September 9, 2008, Introduced by Rep. Farrah and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.
A bill to amend 1987 PA 264, entitled
"Health and safety fund act,"
by amending sections 5 and 8 (MCL 141.475 and 141.478), section 5
as amended by 1998 PA 529.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 5. The state treasurer shall cause to be distributed from
the health and safety fund the following amounts in the 1988-89
fiscal
year and in each following fiscal year:
after that:
(a)
One-fourth Twenty-five
percent of the collections
deposited in the fund under section 3(2) shall be used for indigent
volume adjusters for hospitals within the medicaid program.
(b) After the distribution in subdivision (a), $16,000,000.00
of the amount deposited in the fund under section 3(2) shall be
distributed as follows:
(i) To a county that received a loan authorized under section
3(2) or (3) of the emergency municipal loan act, 1980 PA 243, MCL
141.933, to pay outstanding obligations of the county; for the
repayment of principal and interest on any loans made to the county
under the emergency municipal loan act, 1980 PA 243, MCL 141.931 to
141.942; and for the payment of principal, premium, if any, and
interest due during a fiscal year on bonds issued by that county
under the fiscal stabilization act, 1981 PA 80, MCL 141.1001 to
141.1011. The distributions under this subparagraph shall be made
as necessary and only to the extent necessary to satisfy the
obligations of the county.
(ii) To the extent that $16,000,000.00 is no longer necessary
to satisfy the obligations under subparagraph (i), a portion of the
amount not required for satisfaction of obligations shall be
distributed to each county that receives or has received a loan
authorized under section 3(2) or (3) of the emergency municipal
loan act, 1980 PA 243, MCL 141.933, in an amount determined by
multiplying the amount available for distribution under this
subparagraph by a fraction, the numerator of which is the
population of the county receiving the distribution and the
denominator of which is the total population of the state according
to the most recent decennial census. The distribution under this
subparagraph shall be made at the same times and shall be used,
subject to section 6, for the same purposes described in
subdivision (c). The remaining amount available for distribution
under this subparagraph shall be used on a per capita basis to
offset the cost to the state of the assumption of the financing of
the state court system in the counties not receiving a distribution
under this subparagraph.
(c) The remaining amount deposited in the fund under section
3(2) not distributed under subdivisions (a) and (b) shall be
distributed to each county that does not receive and has never
received a loan authorized under section 3(2) or (3) of the
emergency municipal loan act, 1980 PA 243, MCL 141.933, on a per
capita basis according to the ratio that the population of the
county receiving the distribution under this subdivision, according
to the most recent decennial census, bears to the total population
of all counties receiving distribution under this subdivision,
according to the most recent decennial census. A distribution under
this subdivision shall be made each February, May, August, and
November from the collections that were deposited in the fund under
section 3(2) in the immediately preceding calendar quarter. Subject
to section 6, 12/17 of the distribution under this subdivision
shall be distributed to each local health department as defined in
section 1105 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.1105,
in the county receiving the distribution on a per capita basis,
based on the most recent decennial census, to be used only for
public health prevention programs and services. This distribution
is in addition to and is not intended as a replacement for any
other state or county payments to these health departments. This
distribution satisfies the requirements of former section 7a(3) of
1947 PA 265. The remaining 5/17 of the distribution shall be used
only for 1 or more of the following:
(i) The operation, maintenance, or expansion of an existing
county jail facility or juvenile facility.
(ii) The acquisition, construction, and equipping of a new jail
facility or juvenile facility.
(iii) Court operations.
Sec. 8. (1) There is hereby appropriated from the health and
safety fund an amount necessary to make the distributions under
section 4.
(2)
Beginning in the 1988-89 fiscal year and for For each
fiscal
year, thereafter, the legislative legislature shall
appropriate an amount necessary to make the distributions under
this act.