February 18, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Cameron Brown, Pappageorge, Mead, Kukuk, Caul, Jellema, Toy, Godchaux, Byl, Geiger, Stamas, Jansen and Scranton and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to make appropriations for the department of military and veterans affairs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000; to provide for the expenditure of the appropriations; to provide for certain powers and duties of the department of military and veterans affairs, other state agencies, and local units of government related to the appropriations; and to provide for the preparation of certain reports related to the appropriations.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this bill, the amounts listed in this part are appropriated for the department of military and veterans affairs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, from the funds indicated in this part. The following is a summary of the appropriations in this part:
DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY:
Full-time equated unclassified positions 7.0
Full-time equated classified positions 1,042.0
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 91,673,700
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
Total interdepartmental grants and
intradepartmental transfers 0
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 91,673,700
Federal revenues:
Total federal revenues 31,637,400
Special revenue funds:
Total local revenues 0
Total private revenues 375,000
Total other state restricted revenues 22,409,100
State general fund/general purpose $ 37,252,200
Sec. 102. HEADQUARTERS AND ARMORIES
Full-time equated unclassified positions 7.0
Full-time equated classified positions 105.0
Headquarters and armories--105.0 FTE positions $ 9,741,400
Unclassified military personnel 578,800
Challenge program 1,960,000
Military appeals tribunal 900
Michigan emergency volunteers 5,000
State active duty 60,100
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 12,346,200
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOD-DOA-NGB 2,882,600
Special revenue funds:
Armory rentals 350,000
Mackinac bridge authority 40,000
State general fund/general purpose $ 9,073,600
Sec. 103. MILITARY TRAINING SITES AND SUPPORT FACILITIES
Full-time equated classified positions 229.0
Military training sites and support facilities--
229.0 FTE positions $ 12,060,700
Military training sites and support facilities test
projects 100,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 12,160,700
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOD-DOA-NGB 10,439,900
Special revenue funds:
Test project fees 100,000
State general fund/general purpose $ 1,620,800
Sec. 104. DEPARTMENTWIDE APPROPRIATIONS
Departmentwide accounts $ 1,849,000
Special maintenance-state 436,200
Special maintenance-federal 2,361,800
Military retirement 2,166,900 Counternarcotic operations 50,000
Starbase grant 250,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 7,113,900
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOD-DOA-NGB 3,824,000
DOJ-DEA 50,000
Special revenue funds:
State general fund/general purpose $ 3,239,900
Sec. 105. VETERANS' SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
American legion $ 738,800
Disabled American veterans 670,800
Marine corps veterans 308,100
American veterans of World War II and Korea 425,700
Veterans of foreign wars 811,500
Michigan paralyzed veterans of America 151,700
Purple heart 144,700
Veterans of World War I 100
Polish legion of American veterans 37,800
Jewish veterans of America 37,800
State of Michigan council - Vietnam veterans
of America 146,100
Catholic war veterans 12,100
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 3,485,200
Appropriated from:
State general fund/general purpose $ 3,485,200
Sec. 106. GRAND RAPIDS VETERANS' HOME
Full-time equated classified positions 539.0
Grand Rapids veterans' home--539.0 FTE positions $ 38,853,600
Board of managers 300,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 39,153,600
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
HHS-HCFA, Medicare, hospital insurance 412,200
DVA-VHA 10,603,500
Special revenue funds:
Private-veterans' home post and posthumous funds 300,000
Income and assessments 12,954,100
Lease revenue 75,000
State general fund/general purpose $ 14,808,800
Sec. 107. D.J. JACOBETTI VETERANS' HOME
Full-time equated classified positions 153.0
D.J. Jacobetti veterans' home--153.0 FTE
positions $ 12,356,300 Board of managers 75,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 12,431,300
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DVA-VHA 3,118,700
HHS-HCFA, Medicare, hospital insurance 306,500
Special revenue funds:
Private-veterans' home post and posthumous
funds 75,000
Income and assessments 4,198,600
State general fund/general purpose $ 4,732,500
Sec. 108. MICHIGAN VETERANS' TRUST FUND
Full-time equated classified positions 16.0
Veterans' affairs directorate administration--3.0
FTE positions $ 291,400
Administration--13.0 FTE positions 944,900
Veterans' trust fund grants 3,746,500
GROSS APPROPRIATION $ 4,982,800
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Michigan veterans' trust fund 4,691,400
State general fund/general purpose $ 291,400
PART 2
PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS
GENERAL SECTIONS
Sec. 201. (1) Pursuant to section 30 of Article IX of the state constitution of 1963, total state spending under part 1 for fiscal year 1999-2000 is $59,661,300.00 and state appropriations to be paid to local units of government are as follows:
DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS
Military training sites and support
facilities- payments in lieu of taxes $ 61,900
Total $ 61,900
(2) If it appears to the principal executive officer of a department or branch that state spending to local units of government will be less than the amount that was projected to be expended under subsection (1), the principal executive officer shall immediately give notice of the approximate shortfall to the state budget director.
Sec. 202. The expenditures and funding sources authorized under this bill are subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.
Sec. 203. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in this bill, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $1,900,000.00 for federal contingency funds. These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in this bill pursuant to section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
(2) In addition to the funds appropriated in this bill, there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for state restricted contingency funds. These funds are not available for expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item in this bill pursuant to section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
(3) In addition to the funds appropriated in this bill, 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 bill pursuant to section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
(4) In addition to the funds appropriated in this bill, 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 bill pursuant to section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
Sec. 204. The department of civil service shall bill departments and agencies at the end of the first fiscal quarter for the 1% charge authorized by section 5 of article XI of the state constitution of 1963. Payments shall be made for the total amount of the billing by the end of the second fiscal quarter.
Sec. 205. As used in this bill:
(a) "Department" means the Michigan department of military and veterans affairs.
(b) "Director" means the director of the department of military and veterans affairs.
(c) "DOD" means the United States department of defense.
(d) "DOD-DOA-NGB" means the DOD department of the army, national guard bureau.
(e) "DOJ" means the United States department of justice.
(f) "DOJ-DEA" means the DOJ drug enforcement agency.
(g) "DVA" means the United States department of veterans' affairs.
(h) "DVA-VHA" means the DVA veterans' health administration.
(I) "FTE" means full-time equated position.
(j) "HHS" means the United States department of health and human services.
(k) "HHS-HCFA" means the HHS health care financing administration.
Sec. 206. (1) Beginning October 1, 1999, a hiring freeze is imposed on the state classified civil service. State departments and agencies are prohibited from hiring any new full-time state classified civil service employees and prohibited from filling any vacant state classified civil service positions. This hiring freeze does not apply to internal transfers of classified employees from one position to another within a department or to positions that are funded with 80% or more federal or restricted funds.
(2) The state budget director shall grant exceptions to this
hiring freeze when the state budget director believes that the hiring
freeze will result in rendering a state department or agency unable
to deliver basic services.
HEADQUARTERS AND ARMORIES
Sec. 301. Money appropriated in this bill for state active duty shall be used to fund nonfederally supported missions of the national guard when called to state duty.
DEPARTMENTWIDE APPROPRIATIONS
Sec. 401. Money available from the Michigan national guard armory construction fund created in section 382a of the Michigan military act, 1967 PA 150, MCL 32.782a, is appropriated for expenditure for the purposes specified in that section.
VETERANS' SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
Sec. 501. (1) Money appropriated in section 105 for grants to veterans' service organizations shall be used only for salaries, wages, related personnel costs, training, and equipment for accredited veteran service advocacy officers and necessary support and managerial staff. Training shall be provided for service advocacy officers and shall be conducted by accredited advocacy officers.
(2) To receive a grant from the money appropriated in section 105, a veterans' service organization shall meet the following eligibility requirements:
(a) Be congressionally chartered by the United States congress.
(b) Be an active participating member of the Michigan veterans organizations' rehabilitation and veterans service committee and abide by its rules, guidelines, and programs.
(c) Demonstrate the receipt of monetary or service support from its own organization.
(d) Comply with the department's and the legislature's requirements of accounting audits, service work activity, accounting of recoveries, listing of volunteer hours, budget requests, and other requirements specified in subsection (3).
(e) For a veterans' service organization founded after September 30, 1989, be in operation and providing service to Michigan veterans for not less than 2 years before receiving an initial state grant. During this 2-year period of time, the organization shall file a listing of service work activity and an accounting of recoveries with the department, the senate and house fiscal agencies, and the senate and house subcommittees on military affairs on forms as prescribed by the department.
(3) A veterans' service organization receiving a grant from the money appropriated in section 105 shall file with the department a certified accounting of its expenditures within 120 days after the organization's fiscal year end. Each organization shall provide a detailed budget request for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001 to the department by November 15, 1999 within the format as prescribed by the department to be used in the development of the budget ending September 30, 2001. Each veterans' service organization shall provide 5 copies of a listing of all service activity, an accounting of recoveries, and a listing of volunteer hours for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999 to the department by January 31, 2000. The listing of volunteer hours shall include the hours, services, and donations provided to residents of the Grand Rapids veterans' home and the D.J. Jacobetti veterans' home. A veterans' service organization receiving a grant from the money appropriated in section 105 shall use the forms recommended by the Michigan veterans organizations' rehabilitation and veterans service committee for filing reports required by this bill. The department shall forward information required under this section to the senate and house fiscal agencies and to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on military affairs.
Sec. 502. Appropriations in section 105 for veterans' service organizations shall include funding to provide services to veterans of World War I.
VETERANS' HOMES
Sec. 601. Appropriations in this bill for the Grand Rapids veterans' home and the D.J. Jacobetti veterans' home shall not be used for any purpose other than for veterans and veterans' families.
Sec. 602. The money appropriated in this bill for the boards of managers may be expended for facility improvements, the purchase and repair of equipment and furnishings, member services, and other purposes that benefit the Grand Rapids veterans' home and the D.J. Jacobetti veterans' home.
Sec. 603. The money appropriated in this bill for the boards of managers of the Grand Rapids veterans' home and the D.J. Jacobetti veterans' home shall be considered a work project account, and unexpended money remaining at the close of the fiscal year shall not lapse to the general fund but shall be carried forward to the subsequent fiscal year.
MICHIGAN VETERANS' TRUST FUND
Sec. 701. In compliance with the various veterans' benefit programs funded by this state, a veteran who is denied benefits as a result of lack of properly disseminated information or due to misinformation relative to benefit eligibility shall be provided a review hearing by the Michigan veterans' trust fund board.
Sec. 702. The department may receive and expend revenue deposited to the Vietnam veterans memorial monument fund created under section 3 of the Michigan Vietnam veterans memorial act, 1988 PA 234, MCL 35.1053.
Sec. 703. The Michigan veterans affairs directorate administration and the Michigan veterans trust fund administration shall take steps to assist the county veterans counselors of the state to obtain training necessary for the execution of their duties.
Sec. 704. The Michigan veterans' memorial park commission may receive and expend gifts, contributions, and bequests from any person, public or private corporation, organization, foundation, governmental entity, or any other source for the purpose of establishing a veterans' memorial park as described in Executive Order No. 1992-12. Money contributed to the Michigan veterans' memorial park commission shall be deposited in the state treasury through the department and shall be available for expenditure. Project costs authorized by this bill shall not exceed the gifts, contributions, and bequests received. Money under this section and any specific work orders or projects adopted by the Michigan veterans' memorial park commission in accordance with section 451(4) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451, do not lapse at the end of this fiscal year but are available for expenditure until September 30, 2001. Expenditures shall be in accordance with methods and procedures approved by the Michigan veterans' memorial park commission, the department, and appropriate state agencies.