SB-0274, As Passed Senate, June 14, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

SENATE BILL NO. 274

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to make appropriations for the department of history,

 

arts, and libraries for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006;

 

to provide for the expenditure of those appropriations; to provide

 

for the disposition of fees and other income received by the state

 

agencies; to create funds; to provide for the disbursement of

 

certain grants; to provide for reports; to prescribe powers and

 

duties of certain state departments and certain state and local

 

agencies and officers; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS

 

     Sec. 101. Subject to the conditions set forth in this act, the

 


Senate Bill No. 274 as amended June 14, 2005

amounts listed in this part are appropriated for the department of

 

history, arts, and libraries for the fiscal year ending September

 

30, 2006, from the funds indicated in this part. The following is a

 

summary of the appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, ARTS, AND LIBRARIES

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY:

 

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

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 232.0

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ <<52,983,300>>

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers............................................           139,000

 

ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION........................... $ <<52,844,300>>

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................         8,218,300

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total private revenues.................................           577,400

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................         2,583,600

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $ <<41,465,000>>

 

   Sec. 102. DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS

 

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

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 30.0

 

Unclassified salaries.................................. $        222,300

 

Management services--29.0 FTE positions................         2,020,700

 

Building occupancy charges and rent....................         2,927,000

 

Worker's compensation..................................            16,000

 

Film office--1.0 FTE position..........................           136,900

 


Senate Bill No. 274 as amended June 14, 2005

Human resources optimization user charges..............            29,500

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      5,352,400

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      5,352,400

 

   Sec. 103. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

Information technology services and projects........... $     <<931,400>>

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    <<931,400>>

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

IDG-MDOT, comprehensive transportation fund............               200

 

IDG-MDOT, state aeronautics fund.......................               100

 

IDG-MDOT, state trunkline fund.........................             3,500

 

Special revenue funds:

 

Game and fish protection fund..........................               100

 

Mackinac Island state park fund........................            45,100

 

Special revenue, internal service and pension trust....             3,100

 

State lottery fund.....................................               900

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $    <<878,400>>

 

   Sec. 104. COUNCIL FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS

 

   Full-time equated classified positions ........... 9.0

 

Administration--9.0 FTE positions...................... $        701,000

 

Arts and cultural grants...............................     <<8,842,100>>

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $  <<9,543,100>>

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

NFAH-NEA, promotion of the arts, partnership

 


Senate Bill 274 as amended June 14, 2005

   agreements...........................................           700,000

 

Special revenue funds:

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $  <<8,843,100>>

 

   Sec. 105. MACKINAC ISLAND STATE PARK COMMISSION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 39.0

 

Mackinac Island park operation--24.3 FTE positions..... $      1,446,000

 

Historical facilities system--14.7 FTE positions.......         1,692,900

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      3,138,900

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Mackinac Island state park operation fees..............           150,000

 

Mackinac Island state park fund........................         1,489,800

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      1,499,100

 

   Sec. 106. MICHIGAN HISTORICAL PROGRAM

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 83.0

 

Historical administration and services--71.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................ $      5,178,600

 

Federal programs--12.0 FTE positions...................         1,960,900

 

Heritage publications..................................           700,000

 

Private grants and gifts...............................           502,400

 

Thunder Bay national marine sanctuary and underwater

 

   preserve.............................................           196,100

 

Historical grants......................................            25,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $      8,563,000

 

    Appropriated from:

 

Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

IDG-MDOT, comprehensive transportation fund............             5,700

 


IDG-MDOT, state aeronautics fund.......................             3,400

 

IDG-MDOT, state trunkline fund.........................           126,100

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DOI-NPS, historic preservation grants-in-aid...........         1,395,700

 

Federal funds..........................................           565,200

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Private - grants and gifts.............................           400,000

 

Private - Mann house trust fund........................           102,400

 

Game and fish protection fund..........................             3,900

 

Heritage publication fund..............................           700,000

 

Marine safety fund.....................................               500

 

Special revenue, internal service and pension trust....            76,200

 

State lottery fund.....................................            26,200

 

Waterways fund.........................................               900

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      5,156,800

 

   Sec. 107. LIBRARY OF MICHIGAN

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........... 71.0

 

Collected gifts and fees............................... $        161,900

 

Library of Michigan operations--71.0 FTE positions.....         6,362,900

 

Library services and technology act....................         5,557,400

 

State aid to libraries.................................        12,340,700

 

Subregional state aid..................................           505,000

 

Wayne County library for the blind and physically

 

   handicapped..........................................            44,800

 

Preservation and access for Michigan project...........           481,800

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     25,454,500

 

    Appropriated from:

 


Senate Bill No. 274 as amended June 14, 2005

   Federal revenues:

 

Library services and technology act....................         5,557,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Private - gifts and bequests revenues..................            75,000

 

User fees..............................................            86,900

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $     19,735,200

 

 

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 

     Sec. 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 2005-2006 is <<$44,048,600.00>> and state

 

spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2005-2006 is <<$15,543,100.00>>. The

 

itemized statement below identifies appropriations from which

 

spending to units of local government will occur:

 

DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, ARTS, AND LIBRARIES

 

Arts and cultural grants............................... $  <<2,652,600>>

 

State aid to libraries.................................       12,340,700

 

Subregional state aid..................................          505,000

 

Wayne County library for the blind and physically

 

handicapped.............................................            44,800

 

Total department of history, arts, and libraries....... $ <<15,543,100>>

 

     Sec. 202. The appropriations authorized under this act are

 

subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101

 


to 18.1594.

 

     Sec. 203. As used in this appropriation act:

 

     (a) "Department" means the department of history, arts, and

 

libraries.

 

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

 

history, arts, and libraries.

 

     (c) "DOI-NPS" means the United States department of interior,

 

national park service.

 

     (d) "Fiscal agencies" means the house fiscal agency and the

 

senate fiscal agency.

 

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

 

     (f) "IDG" means interdepartmental grant.

 

     (g) "MCACA" means the Michigan council for arts and cultural

 

affairs.

 

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

 

     (i) "NEA" means the national endowment for the arts.

 

     (j) "NFAH" means the national foundation of the arts and the

 

humanities.

 

     (k) "Subcommittees" means all members of the appropriate

 

subcommittees of the house and senate appropriations committees.

 

     Sec. 204. The department of civil service shall bill the

 

departments 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. (1) 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 1 position

 

to another within a department.

 

     (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, cause a loss of revenue to the

 

state, result in the inability of the state to receive federal

 

funds, or would necessitate additional expenditures that exceed any

 

savings from maintaining a vacancy. The state budget director shall

 

report quarterly to the chairpersons of the senate and house

 

standing committees on appropriations the number of exceptions to

 

the hiring freeze approved during the previous quarter and the

 

reasons to justify the exception.

 

     Sec. 207. At least 60 days before beginning any effort to

 

privatize, the department shall submit a complete project plan to

 

the subcommittees and the fiscal agencies. The plan shall include

 

the criteria under which the privatization initiative will be

 

evaluated. The evaluation shall be completed and submitted to the

 

fiscal agencies and to the subcommittees within 30 months.

 

     Sec. 208. Unless otherwise specified, the department receiving

 

appropriations in part 1 shall use the Internet to fulfill the

 

reporting requirements of this act. This may include transmission

 

of reports via electronic mail to the recipients identified for

 

each reporting requirement or it may include placement of reports

 


on the Internet or Intranet site.

 

     Sec. 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 should be given to

 

goods or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan

 

businesses if they are competitively priced and of comparable

 

value.

 

     Sec. 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. The

 

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. 211. The department shall establish and maintain

 

affirmative action programs based on guidelines developed by the

 

state equal opportunity workforce planning council which was

 

created by Executive Order No. 1996-13 in order to receive general

 

fund/general purpose dollars.

 

     Sec. 213. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for

 

information technology, departments and agencies shall pay user

 

fees to the department of information technology for technology

 

related services and projects. The user fees shall be subject to

 

provisions of an interagency agreement between the departments and

 

agencies and the department of information technology.

 

     Sec. 214. Amounts appropriated in part 1 for information

 

technology may be designated as work projects and carried forward

 


to support technology projects under the direction of the

 

department of information technology. Funds designated in this

 

manner are not available for expenditure until approved as work

 

projects under section 451a of the management and budget act, 1984

 

PA 431, MCL 18.1451a.

 

     Sec. 215. The department may provide and enter into agreements

 

to provide general services, training, meetings, information,

 

special equipment, software, and 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. Fees for services shall be reasonably related to the

 

cost of providing the services and shall be used to offset the

 

costs of the services. The department may receive and expend funds

 

in addition to those authorized in part 1 for the following:

 

     (a) Supplying census-related information and technical

 

services, publications, statistical studies, population projections

 

and estimates, and other demographic products.

 

     (b) Microfilming and other document and data imaging services,

 

media, storage, and copies.

 

     (c) Patron copier and document reproduction services and

 

copies.

 

     (d) Conferences, training classes, and workshops conducted as

 

part of the department's mission.

 

     (e) Use of specialized equipment, facilities, and software

 

that permit distance learning and meetings, and group decision

 

making. Funds not expended at year-end may be carried forward and

 


expended for the same purposes for which they were originally

 

received.

 

     (f) Special services including the rental of department

 

exhibits and collections. Funds not expended at year-end may be

 

carried forward and expended for the same purposes for which they

 

were originally received. The funds received under this section may

 

be deposited and expended from the history, arts, and libraries

 

service fund created in section 216.

 

     Sec. 216. A fund known as the history, arts, and libraries

 

service fund is created in the department. The fund may be used to

 

receive and expend funds in addition to those authorized in part 1.

 

The fund balance may be carried forward by the department for

 

expenditure in subsequent fiscal years.

 

     Sec. 217. (1) Due to the current budgetary problems in this

 

state, out-of-state travel for the fiscal year ending September 30,

 

2006 shall be limited to situations in which 1 or more of the

 

following conditions apply:

 

     (a) The travel is required by legal mandate or court order or

 

for law enforcement purposes.

 

     (b) The travel is necessary to protect the health or safety of

 

Michigan citizens or visitors or to assist other states in similar

 

circumstances.

 

     (c) The travel is necessary to produce budgetary savings or to

 

increase state revenues, including protecting existing federal

 

funds or securing additional federal funds.

 

     (d) The travel is necessary to comply with federal

 

requirements.

 


     (e) The travel is necessary to secure specialized training for

 

staff that is not available within this state.

 

     (f) The travel is financed entirely by federal or nonstate

 

funds.

 

     (2) If out-of-state travel is necessary but does not meet 1 or

 

more of the conditions in subsection (1), the state budget director

 

may grant an exception to allow the travel. Any exceptions granted

 

by the state budget director shall be reported on a monthly basis

 

to the house and senate appropriations committees.

 

     (3) Not later than January 1 of each year, each department

 

shall prepare a travel report listing 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 chairs and members of the house and senate

 

appropriations committees, the fiscal agencies, and the state

 

budget director. The report shall include the following

 

information:

 

     (a) The name of each person receiving reimbursement for travel

 

outside this state or whose travel costs were paid by this state.

 

     (b) The destination of each travel occurrence.

 

     (c) The dates of each travel occurrence.

 

     (d) A brief statement of the reason for each travel

 

occurrence.

 

     (e) 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.

 

     (f) A total of all out-of-state travel funded for the

 

immediately preceding fiscal year.

 

     Sec. 218. It is the intent of the legislature to explore

 

supplemental fund sourcing options for the department of history,

 

arts, and libraries.

 

     Sec. 219. The department shall not take disciplinary action

 

against an employee for communicating with a member of the

 

legislature or his or her staff.

 

     Sec. 220. The department shall publish the draft minutes of

 

the Michigan film commission on the Internet within 30 days of each

 

meeting and approved minutes within 30 days of approval.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN COUNCIL FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS

 

     Sec. 401. (1) The MCACA in the department shall administer the

 

arts and cultural grants appropriated in part 1.

 

     (2) The MCACA shall render fair and independent decisions

 

concerning arts and cultural grant requests and shall do all of the

 

following:

 

     (a) Use published criteria to evaluate program quality.

 

     (b) Seek to award grants on an equitable geographic basis to

 

the extent possible given the quality of grant applications

 

received.

 

     (c) Give priority to projects that serve multiple counties or

 

that leverage significant additional public and private investment.

 

     (3) The MCACA shall not award grants for projects or

 


activities that include displays of human wastes on religious

 

symbols, displays of sex acts, and depictions of flag desecration.

 

     (4) The MCACA shall provide for fair, equitable, and efficient

 

distribution of funds granted through the regional regranting

 

program.  The MCACA shall provide for an annual assessment of grant

 

management and distribution of mini-grant awards by designated

 

regional regranting agencies and review the methodology employed.

 

     (5) The MCACA shall continue and expand its efforts to

 

encourage and support nonprofit arts and cultural organizations to

 

transition from solely volunteer-based organizations to

 

professionally directed operations.  Criteria for support include

 

the requirement of collaboration between these organizations and

 

other community organizations.

 

     Sec. 402. The MCACA may award grants to counties, cities,

 

villages, townships, community foundations and organizations in the

 

following categories:

 

     (a) Anchor organization program for organizations that serve

 

regional and statewide audiences.  Anchor organizations shall

 

demonstrate a commitment to education, to mentoring smaller

 

organizations, and to reaching underserved audiences.

 

     (b) Arts projects program.

 

     (c) Arts and learning program.

 

     (d) Artists in residence for education program.

 

     (e) Arts organization development program.

 

     (f) Capital improvement program.

 

     (g) Local arts agencies services program.

 

     (h) Regional regranting program.

 


     (i) Partnership program.

 

     (j) Rural arts and cultural program.

 

     (k) Cultural projects program.

 

     (l) Historical projects program.

 

     Sec. 403. (1) From the state funds appropriated in part 1 for

 

arts and cultural grants, no one organization may receive more than

 

17% of this funding.  It is the intent of the legislature that this

 

percentage be reduced to 16% in fiscal year 2007, and 15% in fiscal

 

year 2008.

 

     (2) The MCACA shall make every effort to provide total grant

 

awards in the anchor organization program at a level not to exceed

 

70% of the total amount appropriated for arts and cultural grants.

 

     (3) As documented in the audit report that is submitted as

 

part of the grant application process, the total of all grants

 

awarded to any organization receiving grants within the anchor

 

organization program may not exceed 15% of their "total

 

unrestricted revenues, gains, and other support", as defined by the

 

financial accounting standards board in the accounting standards

 

for not-for-profit organizations.

 

     (4) Before any amount appropriated for arts and cultural

 

grants in part 1 may be expended for a grant to an eligible

 

recipient, the department shall execute a grant agreement with the

 

recipient.  The grant agreement shall identify the projects funded

 

and specify the category in section 402 under which the grant is

 

awarded.

 

     Sec. 404. Grant applicants must meet and adhere to the

 

following requirements:

 


     (a) Each applicant shall pay a nonrefundable application fee

 

of $300 or 3% of the desired grant amount, whichever is less.  The

 

department may use the application fee to offset its direct and

 

indirect costs.

 

     (b) An applicant for a grant under the anchor organization

 

program shall submit with the application the applicant’s most

 

recent annual audit report which states their "total unrestricted

 

revenues, gains, and other support," as defined by the financial

 

accounting standards board in the accounting standards for not-for-

 

profit organizations.  The audit report must cover an audit period

 

that ends within 18 months of the date of the application.

 

     (c) Each applicant shall identify proposed matching funds from

 

local and/or private sources on a dollar-for-dollar basis.  The

 

dollar-for-dollar match may include the reasonable value of

 

services, materials, and equipment as allowed under the federal

 

internal revenue code for charitable contributions.

 

     Sec. 405. Each grant recipient shall provide the MCACA with

 

the following:

 

     (a) The MCACA shall receive proof of the entire amount of the

 

matching funds, services, materials, or equipment by the end of the

 

award period.

 

     (b) Within 30 days following the end of the grant period, a

 

final report that includes the following:

 

     (i) Project revenues and expenditures including grant matching

 

fund amounts.

 

     (ii) Number of patrons attracted or benefiting during the grant

 

period.

 


     (iii) A narrative summary of each project and its outcome.

 

     (c) By April 7 of the grant year, each recipient of a grant

 

greater than $100,000 shall submit an interim report that includes

 

the items identified in subdivision (b).

 

     Sec. 406. (1) The department shall make the following reports:

 

     (a) An electronic report identifying the website location that

 

contains a list of all grant recipients, sorted by county.  This

 

report shall be provided to each legislator within 1 business day

 

of the announcement of annual awards by the MCACA.

 

     (b) An electronic report to the appropriations subcommittees,

 

the state budget office, and the fiscal agencies, within 30 days

 

after the MCACA announces the annual grant awards, that includes

 

all of the following:

 

     (i) A listing of each applicant.

 

     (ii) The county of residence of the applicant.

 

     (iii) The amount requested.

 

     (iv) The amount awarded.

 

     (v) The grant category under which an applicant applied.

 

     (vi) A summary of projects funded for each recipient.

 

     (vii) The expected number of patrons for an applicant during

 

the grant period.

 

     (viii) The amount of matching funds proposed by each applicant.

 

     (ix) A listing containing the information in subdivision (a)

 

and subparagraphs (i) to (viii) for any regranted funds in the

 

preceding fiscal year.

 

     (c) An annual report to the appropriations subcommittees, the

 

state budget office, and the fiscal agencies is due when materials

 


are first distributed by the MCACA seeking grant applications for

 

the subsequent fiscal year.  The report shall contain the

 

following:

 

     (i) The MCACA guidelines for awarding grants.

 

     (ii) A summary of any changes in the program guidelines from

 

the previous fiscal year.

 

     (2) The council shall report to the chairpersons of the house

 

and senate appropriations subcommittees on history, arts, and

 

libraries by August 1 all unexpended or unencumbered discretionary

 

grant funding that is available. The council shall not redistribute

 

any unexpended or unencumbered grant funds during the fiscal year

 

without a 10-day notice to the chairpersons of the house and senate

 

appropriations subcommittees on history, arts, and libraries.

 

     Sec. 407. It is the intent of the legislature to amend the

 

income tax act of 1967, MCL 206.1 to 206.532, to create a

 

designation on the Michigan income tax form for contributions to

 

the Michigan council for arts and cultural affairs grant program.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN HISTORICAL PROGRAM

 

     Sec. 501. The federal funds appropriated in part 1 for the

 

historic site preservation grants are for work projects and shall

 

not lapse at the end of the fiscal year but shall continue to be

 

available for expenditure until the projects for which the funds

 

were reserved have been completed or are terminated. The purpose of

 

these work projects is the identification, designation, and

 

preservation of historic resources. The method used will be to

 

solicit applications from eligible recipients, score applications

 


based upon established criteria, and award the contracts and

 

subgrants. The total cost is $1,348,000.00 and the tentative

 

completion date is September 30, 2007.

 

     Sec. 502. Funds collected by the department under sections 6,

 

7, and 7a of 1913 PA 271, MCL 399.6, 399.7, and 399.7a, are

 

appropriated to the department for the purpose for which they were

 

received and may be carried forward for expenditure in subsequent

 

fiscal years.

 

     Sec. 503. 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. 504. (1) From the state funds appropriated in part 1, the

 

department may award discretionary historical grants to preserve

 

Michigan lighthouses. The department may award up to $24,850.00 in

 

grants for this purpose and may use a portion of those funds to

 

assist in the transfer of lighthouses from federal ownership. A

 

portion of the funds may also be dedicated to program

 

administration and project coordination.

 

     (2) The department shall allocate grant funds under this

 

section pursuant to eligibility and scoring requirements

 

established by the department. The method used will be to solicit

 

applications from eligible recipients, score applications based on

 

the established criteria, and award grants through executed

 

contracts.

 

     (3) Grants under this section may be awarded for purposes of

 

stabilization, rehabilitation, or other preservation work on a

 


Michigan lighthouse, but shall not be awarded for operational

 

purposes.

 

     (4) The funds appropriated in part 1 and allocated by this

 

section are for work projects. The funds shall not lapse to the

 

general fund at the end of the fiscal year but shall remain

 

available in subsequent fiscal years, until funds have been

 

expended, the projects for which the funds were reserved have been

 

completed, or the projects are terminated, whichever occurs first.

 

     Sec. 505. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for historical

 

administration and services, $24,850.00 shall be allocated to

 

support the operations of the Michigan freedom trail commission as

 

specified in section 4 of the Michigan freedom trail commission

 

act, 1998 PA 409, MCL 399.84. These funds shall be used to

 

reimburse commission members, to pay for necessary contractual

 

services of the commission, and to hire not more than 1.0 FTE

 

position in the department's Michigan historical center to support

 

commission operations.

 

     Sec. 506. 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 are

 

appropriated to the department and 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 history,

 

arts, and libraries 1 week prior to any auctions or sales.

 

     Sec. 507. Unless prohibited by law, the department shall make

 

available to the historical society of Michigan the use of the

 


Michigan history magazine subscriber list, or a portion of the

 

Michigan history magazine subscriber list, at a cost not to exceed

 

the actual expense incurred for providing a single mailing.

 

     Sec. 508. From the funds appropriated in part 1 in the

 

historical administration and services line item, $100,000.00 shall

 

be used to fund a competitive historical grant program. Eligible

 

applicants include all state and local historical societies and the

 

state historical preservation network. Awards shall be made for

 

projects that can leverage additional public and private investment

 

and may involve, but are not limited to, capital improvements

 

projects, restorations, research, educational programs, and

 

publications.

 

     Sec. 509. Of the funds appropriated in part 1 for the

 

historical grants, $25,000.00 shall be allocated to support

 

Michigan history day.

 

 

 

LIBRARY OF MICHIGAN

 

     Sec. 601. In order to receive subregional state aid as

 

appropriated in part 1 to the library of Michigan, a subregional

 

library's fiscal agency must 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 subregional library's fiscal agency, that

 

reduction shall not be interpreted as a reduction in local support

 

and shall not disqualify a subregional library from receiving state

 

aid under part 1. If a reduction in income affects a library

 


Senate Bill No. 274 as amended June 14, 2005

cooperative or district library that is a subregional library's

 

fiscal agency or a reduction in expenditures for the subregional

 

library's fiscal agency, a reduction in expenditures for the

 

subregional library shall not be interpreted as a reduction in

 

local support and shall not disqualify a subregional library from

 

receiving state aid under part 1.

 

     Sec. 602. The funds appropriated in part 1 for a subregional

 

library shall not be released until a budget for that subregional

 

library has been approved by the department for expenditures for

 

library services directly serving the blind and persons with

 

disabilities. Subregional state aid shall be used only for

 

providing services to the blind and to persons with disabilities.

 

     Sec. 603. Of the funds appropriated in part 1 for the

 

operation of the library of Michigan, a portion may be used for

 

statewide database access such as making computerized databases,

 

searches of those databases, and the products of those searches

 

available through the libraries of Michigan. Only those libraries

 

that qualify under the federal library services and technology act,

 

subtitle B of title II of the museum and library services act,

 

title II of the arts, humanities, and cultural affairs act of 1976,

 

Public Law 94-462, 110 Stat. 3009-295, are eligible to participate

 

in these activities.

     <<Sec. 607.  Not more than $327,500.00 of the funds appropriated in part 1 that would otherwise lapse to the general fund may be allocated for book distribution centers at the discretion of the director. Funds allocated under this section shall be distributed equally between the public enrichment foundation and the Michigan friends of education.>>

     Sec. 609. The appropriation in part 1 for the preservation and

 

access for Michigan project shall be used to digitize materials

 

currently in the possession of public libraries in the state and to

 

preserve, store, and make these digitized images accessible via the

 

Michigan electronic library. The subject materials are to be

 


significant in the state's history, the only existing copies of

 

unique items, or of broad interest to the citizens of Michigan. To

 

the extent possible, the department shall seek to award these funds

 

on an equitable geographic basis given the quality of proposals

 

received. No single recipient shall receive funding in excess of

 

20% of the total appropriation.