government. If additional

 

expenditure authorization is required, the department shall notify the state budget

 

office that expenditure under this section is required. The department shall notify

 

the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on natural resources and the house

 

and senate fiscal agencies of the expenditures under this section by November 1, 2017.

 

       Sec. 14-807. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated from the disaster and emergency contingency fund up to $800,000.00 to

 

cover costs related to any disaster as defined in section 2 of the emergency

 

management act, 1976 PA 390, MCL 30.402.

 

       (2) Funds appropriated under subsection (1) shall not be expended unless the

 

state budget director recommends the expenditure and the department notifies the house

 


and senate committees on appropriations. By December 1 each year, the department shall

 

provide a report to the senate and house fiscal agencies and the state budget office

 

on the use of the disaster and emergency contingency fund during the prior fiscal

 

year.

 

       (3) If federal emergency management agency (FEMA) reimbursement is approved for

 

costs paid from the disaster and emergency contingency fund, the federal revenue shall

 

be deposited into the disaster and emergency contingency fund.

 

       (4) Unexpended and unencumbered funds remaining in the disaster and emergency

 

contingency fund at the close of the fiscal year shall not lapse to the general fund

 

and shall be carried forward and be available for expenditures in subsequent fiscal

 

years.

 

       Sec. 14-808. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for forest

 

management and timber market development, the department shall utilize funding made

 

available for increased harvest of timber on state forestlands. The purpose of this

 

program expansion is to expand the growth of the forest products economy.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance metrics for

 

this initiative, such as increasing the number of acres prepared for timber sale.

 

       Sec. 14-809. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for forest fire

 

equipment and forestry investment, the department shall increase funding for the

 

replacement of aging forest fire suppression equipment that is in disrepair. The

 

purpose of the program expansion is to promote rapid, reliable response to wildfires

 

to protect life, property, and timber assets.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance metrics for

 

this initiative, such as reducing average wildfire response time.

 

 

 

GRANTS

 

       Sec. 14-1001. Federal pass-through funds to local institutions and governments

 


that are received in amounts in addition to those included in part 1 for grants to

 

communities - federal oil, gas, and timber payments and that do not require additional

 

state matching funds are appropriated for the purposes intended. By November 30, 2016,

 

the department shall report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on

 

natural resources, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director

 

on all amounts appropriated under this section during the fiscal year ending September

 

30, 2016.

 

 

 

CAPITAL OUTLAY

 

       Sec. 14-1103. The appropriations in part 1 for capital outlay shall be carried

 

forward at the end of the fiscal year consistent with the provisions of section 248 of

 

the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1248.

 

 

 

ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 14-1201. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for forest

 

management and timber market development, the department shall utilize funding made

 

available for increased harvest of timber on state forestlands. The purpose of this

 

program expansion is to strategically invest in technology enhancements to expand the

 

growth of the forest products economy.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance metrics for

 

this initiative, such as adding online services to increase access to state

 

government.

 

       Sec. 14-1202. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for land

 

ownership tracking system, the department shall establish a replacement electronic

 

system to facilitate state land records management. The purpose of this new project is

 

to increase access to public land records and to integrate antiquated systems.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance metrics for

 


this initiative, such as adding online services to increase access to state

 

government.

 

       Sec. 14-1203. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for invasive

 

species prevention and control, the department shall increase funding available for

 

the interdepartmental invasive species program. The purpose of this program expansion

 

is to prevent, detect, eradicate, and control invasive species.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance metrics for

 

this initiative, such as prevention and mitigation of confirmed cases of silver and

 

bighead carp in Michigan's waterways.


Article 15

 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 15-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of state are appropriated for the fiscal year

 

ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for the fiscal year

 

ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part. The following is a

 

summary of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            1,597.0           1,597.0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    258,015,600  $    243,015,600

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................         20,000,000        20,000,000

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $    238,015,600  $    223,015,600

 

  Total federal revenues..................................          1,460,000         1,460,000

 

  Total local revenues....................................          5,000,000                 0

 

  Total private revenues..................................                100               100

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................        204,445,900       204,445,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     27,109,600  $     17,109,600

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........         17,109,600        17,109,600

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........         10,000,000                 0

 

   Sec. 15-102.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTION

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0


   Full-time equated classified positions................               30.0              30.0

 

  Secretary of State......................................   $        112,500  $        112,500

 

  Unclassified positions-5.0 FTE positions................            628,800           628,800

 

  Operations-30.0 FTE positions...........................          4,567,200         4,567,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      5,308,500  $      5,308,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Auto repair facilities fees.............................             68,700            68,700

 

  Children’s protection registry fund.....................            270,700           270,700

 

  Driver fees.............................................            276,000           276,000

 

  Expedient service fees..................................             66,300            66,300

 

  Parking ticket court fines..............................              9,200             9,200

 

  Enhanced driver license and enhanced official state

 

   personal identification card fund.....................            216,700           216,700

 

  Personal identification fee-operator license............             32,300            32,300

 

  Reinstatement fees-operator license.....................            248,900           248,900

 

  Transportation administration collection fund...........          2,499,800         2,499,800

 

  Vehicle theft prevention fees...........................             40,400            40,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,579,500  $      1,579,500

 

   Sec. 15-103.  DEPARTMENT SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              117.0             117.0

 

  Operations-117.0 FTE positions..........................   $      25,315,100  $      25,315,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     25,315,100  $     25,315,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Abandoned vehicle fees..................................            481,100           481,100

 

  Driver fees.............................................            731,000           731,000


  Driver improvement course fees..........................            308,600           308,600

 

  Enhanced driver license and enhanced official state

 

   personal identification card fund.....................            329,400           329,400

 

  Expedient service fees..................................            273,600           273,600

 

  Marine safety fund......................................             85,200            85,200

 

  Personal identification card fees.......................            193,700           193,700

 

  Reinstatement fees-operator license.....................            537,700           537,700

 

  Scrap tire fund.........................................             78,100            78,100

 

  Transportation administration collection fund...........         21,714,300        21,714,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        582,400  $        582,400

 

   Sec. 15-104.  LEGAL SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               83.0              83.0

 

  Operations-83.0 FTE positions...........................   $      14,501,500  $      14,501,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     14,501,500  $     14,501,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Auto repair facilities fees.............................          3,363,800         3,363,800

 

  Driver education provider & instructor fund.............             25,400            25,400

 

  Driver fees.............................................          2,193,800         2,193,800

 

  Driver responsibility fees..............................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  Enhanced driver license and enhanced official state

 

   personal identification card fund.....................            504,900           504,900

 

  Personal identification card fees.......................             61,700            61,700

 

  Reinstatement fees-operator license.....................          1,463,900         1,463,900

 

  Transportation administration collection fund...........          4,311,100         4,311,100

 

  Vehicle theft prevention fees...........................          1,092,600         1,092,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        484,300  $        484,300


   Sec. 15-105.  CUSTOMER DELIVERY SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            1,322.0           1,322.0

 

  Branch operations-922.0 FTE positions...................   $     85,709,100  $     85,709,100

 

  Central operations-398.0 FTE positions..................         50,115,300        50,115,300

 

  Organ donor program.....................................            129,100           129,100

 

  Credit and debit assessment service fees................          6,000,000         6,000,000

 

  Motorcycle safety education administration-2.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................            335,500           335,500

 

  Motorcycle safety education grants......................          1,800,000         1,800,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    144,089,000  $    144,089,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG-from MDOT Michigan transportation fund..............         20,000,000        20,000,000

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal funds...........................................          1,460,000         1,460,000

 

  Private funds...........................................                100               100

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Abandoned vehicle fees..................................            204,500           204,500

 

  Auto repair facilities fees.............................            910,400           910,400

 

  Child support clearance fees............................            363,600           363,600

 

  Credit and debit card service assessment................          6,000,000         6,000,000

 

  Driver fees.............................................         25,355,100        25,355,100

 

  Driver improvement course fund..........................          1,246,200         1,246,200

 

  Driver education provider & instructor fund.............             49,600            49,600

 

  Enhanced driver license and enhanced official state

 

   personal identification card fund.....................          9,021,200         9,021,200

 

  Expedient service fees..................................          2,603,600         2,603,600


  Marine safety fees......................................          1,420,400         1,420,400

 

  Michigan state police auto theft fund...................            123,700           123,700

 

  Motorcycle safety funds.................................          1,835,500         1,835,500

 

  Mobile home commission fees.............................            507,500           507,500

 

  Off road vehicle fees...................................            170,400           170,400

 

  Parking ticket court fines..............................          1,629,800         1,629,800

 

  Personal identification card fees.......................          2,319,700         2,319,700

 

  Reinstatement fees-operator license.....................          2,358,000         2,358,000

 

  Recreation passport fees................................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  Snowmobile registration fees............................            390,000           390,000

 

  Thomas Daley gift of life fund..........................             50,000            50,000

 

  Transportation administration collection fund...........         60,920,300        60,920,300

 

  Vehicle theft prevention fees...........................            742,200           742,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      3,407,200  $      3,407,200

 

   Sec. 15-106.  ELECTION REGULATION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               45.0              45.0

 

  Election administration and services-45.0 FTE positions $   7,169,100     $   7,169,100

 

  Fees to local units.....................................            109,800           109,800

 

  County clerk education and training fund................            100,000           100,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      7,378,900  $      7,378,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Notary education and training fund......................            100,000           100,000

 

  Notary fee fund.........................................            343,500           343,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      6,935,400  $      6,935,400

 

   Sec. 15-107.  DEPARTMENTWIDE APPROPRIATIONS

 

  Building occupancy charges/rent.........................   $      9,792,000  $      9,792,000


  Worker’s compensation...................................            254,400           254,400

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     10,046,400  $     10,046,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Auto repair facilities fees.............................            133,200           133,200

 

  Driver fees.............................................            708,800           708,800

 

  Enhanced driver license and enhanced official state

 

   personal identification card fund.....................            326,000           326,000

 

  Parking ticket court fines..............................            441,500           441,500

 

  Transportation administration collection fund...........          5,904,200         5,904,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      2,532,700   $     2,532,700

 

   Sec. 15-108.  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

  Information technology services and projects............   $      36,376,200  $      36,376,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     36,376,200  $     36,376,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Administrative order processing fee.....................             11,700            11,700

 

  Auto repair facilities fees.............................            129,300           129,300

 

  Driver fees.............................................            787,400           787,400

 

  Enhanced driver license and enhanced official state

 

   personal identification card fund.....................            327,500           327,500

 

  Expedient service fees..................................          1,085,100         1,085,100

 

  Parking ticket court fines..............................             89,000            89,000

 

  Personal identification card fees.......................            173,300           173,300

 

  Reinstatement fees-operator license.....................            592,300           592,300

 

  Transportation administration collection fund...........         31,411,500        31,411,500

 

  Vehicle theft prevention fees...........................            181,000           181,000


  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      1,588,100  $      1,588,100

 

   Sec. 15-109.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

  Election administration and services....................   $      15,000,000  $               0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     15,000,000  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local funding...........................................          5,000,000                 0

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     10,000,000  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 15-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $231,555,500.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 

of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $1,211,300.00. The itemized statement below

 

identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

 

  Fees to local units...................................................   $             109,800

 

  Motorcycle safety grants..............................................              1,101,500

 

  TOTAL                                                                    $           1,211,300

 

       Sec. 15-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 15-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "ATM" means automated teller machine.

 


       (b) "Department" means the department of state.

 

       (c) "Director" means the Secretary of State.

 

       (d) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (e) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

       (f) "MDOT" means the Michigan department of transportation.

 

       Sec. 15-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 15-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 15-206. The director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in

 

deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide

 

services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which

 

the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 15-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of

 

each year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year


that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 15-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 15-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare

 

and transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 15-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $2,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an


amount not to exceed $7,500,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These funds

 

are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line

 

item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA

 

431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $50,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 15-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 15-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations


subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 15-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 15-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 are $31,874,100.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $17,673,400.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $14,200,700.00.

 

 

 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

 

       Sec. 15-703. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department of state shall

 

sell copies of records including, but not limited to, records of motor vehicles, off-

 

road vehicles, snowmobiles, watercraft, mobile homes, personal identification

 

cardholders, drivers, and boat operators and shall charge $11.00 per record sold only

 

as authorized in section 208b of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.208b,

 

section 7 of 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.297, and sections 80130, 80315, 81114, and 82156 of

 

the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.80130,

 

324.80315, 324.81114, and 324.82156. The revenue received from the sale of records

 

shall be credited to the transportation administration collection fund created under

 

section 810b of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.810b.

 

       Sec. 15-704. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the secretary of state may

 

enter into agreements with the department of corrections for the manufacture of

 

vehicle registration plates 15 months before the registration year in which the

 


registration plates will be used.

 

       Sec. 15-705. (1) The department of state may accept gifts, donations,

 

contributions, and grants of money and other property from any private or public

 

source to underwrite, in whole or in part, the cost of a departmental publication that

 

is prepared and disseminated under the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1

 

to 257.923. A private or public funding source may receive written recognition in the

 

publication and may furnish a traffic safety message, subject to departmental

 

approval, for inclusion in the publication. The department may reject a gift,

 

donation, contribution, or grant. The department may furnish copies of a publication

 

underwritten, in whole or in part, by a private source to the underwriter at no

 

charge.

 

       (2) The department of state may sell and accept paid advertising for placement in

 

a departmental publication that is prepared and disseminated under the Michigan

 

vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923. The department may charge and receive

 

a fee for any advertisement appearing in a departmental publication and shall review

 

and approve the content of each advertisement. The department may refuse to accept

 

advertising from any person or organization. The department may furnish a reasonable

 

number of copies of a publication to an advertiser at no charge.

 

       (3) Pending expenditure, the funds received under this section shall be deposited

 

in the Michigan department of state publications fund created by section 211 of the

 

Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.211. Funds given, donated, or contributed

 

to the department from a private source are appropriated and allocated for the purpose

 

for which the revenue is furnished. Funds granted to the department from a public

 

source are allocated and may be expended upon receipt. The department shall not accept

 

a gift, donation, contribution, or grant if receipt is conditioned upon a commitment

 

of state funding at a future date. Revenue received from the sale of advertising is

 

appropriated and may be expended upon receipt.


       (4) Any unexpended revenues received under this section shall be carried over

 

into subsequent fiscal years and shall be available for appropriation for the purposes

 

described in this section.

 

       (5) On March 1 of each year, the department of state shall file a report with the

 

senate and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations, the senate

 

and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The report shall include all

 

of the following information:

 

       (a) The amount of gifts, contributions, donations, and grants of money received

 

by the department under this section for the prior fiscal year.

 

       (b) A listing of the expenditures made from the amounts received by the

 

department as reported in subdivision (a).

 

       (c) A listing of any gift, donation, contribution, or grant of property other

 

than funding received by the department under this section for the prior year.

 

       (d) The total revenue received from the sale of paid advertising accepted under

 

this section and a statement of the total number of advertising transactions.

 

       (6) In addition to copies delivered without charge as the secretary of state

 

considers necessary, the department of state may sell copies of manuals and other

 

publications regarding the sale, ownership, or operation or regulation of motor

 

vehicles, with amendments, at prices to be established by the secretary of state. As

 

used in this subsection, the term "manuals and other publications" includes videos and

 

propriety electronic publications. All funds received from sales of these manuals and

 

other publications shall be credited to the Michigan department of state publications

 

fund.

 

       Sec. 15-707. Funds collected by the department of state under section 211 of the

 

Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.211, are appropriated for all expenses

 

necessary to provide for the costs of the publication. Funds are allotted for

 

expenditure when they are received by the department of treasury and shall not lapse


to the general fund at the end of the fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 15-708. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department of state shall

 

use available balances at the end of the state fiscal year to provide payment to the

 

department of state police in the amount of $332,000.00 for the services provided by

 

the traffic accident records program as first appropriated in 1990 PA 196 and 1990 PA

 

208.

 

       Sec. 15-709. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department of state may

 

restrict funds from miscellaneous revenue to cover cash shortages created from normal

 

branch office operations. This amount shall not exceed $50,000.00 of the total funds

 

available in miscellaneous revenue.

 

       Sec. 15-710. (1) Commemorative and specialty license plate fee revenue collected

 

by the department of state and deposited into the transportation administration

 

collection fund created in section 810b of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL

 

257.810b, is authorized for expenditure up to the amount of revenue collected but not

 

to exceed the amount appropriated to the department of state in part 1 to administer

 

commemorative and specialty license plate programs.

 

       (2) Commemorative and specialty license plate fee revenue collected by the

 

department of state and deposited in the transportation administration collection fund

 

created in section 810b of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.810b, in

 

addition to the amount appropriated in part 1 to the department of state, shall remain

 

in the transportation administration collection fund created in section 810b of the

 

Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.810b, and be available for future

 

appropriation.

 

       Sec. 15-711. Collector plate and fund-raising registration plate revenues

 

collected by the department of state are appropriated and allotted for distribution to

 

the recipient university or public or private agency overseeing a state-sponsored goal

 

when received. Distributions shall occur on a quarterly basis or as otherwise


authorized by law. Any revenues remaining at the end of the fiscal year shall not

 

lapse to the general fund but shall remain available for distribution to the

 

university or agency in the next fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 15-712. The department of state may produce and sell copies of a training

 

video designed to inform registered automotive repair facilities of their obligations

 

under Michigan law. The price shall not exceed the cost of production and

 

distribution. The money received from the sale of training videos shall revert to the

 

department of state and be placed in the auto repair facility account.

 

       Sec. 15-713. (1) The department of state, in collaboration with the gift of life

 

transplantation society or its successor federally designated organ procurement

 

organization, may develop and administer a public information campaign concerning the

 

Michigan organ donor program.

 

       (2) The department may solicit funds from any private or public source to

 

underwrite, in whole or in part, the public information campaign authorized by this

 

section. The department may accept gifts, donations, contributions, and grants of

 

money and other property from private and public sources for this purpose. A private

 

or public funding source underwriting the public information campaign, in whole or in

 

substantial part, shall receive sponsorship credit for its financial backing.

 

       (3) Funds received under this section, including grants from state and federal

 

agencies, shall not lapse to the general fund at the end of the fiscal year but shall

 

remain available for expenditure for the purposes described in this section.

 

       (4) Funding appropriated in part 1 for the organ donor program shall be used for

 

producing a pamphlet to be distributed with driver licenses and personal

 

identification cards regarding organ donations. The funds shall be used to update and

 

print a pamphlet that will explain the organ donor program and encourage people to

 

become donors by marking a checkoff on driver license and personal identification card

 

applications.


       (5) The pamphlet shall include a return reply form addressed to the gift of life

 

organization. Funding appropriated in part 1 for the organ donor program shall be used

 

to pay for return postage costs.

 

       (6) In addition to the appropriations in part 1, the department of state may

 

receive and expend funds from the organ and tissue donation education fund for

 

administrative expenses.

 

       Sec. 15-714. (1) Except as otherwise provided under subsection (2), at least 180

 

days before closing a branch office or consolidating a branch office and at least 60

 

days before relocating a branch office, the department of state shall inform members

 

of the senate and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations and

 

legislators who represent affected areas regarding the details of the proposal. The

 

information provided shall be in written form and include all analyses done regarding

 

criteria for changes in the location of branch offices, including, but not limited to,

 

branch transactions, revenue, and the impact on citizens of the affected area. The

 

impact on citizens shall include information regarding additional distance to branch

 

office locations resulting from the plan. The written notice provided by the

 

department of state shall also include detailed estimates of costs and savings that

 

will result from the overall changes made to the branch office structure and the same

 

level of detail regarding costs for new leased facilities and expansions of current

 

leased space.

 

       (2) If the consolidation of a branch office is with another branch office that is

 

located within the same local unit of government or the relocation of a branch office

 

is to another location that is located within the same local unit of government, the

 

department of state is not required to provide the notification or written information

 

described in subsection (1).

 

       (3) As used in this section, "local unit of government" means a city, village,

 

township, or county.


       Sec. 15-715. (1) Any service assessment collected by the department of state from

 

the user of a credit or debit card under section 3 of 1995 PA 144, MCL 11.23, may be

 

used by the department for necessary expenses related to that service and may be

 

remitted to a credit or debit card company, bank, or other financial institution.

 

       (2) The service assessment imposed by the department of state for credit and

 

debit card services may be based either on a percentage of each individual credit or

 

debit card transaction, or on a flat rate per transaction, or both, scaled to the

 

amount of the transaction. However, the department shall not charge any amount for a

 

service assessment which exceeds the costs billable to the department for service

 

assessments.

 

       (3) If there is a balance of service assessments received from credit and debit

 

card services remaining on September 30, the balance may be carried forward to the

 

following fiscal year and appropriated for the same purpose.

 

       (4) As used in this section, "service assessment" means and includes costs

 

associated with service fees imposed by credit and debit card companies and processing

 

fees imposed by banks and other financial institutions.

 

       Sec. 15-717. (1) The department of state may accept nonmonetary gifts, donations,

 

or contributions of property from any private or public source to support, in whole or

 

in part, the operation of a departmental function relating to licensing, regulation or

 

safety. The department may recognize a private or public contributor for making the

 

contribution. The department may reject a gift, donation, or contribution.

 

       (2) The department of state shall not accept a gift, donation, or contribution

 

under subsection (1) if receipt of the gift, donation, or contribution is conditioned

 

upon a commitment of future state funding.

 

       (3) On March 1 of each year, the department of state shall file a report with the

 

senate and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations, the senate

 

and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The report shall list any


gift, donation, or contribution received by the department under subsection (1) for

 

the prior calendar year.

 

       Sec. 15-721. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department of state may

 

collect ATM commission fees from companies that have ATMs located in secretary of

 

state branch offices. The commission received from the use of these ATMs shall be

 

credited to the transportation administration collection fund created under section

 

810b of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.810b.

 

       Sec. 15-722. From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for information

 

technology services and projects, the department shall establish a legacy

 

modernization project beginning in the current year. The purpose of this program

 

expansion is modernization of the entire system and removal of existing programs from

 

the legacy mainframes.

 

       Sec. 15-723. From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for elections

 

administration and services, the department shall establish funding available for the

 

replacement of voting machines. The purpose of this program expansion is replacement

 

of existing voting machines in the local jurisdictions.


Article 16

 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 16-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of state police are appropriated for the fiscal

 

year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for the fiscal

 

year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part. The following

 

is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                3.0               3.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            3,250.0           3,250.0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    658,726,100  $    650,250,300

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................         26,580,400        26,580,400

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $    632,145,700  $    623,669,900

 

  Total federal revenues..................................         87,967,800        87,967,800

 

  Total local revenues....................................          5,828,500         5,828,500

 

  Total private revenues..................................             78,100            78,100

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................        126,358,500       126,358,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    411,912,800  $    403,437,000

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........        396,162,800       403,437,000

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........         15,750,000                 0

 

   Sec. 16-102.  UNCLASSIFIED POSITIONS

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                3.0               3.0


  Unclassified positions..................................   $         600,200  $         600,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $        600,200  $        600,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................              7,400             7,400

 

  State restricted revenues...............................            388,100           388,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        204,700  $        204,700

 

   Sec. 16-103.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTION AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              103.0             103.0

 

  Executive direction and departmental services...........   $      78,051,300  $      78,051,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     78,051,300  $     78,051,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................            769,100           769,100

 

  Federal revenues........................................          1,328,000         1,328,000

 

  Local revenues..........................................          1,133,100         1,133,100

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         12,231,400        12,231,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     62,589,700  $     62,589,700

 

       Schedule of programs:

 

     Departmentwide......................................         38,607,700        38,607,700

 

     Departmental services...............................          7,001,900         7,001,900

 

     Executive direction.................................          8,015,800         8,015,800

 

     Information technology services and projects........         24,425,900        24,425,900

 

   Sec. 16-104.  LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              505.0             505.0

 

  Law enforcement services................................   $      98,802,100  $      98,802,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     98,802,100  $     98,802,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................          6,216,500         6,216,500


  Federal revenues........................................         17,261,400        17,261,400

 

  Local revenues..........................................            915,300           915,300

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         35,084,000        35,084,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     39,324,900  $     39,324,900

 

       Schedule of programs:

 

     Biometrics and identification.......................          8,145,400         8,145,400

 

     Criminal justice information center ................         18,485,400        18,485,400

 

     Forensic science....................................         41,556,700        41,556,700

 

     Grants and community services.......................         17,584,000        17,584,000

 

     Training............................................         13,030,600        13,030,600

 

   Sec. 16-105.  COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT STANDARDS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               18.0              18.0

 

  Commission on law enforcement standards.................   $       9,899,700  $       9,899,700

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      9,899,700  $      9,899,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Federal revenues........................................            175,700           175,700

 

  State restricted revenues...............................          8,830,700         8,830,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        893,300  $        893,300

 

       Schedule of programs:

 

     Public safety officers benefit program..............            151,100           151,100

 

     Standards and training/justice training grants......          9,094,500         9,094,500

 

     Training only to local units........................            654,100           654,100

 

   Sec. 16-106.  FIELD SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            2,109.0           2,109.0

 

  Field services..........................................   $     317,783,300  $     325,057,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    317,783,300  $    325,057,500

 

     Appropriated from:


  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................          6,776,800         6,776,800

 

  Federal revenues........................................          6,590,000         6,590,000

 

  Local revenues..........................................          2,079,000         2,079,000

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         44,556,900        44,556,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    257,780,600  $    265,054,800

 

       Schedule of programs:

 

     Casino gaming oversight.............................          6,012,000         6,012,000

 

     General law enforcement and criminal investigations.        306,475,600       313,749,800

 

     Tobacco tax fraud investigations....................          5,295,700         5,295,700

 

   Sec. 16-107.  SPECIALIZED SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              514.0             514.0

 

   Specialized services..................................   $     126,771,500  $     126,771,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    126,771,500  $    126,771,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  Interdepartmental grant revenues........................         12,810,600        12,810,600

 

  Federal revenues........................................         62,612,700        62,612,700

 

  Local revenues..........................................          1,701,100         1,701,100

 

  Private revenues........................................             78,100            78,100

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         14,199,400        14,199,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     35,369,600   $    35,369,600

 

       Schedule of programs:

 

     Commercial vehicle enforcement......................         28,378,700        28,378,700

 

     Emergency management and homeland security..........         50,048,200        50,048,200

 

     Highway safety planning.............................         16,130,000        16,130,000

 

     Special operations..................................         32,214,600        32,214,600

 

   Sec. 16-108.  SECONDARY ROAD PATROL

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                1.0               1.0


   Secondary road patrol.................................   $      11,068,000  $      11,068,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     11,068,000  $     11,068,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  State restricted revenues...............................         11,068,000        11,068,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 16-109.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

  One-time appropriations.................................   $      15,750,000  $               0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     15,750,000  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     15,750,000  $              0

 

       Schedule of programs:

 

     Disaster and emergency contingency fund.............          6,000,000                 0

 

     Homeland security – energy disaster.................            750,000                 0

 

     School safety initiative............................          4,000,000                 0

 

     Sexual assault prevention and education initiative..            500,000                 0

 

     Trooper school......................................          4,500,000                 0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 16-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $538,271,300.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 

of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $19,198,900.00. The itemized statement

 

below identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will

 


occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE

 

  Commission on law enforcement standards...............................   $           3,559,700

 

  Specialized services..................................................                681,900

 

  Secondary road patrol program.........................................             10,957,300

 

  Local public safety initiative........................................              4,000,000

 

  TOTAL                                                                    $          19,198,900

 

       Sec. 16-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 16-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "CJIS" means criminal justice information systems.

 

       (b) "Core service" means that phrase as defined in section 373 of the management

 

and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1373.

 

       (c) "Department" means the department of state police.

 

       (d) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (e) "DNA" means deoxyribonucleic acid.

 

       (f) "DTMB" means the department of technology, management and budget.

 

       (g) "MCOLES" means Michigan commission on law enforcement standards.

 

       (h) "Support service" means an activity required to support the ongoing delivery

 

of core services.

 

       Sec. 16-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 16-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality


American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 16-206. The director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in

 

deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide

 

services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which

 

the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 16-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of

 

each year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 16-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does


not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 16-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare

 

and transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 16-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $3,500,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These funds

 

are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line

 

item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA

 

431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article  under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $200,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in


this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 16-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 16-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 16-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 16-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $133,307,100.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $71,007,700.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $62,299,400.00.


       Sec. 16-215. Based on the availability of federal funding and demonstrated need

 

as indicated by applications submitted to the state court administrative office, the

 

department shall provide $1,500,000.00 in Byrne justice assistance grant program

 

funding to the judiciary by interdepartmental grant.

 

       Sec. 16-216. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the schedule

 

of programs in part 1 lists programs which may, but are not required to be, funded

 

under this part or part 1.

 

       (2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this part, the schedule of revenue

 

sources in part 1 may or may not be received from the funding entities listed or in

 

the amounts listed.

 

       (3) The secondary road patrol funding is not subject to funding flexibility and

 

shall be funded in accordance with section 629e of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA

 

300, MCL 257.629e.

 

       (4) Any funding required by statute is not subject to funding flexibility and

 

shall be funded in accordance with that statute.

 

       Sec. 16-217. The department shall provide quarterly reports to the subcommittees,

 

the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office that provide the

 

following data:

 

       (a) A list of major work projects, including the status of each project.

 

       (b) The department’s financial status, featuring a report of budgeted versus

 

actual expenditures by part 1 line item including a year-end projection of budget

 

requirements. If projected department budget requirements exceed the allocated budget,

 

the report shall include a plan to reduce overall expenses while still satisfying

 

specified service level requirements.

 

       (c) A report on the performance metrics cited or information required to be

 

reported in this part, reasons for nonachievement of metric targets, and proposed

 

corrective actions.


       (d) A summary of fund shifts, that have been approved by the state budget office,

 

that have occurred between items listed in the schedule of programs on a quarterly

 

basis to the subcommittees and the senate and house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 16-218. The appropriations in part 1 are for the core services, support

 

services, and work projects of the department, including, but not limited to, the

 

following core services:

 

       (a) State security operations.

 

       (b) Training.

 

       (c) Commission on law enforcement standards.

 

       (d) Criminal justice information systems.

 

       (e) Forensic analysis and biometric identification.

 

       (f) General law enforcement and criminal investigations.

 

       (g) Special operations.

 

       (h) Commercial vehicle regulation and enforcement.

 

       (i) Emergency management and homeland security.

 

       (j) Highway safety planning.

 

       (k) Secondary road patrol program.

 

       Sec. 16-219. (1) When the department provides contractual services to a local

 

unit of government, the department shall be reimbursed for all costs incurred in

 

providing the services, including, but not limited to, retirement and overtime costs.

 

       (2) The department shall define service cost models for those services requiring

 

reimbursement.

 

       (3) Contractual services provided to an entity other than a local unit of

 

government may be provided by department personnel, but only on an overtime basis

 

outside the normal work schedule of the personnel.

 

       (4) This section does not apply to services provided to state agencies.

 

       Sec. 16-220. The department shall serve as an active liaison between the DTMB and


state, local, regional, and federal public safety agencies on matters pertaining to

 

the Michigan public safety communications system and shall report user issues to the

 

DTMB.

 

       Sec. 16-221. Money privately donated to the department is appropriated under part

 

1 to be used for the purposes designated by the donor of the money, if specified.

 

 

 

EXECUTIVE DIRECTION AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICES

 

       Sec. 16-301. (1) The department shall provide security services at the state

 

capitol complex facilities and state secondary complex as provided under section 6c of

 

1935 PA 59, MCL 28.6c.

 

       (2) The department shall maintain the staff and resources necessary to respond to

 

emergencies at the state capitol complex, state secondary complex, house office

 

building, Farnum building, capitol parking lot, Townsend parking ramp, the Roosevelt

 

parking ramp, and other areas as directed.

 

       (3) The department may develop a phased approach for improving security at the

 

capitol building.

 

       (4) The department shall maintain a goal of annually conducting 35,000 property

 

inspections of state owned and leased facilities.

 

 

 

LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES

 

       Sec. 16-400. The department shall provide administrative support for the

 

following grant and community service programs:

 

       (a) The operations of the automobile theft prevention authority.

 

       (b) Administration of the Edward Byrne memorial justice assistance program and

 

other grant programs, as well as the department’s community policing efforts.

 

       (c) Oversight and administration of 9-1-1 operations statewide.

 

       Sec. 16-401. (1) The department shall develop and deliver professional,

 


innovative, and quality training that supports the enforcement and public safety

 

efforts of the criminal justice community.

 

       (2) The department shall provide the following performance data as provided under

 

section 219 for average classroom occupancy rate, with an annual goal of 55%.

 

       (3) The department shall submit a report to the subcommittees and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies within 60 days of the conclusion of any trooper, motor carrier,

 

or state properties security recruit school. The report shall include the following:

 

       (a) The number of veterans and the number of MCOLES-certified police officers who

 

were admitted to and the number who graduated from the recruit school.

 

       (b) The total number of recruits who were admitted to the school, the number of

 

recruits who graduated from the school, and the location at which each of these

 

recruits is assigned.

 

       (4) The department shall distribute and review course evaluations to ensure that

 

quality training is provided.

 

       Sec. 16-402. (1) In accordance with applicable state and federal laws and

 

regulations, the department shall maintain and ensure compliance with CJIS databases

 

and applications in the support of public safety and law enforcement communities.

 

       (2) The department shall improve the accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of

 

criminal history information by conducting a minimum of 30 outreach activities

 

targeted to criminal justice agencies.

 

       (3) The department shall provide for the compilation of crime statistics

 

consistent with the uniform crime reporting program and the national incident-based

 

report system.

 

       (4) The department shall provide for the compilation and evaluation of traffic

 

crash reports and the maintenance of the state accident data collection system.

 

       (5) The department shall make traffic crash information available to the public

 

at a reasonable cost. For bulk access to the accident records in which the vehicle


identification number has been collected and computerized, the department shall make

 

those records available to the public at cost, provided that the name and address have

 

been excluded.

 

       (6) In accordance with applicable state and federal laws and regulations, the

 

department shall provide for the maintenance and dissemination of criminal history

 

records and juvenile records, including to the extent necessary to exchange criminal

 

history records information with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other states

 

through the interstate identification index, the National Crime Information Center,

 

and other federal CJIS databases and indices.

 

       (7) In accordance with applicable state and federal laws, the department shall

 

provide for the maintenance of records, including criminal history records regarding

 

firearms licensure.

 

       (8) The department shall maintain the staff and resources necessary to maintain

 

the sex offender registry and enforce the registration requirements as provided by

 

law.

 

       (9) The department shall provide information on the number of background checks

 

processed through the Internet criminal history access tool (ICHAT) as provided in

 

section 219.

 

       (10) The following unexpended and unencumbered revenues deposited into the

 

criminal justice information service fee fund shall not lapse to the general fund, but

 

shall be carried forward into the subsequent fiscal year:

 

       (a) Fees for fingerprinting and criminal record checks and name-based criminal

 

record checks pursuant to 1935 PA 120, MCL 28.271 to 28.273.

 

       (b) Fees for application and licensing for initial and renewal concealed pistol

 

licenses pursuant to 1927 PA 372, MCL 28.421 to 28.435.

 

       (c) Fees for searching, copying, and providing public records pursuant to the

 

freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.


       (d) Revenue from other sources, including, but not limited to, investment and

 

interest earnings.

 

       (11) Unexpended and unencumbered revenue generated by state records management

 

system fees shall not lapse to the general fund, but shall be carried forward into the

 

subsequent fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 16-403. (1) The department shall provide forensic testing services to aid in

 

criminal investigations.

 

       (2) The department shall ensure its ability to maintain accreditation by the

 

American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board

 

(ASCLD/LAB), or other federally designated accrediting agency, as provided under 42

 

USC 14132.

 

       (3) The department shall provide forensic science services with an average

 

turnaround time of 55 days, assuming an annual caseload volume commensurate with that

 

received in fiscal year 2012-2013, and shall achieve a goal of a 30-day average

 

turnaround time across all forensic science disciplines by December 31, 2016.

 

       (4) The department shall provide the following data as provided in section 219:

 

       (a) The average turnaround time for processing forensic evidence across all

 

disciplines.

 

       (b) Forensic laboratory staffing levels, including scientists in training, and

 

vacancies.

 

       (c) The number of backlogged cases in each discipline.

 

       (5) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to provide

 

forensic laboratory services with a goal of decreasing firearms backlog by 20%

 

annually until the department maintains a 30-day turnaround time across disciplines,

 

assuming an annual caseload volume of 5,200 cases received.

 

       (6) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to provide

 

forensic laboratory services with a goal of decreasing the backlog of toxicology cases


per year until the department maintains a 30-day turnaround time across all

 

disciplines assuming an annual caseload volume of 20,000 cases received.

 

       (7) If changes are made to the department’s protocol for retaining and purging

 

DNA analysis samples and records, the department shall post a copy of the protocol

 

changes on the department’s website.

 

       (8) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to provide

 

forensic laboratory services with a goal of decreasing the backlog of biology/DNA

 

cases per year until the department maintains a 30-day turnaround time across all

 

disciplines, assuming an annual caseload volume of 10,500 biology/DNA cases received.

 

       Sec. 16-404. (1) The biometrics and identification division shall house and

 

manage the automated fingerprint identification system, the statewide network of

 

agency photographs, and combined offender DNA index system biometric databases.

 

       (2) The department shall provide data on the number of 10-print and palm-print

 

submissions to the database, with a goal of at least 97% of submissions provided

 

electronically as provided in section 219.

 

       (3) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to have a

 

28-day average wait time for scheduling a polygraph examination, assuming an annual

 

caseload received commensurate with fiscal year 2012-2013, with a goal of achieving a

 

15-day average wait time.

 

       (4) The department shall provide information on the number of fingerprint checks

 

processed as provided in section 219.

 

       Sec. 16-405. Not later than October 31 of the subsequent fiscal year, the

 

department shall submit a report to the subcommittees and senate and house fiscal

 

agencies that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following information:

 

       (a) Sexual assault kit analysis backlog at the beginning of the current fiscal

 

year.

 

       (b) The number of sexual assault kits collected or submitted for analysis during


the current fiscal year.

 

       (c) The number of sexual assault kits analyzed and the number of associated DNA

 

profiles created and uploaded during the current fiscal year.

 

       (d) Sexual assault kit analysis backlog at the ending of the current fiscal year.

 

       (e) The average turnaround time to analyze sexual assault kits and to create and

 

upload associated DNA profiles for the current fiscal year.

 

 

 

COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT STANDARDS

 

       Sec. 16-501. (1) MCOLES shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to

 

exercise the authority, powers, functions, and responsibilities necessary to establish

 

standards for the selection, employment, training, education, licensing, and

 

revocation of all law enforcement officers and provide the basic law enforcement

 

training curriculum for law enforcement training academy programs statewide.

 

       (2) MCOLES shall maintain staffing and resources necessary to update law

 

enforcement standards within 120 days of the effective date of any new legislation.

 

 

 

FIELD SERVICES

 

       Sec. 16-601. (1) Department enlisted personnel who are employed to enforce

 

traffic laws as provided in section 629e of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300,

 

MCL 257.629e, shall not be prohibited from responding to crimes in progress or other

 

emergency situations and are responsible for making every effort to protect all

 

residents of this state.

 

       (2) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to

 

continually work to enhance traffic safety throughout the state and shall dedicate a

 

minimum of 396,700 hours to statewide patrol, of which a minimum of 40,000 shall be

 

committed to distressed cities in this state, and 4,000 shall be committed to Belle

 

Isle. The department shall work to improve public safety efforts within distressed

 


cities by enhancing data analysis capabilities and identifying crime trend and areas

 

with high occurrences of crime.

 

       (3) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to perform

 

activities to maintain a 93% compliance rate for reporting by registered sex

 

offenders.

 

       (4) The department shall submit a report on or before December 1 to the

 

subcommittees and senate and house fiscal agencies regarding the secure cities

 

partnership during the prior fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 16-602. (1) The department shall identify and apprehend criminals through

 

criminal investigations in this state.

 

       (2) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to provide

 

a comparable number of hours investigating crimes as those performed in fiscal year

 

2012-2013.

 

       (3) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to

 

annually meet or exceed a case clearance rate of 62%.

 

       (4) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to

 

increase the number of opioid-related investigations by 25% above the number of such

 

investigations conducted in the 2014-15 fiscal year conducted by multi-jurisdictional

 

task forces and hometown security teams. The department shall work to enhance

 

investigative and drug interdiction efforts by enhancing data analysis capabilities

 

and linking investigations among multi-jurisdictional task forces and hometown

 

security teams.

 

       Sec. 16-603. (1) The department shall provide protection to this state, its

 

economy, welfare, and vital state-sponsored programs through the prevention and

 

suppression of organized smuggling of untaxed tobacco products in the state, through

 

enforcement of the tobacco products tax act, 1993 PA 327, MCL 205.421 to 205.436, and

 

other laws pertaining to combating criminal activity in this state, by maintaining a


tobacco tax enforcement unit.

 

       (2) The department shall submit an annual report on December 1 to the

 

subcommittees, the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on general

 

government, senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office that details

 

expenditures and activities related to tobacco tax enforcement for the prior fiscal

 

year.

 

       (3) The tobacco tax enforcement unit shall dedicate a minimum of 16,600 hours to

 

tobacco tax enforcement.

 

       Sec. 16-604. (1) The department shall provide fire investigation services to

 

citizens of this state through training and investigative assistance to public safety

 

agencies in this state.

 

       (2) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to

 

maintain readiness to respond appropriately to at least the number of requests for

 

fire investigation services that occurred in fiscal year 2010-2011 and shall be

 

available for call out statewide 100% of the time.

 

 

 

SPECIALIZED SERVICES

 

       Sec. 16-701. (1) The department shall provide specialized services in support of,

 

and to enhance, local, state, and federal law enforcement operations within this state

 

in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws and regulations.

 

       (2) The department shall operate the Michigan intelligence operation center for

 

homeland security as the state’s primary federally designated fusion center to

 

receive, analyze, gather, and disseminate threat-related information among federal,

 

state, local, tribal, and private sector partners.

 

       (3) The department shall ensure public safety by providing public and private

 

sector partners with timely and accurate information regarding critical information

 

key resource threats as reported to or discovered by the Michigan intelligence

 


operations center for homeland security and shall increase public awareness on how to

 

report suspicious activity through website or telephone communications.

 

       (4) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to provide

 

training to maintain readiness to respond appropriately to at least the number of

 

requests for specialty services which occurred in fiscal year 2010-2011.

 

       (5) The canine unit shall be available for call out statewide 100% of the time.

 

       (6) The bomb squad unit shall be available for call out statewide 100% of the

 

time.

 

       (7) The emergency support teams shall be available for call out statewide 100% of

 

the time.

 

       (8) The underwater recovery unit shall be available for call out statewide 100%

 

of the time.

 

       (9) Aviation services shall be available for call out statewide 100% of the time,

 

unless prohibited by weather or unexpected mechanical breakdowns.

 

       (10) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to

 

support the cyber section, including the Michigan cyber command center, the computer

 

crimes unit, and the Internet crimes against children task force. The department shall

 

maintain the staffing and resources necessary to increase the number of cases

 

completed by the computer crimes unit by 25% above the number of cases completed in

 

the 2014-2015 fiscal year. The unit shall pursue process improvement initiatives to

 

effectively utilize staff resources in providing investigatory assistance and

 

evidentiary analysis for law enforcement and criminal justice agencies statewide.

 

       Sec. 16-702. (1) The department shall maintain commercial vehicle regulation,

 

school bus inspections and enforcement activities, including enforcement of

 

requirements concerning size, weight, and load restrictions; operating authority;

 

registration; fuel taxes; the transportation of hazardous materials; the operations of

 

new entrants; and commercial driver’s licenses.


       (2) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to meet

 

inspection goals consistent with the department’s federal motor carrier assistance

 

program activities.

 

       Sec. 16-703. (1) The department shall coordinate the mitigation, preparation,

 

response, and recovery activities of municipal, county, state, and federal

 

governments, and other governmental entities, for all hazards, disasters, and

 

emergencies.

 

       (2) The state director of emergency management may expend money appropriated

 

under part 1 to call upon any agency or department of the state or any resource of the

 

state to protect life or property or to provide for the health or safety of the

 

population in any area of the state in which the governor proclaims a state of

 

emergency or state of disaster under 1945 PA 302, MCL 10.31 to 10.33, or under the

 

emergency management act, 1976 PA 390, MCL 30.401 to 30.421. The state director of

 

emergency management may expend the amounts the director considers necessary to

 

accomplish these purposes. The director shall submit to the state budget director as

 

soon as possible a complete report of all actions taken under the authority of this

 

section. The report shall contain, as a separate item, a statement of all money

 

expended that is not reimbursable from federal money. The state budget director shall

 

review the expenditures and submit recommendations to the legislature in regard to any

 

possible need for a supplemental appropriation.

 

       (3) In addition to the money appropriated in part 1, the department may receive

 

and expend money from local, private, federal, or state sources for the purpose of

 

providing emergency management training to local or private interests and for the

 

purpose of supporting emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation

 

activity. If additional expenditure authorization in the Michigan administrative

 

information network is approved by the state budget office under this section, the

 

department and the state budget office shall notify the subcommittees and the senate


and house fiscal agencies within 10 days after the approval. The notification shall

 

include the amount and source and the additional authorization, the date of its

 

approval, and the projected use of funds to be expended under the authorization.

 

       (4) The department shall foster, promote, and maintain partnerships to protect

 

this state and homeland from all hazards.

 

       (5) The department shall maintain the staffing and resources necessary to do all

 

of the following:

 

       (a) Serve approximately 105 local emergency management preparedness programs and

 

88 local emergency planning committees in this state.

 

       (b) Operate and maintain the state’s emergency operations center and provide

 

command and control in support of emergency response services.

 

       (c) Maintain readiness, including training and equipment to respond to civil

 

disorders and natural disasters commensurate with the capabilities of fiscal year

 

2010-2011.

 

       (d) Perform hazardous materials response training.

 

       (6) The department shall conduct a minimum of 3 training sessions to enhance safe

 

response in the event of natural or manmade incidents, emergencies, or disasters.

 

       (7) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated from

 

the disaster and emergency contingency fund an amount necessary to cover costs related

 

to any disaster or emergency as defined in the emergency management act, 1976 PA 390,

 

MCL 30.401 to 30.421. Funds shall be expended as provided under sections 18 and 19 of

 

the emergency management act, 1976 PA 390, MCL 30.418 and 30.419, and R 30.51 to R

 

30.61 of the Michigan administrative code.

 

       (8) Funds in the disaster and emergency contingency fund shall not be expended

 

unless the state budget director approves the expenditure and the department and the

 

state budget office notify the senate and house appropriations committees.

 

       Sec. 16-704. The department shall provide for the planning, administration, and


implementation of highway traffic safety programs to save lives and reduce injuries on

 

Michigan roads in partnership with other public and private organizations.

 

 

 

SECONDARY ROAD PATROL PROGRAM

 

       Sec. 16-801. (1) The department shall provide funding to county sheriff

 

departments to patrol secondary roads.

 

       (2) The sheriffs’ duties under the secondary road patrol program, as outlined in

 

section 76(2) of 1846 RS 14, MCL 51.76, are to patrol and monitor traffic violations;

 

to enforce the criminal laws of this state, violations of which are observed by or

 

brought to the attention of the sheriff’s department while patrolling and monitoring

 

secondary roads; to investigate accidents involving motor vehicles; and to provide

 

emergency assistance to persons on or near a highway or road the sheriff is patrolling

 

and monitoring.

 

       (3) The department shall provide the following information on secondary road

 

patrol activities supported by appropriations in part 1:

 

       (a) The number of funded full-time equivalent county sheriff secondary road

 

patrol deputies.

 

       (b) The number of hours dedicated to patrol under the secondary road patrol

 

program, with an annual goal of at least 178,000 hours.

 

       (4) The information required to be reported under subsection (3) shall be

 

reported on an annual basis.

 

 

 

ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 16-901. (1) Funding  appropriated in part 1 for one-time appropriations for

 

local public safety initiative shall be used to provide competitive grants to public

 

or nonpublic schools, school districts, intermediate school districts, and county

 

sheriff’s departments to purchase technology and equipment to improve the safety and

 


security of school buildings, students, and staff.

 

       (2) Of the grant funds awarded, up to 20 percent shall be awarded to county

 

sheriff’s department, with the balance awarded to public or nonpublic schools, school

 

districts, or intermediate school districts without bias toward public or nonpublic

 

institutions.

 

       (3) The department shall issue grant guidance and application materials including

 

required performance measures no later than November 1, 2016, and shall issue awards

 

no later than February 28, 2017.

 

       (4) The department shall report on grant activities to the subcommittees and the

 

state budget office by December 1, 2017 including performance outcomes as identified

 

in individual grant agreements.


Article 17

 

TALENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 17-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this article for the department of talent and economic development are

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated

 

in this part. The following is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated

 

appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF TALENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            1,609.0           1,609.0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $  1,142,494,300  $  1,112,915,800

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................                  0                 0

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $  1,142,494,300  $  1,112,915,800

 

  Total federal revenues..................................        773,944,800       763,344,800

 

  Total local revenues....................................            500,000           500,000

 

  Total private revenues..................................          5,619,000         5,619,000

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................        192,341,600       188,363,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    170,088,900  $    155,088,900

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........        155,088,900       155,088,900

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........         15,000,000                 0

 

   Sec. 17-102.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTION


   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                1.0               1.0

 

  Unclassified positions-6.0 FTE positions................   $        897,400  $        897,400

 

  Executive direction and operations-1.0 FTE position.....            812,900           812,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      1,710,300  $      1,710,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal funds...........................................          1,179,200         1,179,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State restricted funds..................................            400,800           400,800

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        130,300  $        130,300

 

   Sec. 17-103.  MICHIGAN STRATEGIC FUND

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              194.0             194.0

 

  Administrative services-34.0 FTE positions..............   $      5,743,600  $      5,743,600

 

  Job creation services-160.0 FTE positions...............         22,198,400        22,198,400

 

  Pure Michigan...........................................         33,000,000        33,000,000

 

  Entrepreneurship eco-system.............................         19,400,000        19,400,000

 

  Business attraction and community revitalization........        102,500,000       102,500,000

 

  Community development block grants......................         47,000,000        47,000,000

 

  Arts and cultural program...............................         10,150,000        10,150,000

 

  Community colleges skilled trades equipment program.....          4,600,000         4,600,000

 

  Facility for rare isotope beams.........................          7,300,000         7,300,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    251,892,000  $    251,892,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal funds...........................................         53,436,600        53,436,600

 

   Special revenue funds:


  Private funds...........................................            350,000           350,000

 

  State restricted funds..................................         80,014,500        80,014,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    118,090,900  $    118,090,900

 

   Sec. 17-104.  TALENT INVESTMENT AGENCY

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            1,092.0           1,092.0

 

  Executive direction-7.0 FTE positions...................   $      1,175,600  $      1,175,600

 

  Workforce program administration-225.0 FTE positions....         33,169,900        33,169,900

 

  Workforce development programs..........................        387,022,900       387,022,900

 

  Skilled trades training program.........................         35,600,000        35,600,000

 

  Community Ventures-7.0 FTE positions....................          9,800,000         9,800,000

 

  Unemployment insurance agency-853.0 FTE positions.......        139,065,500       139,065,500

 

  Talent investment agency information technology services

 

   and projects..........................................         22,501,000        22,501,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    628,334,900  $    628,334,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal funds...........................................        540,869,000       540,869,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local funds.............................................            500,000           500,000

 

  Private funds...........................................          5,269,000         5,269,000

 

  State restricted funds..................................         48,787,800        48,787,800

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     32,909,100  $     32,909,100

 

   Sec. 17-105.  LAND BANK FAST TRACK AUTHORITY

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                6.0               6.0

 

  Land bank fast track authority-6.0 FTE positions........   $       5,256,400  $       5,256,400

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      5,256,400  $      5,256,400

 

     Appropriated from:


   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal funds...........................................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State restricted funds..................................            297,800           297,800

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      3,958,600  $      3,958,600

 

   Sec. 17-106.  MICHIGAN STATE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              316.0             316.0

 

  Payments on behalf of tenants...........................   $    166,860,000  $    166,860,000

 

  Housing and rental assistance–316.0 FTE positions.......         51,248,200        51,248,200

 

  Lighthouse preservation program.........................            307,500           307,500

 

  Rent and administrative support.........................          3,721,000         3,721,000

 

  Michigan state housing development authority

 

   technology services and projects......................          3,585,500         3,585,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    225,722,200  $    225,722,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal funds...........................................        166,860,000       166,860,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State restricted funds..................................         58,862,200        58,862,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

    Sec. 17-107.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

  Business attraction and community revitalization........   $     13,000,000  $              0

 

  Community Ventures – challenge match....................          2,000,000                 0

 

  Statewide data system integration.......................          8,778,500                 0

 

  Financial literacy pilot................................          5,800,000                 0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     29,578,500  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:


   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal funds...........................................         10,600,000                 0

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State restricted funds..................................          3,978,500                 0

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     15,000,000  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 17-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $362,430,500.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 

of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $11,224,800.00. The itemized statement

 

below identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will

 

occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF TALENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

 

  Workforce development programs........................................   $          11,224,800

 

  TOTAL                                                                    $          11,224,800

 

       Sec. 17-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 17-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "Department" means the department of talent and economic development.

 

       (b) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (c) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (d) "Fund" means the Michigan strategic fund.

 


       (e) "MEDC" means the Michigan economic development corporation, which is the

 

public body corporate created under section 28 of article VII of the state

 

constitution of 1963 and the urban cooperation act of 1967, 1967 (Ex Sess) PA 7, MCL

 

124.501 to 124.512, by contractual interlocal agreement effective April 5, 1999,

 

between local participating economic development corporations formed under the

 

economic development corporations act, 1974 PA 338, MCL 125.1601 to 125.1636, and the

 

Michigan strategic fund.

 

       (f) "PATH" means Partnership. Accountability. Training. Hope.

 

       Sec. 17-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this part. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 17-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 17-206. The director of each department and agency receiving appropriations

 

in part 1 shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in deprived and

 

depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide services or

 

supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which the

 

department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.


       Sec. 17-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of

 

each year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 17-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 17-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare

 

and transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 17-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $ 30,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.


These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $ 10,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These

 

funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another

 

line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $ 2,000,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $ 2,000,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 17-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.


       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 17-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 17-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 17-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $35,083,100.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $19,452,700.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $15,630,400.00.

 

       Sec. 17-215. Federal pass-through funds to local institutions and governments

 

that are received in amounts in addition to those included in part 1 and that do not

 

require additional state matching funds are appropriated for the purposes intended.

 

The department may carry forward into the succeeding fiscal year unexpended federal

 

pass-through funds to local institutions and governments that do not require

 

additional state matching funds. The department shall report the amount and source of

 

the funds to the senate and house appropriation subcommittees on general government,

 

the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office within 10 business

 

days after receiving any additional pass-through funds.

 

       Sec. 17-235. By April 1, the state budget director shall submit a report to the

 

senate and house appropriations committees and the senate and house fiscal agencies.


The report shall recommend a contingency plan for each federal funding source included

 

in the state budget of $10,000,000.00 or more in the event that the federal government

 

reduces funding to the state through that source by 10% or greater.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN STATE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

 

       Sec. 17-994. In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, the funds collected

 

by state historic preservation programs for document reproduction and services and

 

application fees are appropriated for all expenses necessary to provide the required

 

services. These funds are available for expenditure when they are received and may be

 

carried forward into the succeeding fiscal year.

 

 

 

LAND BANK FAST TRACK AUTHORITY

 

       Sec. 17-995. In addition to the amounts appropriated in part 1, the land bank

 

fast track authority may expend revenues received under the land bank fast track act,

 

2003 PA 258, MCL 124.751 to 124.774, for the purposes authorized by the act,

 

including, but not limited to, the acquisition, lease, management, demolition,

 

maintenance, or rehabilitation of real or personal property, payment of debt service

 

for notes or bonds issued by the authority, and other expenses to clear or quiet title

 

property held by the authority.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN STRATEGIC FUND

 

       Sec. 17-1005. In addition to the appropriations in part 1, Travel Michigan may

 

receive and expend private revenue related to the use of "Pure Michigan" and all other

 

copyrighted slogans and images. This revenue may come from the direct licensing of the

 

name and image or from the royalty payments from various merchandise sales. Revenue

 

collected is appropriated for the marketing of the state as a travel destination. The

 

funds are available for expenditure when they are received by the department of

 


treasury.

 

       Sec. 17-1008. As a condition of receiving funds under part 1, any interlocal

 

agreement entered into by the fund shall include language which states that if a local

 

unit of government has a contract or memorandum of understanding with a private

 

economic development agency, the MEDC will work cooperatively with that private

 

organization in that local area.

 

       Sec. 17-1009. (1) Of the funds appropriated to the fund or through grants to the

 

MEDC, no funds shall be expended for the purchase of options on land or the purchase

 

of land unless at least 1 of the following conditions applies:

 

       (a) The land is located in an economically distressed area.

 

       (b) The land is obtained through a purchase or exercise of an option at the

 

invitation of the local unit of government and local economic development agency.

 

       (2) Consideration may be given to purchases where the proposed use of the land is

 

consistent with a regional land use plan, will result in the redevelopment of an

 

economically distressed area, can be supported by existing infrastructure, and will

 

not cause shifts in population away from the area’s population centers.

 

       (3) As used in this section, "economically distressed area" means an area in a

 

city, village, or township that has been designated as blighted; a city, village, or

 

township that shows negative population change from 1970 and a poverty rate and

 

unemployment rate greater than the statewide average; or an area certified as a

 

neighborhood enterprise zone under the neighborhood enterprise zone act, 1992 PA 147,

 

MCL 207.771 to 207.786.

 

       Sec. 17-1011. (1) From the appropriations in part 1 to the fund and granted or

 

transferred to the MEDC, any unexpended or unencumbered balance shall be disposed of

 

in accordance with the requirements in the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1101 to 18.1594, unless carryforward authorization has been otherwise provided for.

 

       (2) Any encumbered funds shall be used for the same purposes for which funding


was originally appropriated in this part and part 1.

 

       Sec. 17-1012. (1) As a condition of receiving funds under part 1, the fund shall

 

ensure that the MEDC and the fund comply with all of the following:

 

       (a) The freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.

 

       (b) The open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275.

 

       (c) Annual audits of all financial records by the auditor general or his or her

 

designee.

 

       (d) All reports required by law to be submitted to the legislature.

 

       (2) If the MEDC is unable for any reason to perform duties under this part, the

 

fund may exercise those duties.

 

       Sec. 17-1013. As a condition for receiving the appropriations in part 1, any

 

staff of the MEDC involved in private fund-raising activities shall not be party to

 

any decisions regarding the awarding of grants, incentives, or tax abatements from the

 

fund, the MEDC, or the Michigan economic growth authority.

 

       Sec. 17-1024. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for business attraction and

 

community revitalization, not less than $20,000,000.00 shall be granted by the fund

 

board for brownfield redevelopment and historic preservation projects under the

 

community revitalization program authorized by chapter 8C of the Michigan strategic

 

fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125.2090 to 125.2090d.B 133

 

       Sec. 17-1032. (1) The department shall report to the subcommittees, the state

 

budget director, and the fiscal agencies on the status of the film incentives at the

 

same time as it submits the annual report required under section 455 of the Michigan

 

business tax act, 2007 PA 36, MCL 208.1455. The department of treasury shall provide

 

the department with the data necessary to prepare the report. Incentives included in

 

the report shall include all of the following:

 

       (a) The tax credit provided under section 455 of the Michigan business tax act,

 

2007 PA 36, MCL 208.1455.


       (b) The tax credit provided under section 457 of the Michigan business tax act,

 

2007 PA 36, MCL 208.1457.

 

       (c) The tax credit provided under section 459 of the Michigan business tax act,

 

2007 PA 36, MCL 208.1459.

 

       (d) The amount of any tax credit claimed under former section 367 of the income

 

tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281.

 

       (e) Any tax credits provided for film and digital media production under the

 

Michigan economic growth authority act, 1995 PA 24, MCL 207.801 to 207.810.

 

       (f) Loans to an eligible production company or film and digital media private

 

equity fund authorized under section 88d(3), (4), and (5) of the Michigan strategic

 

fund act, 2005 PA 225, MCL 125.2088d.

 

       (2) The report shall include all of the following information:

 

       (a) For each tax credit, the number of contracts signed, the projected

 

expenditures qualifying for the credit, and the estimated value of the credits. For

 

loans, the number of loans made under each section, the interest rate of those loans,

 

the loan amount, the percent of the projected budget of each production financed by

 

those loans, and the estimated interest earnings from the loan.

 

       (b) For credits authorized under section 455 of the Michigan business tax act,

 

2007 PA 36, MCL 208.1455, for productions completed by December 31, the expenditures

 

of each production eligible for the credit that has filed a request for certificate of

 

completion with the film office, broken down into expenditures for goods, services, or

 

salaries and wages and showing separately expenditures in each local unit of

 

government, including expenditures for personnel, whether or not they were made to a

 

Michigan entity, and whether or not they were taxable under the laws of this state.

 

For loans, the report shall include the number of loans that have been fully repaid,

 

with principal and interest shown separately, and the number of loans that are

 

delinquent or in default, and the amount of principal that is delinquent or is in


default.

 

       (c) For each of the tax credit incentives and loan incentives listed in

 

subsection (1), a breakdown for each project or production showing each of the

 

following:

 

       (i) The number of temporary jobs created.

 

       (ii) The number of permanent jobs created.

 

       (iii) The number of persons employed in Michigan as a result of the incentive, on

 

a full-time equated basis.

 

       (3) For any information not included in the report due to the provisions of

 

section 455(6), 457(6), or 459(6) of the Michigan business tax act, 2007 PA 36, MCL

 

208.1455, 208.1457, and 208.1459, the report shall do all of the following:

 

       (a) Indicate how the information would describe the commercial and financial

 

operations or intellectual property of the company.

 

       (b) Attest that the information has not been publicly disseminated at any time.

 

       (c) Describe how disclosure of the information may put the company at a

 

competitive disadvantage.ESB 133

 

       (4) Any information not disclosed due to the provisions of section 455(6),

 

457(6), or 459(6) of the Michigan business tax act, 2007 PA 36, MCL 208.1455,

 

208.1457, and 208.1459, shall be presented at the lowest level of aggregation that

 

would no longer describe the commercial and financial operations or intellectual

 

property of the company.

 

       Sec. 17-1035. From the appropriation in part 1, the Michigan council for arts and

 

cultural affairs shall administer an arts and cultural grant program that maintains an

 

equitable geographic distribution of funding and utilizes past arts and cultural grant

 

programs as a guideline for administering this program. The council shall do all of

 

the following:

 

       (a) On or before October 1, the fund shall publish proposed application criteria,


instructions, and forms for use by eligible applicants. The fund shall provide at

 

least a 2-week period for public comment before finalizing the application criteria,

 

instructions, and forms.

 

       (b) A nonrefundable application fee may be assessed for each application.

 

Application fees shall be deposited in the council for the arts fund and are

 

appropriated for expenses necessary to administer the programs. These funds are

 

available for expenditure when they are received and may be carried forward to the

 

following fiscal year.

 

       (c) Grants are to be made to public and private arts and cultural entities.

 

       (d) Within 1 business day after the award announcements, the council shall

 

provide to each member of the legislature and the fiscal agencies a list of all grant

 

recipients and the total award given to each recipient, sorted by county.

 

       Sec. 17-1036. (1) The general fund/general purpose funds appropriated in part 1

 

to the fund for business attraction and community revitalization funds shall be

 

transferred to the 21st century jobs trust fund per section 90b(3) of the Michigan

 

strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125.2090b.

 

       (2) Funds transferred to the 21st century jobs trust fund under subsection (1)

 

are appropriated and available for allocation as authorized in the Michigan strategic

 

fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL 125.2001 to 125.2094.

 

       Sec. 17-1042. For the funds appropriated in part 1 for business attraction and

 

community revitalization, the fund shall report quarterly on the amount of funds

 

considered appropriated, pre-encumbered, encumbered, and expended. The report shall

 

also include a listing of appropriations for business attraction and community

 

revitalization, or a predecessor, in 2011 PA 63, 2012 PA 200, 2013 PA 59, and 2014 PA

 

252, that were considered appropriated, pre-encumbered, encumbered, or expended that

 

have lapsed back to the fund for any purpose. The report shall be submitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house of representatives standing committees on


appropriations, the chairpersons of the senate and house of representatives standing

 

committees on appropriations subcommittees on general government, the senate and house

 

fiscal agencies, and the state budget office.

 

       Sec. 17-1042a. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for business

 

attraction and community revitalization, the department shall continue strategic

 

investments that create jobs and support community re-development to grow Michigan's

 

economy.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance metrics for

 

this program, including, but not limited to the following:

 

       (a) Committed number of new jobs.

 

       (b) Private investment for leveraged for community projects.

 

 

 

TALENT INVESTMENT AGENCY

 

       Sec. 17-1060. The talent investment agency shall administer the PATH training

 

program in accordance with the requirements of section 407(d) of title IV of the

 

social security act, 42 USC 607, the state social welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.1

 

to 400.119b, and all other applicable laws and regulations.

 

       Sec. 17-1062. The talent investment agency shall make available, in person or by

 

telephone, 1 disabled veterans outreach program specialist or local veterans

 

employment representative to Michigan Works! service centers, as resources permit,

 

during hours of operation, and shall continue to make the appropriate placement of

 

veterans and disabled veterans a priority.

 

       Sec. 17-1063. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, any

 

unencumbered and unrestricted federal workforce investment act of 1998, 29 USC 2801 to

 

2945, workforce innovation and opportunity act, 29 USC 3101 to 3361, or trade

 

adjustment assistance funds available from prior fiscal years are appropriated for the

 

purposes originally intended.

 


       (2) The talent investment agency shall report by February 15 to the

 

subcommittees, the fiscal agencies, and the state budget office on the amount by

 

fiscal year of federal workforce investment act of 1998, 29 USC 2801 to 2945,

 

workforce innovation and opportunity act, 29 USC 3101 to 3361, funds appropriated

 

under this section.

 

       Sec. 17-1065. The talent investment agency shall publish data and reports on the

 

agency website concerning the status of the career technology and skilled trades

 

training programs funded in part 1. The report shall include the following:

 

       (a) The number of awardees participating in the program and the names of those

 

awardees organized by major industry group.

 

       (b) The amount of funding received by each awardee under the program.

 

       (c) Amount of funding leveraged from each awardee or other funding source for

 

each awardee project.

 

       (d) Training models established by each awardee.

 

       (e) The number of individuals enrolled in a skilled trades training program by

 

awardee.

 

       (f) The number of individuals who completed the program and were hired by

 

awardee.

 

       (g) The number of applications received and the number of applications approved

 

for each region.E

 

       (h) The department of talent and economic development shall expand workforce

 

training and re-employment services to better connect workers to in-demand jobs and,

 

identify specific outcomes with performance metrics for this initiative, including but

 

not limited to new apprenticeships, jobs created, jobs retained, training completed,

 

and employment retention rate at 6 months, and hourly wage at 6 months.B 133

 

       Sec. 17-1066. As a condition of receiving funds in part 1 for the skilled trades

 

training program, the talent investment agency shall administer the program as


follows:

 

       (a) The talent investment agency shall work cooperatively with grantees to

 

maximize the amount of funds from part 1 that are available for direct training.

 

       (b) The talent investment agency, workforce development partners, including

 

regional Michigan Works! agencies, and employers shall collaborate and work

 

cooperatively to prioritize and streamline the expenditure of the funds appropriated

 

in part 1. The talent investment agency shall ensure that the skilled trades training

 

program provides a collaborative statewide network of workforce and employee skill

 

development partners that addresses the employee talent needs throughout the state.

 

       (c) The talent investment agency shall ensure that grants are utilized for

 

individual skill enhancement for employees of Michigan businesses including the

 

development of additional opportunities for apprenticeship programs and more advance-

 

tech training programs.

 

       (d) The talent investment agency shall develop program goals and detailed

 

guidance for prospective participants to follow to qualify under the program. The

 

program goals and detailed guidance shall be posted on the talent investment agency

 

website and distributed to workforce development partners, including local Michigan

 

Works! agencies, by October 1. Periodic assessments of employer and employee needs

 

shall be evaluated on a regional basis, and the talent investment agency shall

 

identify solutions and goals to be implemented to satisfy those needs. The talent

 

investment agency shall notify the senate and house of representatives standing

 

committees on appropriations, the senate and house of representatives standing

 

committees on appropriations subcommittees on general government, the senate and house

 

fiscal agencies, and the state budget office on any program goal, solution, or

 

guidance changes not fewer than 14 days prior to the finalization and publication of

 

the changes. Revenue received by the talent investment agency for the skilled trades

 

training program may be expended for the purpose of those programs.


       (e) Up to $5,000,000.00 of the funds may be expended to match federal funds. The

 

intent of these funds will involve improving and increasing the skill level of

 

employees in skilled trades in the automotive industry and the manufacturing processes

 

within the changing manufacturing environment.

 

       Sec. 17-1068. (1) Of the funds appropriated in part 1 for the workforce training

 

programs, the talent investment agency shall provide a report by February 15 to the

 

senate and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations

 

subcommittees on general government, the state budget director, and the fiscal

 

agencies on the status of the workforce training programs. The report shall include

 

the following:

 

       (a) The amount of funding allocated to each Michigan Works! agency and the total

 

funding allocated to the workforce training programs statewide by fund source.

 

       (b) The number of participants enrolled in education or training programs by each

 

Michigan Works! agency.

 

       (c) The average duration of training for training program participants by each

 

Michigan Works! agency.

 

       (d) The number of participants enrolled in remedial education programs and the

 

number of participants enrolled in literacy programs.

 

       (e) The number of participants enrolled in programs at 2-year institutions.

 

       (f) The number of participants enrolled in 4-year institutions.

 

       (g) The number of participants enrolled in proprietary schools or other technical

 

training programs.

 

       (h) The number of participants that have completed education or training

 

programs.

 

       (i) The number of participants who secured employment in Michigan within 1 year

 

of completing a training program.

 

       (j) The number of participants who completed a training program and secured


employment in a field related to their training.

 

       (k) The average wage earned by participants who completed a training program and

 

secured employment within 1 year.

 

       (l) The actual revenues received by the fund source and fund appropriated for

 

each discrete workforce development program area.

 

       (2) Data collection for the report shall be for the prior state fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 17-1069. (1) The one-time appropriation in part 1 for community ventures –

 

challenge match shall only be expended upon commitment of matching dollars from

 

private sources. For every $1.00 the department receives from a private source for the

 

purposes of the community ventures – challenge match, the department shall expend

 

$1.00 from the one-time appropriation in part 1, until exhaustion of the

 

appropriation. Funds received from private sources for the community ventures –

 

challenge match are appropriated and shall be expended for the purposes of the

 

community ventures program.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance measures for

 

this initiative, including, but not limited to, the following:

 

       (a) The number of commitments from private sources, including the dollar amount

 

committed and source.

 

       (b) Additional participants served with challenge funds.

 

       (c) Jobs created and the average wage.

 

       Sec. 17-1080. (1) The department of talent and economic development shall publish

 

the "activities classification structure data book" for Michigan community colleges on

 

or before March 1.

 

       (2) The department of talent and economic development shall compile information

 

received from community colleges on North American Indian tuition waivers granted

 

pursuant to 1976 PA 174, MCL 390.1251 to 390.1253, and shall submit this compilation

 

to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on community colleges, the fiscal


agencies, and the state budget director by March 1.

 

       (3) The department of talent and economic development shall compile information

 

received from community colleges on the number and types of associate degrees and

 

other certificates awarded during the previous fiscal year and shall submit this

 

compilation to the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on community

 

colleges, the fiscal agencies, and the state budget director by March 1.

 

       (4) The department of talent and economic development shall place the reports

 

required in this section on a publicly available website.

 

       Sec. 17-1081. (1) From the one-time funds appropriated in part 1 for statewide

 

system for data integration, the department shall establish new information technology

 

systems to integrate data for talent and pipeline development to track and report

 

workforce development activities and provide for sustained and expanded longitudinal

 

data analysis between state departments.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance metrics for

 

this initiative, including, but not limited to the following:

 

       (a) Job placements and retention at 6 months.

 

       (b) Apprenticeships completed.

 

       (c) Average wage.

 

       Sec. 17-1082. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the financial literacy

 

pilot, the department shall request competitive proposals from service providers

 

interested in providing financial literacy counseling to family independence program

 

(FIP) recipients and temporary assistance for needy families eligible individuals

 

using an established financial literacy model. The pilot is to include individual

 

client counseling sessions with professionally-trained financial counselors. The

 

counseling sessions shall be a voluntary service to clients and focus on effective

 

personal budgeting, debt reduction, establishing and improving credit, accessing safe

 

and affordable banking services, building savings and connecting to other supportive


services through referrals. The pilot may provide for client financial literacy

 

counseling services in up to three prosperity regions. The geographic selection of the

 

prosperity region for the pilot shall be part of the competitive request for proposal,

 

but priority shall be given to those proposals that have a mix of urban and rural

 

implementation areas. The service provider may provide financial literacy counseling

 

to clients from other state programs provided those programs provide support for such

 

services. The pilot shall have a duration of no more than three years. Priority shall

 

be given to those proposals that demonstrate a model for statewide implementation and

 

a sustainability strategy at the conclusion of the pilot, as well as opportunities for

 

additional state program integrations. Client outcomes for both FIP recipients and any

 

other state programs utilizing financial literacy services shall be monitored and

 

reported by the service provider to the department on a quarterly basis. During the

 

course of the pilot, the department shall provide an annual report on client outcomes

 

to the senate and house subcommittees on general government, senate and house fiscal

 

agencies, and state budget director. Key outcome metrics for clients will include:  1)

 

increased or maintained access to safe and affordable banking services; 2) increased

 

credit scores; 3) reduced debt; and 4) increased savings.


Article 18

 

DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY, MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 18-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of technology, management and budget are

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be

 

appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated

 

in this part. The following is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated

 

appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY, MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            2,867.0           2,867.0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $  1,320,096,200  $  1,287,745,300

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................        696,904,100       694,054,100

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $    623,192,100  $    593,691,200

 

  Total federal revenues..................................          4,958,200         4,958,200

 

  Total local revenues....................................          2,320,000         2,320,000

 

  Total private revenues..................................                  0                 0

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................        111,490,800       111,490,800

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    504,423,100  $    474,922,200

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........        474,922,200       474,922,200

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........         29,500,900                 0

 

   Sec. 18-102.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTION


   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               12.0              12.0

 

  Unclassified positions-6.0 FTE positions................   $      1,001,400  $      1,001,400

 

  Executive operations-12.0 FTE positions ................          2,376,000         2,376,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      3,377,400  $      3,377,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from building occupancy and parking charges.........            249,700           249,700

 

  IDG from technology user fees...........................          2,074,400         2,074,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Special revenue, internal service and pension trust

 

   funds.................................................            289,200           289,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $        764,100  $        764,100

 

   Sec. 18-103.  DEPARTMENT SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              720.5             720.5

 

  Administrative services-138.5 FTE positions.............   $     20,389,400  $     20,389,400

 

  Budget and financial management-135.0 FTE positions.....         17,913,100        17,913,100

 

  Office of the state employer-23.0 FTE positions.........          3,417,300         3,417,300

 

  Design and construction services-40.0 FTE positions.....          6,477,000         6,447,000

 

  Business support services-97.0 FTE positions............         11,469,600        11,469,600

 

  Building operation services-210.0 FTE positions.........         92,416,200        92,416,290

 

  Building occupancy charges, rent, and utilities.........          7,494,200         7,494,200

 

  Motor vehicle fleet-35.0 FTE positions..................         74,260,100        74,260,100

 

  Information technology services and projects............         32,630,500        32,630,500

 

  Bureau of labor market information and strategies-

 

   42.0 FTE positions....................................          5,475,100         5,475,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    271,942,500  $    271,942,500


     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from accounting service center user charges.........          2,698,000         2,698,000

 

  IDG from building occupancy and parking charges.........         94,647,900        94,647,900

 

  IDG from MDHHS, community health........................            484,500           484,500

 

  IDG from MDHHS, human services..........................            215,400           215,400

 

  IDG from MDLARA.........................................            100,000           100,000

 

  IDG from motor transport fund...........................         74,260,100        74,260,100

 

  IDG from technology user fees...........................          7,658,600         7,658,600

 

  IDG from user fees......................................          6,754,000         6,754,000

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal funds...........................................          4,958,200         4,958,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local–MPSCS subscriber and maintenance fees.............             61,700            61,700

 

  Local revenues..........................................             35,000            35,000

 

  Deferred compensation...................................              2,600             2,600

 

  Health management funds.................................          2,257,200         2,257,200

 

  MAIN user charges.......................................          4,337,600         4,337,600

 

  Other agency charges....................................          1,178,700         1,178,700

 

  Pension trust funds.....................................         10,082,000        10,082,000

 

  Special revenue, internal service, and pension trust

 

   funds.................................................         17,168,300        17,168,300

 

  State restricted indirect funds.........................          3,392,200         3,392,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     41,650,500  $     41,650,500

 

   Sec. 18-104.  TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            1,487.5           1,487.5

 

  Education services-29.0 FTE positions...................   $      4,106,500  $      4,106,500


  Health and human services-617.5 FTE positions...........        291,972,300       291,972,300

 

  Public protection-154.5 FTE positions...................         55,832,600        55,832,600

 

  Resources services-146.5 FTE positions..................         20,283,500        20,283,500

 

  Transportation services-89.5 FTE positions..............         31,739,300        31,739,300

 

  General services-331.5 FTE positions....................         98,027,300        98,027,300

 

  Enterprisewide information technology investments.......         65,000,000        65,000,000

 

  Homeland security initiative/cyber security-13.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................         14,118,200        14,118,200

 

  Michigan public safety communications system-100.0

 

   FTE positions.........................................         40,094,800        40,094,800

 

  Enterprise identity management-6.0 FTE positions........          6,700,000         6,700,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    627,874,500  $    627,874,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from technology user fees...........................        501,961,500       501,961,500

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local-MPSCS subscriber and maintenance fees.............          2,223,300         2,223,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    123,689,700  $    123,689,700

 

   Sec. 18-105.  STATEWIDE APPROPRIATIONS

 

  Professional development fund – NERES...................   $        250,000  $        250,000

 

  Professional development fund – UAW.....................            700,000           700,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $        950,000  $        950,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from employer contributions.........................            950,000           950,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0


   Sec. 18-106.  SPECIAL PROGRAMS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              197.0             197.0

 

  Building occupancy charges - property management

 

  Services for executive/legislative building occupancy...   $      1,154,500  $      1,154,500

 

  Retirement services-167.0 FTE positions.................         28,724,900        28,724,900

 

  Office of children’s ombudsman-14.0 FTE positions.......          1,801,600         1,801,600

 

  Office of urban initiatives-5.0 FTE positions...........          1,512,200         1,512,200

 

  Public private partnership..............................          1,500,000         1,500,000

 

  Regional prosperity grants..............................          2,500,000         2,500,000

 

  School reform office operations-11.0 FTE positions......          2,318,300         2,318,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     39,511,500  $     39,511,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Deferred compensation...................................          2,800,000         2,800,000

 

  Pension trust funds.....................................         20,548,100        20,548,100

 

  Public private partnership investment fund..............          1,500,000         1,500,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     14,663,400  $     14,663,400

 

   Sec. 18-107.  STATE BUILDING AUTHORITY

 

  State building authority rent – state agencies..........   $     49,665,800  $     49,665,800

 

  State building authority rent – department of

 

   corrections...........................................         21,029,900        21,029,900

 

  State building authority rent – universities............        144,995,300       144,995,300

 

  State building authority rent – community colleges......         30,879,600        30,879,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    246,570,600  $    246,570,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    246,570,600  $    246,570,600


   Sec. 18-108.  CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              450.0             450.0

 

  Agency services-74.0 FTE positions......................   $     13,103,100  $      13,103,100

 

  Executive direction-40.0 FTE positions..................          8,894,300         8,894,300

 

  Employee benefits-16.0 FTE positions....................          5,704,000         5,704,000

 

  Human resources operations-320.0 FTE positions..........         38,463,100        38,463,100

 

  Information technology services and projects............          3,354,300         3,354,300

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     69,518,800  $     69,518,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  State restricted funds 1%...............................         30,702,500        30,702,500

 

  State restricted indirect funds.........................          8,592,200         8,592,200

 

  State sponsored group insurance.........................          8,640,200         8,640,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     21,583,900  $     21,583,900

 

   Sec. 18-109.  CAPITAL OUTLAY

 

  Major special maintenance, remodeling, and additions

 

   for state agencies....................................   $      2,000,000  $      2,000,000

 

  Enterprisewide special maintenance for state

 

   facilities............................................         26,000,000        26,000,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     28,000,000  $     28,000,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from building occupancy charges.....................          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     26,000,000  $     26,000,000

 

   Sec. 18-110.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

  Capitol area reconfiguration project....................   $      7,500,000  $              0


  Capital outlay – university, community college and

 

   state agency planning authorization – university of

 

   Michigan - Flint, Murchie science building addition –

 

   for program and planning to be paid for from

 

   university . resources (estimated total authorized cost

 

   $39,000,000; state share $29,250,000; university

 

   share $9,750,000).....................................                100                 0

 

  Capital outlay - university, community college and

 

   state agency planning authorization – Saginaw Valley

 

   state university, college of business and management

 

   expansion - for program and planning to be paid for

 

   from university resources (estimated total authorized

 

   cost $17,500,000; state share $9,800,000; university

 

   share $7,700,000).....................................                100                 0

 

  Capital outlay - university, community college and

 

   state agency planning authorization – Wayne State

 

   university, STEM innovation learning center - for

 

   program and planning to be paid for from university

 

   resources (estimated total authorized cost $29,500,000;

 

   state share $14,750,000; university share $14,750,000)    100               0

 

  Capital outlay - university, community college and

 

   state agency planning authorization – Eastern Michigan

 

   university, strong hall renovation - for program and

 

   planning to be paid for from university resources

 

   (estimated total authorized cost $39,536,000; state

 

   share $29,652,000; university share $9,884,000).......                100                 0

 

  Capital outlay - university, community college and state


   agency planning authorization - Kellogg community

 

   college, regional manufacturing technology center

 

   renovation and addition - for program and planning to

 

   be paid for from community college resources

 

   (estimated total authorized cost $4,300,000; state

 

   share $2,150,000; community college share $2,150,000).                100                 0

 

  Capital outlay - university, community college and state

 

   agency planning authorization - Wayne County community

 

   college, eastern campus repurposing and upgrading –

 

   for program and planning to be paid for from community

 

   college resources (estimated total authorized cost

 

   $18,000,000; state share $9,000,000; community college

 

   share $9,000,000).....................................                100                 0

 

  Capital outlay - university, community college and state

 

   agency planning authorization - Northwestern Michigan

 

   college, west hall innovation center renovation and

 

   expansion - for program and planning to be paid for

 

   from community college resources (estimated total

 

   authorized cost $14,499,400; state share $7,249,700;

 

   community college share $7,249,700) ..................                100                 0

 

  Capital outlay - university, community college and state

 

   agency planning authorization - department of natural

 

   resources, coolwater rearing hatchery

 

   improvements – for program and planning to be paid for

 

   from state resources (estimated total . authorized cost

 

   $12,242,500; state share $12,242,500) ................                100                 0

 

  Capital outlay - university, community college and state


   agency planning authorization – department of

 

   technology, management and budget, Jackson state

 

   office building renovation - for program and planning

 

   to be paid for from state resources (estimated total

 

   authorized cost $9,450,000; state share $9,450,000)...                100                 0

 

  ITIF one-time augmentation..............................          7,000,000                 0

 

  Legal services..........................................          5,000,000                 0

 

  Enterprisewide special maintenance for state

 

   facilities............................................         10,000,000                 0

 

  ORS IT modernization and enterprise mandates............          2,850,000                 0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     32,350,900  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  Pension trust funds.....................................          2,850,000                 0

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     29,500,900  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 18-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $615,913,900.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 

of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $0.00.

 

       Sec. 18-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 


management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 18-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "COBRA" means the consolidated omnibus budget reconciliation act of 1985,

 

Public Law 99-272, 100 Statute 82.

 

       (b) "Department" or "DTMB" means the department of technology, management and

 

budget.

 

       (c) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (d) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (e) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

       (f) "IT" means information technology.

 

       (g) "ITIF" means information technology investment fund.

 

       (h) "JCOS" means the joint capital outlay subcommittee.

 

       (i) "MAIN" means the Michigan administrative information network.

 

       (j) "MDHHS" means the Michigan department of health and human services.

 

       (k) "MDLARA" means the Michigan department of licensing and regulatory affairs.

 

       (l) "MPSCS" means the Michigan public safety communication system.

 

       (m) "NERE" means nonexclusively represented employees.

 

       (n) "ORS" means the office of retirement systems.

 

       (o) "State building authority" means the authority created under 1964 PA 183, MCL

 

830.411 to 830.425.

 

       (p) "STEM" means science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

 

       (q) "UAW" means the united auto workers.

 

       Sec. 18-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.


       Sec. 18-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 18-206. The director of each department receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in deprived and depressed

 

communities compete for and perform contracts to provide services or supplies, or

 

both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which the department contracts

 

to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and deprived communities for

 

services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 18-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of

 

each year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.


       Sec. 18-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 18-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare

 

and transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 18-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $4,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $8,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These funds

 

are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line

 

item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA

 

431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $150,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.


       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $100,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 18-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 18-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 18-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 18-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 are $78,962,000.00. From


this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $43,795,600.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $35,166,400.00.

 

       Sec. 18-215. In addition to the general fund/general purpose appropriations for

 

special maintenance, remodeling, and addition-state facilities in part 1, there is

 

also appropriated related federal and state restricted funds up to the amounts that

 

will be earned based upon the initiatives undertaken with the funds in part 1. The

 

state budget director shall determine and authorize the appropriate manner for

 

implementing this section.

 

       Sec. 18-216. In addition to the general fund/general purpose appropriations for

 

enterprisewide information technology investments in part 1, there is also

 

appropriated related federal and state restricted funds up to the amounts that will be

 

earned based upon the initiatives undertaken with the funds in part 1. The state

 

budget director shall determine and authorize the appropriate manner for implementing

 

this section.

 

 

 

DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY, MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

 

       Sec. 18-802. Proceeds in excess of necessary costs incurred in the conduct of

 

transfers or auctions of state surplus, salvage, or scrap property made pursuant to

 

section 267 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1267, are

 

appropriated to the department of technology, management and budget to offset costs

 

incurred in the acquisition and distribution of federal surplus property. The

 

department of technology, management and budget shall provide consolidated Internet

 

auction services through the state’s contractors for all local units of government.

 

       Sec. 18-803. (1) The department of technology, management and budget may receive

 

and expend funds in addition to those authorized by part 1 for maintenance and

 

operation services provided specifically to other principal executive departments or

 


state agencies, the legislative branch, the judicial branch, or private tenants, or

 

provided in connection with facilities transferred to the operational jurisdiction of

 

the department of technology, management and budget.

 

       (2) The department of technology, management and budget may receive and expend

 

funds in addition to those authorized by part 1 for real estate, architectural,

 

design, and engineering services provided specifically to other principal executive

 

departments or state agencies, the legislative branch, the judicial branch, or private

 

tenants.

 

       (3) The department of technology, management and budget may receive and expend

 

funds in addition to those authorized in part 1 for mail pickup and delivery services

 

provided specifically to other principal executive departments and state agencies, the

 

legislative branch, or the judicial branch.

 

       (4) The department of technology, management and budget may receive and expend

 

funds in addition to those authorized in part 1 for purchasing services provided

 

specifically to other principal executive departments and state agencies, the

 

legislative branch, or the judicial branch.

 

       Sec. 18-804. (1) The source of financing in part 1 for statewide appropriations

 

shall be funded by assessments against longevity and insurance appropriations

 

throughout state government in a manner prescribed by the department of technology,

 

management and budget. Funds shall be used as specified in joint labor/management

 

agreements or through the coordinated compensation hearings process. Any deposits made

 

under this subsection and any unencumbered funds are restricted revenues, may be

 

carried over into the succeeding fiscal years, and are appropriated.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1 for statewide appropriations,

 

the department of technology, management and budget may receive and expend funds in

 

such additional amounts as may be specified in joint labor/management agreements or

 

through the coordinated compensation hearings process in the same manner and subject


to the same conditions as prescribed in subsection (1).

 

       Sec. 18-805. To the extent a specific appropriation is required for a detailed

 

source of financing included in part 1 for the department of technology, management

 

and budget appropriations financed from special revenue and internal service and

 

pension trust funds, or MAIN user charges, the specific amounts are appropriated

 

within the special revenue internal service and pension trust funds in portions not to

 

exceed the aggregate amount appropriated in part 1.

 

       Sec. 18-806. In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1 to the department of

 

technology, management and budget, the department may receive and expend funds from

 

other principal executive departments and state agencies to implement administrative

 

leave bank transfer provisions as may be specified in joint labor/management

 

agreements. The amounts may also be transferred to other principal executive

 

departments and state agencies under the joint agreement and any amounts transferred

 

under the joint agreement are authorized for receipt and expenditure by the receiving

 

principal executive department or state agency. Any amounts received by the department

 

of technology, management and budget under this section and intended, under the joint

 

labor/management agreements, to be available for use beyond the close of the fiscal

 

year and any unencumbered funds may be carried over into the succeeding fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 18-807. The source of financing in part 1 for the Michigan administrative

 

information network shall be funded by proportionate charges assessed against the

 

respective state funds benefiting from this project in the amounts determined by the

 

department.

 

       Sec. 18-808. (1) Deposits against the interdepartmental grant from building

 

occupancy and parking charges appropriated in part 1 shall be collected, in part, from

 

state agencies, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch based on estimated

 

costs associated with maintenance and operation of buildings managed by the department

 

of technology, management and budget. To the extent excess revenues are collected due


to estimates of building occupancy charges exceeding actual costs, the excess revenues

 

may be carried forward into succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of returning funds

 

to state agencies.

 

       (2) Appropriations in part 1 to the department of technology, management and

 

budget for management and budget services from building occupancy charges and parking

 

charges, may be increased to return excess revenue collected to state agencies.

 

       Sec. 18-809. On a quarterly basis, the department of technology, management and

 

budget shall notify the chairpersons of the senate and house of representatives

 

standing committees on appropriations, the chairpersons of the senate and house of

 

representatives standing committees on appropriations subcommittees on general

 

government, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director on any

 

revisions that increase or decrease current contracts by more than $500,000.00 for

 

computer software development, hardware acquisition, or quality assurance.

 

       Sec. 18-811. The department of technology, management and budget may receive and

 

expend funds from the Vietnam veterans memorial monument fund as provided in the

 

Michigan Vietnam veterans memorial act, 1988 PA 234, MCL 35.1051 to 35.1057. Funds are

 

appropriated and allocated when received and may be expended upon receipt.

 

       Sec. 18-812. The Michigan veterans' memorial park commission may receive and

 

expend money from any source, public or private, including, but not limited to, gifts,

 

grants, donations of money, and government appropriations, for the purposes described

 

in Executive Order No. 2001-10. Funds are appropriated and allocated when received and

 

may be expended upon receipt. Any deposits made under this section and unencumbered

 

funds are restricted revenues and may be carried over into succeeding fiscal years.

 

       Sec. 18-813. (1) Funds in part 1 for motor vehicle fleet are appropriated to the

 

department of technology, management and budget for administration and for the

 

acquisition, lease, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, and disposal of state

 

motor vehicles.


       (2) The appropriation in part 1 for motor vehicle fleet shall be funded by

 

revenue from rates charged to principal executive departments and agencies for

 

utilizing vehicle travel services provided by the department. Revenue in excess of the

 

amount appropriated in part 1 from the motor transport fund and any unencumbered funds

 

are restricted revenues and may be carried over into the succeeding fiscal year.

 

       (3) Pursuant to the department of technology, management and budget’s authority

 

under sections 213 and 215 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1213

 

and 18.1215, the department shall maintain a plan regarding the operation of the motor

 

vehicle fleet. The plan shall include the number of vehicles assigned to, or

 

authorized for use by, state departments and agencies, efforts to reduce travel

 

expenditures, the number of cars in the motor vehicle fleet, the number of miles

 

driven by fleet vehicles, and the number of gallons of fuel consumed by fleet

 

vehicles. The plan shall include a calculation of the amount of state motor vehicle

 

fuel taxes that would have been incurred by fleet vehicles if fleet vehicles were

 

required by law to pay motor fuel taxes. The plan shall include a description of fleet

 

garage operations, the goods sold and services provided by the fleet garage, the cost

 

to operate the fleet garage, the number of fleet garage locations, and the number of

 

employees assigned to each fleet garage. The plan may be adjusted during the fiscal

 

year based on needs and cost savings to achieve the maximum value and efficiency from

 

the state motor fleet. Within 60 days after the close of the fiscal year, the

 

department shall provide a report to the senate and house of representatives standing

 

committees on appropriations, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state

 

budget director detailing the current plan and changes made to the plan during the

 

fiscal year.

 

       (4) The department of technology, management and budget may charge state agencies

 

for fuel cost increases that exceed $3.04 per gallon of unleaded gasoline. The

 

department shall notify state agencies, in writing or by electronic mail, at least 30


days before implementing additional charges for fuel cost increases. Revenues received

 

from these charges are appropriated upon receipt.

 

       (5) The state budget director, upon notification to the senate and house of

 

representatives standing committees on appropriations, may adjust spending

 

authorization and the IDG from motor transport fund in the department of technology,

 

management and budget in order to ensure that the appropriations for motor vehicle

 

fleet in the department budget equal the expenditures for motor vehicle fleet in the

 

budgets for all executive branch agencies.

 

       Sec. 18-814. The department of technology, management and budget shall develop a

 

plan regarding the use of funds appropriated in part 1 for the enterprisewide

 

information technology investment projects. The plan shall include, but not be limited

 

to, a description of proposed information technology investment projects, the time

 

frame for completion of the information technology investment projects, the proposed

 

cost of the information technology investment projects, the number of employees

 

assigned to implement each information technology investment project, the contracts

 

entered into for each information technology investment project, and any other

 

information the department deems necessary. The plan shall be distributed to the

 

senate and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations

 

subcommittees on general government, as well as the senate and house fiscal agencies

 

and the state budget director on a quarterly basis. The submitted plan shall also

 

include anticipated spending reductions or overages for each of the proposed

 

information technology investment projects. The department of technology, management,

 

and budget shall notify the senate and house of representatives standing committees on

 

appropriations subcommittees on general government, the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director when a project funded under an information

 

technology investment project line item in part 1 is expected to require a transfer of

 

dollars from another project in excess of $500,000.00.


       Sec. 18-814a. The funds appropriated in part 1 for information technology

 

investment projects shall be used for the modernization of state information

 

technology systems, improvement of the state’s cyber security framework, and to

 

achieve efficiencies.

 

       Sec. 18-818. In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, the department of

 

technology, management and budget may receive and expend money from the Michigan law

 

enforcement officers memorial monument fund as provided in the Michigan law

 

enforcement officers memorial act, 2004 PA 177, MCL 28.781 to 28.787.

 

       Sec. 18-820. The department shall make available to the public a list of all

 

parcels of real property owned by the state that are available for purchase. The list

 

shall be posted on the Internet through the department's website.

 

       Sec. 18-821. The department of technology, management and budget shall annually

 

update the office space consolidation project plan, including the use of the funds

 

appropriated pursuant to 2012 PA 200 for the space consolidation fund. By February 15,

 

the department shall report to the senate and house of representatives committees on

 

appropriations subcommittees on general government and the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies on the revised plan and plan implementation. The report shall include, but is

 

not limited to, the description of the proposed office space to be consolidated, the

 

time frame for completion of the office space consolidation, the proposed itemized

 

cost of the office space consolidation, the number of employees assigned to implement

 

the office space consolidation, the contracts entered into for the office space

 

consolidation, information on completed projects, anticipated savings, savings

 

achieved, and any other information the department deems necessary.

 

       Sec. 18-822b. (1) A public-private partnership investment fund is created in

 

DTMB. Subject to subsections (2) and (3), public-private partnership investments shall

 

include, but are not limited to, all of the following:

 

       (a) Capital asset improvements including buildings, land, or structures.


       (b) Energy resource exploration, extraction, generation, and sales.

 

       (c) Financial and investment incentive opportunities.

 

       (d) Infrastructure construction, maintenance, and operation.

 

       (e) Public-private sector joint ventures that provide economic benefit to an area

 

or to the state.

 

       (2) Public-private investments shall not include projects, consultant expenses,

 

staff effort, or any other activity related to the development, financing,

 

construction, operation, or implementation of the Detroit River International Crossing

 

or any successor project unless the project is approved by the legislature and signed

 

into law.

 

       (3) The state budget director shall determine whether or not a specific public-

 

private partnership investment opportunity qualifies for funding under subsection (1).

 

       (4) Investment development revenue, including a portion of the proceeds from the

 

sale of any public-private partnership investment designated in subsection (1), shall

 

be deposited into the fund created in subsection (1) and shall be available for

 

administration, development, financing, marketing, and operating expenditures

 

associated with public-private partnerships, unless otherwise provided by law. Public-

 

private partnership investments authorized in subsection (1) are authorized for public

 

or private operation or sale consistent with state law. Expenditures from the fund are

 

authorized for investment purposes as designated in subsection (1) to enhance the

 

marketable value of each investment. The unencumbered balance remaining in the fund at

 

the end of the fiscal year may be carried forward for appropriation in future years.

 

       (5) An annual report shall be transmitted to the senate and house of

 

representatives standing committees on appropriations, the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget office not later than December 31 of each year. This

 

report shall detail both of the following:

 

       (a) The revenue and expenditure activity in the fund for the preceding fiscal


year.

 

       (b) Public-private partnership investments as identified under subsection (1).

 

       (6) DTMB shall monitor the revenue deposited in the public-private partnership

 

investment fund created in subsection (1). If the revenue in the fund is insufficient

 

to pay the amount appropriated in part 1 for public-private partnership investment,

 

then DTMB shall propose a legislative transfer to fund the line from the

 

appropriations in part 1.

 

       Sec. 18-822c. The funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used to support any

 

staff effort, projects, consultant expenses, or any other activity related to the

 

development, financing, construction, operation, or implementation of the Detroit

 

River International Crossing or any successor project unless the project is approved

 

by the legislature and signed into law.

 

       Sec. 18-822f. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for the regional prosperity

 

initiative are to be used as competitive grants to eligible regional planning

 

organizations qualifying for funding as a regional prosperity collaborative, a

 

regional prosperity council, or a regional prosperity board. A regional planning

 

organization may not qualify for funding under more than 1 category in the same state

 

fiscal year. As used in this section:

 

       (a) "Eligible regional planning organization" means any of the following:

 

       (i) An existing regional planning commission created pursuant to 1945 PA 281, MCL

 

125.11 to 125.25.

 

       (ii) An existing regional economic development commission created pursuant to

 

1966 PA 46, MCL 125.1231 to 125.1237.

 

       (iii) An existing metropolitan area council formed pursuant to the metropolitan

 

councils act, 1989 PA 292, MCL 124.651 to 124.729.

 

       (iv) A Michigan metropolitan planning organization established pursuant to the

 

moving ahead for progress in the 21st century act, Public Law 112-141.


       (b) "Freedom of Information Act" means the freedom of information act, U.S. Code.

 

Title 5, Part 1, Chapter 5, Subchapter II, Section 552.

 

       (c) "Open meetings act" means the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to

 

15.275.

 

       (d) "Regional prosperity board" means a regional body that has a singular

 

governing board with representation from private, public, and nonprofit entities

 

engaged in joint decision-making practices for the purpose of creating or maintaining

 

a phase three: regional prosperity plan.

 

       (e) "Regional prosperity collaborative" means any committee developed by a

 

regional planning organization or a metropolitan planning organization that serves to

 

bring organizational representation together from private, public, and nonprofit

 

entities within a region for the purpose of creating or maintaining a phase one:

 

regional prosperity plan.

 

       (f) "Regional prosperity council" means a regional body with representation from

 

private, public, and nonprofit entities with shared administrative services and an

 

executive governing entity, as demonstrated by a formal local agreement or agreements

 

for the purpose of creating or maintaining a phase two: regional prosperity plan.

 

       (2) Regional planning organizations may qualify to receive not more than

 

$250,000.00 of incentive-based funding as a regional prosperity collaborative subject

 

to meeting all of the following requirements:

 

       (a) The regional prosperity collaborative has created a phase one: regional

 

prosperity plan, as follows:

 

       (i) The regional prosperity collaborative must include regional representatives

 

from adult education, workforce development, community development, economic

 

development, transportation, and higher education organizations.

 

       (ii) The plan is required, at a minimum, to include a 5-year plan focused on

 

economic growth and vitality for the region, as well as a performance dashboard and


measurable annual goals to support the 5-year plan.

 

       (iii) The 5-year plan shall address regional strategies related to adult

 

education, workforce development, economic development, transportation, higher

 

education, and business development.

 

       (iv) The regional prosperity collaborative shall adopt the plan by a minimum 2/3

 

majority vote of its members.

 

       (b) The regional prosperity collaborative adheres to accountability and

 

transparency measures required in the open meetings act and the freedom of information

 

act.

 

       (c) The regional prosperity collaborative convenes monthly meetings, open to the

 

public, to consider and discuss issues leading to a common vision of economic

 

prosperity for the region, including, but not limited to, community development,

 

economic development, talent, and infrastructure opportunities.

 

       (d) The regional prosperity collaborative makes available on the grant

 

recipient’s publicly accessible Internet site pertinent documents, including, but not

 

limited to, monthly meeting agendas, minutes of monthly meetings, voting records, and

 

the regional prosperity plan and performance dashboard.

 

       (e) The regional prosperity collaborative keeps a status report detailing the

 

spending associated with previous regional prosperity initiative grants. Organizations

 

that have successfully received grant awards in previous fiscal years shall be

 

required to make available to the department and on a publicly accessible Internet

 

site information regarding the use of those grant dollars.

 

       (3) Regional planning organizations eligible to receive a payment as a regional

 

prosperity collaborative under subsection (2) may qualify to receive a 1-time grant of

 

not more than $75,000.00 to produce a plan to transform the regional prosperity

 

collaborative into a regional prosperity council or regional prosperity board,

 

including necessary local formal agreements, to make recommendations that eliminate


duplicative efforts and administrative functions, and to leverage resources through

 

cooperation, collaboration, and consolidations of organizations or programs throughout

 

the region. Plans produced to transform the regional prosperity collaborative into a

 

regional prosperity council or regional prosperity board shall be made available on

 

the grant recipient’s publicly accessible Internet site.

 

       (4) Regional planning organizations may qualify to receive not more than

 

$375,000.00 of incentive-based funding as a regional prosperity council subject to

 

meeting all of the following requirements:

 

       (a) A regional prosperity council has been formed and includes regional

 

representatives from adult education, workforce development, community development,

 

economic development transportation, and higher education organizations.

 

       (b) An eligible regional prosperity council will demonstrate shared

 

administrative services amount two public regional entities included in (a). In

 

addition, the council must have and maintain an executive governing entity, as

 

demonstrated by a formal local agreement or agreements.

 

      (c) The regional prosperity council has created a phase two: regional prosperity

 

plan, as follows:

 

       (i) The regional prosperity council shall identify opportunities for shared

 

administrative services and decision-making among the private, public, and nonprofit

 

entities within the region and shall continue collaboration with regional prosperity

 

council members, including, but not limited to, representatives from adult education

 

providers, workforce development agencies, community development agencies, economic

 

development agencies, transportation service providers, and higher education

 

institutions.

 

       (ii) The plan is required to include, but is not limited to, all of the

 

following:

 

       (a) A status report of the approved 5-year plan.


       (b) The addition of a 10-year plan for the region which builds upon prior work

 

and is focused on economic growth and vitality in the region.

 

       (c) A prioritized list of regional projects.

 

       (d) A performance dashboard with measureable annual goals.

 

       (iii) The regional prosperity council shall adopt the plan by a minimum 2/3 vote

 

of its members.

 

       (a) The regional prosperity council adheres to accountability and transparency

 

measures required in the open meetings act and the freedom of information act.

 

       (b) The regional prosperity council convenes monthly meetings, open to the

 

public, to consider and discuss issues leading to a common vision of economic

 

prosperity for the region, including, but not limited to, community development,

 

economic development, talent, and infrastructure opportunities.

 

       (c) The regional prosperity council makes available on the grant recipient’s

 

publicly accessible Internet site pertinent documents, including, but not limited to,

 

monthly meeting agendas, minutes of monthly meetings, voting records, and the regional

 

prosperity plan and performance dashboard.

 

       (d) The regional prosperity council keeps a status report detailing the spending

 

associated with previous regional prosperity initiative grants. Organizations that

 

have successfully received grant awards in previous fiscal years shall be required to

 

make available to the department and on a publicly accessible Internet site

 

information regarding the use of those grant dollars.

 

       (5) Regional planning organizations eligible to receive a payment as a regional

 

prosperity council under subsection (4) may qualify to receive a 1-time grant of not

 

more than $75,000.00 to produce a plan to transform the regional prosperity council

 

into a regional prosperity board, including a singular private/public governance

 

structure that comports with federal guidelines for governance under the workforce

 

investment act, Public Law 105-220, the moving ahead for progress in the 21st century


act, Public Law 112-141, the economic development administration and Appalachian

 

regional development reform act of 1998, Public Law 105-393, and recommendations to

 

eliminate duplicative efforts, administrative functions, and leverage resources

 

through cooperation, collaboration, and consolidations of organizations or programs

 

throughout the region.

 

       (6) Regional planning organizations may qualify to receive not more than

 

$500,000.00 of incentive-based funding as a regional prosperity board subject to

 

meeting all of the following requirements:

 

       (a) The regional prosperity board has been formed and at a minimum, must

 

demonstrate the consolidation of regional metropolitan planning organization, where

 

one exists, state designated regional planning agency boards, workforce development

 

boards and federally designated regional economic development districts within a

 

region.

 

       (b) The regional prosperity board has created a phase three: regional prosperity

 

plan, as follows:

 

       (i) The regional prosperity board shall create a regional services

 

recommendations report prioritizing the list of state-funded services and programs

 

provided to the region, and recommendations for state-regional partnerships to support

 

the adopted regional prosperity plan.

 

       (ii) The plan is required to include a status report of the approved 10-year plan

 

for the creation of an updated regional prosperity plan.

 

       (iii) The regional prosperity board shall adopt the plan by a minimum 2/3 vote of

 

its members.

 

       (c) The regional prosperity board adheres to accountability and transparency

 

measures required in the open meetings act and the freedom of information act.

 

       (d) The regional prosperity board convenes monthly meetings, open to the public,

 

to consider and discuss issues leading to a common vision of economic prosperity for


the region, including, but not limited to, community development, economic

 

development, talent, and infrastructure opportunities.

 

       (e) The regional prosperity board makes available on the grant recipient’s

 

publicly accessible Internet site pertinent documents, including, but not limited to,

 

monthly meeting agendas, minutes of monthly meetings, voting records, and the regional

 

prosperity plan and performance dashboard.

 

       (7) Regional planning organizations eligible to receive a payment as a regional

 

prosperity board under subsection (6) may qualify to receive not more than

 

$125,000.00, to implement the prioritized regional prosperity plan projects.

 

       (8) Regional planning organizations eligible to receive a payment as a regional

 

prosperity collaborative, board, or council may partner with other eligible regional

 

planning organizations to submit joint applications. In the instance of a joint

 

application, 1 regional planning organization shall be utilized as the overall

 

applicant. The department may award a joint application award of no greater than the

 

sum of potential application dollars which would have otherwise been available through

 

individual applications.

 

       (9) The department shall develop an application process and method of grant

 

distribution for the regional prosperity initiative. Funding applications from

 

regional planning organizations shall be due to the department by December 1, 2016.

 

The department shall notify regional planning organizations of grant application

 

status by January 1, 2017. The department shall ensure that processes are established

 

to verify that qualifying regional planning organizations meet the requirements under

 

subsections (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), and (7), as applicable.

 

       (10) Unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for the regional prosperity

 

initiative are designated as work project appropriations, and any unencumbered or

 

unallotted funds shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and shall be available

 

for expenditure for regional prosperity initiative projects under this section until


the projects have been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of

 

the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

 

       (a) The purpose of the projects is to provide incentive-based grants to

 

recipients under this section.

 

       (b) The projects will be accomplished by grants to qualified regional planning

 

organizations.

 

       (c) The total estimated cost of all projects is $2,500,000.00.

 

       (d) The estimated completion date is September 30, 2021.

 

       Sec. 18-822h. The department of technology, management and budget shall report by

 

April 15 to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on general government,

 

the senate and house fiscal agencies and the state budget director on the expenditures

 

for the office of urban initiatives. The report shall provide information detailing

 

the economic impact and job growth initiatives for each urban and metropolitan area

 

receiving funds under part 1. The report shall also provide information detailing the

 

initiatives undertaken in each urban or metropolitan area receiving funds under part

 

1, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

 

       (a) Transportation and infrastructure.

 

       (b) Public services.

 

       (c) Land use and sustainability.

 

       (d) Housing.

 

       (e) Workforce and economic development.

 

       Sec. 18-822i. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall

 

assure all of the following:

 

       (a) That public schools that are placed in the state school reform/redesign

 

school district or under a chief executive officer under section 1280c of the revised

 

school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1280c, remain in compliance with all applicable

 

state and federal law concerning special education.


       (b) That students at public schools described in subdivision (a) with

 

individualized education programs are afforded special education services in

 

accordance with applicable state and federal law concerning special education.

 

       (2) The department shall report to the legislature on the number of students in

 

public schools described in subsection (1)(a) who have an individualized education

 

program and the performance results of those students after the change in governance

 

of the public school.

 

       Sec. 18-822j. From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for the office of

 

good government, the department shall expand the scope of the office of good

 

government. The purpose of this program expansion is to broaden the office’s support

 

of transformative good government initiatives related to employee engagement and

 

process improvement.

 

 

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

       Sec. 18-823. (1) The department of technology, management and budget may sell and

 

accept paid advertising for placement on any state website under its jurisdiction. The

 

department shall review and approve the content of each advertisement. The department

 

may refuse to accept advertising from any person or organization or require

 

modification to advertisements based upon criteria determined by the department.

 

Revenue received under this subsection shall be used for operating costs of the

 

department and for future technology enhancements to state of Michigan e-government

 

initiatives. Funds received under this subsection shall be limited to $250,000.00. Any

 

funds in excess of $250,000.00 shall be deposited in the state general fund.

 

       (2) The department of technology, management and budget may accept gifts,

 

donations, contributions, bequests, and grants of money from any public or private

 

source to assist with the underwriting or sponsorship of state webpages or services

 

offered on those webpages. A private or public funding source may receive recognition

 


in the webpage. The department of technology, management and budget may reject any

 

gift, donation, contribution, bequest, or grant.

 

       (3) Funds accepted by the department of technology, management and budget under

 

subsection (1) or (2) are appropriated and allotted when received and may be expended

 

upon approval of the state budget director. The state budget office shall notify the

 

senate and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations

 

subcommittees on general government and the senate and house fiscal agencies within 10

 

days after the approval is given.

 

       Sec. 18-824. The department of technology, management and budget may enter into

 

agreements to supply spatial information and technical services to other principal

 

executive departments, state agencies, local units of government, and other

 

organizations. The department of technology, management and budget may receive and

 

expend funds in addition to those authorized in part 1 for providing information and

 

technical services, publications, maps, and other products. The department of

 

technology, management and budget may expend amounts received for salaries, supplies,

 

and equipment necessary to provide informational products and technical services.

 

Prior to December 1 of each year, the department shall provide a report to the senate

 

and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations subcommittees on

 

general government and the state budget director, detailing the sources of funding and

 

expenditures made under this section.

 

       Sec. 18-825. The legislature shall have access to all historical and current data

 

contained within MAIN pertaining to state departments. State departments shall have

 

access to all historical and current data contained within MAIN.

 

       Sec. 18-826. When used in this part and part 1, "information technology services"

 

means services involving all aspects of managing and processing information,

 

including, but not limited to, all of the following:

 

       (a) Application and mobile development and maintenance.


       (b) Desktop computer support and management.

 

       (c) Cyber security.

 

       (d) Social media.

 

       (e) Mainframe computer support and management.

 

       (f) Server support and management.

 

       (g) Local area network support and management, including, but not limited to,

 

wired and wireless network build‑out, support, and management.

 

       (h) Information technology project management.

 

       (i) Information technology planning and budget management.

 

       (j) Telecommunication services, infrastructure, and support.

 

       Sec. 18-827. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for the Michigan public safety

 

communications system shall be expended upon approval of an expenditure plan by the

 

state budget director.

 

       (2) The department of technology, management and budget shall assess all

 

subscribers of the Michigan public safety communications system reasonable access and

 

maintenance fees and shall deposit the fees in the Michigan public safety

 

communications systems fees fund.

 

       (3) All money received by the department of technology, management and budget

 

under this section shall be expended for the support and maintenance of the Michigan

 

public safety communications system.

 

       (4) Any deposits made under this section are restricted revenues and shall be

 

carried forward into succeeding fiscal years.

 

       Sec. 18-833. (1) The state budget director, upon notification to the senate and

 

house of representatives standing committees on appropriations, may adjust spending

 

authorization and user fees in the department of technology, management and budget in

 

order to ensure that the appropriations for information technology in the department

 

budget equal the appropriations for information technology in the budgets for all


executive branch agencies.

 

       (2) If during the course of the fiscal year a transfer or supplemental to or from

 

the information technology line item within an agency budget is made under section 393

 

of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393, there is appropriated an

 

equal amount of user fees in the department of technology, management and budget to

 

accommodate an increase or decrease in spending authorization.

 

       Sec. 18-834. (1) Revenue collected from licenses issued under the antenna site

 

management project shall be deposited into the antenna site management revolving fund

 

created for this purpose in the department of technology, management and budget. The

 

department may receive and expend money from the fund for costs associated with the

 

antenna site management project, including the cost of a third-party site manager. Any

 

excess revenue remaining in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall be

 

proportionately transferred to the appropriate state restricted funds as designated in

 

statute or by constitution.

 

       (2) An antenna shall not be placed on any site pursuant to this section without

 

complying with the respective local zoning codes and local unit of government

 

processes.

 

       Sec. 18-835. In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, the funds collected

 

by the department for supplying census-related information and technical services,

 

publications, statistical studies, population projections and estimates, and other

 

demographic products are appropriated for all expenses necessary to provide the

 

required services. These funds are available for expenditure when they are received

 

and may be carried forward into the next succeeding fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 18-836. From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for the information

 

technology investment fund, the department provide for the modernization of state

 

information technology systems, and integrate state system interfaces to improve

 

customer service.


       Sec. 18-837. From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for cyber security

 

improvements, the department shall increase cyber security information technology

 

investment projects in the current fiscal year.  The purpose of this program expansion

 

will be to provide cyber security enhancements for network security improvements,

 

development of a comprehensive security framework and asset security program,

 

implementation of an enterprise-wide data loss prevention process and governance, risk

 

and compliance program, and development of security dashboards and security reporting

 

processes.

 

       Sec. 18-838. From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for enterprise

 

identity management, the department shall expand the enterprise identity management

 

program in the current fiscal year.  The purpose of this program expansion is to

 

provide an enterprise-wide single sign-on and identity management tool to establish,

 

manage, and authenticate user identities for state information technology systems.

 

       Sec. 18-839. From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for office of

 

retirement services ongoing support of technology, the department shall expand the

 

office of retirement services’ information technology capability in the current fiscal

 

year. The purpose of this new program/program expansion is to provide a 90% customer

 

contact satisfaction level.

 

 

 

STATE BUILDING AUTHORITY

 

       Sec. 18-842. (1) The state building authority rent appropriations in part 1 may

 

also be expended for the payment of required premiums for insurance on facilities

 

owned by the state building authority or payment of costs that may be incurred as the

 

result of any deductible provisions in such insurance policies.

 

       (2) If the amount appropriated in part 1 for state building authority rent is not

 

sufficient to pay the rent obligations and insurance premiums and deductibles

 

identified in subsection (1) for state building authority projects, there is

 


appropriated from the general fund of the state the amount necessary to pay such

 

obligations.

 

 

 

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

 

       Sec. 18-850. (1) In accordance with section 5 of article XI of the state

 

constitution of 1963, all restricted funds shall be assessed a sum not less than 1% of

 

the total aggregate payroll paid from those funds for financing the civil service

 

commission on the basis of actual 1% restricted sources total aggregate payroll of the

 

classified service for the preceding fiscal year. This includes, but is not limited

 

to, restricted funds appropriated in part 1 of any appropriations act. Unexpended 1%

 

appropriated funds shall be returned to each 1% fund source at the end of the fiscal

 

year.

 

       (2) The appropriations in part 1 are estimates of actual charges based on payroll

 

appropriations. With the approval of the state budget director, the commission is

 

authorized to adjust financing sources for civil service charges based on actual

 

payroll expenditures, provided that such adjustments do not increase the total

 

appropriation for the civil service commission.

 

       (3) The financing from restricted sources shall be credited to the civil service

 

commission by the end of the second fiscal quarter.

 

       Sec. 18-851. Except where specifically appropriated for this purpose, financing

 

from restricted sources shall be credited to the civil service commission. For

 

restricted sources of funding within the general fund that have the legislative

 

authority for carryover, if current spending authorization or revenues are

 

insufficient to accept the charge, the shortage shall be taken from carryforward

 

balances of that funding source. Restricted revenue sources that do not have

 

carryforward authority shall be utilized to satisfy commission operating deducts first

 

and civil service obligations second. General fund dollars are appropriated for any

 


shortfall, pursuant to approval by the state budget director.

 

       Sec. 18-852. The appropriation in part 1 to the civil service commission, for

 

state-sponsored group insurance, flexible spending accounts, and COBRA, represents

 

amounts, in part, included within the various appropriations throughout state

 

government for the current fiscal year to fund the flexible spending account program

 

included within the civil service commission. Deposits against state-sponsored group

 

insurance, flexible spending accounts, and COBRA for the flexible spending account

 

program shall be made from assessments levied during the current fiscal year in a

 

manner prescribed by the civil service commission. Unspent employee contributions to

 

the flexible spending accounts may be used to offset administrative costs for the

 

flexible spending account program, with any remaining balance of unspent employee

 

contributions to be lapsed to the general fund.

 

 

 

CAPITAL OUTLAY

 

       Sec. 18-860. As used in sections 18-861 through 18-875:

 

       (a) "Board" means the state administrative board.

 

       (b) "Community college" does not include a state agency or university.

 

       (c) "Department" means the department of technology, management and budget.

 

       (d) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (e) "University" means a 4-year university supported by the state. University

 

does not include a community college or a state agency.

 

       Sec. 18-861. Each capital outlay project authorized in this article or any

 

previous capital outlay act shall comply with the procedures required by the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 18-864. The appropriations in part 1 for capital outlay shall be carried

 

forward at the end of the fiscal year consistent with the provisions of section 248 of

 

the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1248.

 


       Sec. 18-865. (1) A site preparation economic development fund is created in the

 

department of technology, management and budget. As used in this section, "economic

 

development sites" means those state-owned sites declared as surplus property pursuant

 

to section 251 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1251, that would

 

provide economic benefit to the area or to the state. The Michigan economic

 

development corporation board and the state budget director shall determine whether or

 

not a specific state-owned site qualifies for inclusion in the fund created under this

 

subsection.

 

       (2) Proceeds from the sale of any sites designated in subsection (1) shall be

 

deposited into the fund created in subsection (1) and shall be available for site

 

preparation expenditures, unless otherwise provided by law. The economic development

 

sites authorized in subsection (1) are authorized for sale consistent with state law.

 

Expenditures from the fund are authorized for site preparation activities that enhance

 

the marketable sale value of the sites. Site preparation activities include, but are

 

not limited to, demolition, environmental studies and abatement, utility enhancement,

 

and site excavation.

 

       (3) A cash advance in an amount of not more than $25,000,000.00 is authorized

 

from the general fund to the site preparation economic development fund.

 

       (4) An annual report shall be transmitted to the senate and house of

 

representatives standing committees on appropriations not later than December 31 of

 

each year. This report shall detail both of the following:

 

       (a) The revenue and expenditure activity in the fund for the preceding fiscal

 

year.

 

       (b) The sites identified as economic development sites under subsection (1).

 

       Sec. 18-867. Proceeds from the sale of the Farnum Building shall be subsequently

 

appropriated to the department in accordance with any legislation enacted that

 

authorizes the sale of that property. If the net proceeds from the sale of the Farnum


Building are less than the $7,000,000.00 authorized for senate relocation costs in

 

section 896 of article VIII of 2014 PA 252, an amount equal to the difference between

 

the net sale proceeds and $7,000,000.00 shall be appropriated by the legislature to

 

the department.

 

 

 

CAPITAL OUTLAY – UNIVERSITIES AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES

 

       Sec. 18-873. (1) This section applies only to projects for community colleges.

 

       (2) State support is directed towards the remodeling and additions, special

 

maintenance, or construction of certain community college buildings. The community

 

college shall obtain or provide for site acquisition and initial main utility

 

installation to operate the facility. Funding shall be composed of local and state

 

shares and not more than 50% of a capital outlay project, not including a lump-sum

 

special maintenance project or remodeling and addition project, for a community

 

college shall be appropriated from state and federal funds, unless otherwise

 

appropriated by the legislature.

 

       (3) An expenditure under this article is authorized when the release of the

 

appropriation is approved by the board upon the recommendation of the director. The

 

director may recommend to the board the release of any appropriation in part 1 only

 

after the director is assured that the legal entity operating the community college to

 

which the appropriation is made has complied with this article and has matched the

 

amounts appropriated as required by this article. A release of funds in part 1 shall

 

not exceed 50% of the total cost of planning and construction of any project, not

 

including lump-sum remodeling and additions and special maintenance, unless otherwise

 

appropriated by the legislature. Further planning and construction of a project

 

authorized by this article or applicable sections of the management and budget act,

 

1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594, shall be in accordance with the purpose and scope

 

as defined and delineated in the approved program statements and planning documents.

 


This article is applicable to all projects for which planning appropriations were made

 

in previous acts.

 

       (4) The community college shall take the steps necessary to secure available

 

federal construction and equipment money for projects funded for construction in this

 

article if an application was not previously made. If there is a reasonable

 

expectation that a prior year unfunded application may receive federal money in a

 

subsequent year, the college shall take whatever action necessary to keep the

 

application active.

 

       Sec. 18-874. If university and community college matching revenues are received

 

in an amount less than the appropriations for capital projects contained in this

 

article, the state funds shall be reduced in proportion to the amount of matching

 

revenue received.

 

       Sec. 18-875. (1) The director may require that community colleges and

 

universities that have an authorized project listed in part 1 submit documentation

 

regarding the project match and governing board approval of the authorized project not

 

more than 60 days after the beginning of the fiscal year.

 

       (2) If the documentation required by the director under subsection (1) is not

 

submitted, or does not adequately authenticate the availability of the project match

 

or board approval of the authorized project, the authorization may terminate. The

 

authorization terminates 30 days after the director notifies the JCOS of the intent to

 

terminate the project unless the JCOS convenes to extend the authorization.

 

 

 

ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 18-822g. The department of technology, management and budget shall report by

 

April 1 to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on general government and

 

the senate and house fiscal agencies on legal service fund expenditures. The report

 

shall itemize expenditures by case, purpose, and department involved.


Article 19

 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 19-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of transportation are appropriated for the

 

fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for the

 

fiscal year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part. The

 

following is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this

 

part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            2,912.3           2,912.3

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $  4,125,203,600  $  4,114,803,600

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................          4,013,400         4,013,400

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $  4,121,190,200  $  4,110,790,200

 

  Total federal revenues..................................      1,314,744,000     1,314,744,000

 

  Total local revenues....................................         50,418,500        50,418,500

 

  Total private revenues..................................            100,000           100,000

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................      2,745,527,700     2,745,527,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     10,400,000  $              0

 

      State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........                  0                 0

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........         10,400,000                 0

 

   Sec. 19-102.  DEBT SERVICE


  State trunkline.........................................   $    194,076,400  $    194,076,400

 

  Economic development....................................         11,612,200        11,612,200

 

  Local bridge fund.......................................          2,406,500         2,406,500

 

  Blue Water Bridge fund..................................          6,963,900         6,963,900

 

  Airport safety and protection plan......................          4,616,400         4,616,400

 

  Comprehensive transportation............................         18,249,900        18,249,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    237,925,300  $    237,925,300

 

     Appropriated from

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal aid–transportation programs.....................         45,767,900        45,767,900

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Blue Water Bridge fund..................................          6,963,900         6,963,900

 

  Comprehensive transportation fund.......................         18,249,900        18,249,900

 

  Economic development fund...............................         11,612,200        11,612,200

 

  IRS debt service rebate.................................          7,011,800         7,011,800

 

  Local bridge fund.......................................          2,406,500         2,406,500

 

  State aeronautics fund..................................          4,616,400         4,616,400

 

  State trunkline fund....................................        141,296,700       141,296,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................    $             0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-103.  COLLECTION, ENFORCEMENT, AND OTHER AGENCY SUPPORT SERVICES

 

  MTF grant to department of environmental quality........    $     1,335,100  $      1,335,100

 

  MTF grant to department of state for collection of

 

   revenue and fees......................................         20,000,000        20,000,000

 

  MTF grant to department of treasury.....................          2,684,100         2,684,100

 

  MTF grant to legislative auditor general................            315,800           315,800

 

  STF grant to department of attorney general.............          2,429,200         2,429,200

 

  STF grant to civil service commission...................          5,847,000         5,847,000


  STF grant to department of technology, management

 

   and budget............................................          1,226,000         1,226,000

 

  STF grant to department of state police.................         11,627,600        11,627,600

 

  STF grant to department of treasury.....................            157,900           157,900

 

  STF grant to legislative auditor general................            733,500           733,500

 

  SAF grant to department of attorney general.............            177,600           177,600

 

  SAF grant to civil service commission...................            150,000           150,000

 

  SAF grant to department of technology, management

 

   and budget............................................             33,500            33,500

 

  SAF grant to department of treasury.....................             73,900            73,900

 

  SAF grant to legislative auditor general................             30,300            30,300

 

  CTF grant to department of attorney general.............            204,500           204,500

 

  CTF grant to civil service commission...................            200,000           200,000

 

  CTF grant to department of technology, management

 

   and budget............................................             42,200            42,200

 

  CTF grant to department of treasury.....................             13,500            13,500

 

  CTF grant to legislative auditor general................             39,000            39,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     47,320,700  $     47,320,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Comprehensive transportation fund.......................            499,200           499,200

 

  Michigan transportation fund............................         24,335,000        24,335,000

 

  State aeronautics fund..................................            465,300           465,300

 

  State trunkline fund....................................         22,021,200        22,021,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-104.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTION

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............                6.0               6.0


   Full-time equated classified positions................               29.3              29.3

 

  Unclassified salaries...................................   $        754,000  $        754,000

 

  Asset management council................................          1,626,400         1,626,400

 

  Commission support and audit—29.3 FTE positions.........          3,335,900         3,335,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      5,716,300  $      5,716,300

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Michigan transportation fund............................          1,626,400         1,626,400

 

  State trunkline fund....................................          4,089,900         4,089,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-105.  BUSINESS SUPPORT

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               54.0              54.0

 

  Business support services—44.0 FTE positions............   $      6,756,100  $      6,756,100

 

  Economic development and enhancement programs—10.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          1,633,200         1,633,200

 

  Property management.....................................          7,112,200         7,112,200

 

  Worker’s compensation...................................          1,711,200         1,711,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     17,212,700  $     17,212,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Comprehensive transportation fund.......................          1,835,100         1,835,100

 

  Economic development fund...............................            378,100           378,100

 

  Michigan transportation fund............................            801,100           801,100

 

  State aeronautics fund..................................            752,100           752,100

 

  State trunkline fund....................................         13,446,300        13,446,300

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-106.  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY


  Information technology services and projects............   $      32,364,500  $      32,364,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     32,364,500  $     32,364,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal aid–transportation programs.....................            520,500           520,500

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Blue Water Bridge fund..................................             55,100            55,100

 

  Comprehensive transportation fund.......................            224,400           224,400

 

  Economic development fund...............................             37,200            37,200

 

  Michigan transportation fund............................            293,300           293,300

 

  State aeronautics fund..................................            175,100           175,100

 

  State trunkline fund....................................         31,058,900        31,058,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-107.  FINANCE, CONTRACTS, AND SUPPORT SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              186.0             186.0

 

  Finance, contracts, and support services—186.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $      21,791,700  $      21,791,700

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     21,791,700  $     21,791,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG for accounting service center user charges..........          4,013,400         4,013,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Michigan transportation fund............................          1,621,700         1,621,700

 

  State trunkline fund....................................         16,156,600        16,156,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-108.  TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              140.0             140.0


  Planning services-140.0 FTE positions...................   $     38,481,100  $     38,481,100

 

  Grants to regional planning councils....................            488,800           488,800

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     38,969,900  $     38,969,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal aid–transportation program .....................         19,250,000        19,250,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Comprehensive transportation fund.......................            610,500           610,500

 

  Michigan transportation fund............................          9,571,400         9,571,400

 

  State aeronautics fund..................................             15,000            15,000

 

  State trunkline fund....................................          9,523,000         9,523,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-109.  DESIGN AND ENGINEERING SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            1,589.3           1,589.3

 

  Program development, delivery and system operations

 

   —1,539.3 FTE positions................................   $    166,199,900  $    166,199,900

 

  Welcome center operations—50.0 FTE positions............          4,532,800         4,532,800

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    170,732,700  $    170,732,700

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal aid–transportation programs ....................         23,529,800        23,529,800

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Michigan transportation fund............................         12,246,000        12,246,000

 

  State trunkline fund....................................        134,956,900       134,956,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-110.  HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              743.7             743.7


  State trunkline operations—743.7 FTE positions..........   $     303,948,000  $     303,948,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    303,948,000  $    303,948,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State trunkline fund....................................        303,948,000       303,948,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-111.  ROAD AND BRIDGE PROGRAMS

 

  State trunkline federal aid and road and bridge

 

   construction..........................................   $  1,057,776,900  $  1,057,776,900

 

  Local federal aid and road and bridge construction......        272,511,000       272,511,000

 

  Grants to local programs................................         33,000,000        33,000,000

 

  Rail grade crossing.....................................          3,000,000         3,000,000

 

  Rail grade crossing-surface improvements................          3,000,000         3,000,000

 

  Local bridge program ...................................         27,468,600        27,468,600

 

  County road commissions.................................        797,470,600       797,470,600

 

  Cities and villages.....................................        444,625,500       444,625,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $  2,638,852,600  $  2,638,852,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal aid–transportation programs ....................      1,030,225,800     1,030,225,800

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local funds.............................................         30,000,000        30,000,000

 

  Blue Water Bridge fund..................................         28,998,100        28,998,100

 

  Local bridge fund.......................................         27,468,600        27,468,600

 

  Michigan transportation fund............................      1,281,096,100     1,281,096,100

 

  State trunkline fund....................................        241,064,000       241,064,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0


   Sec. 19-112.  BLUE WATER BRIDGE

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               41.0              41.0

 

  Blue Water Bridge operations—41.0 FTE positions.........   $       6,433,100  $      6,433,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      6,433,100  $      6,433,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Blue Water Bridge fund..................................          6,433,100         6,433,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-113.  TRANSPORTATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND

 

  Forest roads............................................   $      5,000,000  $      5,000,000

 

  Rural county urban system...............................          2,500,000         2,500,000

 

  Target industries/economic redevelopment................         19,823,700        19,823,700

 

  Urban county congestion.................................          8,161,900         8,161,900

 

  Rural county primary....................................          8,161,900         8,161,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     43,647,500  $     43,647,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Economic development fund...............................         43,647,500        43,647,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-114.  AERONAUTICS SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               54.0              54.0

 

  Aeronautics services—54.0 FTE positions.................   $      7,648,800  $      7,648,800

 

  Air service program.....................................            250,000           250,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      7,898,800  $      7,898,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State aeronautics fund..................................          7,898,800         7,898,800


  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-115.  PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               36.0              36.0

 

  Passenger transportation services—36.0 FTE positions....   $       5,740,500  $      5,740,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      5,740,500  $      5,740,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal aid–transportation programs.....................            972,100           972,100

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Comprehensive transportation fund.......................          4,768,400         4,768,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-116.  BUS TRANSIT DIVISION: STATUTORY OPERATING

 

  Local bus operating.....................................   $    180,000,000  $    180,000,000

 

  Nonurban operating/capital..............................         26,027,900        26,027,900

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    206,027,900  $    206,027,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal aid–transportation programs.....................         24,027,900        24,027,900

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local funds.............................................          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

  Comprehensive transportation fund.......................        180,000,000       180,000,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-117.  INTERCITY PASSENGER

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               39.0              39.0

 

  Office of rail—39.0 FTE positions.......................   $      6,427,700  $      6,427,700

 

  Freight property management.............................          1,000,000         1,000,000

 

  Detroit/Wayne County port authority.....................            468,200           468,200


  Intercity services......................................          6,250,000         6,250,000

 

  Rail operations and infrastructure......................        118,894,800       118,894,800

 

  Marine passenger service................................            400,000           400,000

 

  Terminal development....................................            300,000           300,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    133,740,700  $    133,740,700

 

     Appropriated from

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal aid–transportation programs.....................         64,600,000        64,600,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local funds.............................................            150,000           150,000

 

  Private funds...........................................            100,000           100,000

 

  Comprehensive transportation fund.......................         60,043,000        60,043,000

 

  Intercity bus equipment fund............................            100,000           100,000

 

  Michigan transportation fund............................          2,029,100         2,029,100

 

  Rail freight fund.......................................          6,000,000         6,000,000

 

  State trunkline fund....................................            718,600           718,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-118.  PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT

 

  Specialized services....................................   $     17,938,900  $     17,938,900

 

  Municipal credit program................................          2,000,000         2,000,000

 

  Transit capital.........................................         60,157,100        60,157,100

 

  Van pooling.............................................            195,000           195,000

 

  Service initiatives.....................................          2,889,200         2,889,200

 

  Transportation to work..................................          3,700,000         3,700,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     86,880,200  $     86,880,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:


  Federal aid–transportation programs.....................         26,850,000        26,850,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local funds.............................................          5,760,000         5,760,000

 

  Comprehensive transportation fund.......................         54,270,200        54,270,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-119.  CAPITAL OUTLAY

 

   (1) BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

 

  Special maintenance, remodeling, and additions..........   $       3,001,500  $       3,001,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      3,001,500  $      3,001,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State trunkline fund....................................          3,001,500         3,001,500

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   (2) AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS

 

  Airport safety, protection and improvement program......   $     97,824,000  $     97,824,000

 

  Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County airport...............          8,775,000         8,775,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    106,599,000  $    106,599,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal aid–transportation programs.....................         79,000,000        79,000,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local funds.............................................         12,508,500        12,508,500

 

  State aeronautics fund..................................          6,315,500         6,315,500

 

  Qualified airport fund..................................          8,775,000         8,775,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 19-120.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

  State trunkline federal aid road and bridge


   construction......................................... $        10,400,000  $               0

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     10,400,000  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     10,400,000  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 19-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $2,755,927,700.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 

of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $1,583,461,200.00. The itemized statement

 

below identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will

 

occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

  Grants to regional planning councils..................................    $           488,800

 

  Grants to local programs..............................................             33,000,000

 

  Rail grade crossing...................................................              3,000,000

 

  Rail grade crossing-surface improvements..............................              3,000,000

 

  Local bridge program..................................................             27,468,600

 

  County road commissions...............................................            797,470,600

 

  Cities and villages...................................................            444,625,500

 

  Economic development fund.............................................             23,823,800

 

  Air service program...................................................                250,000

 

  Local bus operating...................................................            180,000,000

 


  Detroit/Wayne County port authority...................................                468,200

 

  Marine passenger service..............................................                400,000

 

  Terminal development..................................................                300,000

 

  Specialized services..................................................              3,853,900

 

  Municipal credit program..............................................              2,000,000

 

  Transit capital.......................................................             43,607,100

 

  Service initiatives...................................................                914,200

 

  Transportation to work................................................              3,700,000

 

  Airport safety, protection, and improvement program...................              6,315,500

 

  Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County airport.............................              8,775,000

 

  Total payments to local units of government...........................   $       1,583,461,200

 

       Sec. 19-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 19-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "CTF" means comprehensive transportation fund.

 

       (b) "Department" means the state transportation department.

 

       (c) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (d) "DOT" means the United States department of transportation.

 

       (e) "DOT-FHWA" means DOT, federal highway administration.

 

       (f) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (g) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

       (h) "IRS" means the internal revenue service.

 

       (i) "MTF" means Michigan transportation fund.

 

       (j) "SAF" means state aeronautics fund.

 

       (k) "STF" means state trunkline fund.

 

       Sec. 19-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This


requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 19-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of

 

foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 19-206. The director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in

 

deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide

 

services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which

 

the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 19-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of

 

each year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion


funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 19-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal

 

services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 19-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare

 

and transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 19-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $200,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $40,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These

 

funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another

 

line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in


this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 19-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 19-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 19-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.


       Sec. 19-214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources under part 1 for

 

legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is $70,450,500.00. From

 

this amount, total agency appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are

 

estimated at $39,063,000.00. Total agency appropriations for retiree health care

 

legacy costs are estimated at $31,387,500.00.

 

 

 

DEPARTMENTAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 19-301. (1) The department may establish a fee schedule and collect fees

 

sufficient to cover the costs to issue the permits that the department is authorized

 

by law to issue upon request, unless otherwise stipulated by law. All permit fees are

 

nonrefundable application fees and shall be credited to the appropriate fund to

 

recover the direct and indirect costs of receiving, reviewing, and processing the

 

requests.

 

       (2) A bridge authority shall hold 3 public hearings on an increase in any toll

 

charged by the authority at least 30 days before the toll change will become

 

effective. Two of the hearings shall be held within 5 miles of the bridge over which

 

the bridge authority has jurisdiction. One hearing shall be held in Lansing. Public

 

hearings held under this section shall be conducted in accordance with the open

 

meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275, and shall be conducted so as to

 

provide a reasonable opportunity for public comment, including both spoken and written

 

comments.

 

       Sec. 19-304. If, as a requirement of bidding on a highway project, the department

 

requires a contractor to submit financial or proprietary documentation as to how the

 

bid was calculated, that bid documentation shall be kept confidential and shall not be

 

disclosed other than to a department representative without the contractor's written

 

consent. The department may disclose the bid documentation if necessary to address or

 

defend a claim by a contractor.

 


       Sec. 19-305. (1) The department may permit space on public passenger

 

transportation properties to be occupied by public or private tenants on a competitive

 

market rate basis. The department shall require that revenue from the tenants be

 

placed in an account to be used to pay the costs to maintain and improve the property.

 

       (2) The department shall charge public transit agencies and intercity bus

 

carriers equal rates per square foot for leasing space in state-owned intermodal

 

facilities.

 

       Sec. 19-306. (1) The amounts appropriated in part 1 to support tax and fee

 

collection, law enforcement, and other program services provided to the department and

 

to transportation funds by other state departments shall be expended from

 

transportation funds pursuant to annual contracts between the department and those

 

other state departments. The contracts shall be executed prior to the expenditure or

 

obligation of those funds. The contracts shall provide, but are not limited to, the

 

following data applicable to each state department:

 

       (a) Estimated costs to be recovered from transportation funds.

 

       (b) Description of services provided to the department and/or transportation

 

funds and financed with transportation funds.

 

       (c) Detailed cost allocation methods appropriate to the type of services being

 

provided and the activities financed with transportation funds.

 

       (2) Not later than 2 months after publication of the state of Michigan

 

comprehensive annual financial report, each state department receiving funding

 

pursuant to an interdepartment contract with the department shall submit a written

 

report to the department, the state budget director, and the house and senate fiscal

 

agencies stating by spending authorization account the amount of estimated funds

 

contracted with the department, the amount of funds expended, the amount of funds

 

returned to the transportation funds, and any unreimbursed transportation-related

 

costs incurred but not billed to transportation funds. A copy of the report shall be


submitted to the auditor general, and the report shall be subject to audit.

 

       Sec. 19-307. Before March 1 of each year, the department will provide to the

 

legislature, the state budget office, and the house and senate fiscal agencies its

 

rolling 5-year plan listing by county or by county road commission all highway

 

construction projects for the fiscal year and all expected projects for the ensuing

 

fiscal years.

 

       Sec. 19-310. The department shall provide in a timely manner copies of the agenda

 

and approved minutes of monthly transportation commission meetings to the members of

 

the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on transportation, the house and

 

senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director.

 

       Sec. 19-313. (1) From funds appropriated in part 1, the department may increase a

 

state infrastructure bank program and grant or loan funds in accordance with

 

regulations of the state infrastructure bank program of the United States department

 

of transportation. The state infrastructure bank is to be administered by the

 

department for the purpose of providing a revolving, self-sustaining resource for

 

financing transportation infrastructure projects.

 

       (2) In addition to funds provided in subsection (1), money received by the state

 

as federal grants, repayment of state infrastructure bank loans, or other

 

reimbursement or revenue received by the state as a result of projects funded by the

 

program and interest earned on that money shall be deposited in the revolving state

 

infrastructure bank fund and shall be available for transportation infrastructure

 

projects. At the close of the fiscal year, any unencumbered funds remaining in the

 

state infrastructure bank fund shall remain in the fund and be carried forward into

 

the succeeding fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 19-383. (1) The department shall prepare a report on use of department-owned

 

aircraft during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016. With respect to each

 

department-owned aircraft, the report shall include all of the following:


       (a) Total hours of usage.

 

       (b) Description of specific flights including dates of travel, names of

 

passengers including state agency, university, or local government affiliation, travel

 

origin and destination, and total estimated costs associated with the air travel.

 

       (2) The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on transportation and the house and senate fiscal agencies no later than

 

February 1, 2017.

 

       (3) The department shall maintain a system for recovering the cost of operating

 

department-owned aircraft through charges to aircraft users.

 

       (4) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department is prohibited from

 

transporting legislators or legislative staff on state-owned aircraft without prior

 

approval from the senate majority leader or the speaker of the house of

 

representatives and only when the aircraft is scheduled by state agencies on related

 

official business.

 

       Sec. 19-384. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), the department

 

shall not obligate the state to expend any state transportation revenue for

 

construction planning or construction of the Detroit River International Crossing or a

 

renamed successor. In addition, except as provided in subsection (2), the department

 

shall not commit the state to any new contract related to the construction planning or

 

construction of the Detroit River International Crossing or a renamed successor that

 

would obligate the state to expend any state transportation revenue. An expenditure

 

for staff resources used in connection with project activities, which expenditure is

 

subject to full and prompt reimbursement from Canada, shall not be considered an

 

expenditure of state transportation revenue.

 

       (2) If the legislature enacts specific enabling legislation for the construction

 

of the Detroit River International Crossing or a renamed successor, subsection (1)

 

does not apply once the enabling legislation goes into effect.


       Sec. 19-385. (1) The department shall submit reports to the state budget

 

director, the speaker of the house, the house minority leader, the senate majority

 

leader, the senate minority leader, the house and senate appropriations subcommittees

 

on transportation, and the house and senate fiscal agencies on department activities

 

related to all nonconstruction or construction planning activities related to the

 

Detroit River International Crossing or a renamed successor. The initial report shall

 

be submitted on or before December 1, 2016 and shall cover the fiscal year ending

 

September 30, 2016.

 

       (2) The initial report shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:

 

       (a) Department costs incurred in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016,

 

including employee salaries, wages, benefits, travel, and contractual services, and

 

what activities those costs were related to.

 

       (b) Costs of other executive branch agencies incurred in the fiscal year ending

 

September 30, 2016, including employee salaries, wages, benefits, travel, and

 

contractual services, and what activities those costs were related to.

 

       (c) A breakdown of the source of funds used for the activities described in

 

subdivisions (a) and (b).

 

       (d) A breakdown of reimbursements made by Canada under section 384(1) to the

 

state for expenditures for staff resources used in connection with project activities.

 

       (e) A narrative description of the status of the Detroit River International

 

Crossing or a renamed successor, including efforts undertaken to implement provisions

 

of the crossing agreement executed June 15, 2012 by representatives of the Canadian

 

government and this state.

 

       (3) After submission of the initial report, a subsequent report shall be

 

submitted on March 1, 2017, June 1, 2017, and September 1, 2017 and shall include the

 

same information described in subsection (2) for the applicable previous fiscal

 

quarter.


       Sec. 19-395. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for state trunkline federal

 

aid road and bridge construction, the department may expend up to $10,000,000.00 on

 

highway maintenance activities to support safety-related, high-priority and other

 

deferred routine maintenance needs on Michigan’s state trunkline network.

 

 

 

FEDERAL

 

       Sec. 19-402. A portion of the federal DOT-FHWA highway research, planning, and

 

construction funds made available to this state shall be allocated to transportation

 

programs administered by local jurisdictions in accordance with section 10o of 1951 PA

 

51, MCL 247.660o. A local road agency, with respect to a project approved for federal

 

aid funding in a state transportation improvement program, may enter into a voluntary

 

buyout agreement with the department or with another local road agency to exchange the

 

federal aid with state restricted transportation funds as agreed to by the respective

 

parties. The state restricted transportation funds received in exchange for federal

 

aid funds shall be used for the same purpose as the federal aid funds were originally

 

intended.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRANSPORTATION FUND

 

       Sec. 19-501. The money received under the motor carrier act, 1933 PA 254, MCL

 

475.1 to 479.43, and not appropriated to the department of licensing and regulatory

 

affairs or the department of state police is deposited in the Michigan transportation

 

fund.

 

       Sec. 19-503. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for the economic development

 

and local bridge programs shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year but shall

 

carry forward each fiscal year for the purposes for which appropriated in accordance

 

with 1987 PA 231, MCL 247.901 to 247.913, and section 10(5) of 1951 PA 51, MCL

 

247.660.

 


       (2) Interest earned in the department of transportation economic development fund

 

and local bridge fund shall remain in the respective funds and shall be allocated to

 

the respective programs based on actual interest earned at the end of each fiscal

 

year.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, the department of

 

transportation economic development fund and local bridge fund may receive federal,

 

local, or private funds or restricted source funds such as interest earnings. These

 

funds are appropriated for projects that are consistent with the purposes of the

 

respective funds.

 

       (4) None of the funds statutorily dedicated to the transportation economic

 

development fund and local bridge fund shall be diverted to other projects.

 

       Sec. 19-504. Funds from the Michigan transportation fund shall be distributed to

 

the comprehensive transportation fund, the economic development fund, the recreation

 

improvement fund, and the state trunkline fund, in accordance with this article and

 

part 711 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL

 

324.71101 to 324.71108, and may only be used as specified in this article, 1951 PA 51,

 

MCL 247.651 to 247.675, and part 711 of the natural resources and environmental

 

protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.71101 to 324.71108.

 

       Sec. 19-505. If roads innovation funds are not released by a 1-time concurrent

 

resolution pursuant to section 1J(5) of 2015 PA 175, MCL 247.651J on or before October

 

1, 2016, The department shall prepare a report that specifies the portions of total

 

Michigan transportation fund distributions to be withheld from the state trunkline

 

fund and each local road agency. The department shall present the report to the senate

 

and house standing committees on transportation, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees on transportation, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state

 

budget director on or before November 1, 2016.

 

 

 


STATE TRUNKLINE FUND

 

       Sec. 19-604. At the close of the fiscal year, any unencumbered and unexpended

 

balance in the state trunkline fund shall remain in the state trunkline fund and shall

 

carry forward and is appropriated for federal aid road and bridge programs for

 

projects contained in the annual state transportation program.

 

 

 

TRANSIT AND RAIL RELATED FUNDS

 

       Sec. 19-701. The department shall establish an intercity bus equipment and

 

facility fund as a subsidiary fund within the comprehensive transportation fund

 

created under section 10b of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247.660b. Proceeds received by this state

 

from the sale of state-owned intercity bus equipment shall be credited to the

 

intercity bus equipment and facility fund for the purchase and repair of intercity bus

 

equipment, as appropriated. Security deposits not returned to a lessee of state-owned

 

intercity bus equipment under terms of the lease agreement shall be credited to the

 

intercity bus equipment and facility fund for the repair of intercity bus equipment,

 

as appropriated. Money received by the department from lease payments for state-owned

 

intercity bus equipment, and facility maintenance charges under terms of leases of

 

state-owned intercity facilities, shall be credited to the intercity bus equipment and

 

facility fund for the purchase and repair of intercity bus equipment or for the

 

maintenance and rehabilitation of state-owned intercity facilities, as appropriated.

 

At the close of the fiscal year, any funds remaining in the intercity bus equipment

 

and facility fund shall remain in the fund and be carried forward into the succeeding

 

fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 19-702. Money that is received by this state as repayment for loans made for

 

rail or water freight capital projects, and as a result of the sale of property or

 

equipment used or projected to be used for rail or water freight projects shall be

 

deposited in the rail freight fund created by section 17 of the state transportation

 


preservation act of 1976, 1976 PA 295, MCL 474.67. At the close of the fiscal year,

 

any funds remaining in the rail freight fund shall remain in the fund and be carried

 

forward into the succeeding fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 19-706. The Detroit/Wayne County port authority shall issue a complete

 

operations assessment and a financial disclosure statement. The operations assessment

 

shall include operational goals for the next 5 years and recommendations to improve

 

land acquisition and development efficiency. The report shall be completed and

 

submitted to the house of representatives and senate appropriations subcommittees on

 

transportation, the state budget director, and the house and senate fiscal agencies by

 

February 15 of each fiscal year for the prior fiscal year.

 

       Sec. 19-735. For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, the appropriation to

 

a street railway pursuant to section 10e(22) of 1951 PA 51, MCL 247.660e, is $0.

 

 

 

AERONAUTICS FUND

 

       Sec. 19-801. Except as otherwise provided in section 903 for capital outlay, at

 

the close of the fiscal year, any unobligated and unexpended balance in the state

 

aeronautics fund created in the aeronautics code of the state of Michigan, 1945 PA

 

327, MCL 259.1 to 259.208, shall lapse to the state aeronautics fund and be

 

appropriated by the legislature in the immediately succeeding fiscal year.

 

 

 

CAPITAL OUTLAY

 

       Sec. 19-901. (1) From federal-state-local project appropriations contained in

 

part 1 for the purpose of assisting political entities and subdivisions of this state

 

in the construction and improvement of publicly used airports and landing fields

 

within this state, the state transportation department may permit the award of

 

contracts on behalf of units of local government for the authorized locations not to

 

exceed the indicated amounts, of which the state allocated portion shall not exceed

 


the amount appropriated in part 1.

 

       (2) Political entities and subdivisions shall provide not less than 5% of the

 

cost of any project under this section, unless a total nonfederal share greater than

 

10% is otherwise specified in federal law. State money shall not be allocated until

 

local money is allocated. State money for any 1 project shall not exceed 1/3 of the

 

total appropriation in part 1 from state funds for airport improvement programs.

 

       (3) The Michigan aeronautics commission may take those steps necessary to match

 

federal money available for airport construction and improvement within this state and

 

to meet the matching requirements of the federal government. Whether acting alone or

 

jointly with another political subdivision or public agency or with this state, a

 

political subdivision or public agency of this state shall not submit to any agency of

 

the federal government a project application for airport planning or development

 

unless it is authorized in this article and the project application is approved by the

 

governing body of each political subdivision or public agency making the application

 

and by the Michigan aeronautics commission.

 

       Sec. 19-903. The appropriations in part 1 for capital outlay shall be carried

 

forward at the end of the fiscal year consistent with the provisions of section 248 of

 

the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1248.


Article 20

 

DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS AND ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 20-101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this article, the amounts

 

listed in this part for the department of treasury are appropriated for the fiscal

 

year ending September 30, 2017, and are anticipated to be appropriated for the fiscal

 

year ending September 30, 2018, from the funds indicated in this part. The following

 

is a summary of the appropriations and anticipated appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............               10.0              10.0

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................            1,906.5           1,906.5

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $  1,910,747,400  $  1,909,341,400

 

  Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers.............................................         11,250,600        11,250,600

 

  ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION............................   $  1,899,496,800  $  1,898,090,800

 

  Total federal revenues..................................         39,954,200        39,954,200

 

  Total local revenues....................................          9,265,700         9,265,700

 

  Total private revenues..................................             26,700            26,700

 

  Total other state restricted revenues...................      1,615,304,400     1,635,282,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    234,945,800  $    213,561,300

 

       State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

     Ongoing state general fund/general purpose..........        232,103,300       213,561,300

 

     One-time state general fund/general purpose.........          2,842,500                 0

 

   Sec. 20-102.  EXECUTIVE DIRECTION

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions..............               10.0              10.0


   Full-time equated classified positions................               52.0              52.0

 

  Unclassified positions-10.0 FTE positions...............   $        995,500  $        995,500

 

  Executive direction and operations-52.0 FTE positions...          9,328,400         9,328,400

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     10,323,900  $     10,323,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  DED-OPSE, federal lenders allowance.....................             20,000            20,000

 

  DED-OPSE higher education act of 1965 insured loans.....             45,000            45,000

 

  Local – city income tax fund............................            101,900           101,900

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Delinquent tax collection revenue.......................          2,159,800         2,159,800

 

  State lottery fund......................................            288,700           288,700

 

  State services fee fund.................................            328,200           328,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      7,380,300  $      7,380,300

 

   Sec. 20-103.  DEPARTMENTWIDE APPROPRIATIONS

 

  Rent and building occupancy charges-property management

 

   services..............................................   $      6,047,400  $      6,047,400

 

  Workers’ compensation insurance premium.................             36,400            36,400

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $      6,083,800  $      6,083,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Delinquent tax collection revenue.......................          2,890,600         2,890,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      3,193,200  $      3,193,200

 

   Sec. 20-104.  LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              111.0             111.0

 

  Supervision of the general property tax law-86.0 FTE

 

   positions.............................................   $     14,590,200  $     14,590,200


  Property tax assessor training-4.0 FTE positions........          1,040,400         1,040,400

 

  Local finance-21.0 FTE positions........................          2,607,000         2,607,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     18,237,600  $     18,237,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local-assessor training fees............................          1,040,400         1,040,400

 

  Local-audit charges.....................................            825,800           825,800

 

  Local-equalization study charge-backs...................             40,000            40,000

 

  Local-revenue from local government.....................            100,000           100,000

 

  Delinquent tax collection revenue.......................          1,514,700         1,514,700

 

  Land reutilization fund.................................          2,044,000         2,044,000

 

  Municipal finance fees..................................            544,900           544,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     12,127,800  $     12,127,800

 

   Sec. 20-105.  TAX PROGRAMS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              774.0             774.0

 

  Tax compliance-340.0 FTE positions......................   $     45,075,300  $     45,075,300

 

  Tax and economic policy-75.0 FTE positions..............         11,570,600        11,570,600

 

  Tax processing-331.0 FTE positions......................         37,376,900        37,376,900

 

  Health insurance claims fund-15.0 FTE positions.........          2,070,500         2,070,500

 

  Home heating assistance.................................          3,086,200         3,086,200

 

  Tobacco tax enforcement-13.0 FTE positions..............          1,509,100         1,509,100

 

  Bottle bill implementation..............................            250,000           250,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    100,938,600  $    100,938,600

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG from MDOT-Michigan transportation fund..............          2,284,100         2,284,100

 

  IDG from MDOT-state aeronautics fund....................             72,200            72,200


   Federal revenues:

 

  HHS-SSA, low income energy assistance...................          3,086,200         3,086,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Emergency 911 fund......................................            158,700           158,700

 

  Bottle deposit fund.....................................            250,000           250,000

 

  Delinquent tax collection revenue.......................         70,557,200        70,557,200

 

  Health insurance claims assessment fund.................          2,070,500         2,070,500

 

  Tobacco tax revenue.....................................          4,109,300         4,109,300

 

  Waterways fund..........................................            107,100           107,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     18,243,300  $     18,243,300

 

   Sec. 20-106.  FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              381.0             381.0

 

  Departmental services-88.0 FTE positions................   $      9,180,500  $      9,180,500

 

  Unclaimed property-29.0 FTE positions...................          4,835,300         4,835,300

 

  Office of collections-202.0 FTE positions...............         26,255,100        26,255,100

 

  Office of accounting services-24.0 FTE positions........          2,491,400         2,491,400

 

  Office of financial services-38.0 FTE positions.........          4,478,500         4,478,500

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     47,240,800  $     47,240,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG-levy/warrant cost assessment fees...................          2,335,000         2,335,000

 

  IDG-State agency collection fees........................          4,341,700         4,341,700

 

  IDG-from MDHHS title IV-D...............................            776,000           776,000

 

  IDG-data/collection service fees........................            336,600           336,600

 

  IDG-from accounting service center user charges.........            494,500           494,500

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Delinquent tax collection revenue.......................         27,387,100        27,387,100


  Escheats revenue........................................          4,835,300         4,835,300

 

  Justice system fund.....................................            428,100           428,100

 

  Garnishment fees........................................          2,636,100         2,636,100

 

  State restricted indirect funds.........................            278,600           278,600

 

  Treasury fees...........................................             47,200            47,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      3,344,600  $      3,344,600

 

   Sec. 20-107.  FINANCIAL PROGRAMS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              210.5             210.5

 

  Investments-82.0 FTE positions..........................   $     20,594,200  $     20,594,200

 

  Common cash and debt management-21.5 FTE positions......          1,666,200         1,666,200

 

  Student financial assistance programs-25.5 FTE

 

   positions.............................................          2,683,300         2,683,300

 

  Dual enrollment payments................................          1,507,600         1,507,600

 

  Michigan finance authority bond finance programs-72.5

 

   FTE positions.........................................         38,856,600        38,856,600

 

  Financial independence team-9.0 FTE positions...........          3,729,500         3,729,500

 

  John R. Justice grant program...........................            288,100           288,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     69,325,500  $     69,325,500

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG, fiscal agent service fees..........................            210,500           210,500

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  Federal – John R. Justice grant.........................            288,100           288,100

 

  DED-OPSE, federal lenders allowance.....................         10,686,100        10,686,100

 

  DED-OPSE, higher education act of 1965, insured loans...         25,169,600        25,169,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Defined contribution administrative fee revenue.........            100,000           100,000


  MFA, bond and loan program revenue......................          2,944,600         2,944,600

 

  School bond fees........................................            854,300           854,300

 

  Michigan merit awards trust fund........................          1,163,800         1,163,800

 

  Retirement funds........................................         19,016,000        19,016,000

 

  Treasury fees...........................................          1,694,600         1,694,600

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      7,197,900  $      7,197,900

 

   Sec. 20-108.  DEBT SERVICE

 

  Quality of life bond....................................   $     28,687,000  $     21,664,000

 

  Clean Michigan initiative...............................         89,477,000        63,308,000

 

  Great lakes water quality bond..........................         18,873,000        33,523,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    137,037,000  $    118,495,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $    137,037,000  $    118,495,000

 

   Sec. 20-109.  GRANTS

 

  Convention facility development distribution............   $     90,950,000  $     90,950,000

 

  Senior citizen cooperative housing tax exemption........         10,520,000        10,520,000

 

  Emergency 911 payments..................................         27,000,000        27,000,000

 

  Health and safety fund grants...........................          9,000,000         9,000,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $    137,470,000  $    137,470,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Convention facility development fund....................         90,950,000        90,950,000

 

  Health and safety fund..................................          9,000,000         9,000,000

 

  Emergency 911 fund......................................         27,000,000        27,000,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     10,520,000  $     10,520,000

 

   Sec. 20-110.  BUREAU OF STATE LOTTERY


   Full-time equated classified positions................              183.0             183.0

 

  Lottery operations-183.0 FTE positions..................   $     24,760,300  $     24,760,300

 

  Lottery information and technology services and projects     5,239,600         5,239,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     29,999,900  $     29,999,900

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State lottery fund......................................         29,999,900        29,999,900

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 20-111.  CASINO GAMING

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................              142.0             142.0

 

  Michigan gaming control board...........................   $         50,000  $         50,000

 

  Casino gaming control administration-132.0 FTE positions    26,196,700        26,196,700

 

  Casino gaming information technology services and

 

   projects .............................................          2,512,700         2,512,700

 

  Racing commission-10.0 FTE positions....................          1,962,600         1,962,600

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     30,722,000  $     30,722,000

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Casino gambling agreements..............................            942,700           942,700

 

  Equine development fund.................................          2,085,300         2,085,300

 

  Laboratory fees.........................................            700,000           700,000

 

  State services fee fund.................................         26,994,000        26,994,000

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

    Sec. 20-112.  PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES

 

  Commercial forest reserve...............................   $      3,368,100  $      3,368,100

 

  Purchased lands.........................................          8,425,100         8,425,100

 

  Swamp and tax reverted lands............................         15,605,600        15,605,600


  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     27,398,800  $     27,398,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Game and fish protection fund...........................          2,919,700         2,919,700

 

  Michigan natural resources trust fund...................          2,004,600         2,004,600

 

  Michigan state waterways fund...........................            253,200           253,200

 

  Private funds...........................................             26,700            26,700

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     22,194,600   $    22,194,600

 

   Sec. 20-113.  REVENUE SHARING

 

  Constitutional state general revenue sharing grants.....   $    781,501,400  $    806,679,900

 

  County incentive program................................         43,033,500        43,033,500

 

  City, village, and township revenue sharing.............        243,040,000       243,040,000

 

  County revenue sharing..................................        172,134,000       172,134,000

 

  Financially distressed cities, villages, and townships..          5,000,000         5,000,000

 

  Competitive grant assistance program....................          5,800,000         5,800,000

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $  1,250,508,900  $  1,275,687,400

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Sales tax...............................................      1,250,508,900     1,275,687,400

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 20-114.  STATE BUILDING AUTHORITY

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................                4.0               4.0

 

  State building authority-4.0 FTE positions..............   $         725,200  $         725,200

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $        725,200  $        725,200

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  State building authority revenue........................            725,200           725,200


  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 20-115.  CITY INCOME TAX ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM

 

   Full-time equated classified positions................               49.0              49.0

 

  City income tax administration-49.0 FTE positions.......   $       5,879,100  $       5,879,100

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATIONS....................................   $      5,879,100  $      5,879,100

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local-city income tax fund..............................          5,879,100         5,879,100

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $              0  $              0

 

   Sec. 20-116.  INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

  Treasury operations information technology service and

 

   projects..............................................   $      30,813,800  $      30,813,800

 

  GROSS APPROPRIATION.....................................   $     30,813,800  $     30,813,800

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

  IDG, from MDOT Michigan transportation fund.............            400,000           400,000

 

   Federal revenues:

 

  DED-OPSE federal lenders allowance......................            659,200           659,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

  Local-city income tax fund..............................          1,278,500         1,278,500

 

  Tobacco tax revenue.....................................            135,900           135,900

 

  Delinquent tax collection revenue.......................         16,668,400        16,668,400

 

  Retirement funds........................................            807,200           807,200

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $     10,864,600  $     10,864,600

 

   Sec. 20-117.  ONE-TIME APPROPRIATIONS

 

  Competitive grant assistance program....................   $      5,200,000  $              0

 

  Free individual tax E-file..............................          2,842,500                 0


  GRO SS APPROPRIATION....................................   $      8,042,500  $              0

 

     Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds

 

  Sales tax...............................................          5,200,000                 0

 

  State general fund/general purpose......................   $      2,842,500  $              0

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FISCAL YEAR 2017

 

 

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 20-201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963, total state spending from state resources under part 1 for fiscal year 2016-2017

 

is $1,850,250,200.00 and state spending from state resources to be paid to local units

 

of government for fiscal year 2016-2017 is $1,441,979,600.00. The itemized statement

 

below identifies appropriations from which spending to local units of government will

 

occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

 

  Senior citizen cooperative housing tax exemption program..............   $          10,520,000

 

  Health and safety fund grants.........................................              9,000,000

 

  Constitutional state general revenue sharing grants...................            781,501,400

 

  City, village, and township revenue sharing...........................            243,040,000

 

  Convention facility development fund distribution.....................             90,950,000

 

  Emergency 911 payments................................................             23,800,000

 

  Financially distressed cities, villages, and townships................              5,000,000

 

  County incentive program..............................................             43,033,500

 

  County revenue sharing payments.......................................            172,134,000

 


  Airport parking distribution pursuant to section 909..................             24,601,900

 

  Payments in lieu of taxes.............................................             27,398,800

 

  Competitive grant assistance program..................................             11,000,000

 

  TOTAL                                                                    $       1,441,979,600

 

       Sec. 20-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 20-203. As used in this article:

 

       (a) "DED" means the United States department of education.

 

       (b) "DED-OPSE" means the DED office of post secondary education.

 

       (c) "Department" means the department of treasury.

 

       (d) "Director" means the director of the department.

 

       (e) "FTE" means full-time equated.

 

       (f) "HHS" means the United States department of health and human services.

 

       (g) "HHS-SSA" means HHS social security administration.

 

       (h) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

       (i) "JCOS" means the joint capital outlay subcommittee.

 

       (j) "MDHHS" means the Michigan department of health and human services.

 

       (k) "MDOT" means the Michigan department of transportation.

 

       (l) "MFA" means the Michigan finance authority.

 

       (m) "Title IV-D" means part D of title IV of the social security act, 42 USC 65

 

to 669b.

 

       Sec. 20-204. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall use the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this article. This

 

requirement may include transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients

 

identified for each reporting requirement, or it may include placement of reports on

 

an Internet or Intranet site.

 

       Sec. 20-205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for the purchase of


foreign goods or services, or both, if competitively priced and of comparable quality

 

American goods or services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to goods

 

or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan businesses, if they are

 

competitively priced and of comparable quality. In addition, preference should be

 

given to goods or services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are competitively priced and of

 

comparable quality.

 

       Sec. 20-206. The director shall take all reasonable steps to ensure businesses in

 

deprived and depressed communities compete for and perform contracts to provide

 

services or supplies, or both. Each director shall strongly encourage firms with which

 

the department contracts to subcontract with certified businesses in depressed and

 

deprived communities for services, supplies, or both.

 

       Sec. 20-207. The departments and agencies receiving appropriations in part 1

 

shall prepare a report on out-of-state travel expenses not later than January 1 of

 

each year. The travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and

 

unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

that was funded in whole or in part with funds appropriated in the department’s

 

budget. The report shall be submitted to the senate and house appropriations

 

committees, the house and senate fiscal agencies, and the state budget director. The

 

report shall include the following information:

 

       (a) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

       (b) The transportation and related costs of each travel occurrence, including the

 

proportion funded with state general fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion

 

funded with state restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,

 

and the proportion funded with other revenues.

 

       Sec. 20-208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by a principal

 

executive department, state agency, or authority to hire a person to provide legal


services that are the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does

 

not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those outside services that

 

the attorney general authorizes.

 

       Sec. 20-209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office shall prepare

 

and transmit a report that provides for estimates of the total general fund/general

 

purpose appropriation lapses at the close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall

 

summarize the projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses by

 

major departmental program or program areas. The report shall be transmitted to the

 

chairpersons of the senate and house appropriations committees, and the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies.

 

       Sec. 20-210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is

 

appropriated an amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for federal contingency funds.

 

These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to

 

another line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget

 

act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These

 

funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another

 

line item in this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       (3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $200,000.00 for local contingency funds. These funds are not

 

available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       (4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is appropriated an

 

amount not to exceed $40,000.00 for private contingency funds. These funds are not


available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in

 

this article under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL

 

18.1393.

 

       Sec. 20-211. The department shall cooperate with the department of technology,

 

management and budget to maintain a searchable website accessible by the public at no

 

cost that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following for each department or

 

agency:

 

       (a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.

 

       (b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.

 

       (c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor, including the vendor name,

 

payment date, payment amount, and payment description.

 

       (d) The number of active department employees by job classification.

 

       (e) Job specifications and wage rates.

 

       Sec. 20-212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive budget

 

recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the state budget office to provide

 

the senate and house appropriations chairs, the senate and house appropriations

 

subcommittees chairs, and the senate and house fiscal agencies with an annual report

 

on estimated state restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,

 

and state restricted fund expenditures for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2016

 

and September 30, 2017.

 

       Sec. 20-213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, a

 

department scorecard that identifies, tracks and regularly updates key metrics that

 

are used to monitor and improve the agency’s performance.

 

       Sec. 20-214. Total authorized appropriations from all department of treasury

 

sources under part 1 for legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017 is

 

$49,651,800.00. From this amount, total department of treasury appropriations for

 

pension-related legacy costs are estimated at $27,530,500.00. Total department of


treasury appropriations for retiree health care legacy costs are estimated at

 

$22,121,300.00.

 

       Sec. 20-215. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by this state, a

 

department, an agency, or an authority of this state to purchase an ownership interest

 

in a casino enterprise or a gambling, operation as those terms are defined in the

 

Michigan gaming control and revenue act, 1996 IL, MCL 432.201 to 432.226.

 

 

 

DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY OPERATIONS

 

       Sec. 20-902. (1) Amounts needed to pay for interest, fees, principal, mandatory

 

and optional redemptions, arbitrage rebates as required by federal law, and costs

 

associated with the payment, registration, trustee services, credit enhancements, and

 

issuing costs in excess of the amount appropriated to the department of treasury in

 

part 1 for debt service on notes and bonds that are issued by the state under sections

 

14, 15, and 16 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 as implemented by 1967

 

PA 266, MCL 17.451 to 17.455, are appropriated.

 

       (2) In addition to the amount appropriated to the department of treasury for debt

 

service in part 1, there is appropriated an amount for fiscal year cash-flow borrowing

 

costs to pay for interest on interfund borrowing made under 1967 PA 55, MCL 12.51 to

 

12.53.

 

       (3) In addition to the amount appropriated to the department of treasury for debt

 

service in part 1, there is appropriated all repayments received by the state on loans

 

made from the school bond loan fund not required to be deposited in the school loan

 

revolving fund by or pursuant to section 4 of 1961 PA 112, MCL 388.984, to the extent

 

determined by the state treasurer, for the payment of debt service, including, without

 

limitation, optional and mandatory redemptions, on bonds, notes or commercial paper

 

issued by the state pursuant to 1961 PA 112, MCL 388.981 to 388.985.

 

       Sec. 20-903. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department of

 


treasury may contract with private collection agencies and law firms to collect taxes

 

and other accounts due this state. In addition to the amounts appropriated in part 1

 

to the department of treasury, there are appropriated amounts necessary to fund

 

collection costs and fees not to exceed 25% of the collections or 2.5% plus operating

 

costs, whichever amount is prescribed by each contract. The appropriation to fund

 

collection costs and fees for the collection of taxes or other accounts due this state

 

are from the fund or account to which the revenues being collected are recorded or

 

dedicated. However, if the taxes collected are constitutionally dedicated for a

 

specific purpose, the appropriation of collection costs and fees are from the general

 

purpose account of the general fund.

 

       (2) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department of treasury may

 

contract with private collections agencies and law firms to collect defaulted student

 

loans and other accounts due the Michigan guaranty agency. In addition to the amounts

 

appropriated in part 1 to the department of treasury, there are appropriated amounts

 

necessary to fund collection costs and fees not to exceed 24.34% of the collection or

 

a lesser amount as prescribed by the contract. The appropriation to fund collection

 

costs and fees for the auditing and collection of defaulted student loans due the

 

Michigan guaranty agency is from the fund or account to which the revenues being

 

collected are recorded or dedicated.

 

       (3) The department of treasury shall submit a report for the immediately

 

preceding fiscal year ending September 30 to the state budget director and the senate

 

and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations not later than

 

November 30 stating the agencies or law firms employed, the amount of collections for

 

each, the costs of collection, and other pertinent information relating to determining

 

whether this authority should be continued.

 

       Sec. 20-904. (1) The department of treasury, through its bureau of investments,

 

may charge an investment service fee against the applicable retirement funds. The fees


may be expended for necessary salaries, wages, contractual services, supplies,

 

materials, equipment, travel, worker's compensation insurance premiums, and grants to

 

the civil service commission and state employees' retirement funds. Service fees shall

 

not exceed the aggregate amount appropriated in part 1. The department of treasury

 

shall maintain accounting records in sufficient detail to enable the retirement funds

 

to be reimbursed periodically for fee revenue that is determined by the department of

 

treasury to be surplus.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1 from the retirement funds to

 

the department of treasury, there is appropriated from retirement funds an amount

 

sufficient to pay for the services of money managers, investment advisors, investment

 

consultants, custodians, and other outside professionals, the state treasurer

 

considers necessary to prudently manage the retirement funds' investment portfolios.

 

The state treasurer shall report annually to the senate and house of representatives

 

standing committees on appropriations and the state budget office concerning the

 

performance of each portfolio by investment advisor.

 

       Sec. 20-904a. (1) There is appropriated an amount sufficient to recognize and pay

 

expenditures for financial services provided by financial institutions as provided

 

under section (1) of 1861 PA 111, MCL 21.181.

 

       (2) The appropriations under subsection (1) shall be funded by restricting

 

revenues from common cash interest earnings and investment earnings in an amount

 

sufficient to record these expenditures. If the amounts of common cash interest

 

earnings are insufficient to cover these costs, then miscellaneous revenues shall be

 

used to fund the remaining balance of these expenditures.

 

       Sec. 20-905. A revolving fund known as the municipal finance fee fund is created

 

in the department of treasury. Fees are established under the revised municipal

 

finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL 141.2101 to 141.2821, and the fees collected shall be

 

credited to the municipal finance fee fund and may be carried forward for future


appropriation.

 

       Sec. 20-906. (1) The department of treasury shall charge for audits as permitted

 

by state or federal law or under contractual arrangements with local units of

 

government, other principal executive departments, or state agencies. A report

 

detailing audits performed and audit charges for the immediately preceding fiscal year

 

shall be submitted to the state budget director and the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies not later than November 30.

 

       (2) A revolving fund known as the audit charges fund is created in the department

 

of treasury. The contractual charges collected shall be credited to the audit charges

 

fund and may be carried forward for future appropriation.

 

       Sec. 20-907. A revolving fund known as the assessor certification and training

 

fund is created in the department of treasury. The assessor certification and training

 

fund shall be used to organize and operate a property assessor certification and

 

training program. Each participant certified and trained shall pay to the department

 

of treasury examination fees not to exceed $50.00 per examination and certification

 

fees not to exceed $175.00. Training courses shall be offered in assessment

 

administration. Each participant shall pay a fee to cover the expenses incurred in

 

offering the optional programs to certified assessing personnel and other individuals

 

interested in an assessment career opportunity. The fees collected shall be credited

 

to the assessor certification and training fund.

 

       Sec. 20-908. The amount appropriated in part 1 to the department of treasury,

 

home heating assistance program, is to cover the costs, including data processing, of

 

administering federal home heating credits to eligible claimants and to administer the

 

supplemental fuel cost payment program for eligible tax credit and welfare recipients.

 

       Sec. 20-909. Revenue from the airport parking tax act, 1987 PA 248, MCL 207.371

 

to 207.383, is appropriated and shall be distributed under section 7a of the airport

 

parking tax act, 1987 PA 248, MCL 207.377a.


       Sec. 20-910. The disbursement by the department of treasury from the bottle

 

deposit fund to dealers as required by section 3c(2) of 1976 IL 1, MCL 445.573c, is

 

appropriated.

 

       Sec. 20-911. (1) There is appropriated an amount sufficient to recognize and pay

 

refundable income tax credits as provided by the management and budget act, 1984 PA

 

431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       (2) The appropriations under subsection (1) shall be funded by restricting income

 

tax revenue in an amount sufficient to record these expenditures.

 

       Sec. 20-912. A plaintiff in a garnishment action involving this state shall pay

 

to the state treasurer 1 of the following:

 

       (a) A fee of $6.00 at the time a writ of garnishment of periodic payments is

 

served upon the state treasurer, as provided in section 4012 of the revised judicature

 

act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.4012.

 

       (b) A fee of $6.00 at the time any other writ of garnishment is served upon the

 

state treasurer, except that the fee shall be reduced to $5.00 for each writ of

 

garnishment for individual income tax refunds or credits filed by magnetic media.

 

       Sec. 20-913. (1) The department of treasury may contract with private firms to

 

appraise and, if necessary, appeal the assessments of senior citizen cooperative

 

housing units. Payment for this service shall be from savings resulting from the

 

appraisal or appeal process.

 

       (2) Of the funds appropriated in part 1 to the department of treasury for the

 

senior citizens’ cooperative housing tax exemption program, a portion may be utilized

 

for a program audit of the program. The department of treasury shall forward copies of

 

any audit report completed to the senate and house of representatives standing

 

committees on appropriations subcommittees on general government and to the state

 

budget office.  The department of treasury may utilize up to 1% of the funds for

 

program administration and auditing.


       Sec. 20-914. The department of treasury may provide a $200.00 annual prize from

 

the Ehlers internship award account in the gifts, bequests, and deposit fund to the

 

runner-up of the Rosenthal prize for interns. The Ehlers internship award account is

 

interest bearing.

 

       Sec. 20-915. Pursuant to section 61 of the Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA

 

388, MCL 169.261, there is appropriated from the general fund to the state campaign

 

fund an amount equal to the amounts designated for tax year 2015. Except as otherwise

 

provided in this section, the amount appropriated shall not revert to the general fund

 

and shall remain in the state campaign fund. Any amounts remaining in the state

 

campaign fund in excess of $10,000,000.00 on December 31 shall revert to the general

 

fund.

 

       Sec. 20-916. The department of treasury may make available to interested entities

 

otherwise unavailable customized unclaimed property listings of nonconfidential

 

information in its possession. The charge for this information is as follows: 1 to

 

100,000 records at 2.5 cents per record and 100,001 or more records at .5 cents per

 

record. The revenue received from this service shall be deposited to the appropriate

 

revenue account or fund. The department shall submit an annual report on or before

 

June 1 to the state budget director and the senate and house of representatives

 

standing committees on appropriations that states the amount of revenue received from

 

the sale of information.

 

       Sec. 20-917. There is appropriated for write-offs and advances an amount equal to

 

total write-offs and advances for departmental programs, but not to exceed current

 

year authorizations that would otherwise lapse to the general fund.

 

       Sec. 20-919. (1) From funds appropriated in part 1, the department of treasury

 

may contract with private auditing firms to audit for and collect unclaimed property

 

due this state in accordance with the uniform unclaimed property act, 1995 PA 29, MCL

 

567.221 to 567.265. In addition to the amounts appropriated in part 1 to the


department of treasury, there are appropriated amounts necessary to fund auditing and

 

collection costs and fees not to exceed 12% of the collections, or a lesser amount as

 

prescribed by the contract. The appropriation to fund collection costs and fees for

 

the auditing and collection of unclaimed property due this state is from the fund or

 

account to which the revenues being collected are recorded or dedicated.

 

       (2) The department of treasury shall submit a report for the immediately

 

preceding fiscal year ending September 30 to the state budget director and the senate

 

and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations not later than

 

November 30 stating the auditing firms employed, the amount of collections for each,

 

the costs of collection, and other pertinent information relating to determining

 

whether this authority should be continued.

 

       Sec. 20-924. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, the department

 

of treasury may receive and expend principal residence audit fund revenue for

 

administration of principal residence audits under the general property tax act, 1893

 

PA 206, MCL 211.1 to 211.155.

 

       (2) The department of treasury shall submit a report for the immediately

 

preceding fiscal year to the state budget director and the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies not later than December 31 stating the amount of exemptions denied and the

 

revenue received under the program.

 

       Sec. 20-926. Unexpended appropriations of the John R. Justice grant program are

 

designated as work project appropriations and shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal

 

year and shall continue to be available for expenditure until the project has been

 

completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of the management and

 

budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

 

       (a) The purpose of the project is to provide student loan forgiveness to

 

qualified public defenders and prosecutors.

 

       (b) The project will be accomplished by utilizing state employees or contracts


with private vendors, or both.

 

       (c) The total estimated cost of the project is $288,100.00.

 

       (d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2018.

 

       Sec. 20-928. The department of treasury may provide receipt, warrant and cash

 

processing, data, collection, investment, fiscal agent, levy and warrant cost

 

assessment, writ of garnishment, and other user services on a contractual basis for

 

other principal executive departments and state agencies. Funds for the services

 

provided are appropriated and shall be expended for salaries and wages, fees,

 

supplies, and equipment necessary to provide the services. Any unobligated balance of

 

the funds received shall revert to the general fund of this state as of September 30.

 

       Sec. 20-930. (1) The department of treasury shall provide accounts receivable

 

collections services to other principal executive departments and state agencies under

 

1927 PA 375, MCL 14.131 to 14.134. The department of treasury shall deduct a fee equal

 

to the cost of collections from all receipts except unrestricted general fund

 

collections. Fees shall be credited to a restricted revenue account and appropriated

 

to the department of treasury to pay for the cost of collections. The department of

 

treasury shall maintain accounting records in sufficient detail to enable the

 

respective accounts to be reimbursed periodically for fees deducted that are

 

determined by the department of treasury to be surplus to the actual cost of

 

collections.

 

       (2) The department of treasury shall submit a report for the immediately

 

preceding fiscal year to the state budget director and the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies not later than November 30 stating the principal executive departments and

 

state agencies served, funds collected, and costs of collection under subsection (1).

 

       Sec. 20-931. (1) The appropriation in part 1 to the department of treasury for

 

treasury fees shall be assessed against all restricted funds that receive common cash

 

earnings or other investment income. Treasury fees include all costs, including


administrative overhead, relating to the investment of each restricted fund. The fee

 

assessed against each restricted fund will be based on the size of the restricted fund

 

(the absolute value of the average daily cash balance plus the market value of

 

investments in the prior fiscal year) and the level of effort necessary to maintain

 

the restricted fund as required by each department. The department of treasury shall

 

provide a report to the state budget director, the senate and house of representatives

 

standing committees on appropriations subcommittees on general government, and the

 

senate and house fiscal agencies by November 30 of each year identifying the fees

 

assessed against each restricted fund and the methodology used for assessment.

 

       (2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, the department of treasury

 

may receive and expend investment fees relating to new restricted funding sources that

 

participate in common cash earnings or other investment income during the current

 

fiscal year. When a new restricted fund is created starting on or after October 1,

 

that restricted fund shall be assessed a fee using the same criteria identified in

 

subsection (1).

 

       Sec. 20-932. Revenue received under the Michigan education trust act, 1986 PA

 

316, MCL 390.1421 to 390.1442, may be expended by the board of directors of the

 

Michigan education trust for necessary salaries, wages, supplies, contractual

 

services, equipment, worker's compensation insurance premiums, and grants to the civil

 

service commission and state employees' retirement fund.

 

       Sec. 20-934. The department of treasury may expend revenues received under the

 

hospital finance authority act, 1969 PA 38, MCL 331.31 to 331.84, the shared credit

 

rating act, 1985 PA 227, MCL 141.1051 to 141.1076, the higher education facilities

 

authority act, 1969 PA 295, MCL 390.921 to 390.934, the Michigan public educational

 

facilities authority, Executive Reorganization Order No. 2002-3, MCL 12.192, the

 

Michigan tobacco settlement finance authority act, 2005 PA 226, MCL 129.261 to

 

129.279, the land bank fast track act, 2003 PA 258, MCL 124.751 to 124.774, part 505


of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.50501

 

to 324.50522, the state housing development authority act of 1966, 1966 PA 346, MCL

 

125.1401 to 125.1499c, and the Michigan finance authority, Executive Reorganization

 

Order No. 2010-2, MCL 12.194, for necessary salaries, wages, supplies, contractual

 

services, equipment, worker's compensation insurance premiums, grants to the civil

 

service commission and state employees' retirement fund, and other expenses as allowed

 

under those acts.

 

       Sec. 20-935. The funds appropriated in part 1 for dual enrollment payments for an

 

eligible student enrolled in a state-approved nonpublic school shall be distributed as

 

provided under the postsecondary enrollment options act, 1996 PA 160, MCL 388.511 to

 

388.524, and the career and technical preparation act, 2000 PA 258, MCL 388.1901 to

 

388.1913, in a form and manner as determined by the department of treasury.

 

       Sec. 20-945. The appraisal quality assurance project manager of the department of

 

treasury shall conduct a review of local unit assessment administration practices,

 

procedures, and records, also known as the audit of minimal assessing requirements, in

 

at least 1 assessment jurisdiction per county.

 

       Sec. 20-946. Revenue collected in the convention facility development fund is

 

appropriated and shall be distributed under section 8 and section 9 of the state

 

convention facility development act, 1985 PA 106, MCL 207.628 and 207.629.

 

       Sec. 20-947. Financial independence teams shall cooperate with the fiscal

 

responsibility section to coordinate and streamline efforts in identifying and

 

addressing fiscal emergencies in school districts and intermediate school districts.

 

       Sec. 20-949. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department of

 

treasury may contract with private agencies to prevent the disbursement of fraudulent

 

tax refunds. In addition to the amounts appropriated in part 1 to the department of

 

treasury, there are appropriated amounts necessary to pay contract costs or fund

 

operations designed to reduce fraudulent income tax refund payments not to exceed


$1,600,000.00 of the refunds identified as potentially fraudulent and for which

 

payment of the refund is denied. The appropriation to fund fraud prevention efforts is

 

from the fund or account to which the revenues being collected are recorded or

 

dedicated.

 

       (2) The department of treasury shall submit a report for the immediately

 

preceding fiscal year ending September 30 to the state budget director and the senate

 

and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations not later than

 

November 30 stating the number of refund claims denied due to the fraud prevention

 

operations, the amount of refunds denied, the costs of the fraud prevention

 

operations, and other pertinent information relating to determining whether this

 

authority should be continued.

 

       Sec. 20-949b. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the city income tax

 

administration program, the department of treasury shall administer the city income

 

tax administration program.

 

       (2) The department of treasury shall identify specific outcomes and performance

 

measures for this initiative, including, but not limited to, the treasury’s ability to

 

track and reduce fraudulent returns by expanding compliance and enforcement services.

 

This will benefit cities in this state by allowing the taxpayer to e-file the city

 

return as part of the state return.

 

       Sec. 20-949e. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the state essential

 

services assessment program, the department of treasury shall administer the state

 

essential services assessment program. The program will provide the department the

 

ability to collect the state essential services assessment which is a phased-in

 

replacement of locally collected personal property taxes on eligible manufacturing

 

personal property.

 

       Sec. 20-949f. Revenue from the tobacco products tax act, 1993 PA 327, MCL 205.421

 

to 205.436, related to counties with a 2000 population of more than 2,000,000 is


appropriated and shall be distributed under section 12(4)(d) of the tobacco products

 

tax act, 1993 PA 327, MCL 205.432.

 

 

 

REVENUE SHARING

 

       Sec. 20-950. The funds appropriated in part 1 for constitutional revenue sharing

 

shall be distributed by the department of treasury to cities, villages, and townships,

 

as required under section 10 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963. Revenue

 

collected in accordance with section 10 of article IX of the state constitution of

 

1963 in excess of the amount appropriated in part 1 for constitutional revenue sharing

 

is appropriated for distribution to cities, villages, and townships, on a population

 

basis as required under section 10 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.

 

       Sec. 20-951. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for the competitive grant

 

assistance program are to be used for assistance grants to cities, villages,

 

townships, counties, authorities, school districts, intermediate school districts,

 

public community colleges, and public universities to offset the costs associated with

 

mergers, interlocal agreements, and cooperative efforts for those cities, villages,

 

townships, counties, authorities, school districts, intermediate school districts,

 

public community colleges, and public universities that elect to combine government

 

operations. For an authority, school district, intermediate school district, public

 

community college, or public university to qualify for grant funding under this

 

section, the authority, school district, intermediate school district, public

 

community college, or public university must combine operations with a city, village,

 

township, or county. The department of treasury shall develop an application process

 

and method of grant distribution.

 

       (2) The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for the competitive grant

 

assistance program are designated as work project appropriations and any unencumbered

 

or unallotted funds shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and shall be

 


available for expenditure for projects under this section until the projects have been

 

completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of the management and

 

budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

 

       (a) The purpose of the projects is to provide incentive-based grants to

 

recipients under this section.

 

       (b) The projects will be accomplished by grants to qualified governmental units.

 

       (c) The total estimated cost of all projects is $11,000,000.00.

 

       (d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2021.

 

       Sec. 20-952. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for city, village, and township

 

revenue sharing are for grants to cities, villages, and townships such that, subject

 

to fulfilling the requirements under subsection (3), each city, village, or township

 

that received a payment under section 950(2) of 2009 PA 128 greater than $4,500.00 is

 

eligible to receive a maximum of 78.51044% of its total payment received under section

 

950(2) of 2009 PA 128, rounded to the nearest dollar. For purposes of this subsection,

 

any city, village, or township that completely merges with another city, village, or

 

township will be treated as a single entity, such that when determining the eligible

 

payment under section 950(2) of 2009 PA 128 for the combined single entity, the amount

 

each of the merging local units received under section 950(2) of 2009 PA 128 is

 

summed. In addition, any city or village that according to the 2010 federal decennial

 

census is determined to have population in more than 1 county shall be treated as a

 

single entity when determining the eligible payment under section 950(2) of 2009 PA

 

128.

 

       (2) The funds appropriated in part 1 for the county incentive program are to be

 

used for grants to counties such that each county is eligible to receive an amount

 

equal to the amount by which the balance in its revenue sharing reserve fund under

 

section 44a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.44a, for the

 

county’s most recent fiscal year that ends prior to the January 1 of the state’s


fiscal year is less than the amount calculated under section 44a(14) of the general

 

property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.44a, for the county fiscal year that begins in

 

the state’s fiscal year. The amount calculated under this subsection shall be adjusted

 

as necessary to reflect partial county fiscal years and prorated based on the total

 

amount appropriated for distribution to all eligible counties. Except as otherwise

 

provided under this subsection, payments under this subsection will be distributed to

 

an eligible county subject to the county’s fulfilling the requirements under

 

subsection (3).

 

       (3) For purposes of accountability and transparency, each eligible city, village,

 

township, or county shall certify by December 1, or the first day of a payment month,

 

that it has produced a citizen’s guide of its most recent local finances, including a

 

recognition of its unfunded liabilities; a performance dashboard; a debt service

 

report containing a detailed listing of its debt service requirements, including, at a

 

minimum, the issuance date, issuance amount, type of debt instrument, a listing of all

 

revenues pledged to finance debt service by debt instrument, and a listing of the

 

annual payment amounts until maturity; and a projected budget report, including, at a

 

minimum, the current fiscal year and a projection for the immediately following fiscal

 

year. The projected budget report shall include revenues and expenditures and an

 

explanation of the assumptions used for the projections. Each eligible city, village,

 

township, or county shall include in any mailing of general information to its

 

citizens the Internet website address location for its citizen’s guide, performance

 

dashboard, debt service report, and projected budget report or the physical location

 

where these documents are available for public viewing in the city, village, township,

 

or county clerk’s office. Each city, village, township, and county applying for a

 

payment under this subsection shall submit a copy of the citizen’s guide, a copy of

 

the performance dashboard, a copy of the debt service report, and a copy of the

 

projected budget report to the department of treasury. The department of treasury


shall develop detailed guidance for a city, village, township, or county to follow to

 

meet the requirements of this subsection. The detailed guidance shall be posted on the

 

department of treasury website and distributed to cities, villages, townships, and

 

counties by October 1.

 

       (4) City, village, and township revenue sharing payments and county incentive

 

program payments are subject to the following conditions:

 

       (a) The city, village, township, or county shall certify to the department that

 

it has met the required criteria for subsection (3) and submitted the required

 

citizen’s guide, performance dashboard, debt service report, and projected budget

 

report as required by subsection (3). A department of treasury review of the citizen’s

 

guide, dashboard, or reports is not required in order for a city, village, township,

 

or county to receive a payment under subsection (1) or (2). The department shall

 

develop a certification process and method for cities, villages, townships, and

 

counties to follow.

 

       (b) Subject to subdivisions (c), (d), and (e), if a city, village, township, or

 

county meets the requirements of subsection (3), the city, village, township, or

 

county shall receive its full potential payment under this section.

 

       (c) Cities, villages, and townships eligible to receive a payment under

 

subsection (1) shall receive 1/6 of their eligible payment on the last business day of

 

October, December, February, April, June, and August. Payments under subsection (1)

 

shall be issued to cities, villages, and townships until the specified due date for

 

subsection (3). After the specified due date for subsection (3), payments shall be

 

made to a city, village, or township only if that city, village, or township has

 

complied with subdivision (a).

 

       (d) Payments under subsection (2) shall be issued to counties until the specified

 

due date for subsection (3). After the specified due date for subsection (3), payments

 

shall be made to a county only if that county has complied with subdivision (a).


       (e) If a city, village, township, or county does not submit the required

 

certification, citizen’s guide, performance dashboard, debt service report, and

 

projected budget report by December 1, or the first day of a payment month, the city,

 

village, township, or county shall either defer or forfeit the payment in that payment

 

month.  In order to qualify for a deferred payment of any previously forfeited

 

amounts, a city, village, township, or county shall submit the required certification,

 

citizen’s guide, performance dashboard, debt service report, and projected budget

 

report by April 1.  The deferred payments shall be paid on the last business day of

 

August.

 

       (f) Any city, village, township, or county that falsifies certification documents

 

shall forfeit any future city, village, and township revenue sharing payments or

 

county incentive program payments and shall repay to this state all payments it has

 

received under this section.

 

       (g) City, village, and township revenue sharing payments and county incentive

 

program payments under this section shall be distributed on the last business day of

 

October, December, February, April, June, and August.

 

       (h) Payments distributed under this section may be withheld pursuant to sections

 

17a and 21 of the Glenn Steil state revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL

 

141.917a and 141.921.

 

       (5) The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for city, village, and township

 

revenue sharing and the county incentive program shall be available for expenditure

 

under the program for financially distressed cities, villages, and townships after the

 

approval of transfers by the legislature pursuant to section 393(2) of the management

 

and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.

 

       Sec. 20-955. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for county revenue sharing

 

shall be distributed by the department of treasury to eligible counties pursuant to

 

the Glenn Steil state revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL 141.901 to


141.921.

 

       (2) The department of treasury shall annually certify to the state budget

 

director the amount each county is authorized to expend from its revenue sharing

 

reserve fund.

 

       Sec. 20-956. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for financially distressed

 

cities, villages, and townships shall be granted by the department of treasury to

 

cities, villages, and townships that have 1 or more conditions that indicate probable

 

financial distress, as determined by the department of treasury. A city, village, or

 

township with 1 or more conditions that indicate probable financial distress may apply

 

in a manner determined by the department of treasury for a grant to pay for specific

 

projects or services that move the city, village, or township toward financial

 

stability. Grants are to be used for specific projects or services that move the city,

 

village, or township toward financial stability. The city, village, or township may

 

use, but is not limited to using, the grants under this section to make payments to

 

reduce unfunded accrued liability; to repair or replace critical infrastructure and

 

equipment owned or maintained by the city, village, or township; to reduce debt

 

obligations; or for costs associated with a transition to shared services with another

 

jurisdiction. The department of treasury shall award no more than $2,000,000.00 to any

 

city, village, or township under this section.

 

       (2) The department of treasury shall provide a report to the senate and house of

 

representatives appropriations subcommittees on general government, the senate and

 

house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office by March 31. The report shall

 

include a list by grant recipient of the date each grant was approved, the amount of

 

the grant, and a description of the project or projects that will be paid by the

 

grant.

 

       (3) The unexpended funds appropriated in part 1 for financially distressed

 

cities, villages, and townships are designated as a work project appropriation, and


any unencumbered or unallotted funds shall not lapse at the end of the fiscal year and

 

shall be available for expenditure for projects under this section until the projects

 

have been completed. The following is in compliance with section 451a of the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:

 

       (a) The purpose of the project is to provide assistance to financially distressed

 

cities, villages, and townships under this section.

 

       (b) The projects will be accomplished by grants to cities, villages, and

 

townships approved by the department of treasury.

 

       (c) The total estimated cost of all projects is $5,000,000.00.

 

       (d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2021.

 

       Sec. 20-957. (1) From the increased funds appropriated in part 1 for the

 

competitive grant assistance program, the department shall provide assistance grants

 

to cities, villages, townships, counties, authorities, school districts, intermediate

 

school districts, public community colleges, and public universities that elect to

 

combine government operations.

 

       (2) The department shall identify specific outcomes and performance metrics for

 

this initiative, including, but not limited to, the following:

 

       (a) Grants awarded.

 

       (b) Mergers of two or more governmental units.

 

       (c) Consolidations of operations and/or existing services of two or more

 

governmental units.

 

       (d) Cooperative efforts between two or more governmental units.

 

 

 

BUREAU OF STATE LOTTERY

 

       Sec. 20-960. In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1 to the bureau of

 

state lottery, there is appropriated from state lottery fund revenues the amount

 

necessary for, and directly related to, implementing and operating lottery games under

 


the McCauley-Traxler-Law-Bowman-McNeely lottery act, 1972 PA 239, MCL 432.1 to 432.47,

 

and activities under the Traxler-McCauley-Law-Bowman bingo act, 1972 PA 382, MCL

 

432.101 to 432.120, including expenditures for contractually mandated payments for

 

vendor commissions, contractually mandated payments for instant tickets intended for

 

resale, the contractual costs of providing and maintaining the online system

 

communications network, and incentive and bonus payments to lottery retailers.

 

       Sec. 20-964. For the bureau of the state lottery, there is appropriated 1% of the

 

lottery’s prior fiscal year’s gross sales or $23,000,000.00, whichever is less, for

 

promotion and advertising.

 

 

 

CASINO GAMING

 

       Sec. 20-971. From the revenue collected by the Michigan gaming control board

 

regarding the total annual assessment of each casino licensee, $2,000,000.00 is

 

appropriated and shall be deposited in the compulsive gaming prevention fund as

 

described in section 12a(5) of the Michigan gaming control and revenue act, 1996 IL 1,

 

MCL 432.212a.

 

       Sec. 20-973. (1) Funds appropriated in part 1 for local government programs may

 

be used to provide assistance to a local revenue sharing board referenced in an

 

agreement authorized by the Indian gaming regulatory act, Public Law 100-497.

 

       (2) A local revenue sharing board described in subsection (1) shall comply with

 

the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275, and the freedom of

 

information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246.

 

       (3) A county treasurer is authorized to receive and administer funds received for

 

and on behalf of a local revenue sharing board. Funds appropriated in part 1 for local

 

government programs may be used to audit local revenue sharing board funds held by a

 

county treasurer. This section does not limit the ability of local units of government

 

to enter into agreements with federally recognized Indian tribes to provide financial

 


assistance to local units of government or to jointly provide public services.

 

       (4) A local revenue sharing board described in subsection (1) shall comply with

 

all applicable provisions of any agreement authorized by the Indian gaming regulatory

 

act, Public Law 100-497, in which the local revenue sharing board is referenced,

 

including, but not limited to, the disbursal of tribal casino payments received under

 

applicable provisions of the tribal-state class III gaming compact in which those

 

funds are received.

 

       (5) The director of the department of state police and the executive director of

 

the Michigan gaming control board are authorized to assist the local revenue sharing

 

boards in determining allocations to be made to local public safety organizations.

 

       (6) The Michigan gaming control board shall submit a report by September 30 to

 

the senate and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations and the

 

state budget director on the receipts and distributions of revenues by local revenue

 

sharing boards.

 

       Sec. 20-974. If revenues collected in the state services fee fund are less than

 

the amounts appropriated from the fund, available revenues shall be used to fully fund

 

the appropriation in part 1 for casino gaming regulation activities before

 

distributions are made to other state departments and agencies. If the remaining

 

revenue in the fund is insufficient to fully fund appropriations to other state

 

departments or agencies, the shortfall shall be distributed proportionally among those

 

departments and agencies.

 

       Sec. 20-976. The executive director of the Michigan gaming control board may pay

 

rewards of not more than $5,000.00 to a person who provides information that results

 

in the arrest and conviction on a felony or misdemeanor charge for a crime that

 

involves the horse racing industry. A reward paid pursuant to this section shall be

 

paid out of the appropriation in part 1 for the racing commission.

 

       Sec. 20-977. All appropriations from the Michigan agriculture equine industry


development fund, except for the racing commission and laboratory analysis program

 

appropriations, shall be reduced proportionately if revenues to the Michigan

 

agriculture equine industry development fund decline during the fiscal year ending

 

September 30, 2016 to a level lower than the amount appropriated in part 1.

 

       Sec. 20-978. The Michigan gaming control board shall use actual expenditure data

 

in determining the actual regulatory costs of conducting racing dates and shall

 

provide that data to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on agriculture

 

and general government, the state budget office and the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies. The Michigan gaming control board shall not be reimbursed for more than the

 

actual regulatory cost of conducting race dates. In determining actual costs, the

 

Michigan gaming control board shall take into account that each specific breed may

 

require different regulatory mechanisms.

 

       Sec. 20-979. In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, the Michigan gaming

 

control board may receive and expend state lottery fund revenue in an amount not to

 

exceed $4,000,000.00 for necessary expenses incurred in the licensing and regulation

 

of millionaire parties pursuant to Executive Order No. 2012-4. In accordance with

 

section 8 of the Traxler-McCauley-Law-Bowman bingo act, 1972 PA 382, MCL 432.108, the

 

amount of necessary expenses shall not exceed the amount of revenue received under

 

that act. The Michigan gaming control board shall provide a report to the senate and

 

house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on general government, the

 

senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office by April 15. The report

 

shall include, but not be limited to, total expenditures related to the licensing and

 

regulating of millionaire parties, steps taken to ensure charities are receiving

 

revenue due to them, progress on promulgating rules to ensure compliance with the

 

Traxler-McCauley-Law-Bowman bingo act, 1972 PA 382, MCL 432.101 to 432.120, and any

 

enforcement actions taken.

 

 

 


STATE BUILDING AUTHORITY

 

       Sec. 20-1100. (1) Subject to section 242 of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1242, and upon the approval of the state building authority, the

 

department of treasury may expend from the general fund of the state during the fiscal

 

year an amount to meet the cash flow requirements of those state building authority

 

projects solely for lease to a state agency identified in both part 1 and this

 

section, and for which state building authority bonds or notes have not been issued,

 

and for the sole acquisition by the state building authority of equipment and

 

furnishings for lease to a state agency as permitted by 1964 PA 183, MCL 830.411 to

 

830.425, for which the issuance of bonds or notes is authorized by a legislative

 

appropriation act that is effective for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016. Any

 

general fund advances for which state building authority bonds have not been issued

 

shall bear an interest cost to the state building authority at a rate not to exceed

 

that earned by the state treasurer’s common cash fund during the period in which the

 

advances are outstanding and are repaid to the general fund of the state.

 

       (2) Upon sale of bonds or notes for the projects identified in part 1 or for

 

equipment as authorized by a legislative appropriation act and in this section, the

 

state building authority shall credit the general fund of the state an amount equal to

 

that expended from the general fund plus interest, if any, as defined in this section.

 

       (3) For state building authority projects for which bonds or notes have been

 

issued and upon the request of the state building authority, the state treasurer shall

 

make advances without interest from the general fund as necessary to meet cash flow

 

requirements for the projects, which advances shall be reimbursed by the state

 

building authority when the investments earmarked for the financing of the projects

 

mature.

 

       (4) In the event that a project identified in part 1 is terminated after final

 

design is complete, advances made on behalf of the state building authority for the


costs of final design shall be repaid to the general fund in a manner recommended by

 

the director.

 

       Sec. 20-1102. (1) State building authority funding to finance construction or

 

renovation of a facility that collects revenue in excess of money required for the

 

operation of that facility shall not be released to a university or community college

 

unless the institution agrees to reimburse that excess revenue to the state building

 

authority. The excess revenue shall be credited to the general fund to offset rent

 

obligations associated with the retirement of bonds issued for that facility. The

 

auditor general shall annually identify and present an audit of those facilities that

 

are subject to this section. Costs associated with the administration of the audit

 

shall be charged against money recovered pursuant to this section.

 

       (2) As used in this section, "revenue" includes state appropriations, facility

 

opening money, other state aid, indirect cost reimbursement, and other revenue

 

generated by the activities of the facility.

 

       Sec. 20-1103. The state building authority shall provide to the JCOS and senate

 

and house fiscal agencies a report relative to the status of construction projects

 

associated with state building authority bonds as of September 30 of each year, on or

 

before October 15, or not more than 30 days after a refinancing or restructuring bond

 

issue is sold. The report shall include, but is not limited to, the following:

 

       (a) A list of all completed construction projects for which state building

 

authority bonds have been sold, and which bonds are currently active.

 

       (b) A list of all projects under construction for which sale of state building

 

authority bonds is pending.

 

       (c) A list of all projects authorized for construction or identified in an

 

appropriations act for which approval of schematic/preliminary plans or total

 

authorized cost is pending that have state building authority bonds identified as a

 

source of financing.


Article 21

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

PART 1

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

       Sec. 21-101. The appropriations in this article are subject to the following

 

provisions concerning appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017:

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

       Sec. 21-201. (1) Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state constitution

 

of 1963, total state spending from state sources for fiscal year 2016-2017 is

 

estimated at $16,863,112,300.00 in the 2016-2017 appropriations acts and total state

 

spending from state sources paid to local units of government for fiscal year 2016-

 

2017 is estimated at $4,623,757,400.00. The state-local proportion is estimated at

 

55.4% of total state spending from state resources.

 

       (2) If payments to local units of government and state spending from state

 

sources for fiscal year 2016-2017 are different than the amounts estimated in

 

subsection (1), the state budget director shall report the payments to local units of

 

government and state spending from state sources that were made for fiscal year 2016-

 

2017 to the senate and house of representatives standing committees on appropriations

 

within 30 days after the final book-closing for fiscal year 2016-2017.

 

       Sec. 21-202. The appropriations authorized under this article are subject to the

 

management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 

       Sec. 21-211. (1) Pursuant to section 352 of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1352, which provides for a transfer of state general fund revenue into

 

or out of the countercyclical budget and economic stabilization fund, the calculations

 

required by section 352 of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1352,

 

are determined as follows:

 

                                                     2015           2016             2017


Michigan personal income (millions)............. $420,279       $438,771         $457,200

 

  less: transfer payments......................... 91,444         95,376           99,573

 

   Subtotal..................................... $328,835       $343,395         $357,627

 

   Divided by:  Detroit Consumer Price

 

     Index for 12 months ending June 30........... 2.195          2.204            2.248

 

   Equals: real adjusted Michigan

 

     Personal income........................... $149,811       $155,821         $159,097

 

   Percentage change................................. N/A           4.0%             2.1%

 

   Growth rate in excess of 2%?...................... N/A           2.0%             0.1%

 

   Equals: countercyclical budget and

 

     economic stabilization fund pay-in

 

     calculation for the fiscal year ending

 

     September 30, 2017 (millions).................. N/A         $196.9             10.2

 

   Growth rate less than 0%?......................... N/A             NO               NO

 

   Equals: countercyclical budget and

 

     economic stabilization fund pay-out

 

     calculation for the fiscal year ending

 

     September 30, 2017 (millions).................. N/A            N/A             $0.0

 

       (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), there is appropriated for the fiscal year

 

ending September 30, 2017, from general fund/general purpose revenue for deposit into

 

the countercyclical budget and economic stabilization fund the sum of $0.

 

       (3) In addition to the appropriation to the countercyclical budget and economic

 

stabilization fund in subsection (2), there is appropriated to the fund for the fiscal

 

year ending September 30, 2017, 25 percent of fiscal year 2016 general fund-general

 

purpose unassigned fund balance recorded as part of the state book closing process for

 

the 2016 fiscal year.

 

 

 


REVENUE STATEMENT

 

       Sec. 21-301. Pursuant to section 18 of article V of the state constitution of

 

1963, fund balances and estimates are presented in the following statement:

 

BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS BY OPERATING FUNDS

 

(Amounts in millions)

 

Fiscal Year 2016-2017

 

 

 

                                                     Beginning

 

                                                     Available     Estimated      Ending

 

                                         Fund          Balance       Revenue     Balance

 

OPERATING FUNDS

 

General fund/general purpose             0110            152.9       9,893.9       14.9

 

General fund/special purpose                             875.0      28,609.1      664.2

 

    Special Revenue Funds:

 

Countercyclical budget and

 

    economic stabilization              0111            611.0          17.9      628.9

 

Game and fish protection                 0112              3.5          82.9        3.7

 

Michigan employment security act

 

    administration                      0113              0.0          42.1        0.0

 

State aeronautics                        0114              2.7          17.6        0.0

 

Michigan veterans' benefit trust         0115              0.0           3.7        0.0

 

State trunkline                          0116              0.0       1,001.5        0.0

 

Michigan state waterways                 0117              8.2          30.8        6.5

 

Blue Water Bridge                        0118             18.9          23.6        0.0

 

Michigan transportation                  0119              0.0       2,514.9        0.0

 

Comprehensive transportation             0120              3.8         316.7        0.0

 

School aid                               0122             47.9      12,527.6       15.4

 


21st Century Jobs Fund                   0383             81.6          75.0       65.9

 

Detroit Public Schools Trust Fund         NEW              0.0          72.0        0.0

 

Game and fish protection trust           0124              0.0          15.9        0.0

 

State park improvement                   0125             12.6          57.5        7.9

 

Forest development                       0126             12.7          40.9        8.2

 

Michigan natural resources trust         0129             13.4          32.9       30.6

 

Michigan state parks endowment           0130              0.5          40.9        0.5

 

Safety education and training            0131              5.2           9.6        4.5

 

Bottle deposit                           0136              5.7          14.9        2.6

 

State construction code                  0138              7.2           8.4        7.4

 

Children's trust                         0139              1.8           1.2        1.2

 

State casino gaming                      0140              1.7           0.3        2.0

 

Michigan nongame fish and wildlife       0143              0.4           0.5        0.3

 

Michigan merit award trust               0154             48.7          28.6        0.0

 

Outdoor recreation legacy                0162              1.1           3.0        1.1

 

Off-road vehicle account                 0163              5.7           7.2        5.4

 

Snowmobile account                       0164              5.6          11.6        5.5

 

Silicosis dust disease and logging       0870              1.4           0.9        1.2

 

Utility consumer representation          0893              1.6           1.2        1.5

 

TOTALS                                                $1,930.8     $55,504.8   $1,479.4

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