Bill Text: MI SB1265 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Natural resources; other; Michigan civilian conservation corps; modify, and authorize another entity to establish and operate a Michigan civilian conservation corps. Amends secs. 11 & 12a of 1984 PA 22 (MCL 409.311 & 409.312a). TIE BAR WITH: SB 1261'12, SB 1262'12, SB 1263'12, SB 1264'12
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2012-12-31 - Assigned Pa 0578'12 With Immediate Effect 2012 Addenda [SB1265 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-SB1265-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 1265
September 12, 2012, Introduced by Senators GREEN, PAVLOV, WARREN and HANSEN and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Great Lakes.
A bill to amend 1984 PA 22, entitled
"Michigan civilian conservation corps act,"
by amending sections 11 and 12a (MCL 409.311 and 409.312a), section
12a as amended by 2007 PA 147.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
11. (1) The corps shall assist corpsmembers in obtaining
employment
after their participation in a corps program.
(2)
The corps shall ensure that
conservation programs
established
under this act do not shall
not be designed so as to
displace
currently employed workers, or impair existing contracts
for
service provided by other workers, and
that no corpsmember is
shall be used in any manner in connection with a work or labor
dispute.
Sec. 12a. (1) The Michigan civilian conservation corps
endowment fund is created within the state treasury.
(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from
any source for deposit into the endowment fund. The state treasurer
shall direct the investment of the endowment fund. The state
treasurer shall have the same authority to invest the assets of the
endowment fund as is granted to an investment fiduciary under the
public employee retirement system investment act, 1965 PA 314, MCL
38.1132 to 38.1140m. The state treasurer shall credit to the
endowment fund interest and earnings from endowment fund
investments.
(3) Money in the endowment fund at the close of the fiscal
year shall remain in the endowment fund and shall not lapse to the
general fund.
(4) The department shall be the administrator of the fund for
auditing purposes.
(5) (4)
The department ,
with the concurrence of the
commission,
shall expend only the interest and
earnings of the
endowment fund for the operation of the corps.
(6) (5)
The department shall annually
prepare a report
containing an accounting of revenues and expenditures from the
endowment fund. This report shall identify the interest and
earnings of the endowment fund from the previous year, the
investment performance of the endowment fund during the previous
year, and the total amount of appropriations from the endowment
fund during the previous year. This report shall be provided to the
senate and house of representatives appropriations committees and
the standing committees of the senate and house of representatives
with jurisdiction over issues pertaining to natural resources and
the environment.
(6)
For the state fiscal year ending September 30, 2007 only,
surplus
funds of $20,000,000.00 in the endowment fund are hereby
appropriated
to the general fund.
(7)
The department, in consultation with the commission, shall
develop
recommendations for restoring revenue to the endowment
fund,
including possible corporate sponsorship. By March 1, 2008,
the
department shall submit a report on its recommendations to the
subcommittees
of the senate and house appropriations committees
with
primary responsibility for appropriations to the department.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect
unless all of the following bills of the 96th Legislature are
enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 1261.
(b) Senate Bill No. 1262.
(c) Senate Bill No. 1263.
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(d) Senate Bill No. 1264.
