SB-0190, As Passed Senate, April 30, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

SENATE BILL NO. 190

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to make appropriations for the department of licensing

 

and regulatory affairs and certain other state purposes for the

 

fiscal year ending September 30, 2014; to provide for the

 

expenditure of those appropriations; to provide for the imposition

 

of certain fees; to provide for the disposition of fees and other

 

income received by the state agencies; to provide for reports to

 

certain persons; and to prescribe powers and duties of certain

 

state departments and certain state and local agencies and

 

officers.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

PART 1

 

LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS

 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013-2014

 

     Sec. 101. The amounts listed in this part are appropriated for


the department of licensing and regulatory affairs, subject to the

 

conditions set forth in this act, for the fiscal year ending

 

September 30, 2014, from the funds identified in this part. The

 

following is a summary of the appropriations in this part:

 

DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

 

APPROPRIATION SUMMARY

 

   Full-time equated unclassified positions......... 57.5

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........ 2,920.0

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    495,278,400

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental

 

   transfers............................................        14,228,200

 

ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION........................... $    481,050,200

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Total federal revenues.................................       195,560,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Total local revenues...................................           656,500

 

Total private revenues.................................         2,011,800

 

Total other state restricted revenues..................       259,957,300

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $     22,864,600

 

    State general fund/general purpose schedule:

 

   Ongoing state general fund/general

 

   purpose................................... 22,864,600

 

   One-time state general fund/general

 

    purpose............................................ 0

 

   Sec. 102. DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION

 


   Full-time equated unclassified positions......... 57.5

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 124.0

 

Unclassified salaries--57.5 FTE positions.............. $      4,652,400

 

Executive director programs--33.0 FTE positions........         4,704,300

 

Property management....................................        10,007,300

 

Rent...................................................         7,673,600

 

Worker's compensation..................................           612,300

 

Special project advances...............................           200,000

 

Administrative services--87.0 FTE positions............         8,725,000

 

Office of regulatory reinvention--4.0 FTE positions....           477,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     37,051,900

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DOL, multiple grants for safety and health.............           891,600

 

DOL-ETA, unemployment insurance........................        10,126,600

 

Federal revenues.......................................           834,000

 

Title XVIII Medicare...................................           452,000

 

Title XIX Medicaid.....................................            21,700

 

Title XIX Medicaid, facility certification fees........           272,700

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Local revenues.........................................           127,500

 

Private - special project advances.....................           200,000

 

Aboveground storage tank fees..........................            56,100

 

Accountancy enforcement fund...........................            25,000

 

Boiler fee revenue.....................................           254,700

 

Builder enforcement fund...............................            56,900

 


Construction code fund.................................         1,401,400

 

Contingent fund, regular penalty and interest..........            39,900

 

Corporation fees.......................................         4,101,300

 

Elevator fees..........................................           276,500

 

Fees and collections/asbestos..........................           104,200

 

Fire service fees......................................           621,900

 

Health professions regulatory fund.....................         1,491,700

 

Health systems fees....................................           208,800

 

Licensing and regulation fees..........................         1,113,400

 

Liquor purchase revolving fund.........................         4,437,300

 

Medical marihuana fund.................................           214,600

 

Mobile home code fund..................................           344,400

 

Motor carrier fees.....................................           221,100

 

Private occupational school license fees...............            39,000

 

Public utility assessments.............................         2,405,300

 

Radiological health fees...............................            95,600

 

Safety education and training fund.....................           839,100

 

Second injury fund.....................................           264,500

 

Securities fees........................................         3,159,800

 

Self-insurers security fund............................            97,300

 

Silicosis and dust disease fund........................           118,900

 

Survey and remonumentation fund........................            53,000

 

Tax tribunal fund......................................         1,038,200

 

Video franchise assessments............................             4,000

 

Workers' compensation administrative revolving fund....           100,000

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $        941,900

 

   Sec. 103. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

 


   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 193.0

 

Public service commission--190.0 FTE positions......... $     30,219,900

 

METRO authority--3.0 FTE positions.....................           377,200

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     30,597,100

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DOE-OEERE, multiple grants.............................            56,700

 

DOT, gas pipeline safety...............................         1,188,700

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Children's protection registry fund....................           272,600

 

Motor carrier fees.....................................         2,520,300

 

Public utility assessments.............................        25,623,300

 

Restructuring mechanism assessments....................           535,500

 

Video franchise assessments............................           400,000

 

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

 

   Sec. 104. LIQUOR CONTROL COMMISSION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 152.0

 

Management support services--28.0 FTE positions........ $      4,508,500

 

Liquor licensing and enforcement--124.0 FTE positions..        14,909,900

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     19,418,400

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Direct shipper enforcement revolving fund..............           123,100

 

Liquor license revenue.................................         7,710,000

 


Liquor purchase revolving fund.........................        11,585,300

 

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

 

   Sec. 105. OCCUPATIONAL REGULATION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 872.0

 

Boiler inspection program--23.0 FTE positions.......... $      3,241,300

 

Bureau of fire services--97.0 FTE positions............        12,031,800

 

Bureau of construction codes--104.7 FTE positions......         8,977,200

 

Corporations, securities and commercial licensing

 

   bureau--192.0 FTE positions..........................        26,560,800

 

Elevator inspection program--30.0 FTE positions........         3,647,500

 

Bureau of health professions--151.0 FTE positions......        27,260,800

 

Medical marihuana program--9.0 FTE positions...........         4,200,000

 

Bureau of health systems--211.4 FTE positions..........        28,034,900

 

Radiological health administration--21.4 FTE positions.         3,419,300

 

Background check program--5.5 FTE positions............         2,615,000

 

Manufactured housing and land resources

 

   program--18.0 FTE positions..........................         2,932,900

 

Property development group--9.0 FTE positions..........         1,792,700

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    124,714,200

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

IDG from department of community health, inspection

 

   contract.............................................           100,000

 

   Federal revenues:

 

Clinical lab improvement...............................           395,000

 

DOT....................................................            60,000

 

Federal revenues.......................................         1,255,300

 


FEMA...................................................            28,000

 

Mammography quality standards..........................           760,400

 

Title XVIII Medicare...................................        11,615,200

 

Title XIX Medicaid.....................................           718,100

 

Title XIX Medicaid, facility certification fees........         7,466,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Private - civil monetary penalties.....................           200,000

 

Aboveground storage tank fees..........................           441,100

 

Accountancy enforcement fund...........................           404,800

 

Boiler fee revenue.....................................         3,719,000

 

Builder enforcement fund...............................           461,000

 

Construction code fund.................................         7,272,400

 

Corporation fees.......................................         6,846,700

 

Elevator fees..........................................         4,069,300

 

Fire alarm fees........................................           125,400

 

Fire safety standard and enforcement fund..............            40,000

 

Fire service fees......................................         2,419,400

 

Fireworks safety fund..................................           673,700

 

Health professions regulatory fund.....................        23,326,800

 

Health systems fees....................................         3,300,100

 

Licensing and regulation fees..........................        11,268,800

 

Liquor purchase revolving fund.........................         3,110,800

 

Medical marihuana fund.................................         4,200,000

 

Mobile home code fund..................................         2,947,200

 

Nurse professional fees................................         1,923,600

 

Pain management fees...................................         1,808,500

 

Private occupational school license fees...............           809,400

 


Property development fees..............................           318,100

 

Radiological health fees...............................         2,656,600

 

Real estate appraiser continuing education fund........            57,200

 

Real estate education fund.............................           338,100

 

Real estate enforcement fund...........................           694,300

 

Securities fees........................................         4,881,000

 

Securities investor education and training fund........         1,000,000

 

Security business fund.................................           340,100

 

Survey and remonumentation fund........................           830,100

 

Unarmed combat fund....................................           134,900

 

Underground storage tank fees..........................         2,484,700

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      9,212,500

 

   Sec. 106. MICHIGAN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH

 

ADMINISTRATION

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 249.0

 

Occupational safety and health--217.0 FTE positions.... $     28,325,100

 

Wage and hour division--32.0 FTE positions.............         3,615,300

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     31,940,400

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DOL, multiple grants for safety and health.............        11,722,600

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Corporation fees.......................................         4,359,200

 

Fees and collections/asbestos..........................         1,010,400

 

Safety education and training fund.....................         9,284,000

 

Securities fees........................................         3,432,200

 


State general fund/general purpose..................... $      2,132,000

 

   Sec. 107. EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

 

   Full-time equated classified positions........ 1,088.0

 

Worker's compensation administration--66.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................ $      7,823,600

 

Insurance funds administration--25.0 FTE positions.....         5,202,500

 

Compensation supplement fund...........................           820,000

 

Unemployment insurance agency--792.7 FTE positions.....        89,303,000

 

Advocacy assistance program............................         1,500,000

 

Special audit and collections program--34.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................         3,374,300

 

Training program for agency staff--2.1 FTE positions...         1,850,600

 

Expanded fraud control program--33.2 FTE positions.....         3,974,100

 

Bureau of services for blind persons--113.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................        23,725,200

 

Employment and labor relations--22.0 FTE positions.....         4,125,800

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $    141,699,100

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DOL, employment and training administration............           828,900

 

DOL-ETA, unemployment insurance........................        92,858,400

 

Federal revenues.......................................        17,133,400

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Local revenues.........................................           529,000

 

Private revenues.......................................           111,800

 

Contingent fund, regular penalty and interest..........         5,314,700

 


Corporation fees.......................................         1,900,900

 

Michigan commission for the blind business

 

   enterprise program fund..............................           562,000

 

Second injury fund.....................................         2,800,700

 

Securities fees........................................         5,012,800

 

Self-insurers security fund............................         1,324,100

 

Silicosis and dust disease fund........................         1,077,700

 

Special fraud control fund.............................         1,000,000

 

Workers' compensation administrative revolving fund....         2,438,000

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $      8,806,700

 

   Sec. 108. MICHIGAN ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING SYSTEM

 

   Full-time equated classified positions.......... 242.0

 

Michigan administrative hearing system--211.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................ $     37,161,000

 

Michigan compensation appellate commission--31.0 FTE

 

   positions............................................         4,386,000

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     41,547,000

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

IDG - administrative hearings..........................        14,128,200

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DOL-ETA, unemployment insurance........................         4,064,600

 

Federal revenue - administrative hearings and rules....         9,154,300

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

State restricted revenue - administrative hearings

 

   and rules............................................        12,865,800

 

Workers' compensation administrative revolving fund....           321,400

 


State general fund/general purpose..................... $      1,012,700

 

   Sec. 109. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

Information technology services and projects........... $      41,392,800

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     41,392,800

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

DOL, multiple grants for safety and health.............           273,700

 

DOL-ETA, unemployment insurance........................        21,896,500

 

Federal revenues.......................................           555,000

 

Title XVIII Medicare...................................           610,000

 

Title XIX Medicaid, facility certification fees........           320,000

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Aboveground storage tank fees..........................            24,500

 

Boiler fee revenue.....................................           291,800

 

Construction code fund.................................         1,182,700

 

Corporation fees.......................................         4,868,000

 

Elevator fees..........................................           304,600

 

Fees and collections/asbestos..........................            45,300

 

Fire service fees......................................           289,800

 

Health professions regulatory fund.....................         1,157,700

 

Health systems fees....................................           217,900

 

Licensing and regulation fees..........................         1,802,400

 

Liquor purchase revolving fund.........................         2,873,600

 

Mobile home code fund..................................           256,500

 

Motor carrier fees.....................................           191,300

 

Pain management fees...................................           171,300

 


Public utility assessments.............................         1,550,800

 

Radiological health fees...............................           140,000

 

Safety education and training fund.....................           678,400

 

Second injury fund.....................................           158,900

 

Securities fees........................................           973,900

 

Self-insurers security fund............................            80,800

 

Silicosis and dust disease fund........................            70,800

 

Tax tribunal fund......................................           210,000

 

Underground storage tank fees..........................           131,400

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $         65,200

 

   Sec. 110. DEPARTMENT GRANTS

 

Fire protection grants................................. $      9,273,900

 

Liquor law enforcement grants..........................         7,200,000

 

Remonumentation grants.................................         7,300,000

 

Private grant programs.................................         1,500,000

 

Subregional libraries state aid........................           451,800

 

Utility consumer representation........................           950,000

 

Youth low-vision program...............................           241,800

 

GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $     26,917,500

 

    Appropriated from:

 

   Interdepartmental grant revenues:

 

   Federal revenues:

 

   Special revenue funds:

 

Private revenues.......................................         1,500,000

 

Fire protection fund...................................         8,500,000

 

Liquor license revenue.................................         7,200,000

 

Liquor purchase revolving fund.........................           773,900

 


Survey and remonumentation fund........................         7,300,000

 

Utility consumer representation fund...................           950,000

 

State general fund/general purpose..................... $        693,600

 

 

 

 

 

PART 2

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS

 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013-2014

 

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 2013-2014 is $282,821,900.00 and state

 

spending from state resources to be paid to local units of

 

government for fiscal year 2013-2014 is $25,417,500.00. 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

 

Liquor law enforcement.................................         7,200,000

 

Remonumentation grants.................................         7,300,000

 

Subregional libraries state aid........................           451,800

 

Utility consumer representation........................           950,000

 

Youth low-vision program...............................           241,800

 

Total department of licensing and regulatory

 

   affairs.............................................. $     25,417,500

 

     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 act:

 

     (a) "Department" means the department of licensing and

 

regulatory affairs.

 

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

 

     (c) "DOL" means the United States department of labor.

 

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

 

Michigan senate fiscal agency.

 

     (e) "MAHS" means Michigan administrative hearing system.

 

     (f) "MARVIN" means Michigan's automated response voice

 

interactive network.

 

     (g) "Subcommittees" means all members of the subcommittees of

 

the house and senate appropriations committees with jurisdiction

 

over the budget for the department.

 

     Sec. 208. Unless otherwise specified, the department shall use

 

the Internet to fulfill the reporting requirements of this act.

 

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. 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 shall 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. 212. The department and agencies receiving appropriations

 

in part 1 shall receive and retain copies of all reports funded

 

from appropriations in part 1. Federal and state guidelines for

 

short-term and long-term retention of records shall be followed.

 

The department may electronically retain copies or reports unless

 

otherwise required by federal and state guidelines.

 

     Sec. 215. The department shall not take disciplinary action

 

against an employee for communicating with a member of the

 

legislature or his or her staff.

 

     Sec. 216. Not later than November 30, the department shall

 

work with the state budget office to 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

 

state budget office, the chairpersons of the senate and house

 

appropriations committees, and the senate and house fiscal

 

agencies.

 

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

 

state, out-of-state travel 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) The department shall not approve the travel of more than 1

 

departmental employee to a specific professional development

 

conference or training seminar that is located outside of this

 

state unless a professional development conference or training

 

seminar is funded by a federal or private funding source and

 

requires more than 1 person from a department to attend, or the

 

conference or training seminar includes multiple issues in which 1

 

employee from the department does not have expertise.

 

     (3) Not later than January 1, 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

 

senate and house appropriations committees, the senate and house

 

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. 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. 221. 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. 223. (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 act 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 act 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 act

 

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 act

 

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

 


MCL 18.1393.

 

     Sec. 225. Within 10 days after the receipt of a grant

 

appropriated in the private grant funded projects line item in part

 

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 funding source,

 

purpose, and amount of the grant.

 

     Sec. 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 available 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 subdivision control manual, the state boundary

 

commission operations manual, and other local government assistance

 

manuals.

 

     (c) The Michigan liquor control code of 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL

 

436.1101 to 436.2303.

 

     (d) 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.

 


     (e) Worker's compensation health care services rules.

 

     (f) Construction code manuals.

 

     (g) Copies of transcripts from administrative law hearings.

 

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

 

collected 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. The funds appropriated under this section 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. 228. Unless prohibited by law, the department may accept

 

credit card or other electronic means of payment for licenses,

 

fees, or permits.

 

     Sec. 229. 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 department's performance.

 

     Sec. 231. 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. 232. The department shall not develop or produce any

 

television or radio productions.

 

     Sec. 234. 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, 2013 and September 30, 2014.

 

 

 

REGULATORY

 

     Sec. 301. (1) 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.

 

     (2) Cities, villages, and townships with state-owned

 

facilities shall report to the department no later than January 1

 

on a form developed by the department in order to be eligible to

 

receive funds appropriated in part 1 for fire protection grants.

 

The report shall indicate all of the following:

 

     (a) The ability to respond to state facilities in their

 


service area.

 

     (b) The cost for being prepared and able to respond to fire

 

service situations during the most recent fiscal year.

 

     (c) The fire-related activities of police and fire departments

 

on state property.

 

     (d) The costs of these activities.

 

     (e) The expenditures from fire protection grants.

 

     (3) The department shall prepare a summary of the local

 

submissions and provide it to the subcommittees, fiscal agencies,

 

and the state budget director by March 31.

 

     Sec. 302. Money appropriated under this act 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                                Fee

 

$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. 303. 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. 304. 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. 320. If the revenue collected by the department from

 

licensing and regulation fees collected by the bureau of commercial

 

services exceeds the amount expended from appropriations 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. 330. Funds earned or authorized by the DOL in excess of

 

the gross appropriation in part 1 for the unemployment insurance

 

agency from the DOL are appropriated and may be expended for

 

staffing and related expenses incurred in the operation of its

 

programs. These funds may be spent after the department notifies

 

the state budget director and the subcommittees of the purpose and

 

amount of each grant award.

 


Senate Bill No. 190 as amended April 30, 2013

 

     Sec. 332. Until the integrated system project is complete, the

 

unemployment insurance agency shall provide the subcommittees,

 

fiscal agencies, and state budget office with quarterly status

 

reports on the development of the agency's integrated system

 

project. The quarterly status reports shall include, but not be

 

limited to, a summary of the expenditures for the project, project

 

budget information, a summary of the tasks completed and milestones

 

reached to date, the percentage of the total project completed to

 

date, and a summary of the tasks anticipated to be completed in the

 

subsequent quarter.

 

     Sec. 333. The department shall report quarterly to the members

 

of the house and senate committees on appropriations, the fiscal

 

agencies, and the state budget director on the percentage of

 

unemployment claimants that meet the certification requirements for

 

receiving benefits by using the Internet MARVIN system or any

 

application developed for that purpose. The department shall

 

implement improvements to the Internet MARVIN system that promote

 

greater ease of access and security with a goal of reaching 50% of

 

users certifying by using the Internet MARVIN system or another

 

system that reduces staff face time and MARVIN telephone system

 

usage.

 

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     Sec. 368. No later than March 1, the department shall submit a

 

report to the state budget office, the fiscal agencies, and the

 

subcommittees, providing expenditure and revenue data and

 


statistical data on licensing and regulatory activities of the

 

bureau of commercial services and the bureau of construction codes

 

during the previous fiscal year. To the extent possible, the data

 

required shall be reported for each individual occupation, trade,

 

or industry regulated.

 

     Sec. 380. 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.

 

     Sec. 390. (1) The Michigan tax tribunal within the Michigan

 

administrative hearing system shall submit a report containing all

 

of the following for the previous fiscal year:

 

     (a) The number of cases heard and the number of cases decided

 

by MAHS hearings officers, contractual hearings officers, and

 

tribunal members during the fiscal year.

 

     (b) The number of case filings and dispositions and the number

 

of active and pending cases before the small claims division and

 

the entire tribunal.

 

     (c) The average and maximum time elapsed, both tolled and

 

untolled, between case filings and final dispositions.

 

     (d) The amount and percentage of tax tribunal fees generated

 

by motions to amend.

 

     (2) The report required under subsection (1) shall be

 

submitted to the subcommittees, fiscal agencies, and state budget

 

office not later than November 1.

 


 

 

BUREAU OF SERVICES FOR BLIND PERSONS

 

     Sec. 610. (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. 611. The bureau of services for blind persons shall work

 

collaboratively with service organizations and government entities

 

to identify qualified match dollars to maximize use of available

 

federal vocational rehabilitation funds.

 

     Sec. 613. (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.

 

 

 

HEALTH REGULATION

 

     Sec. 714. (1) The department shall report by April 1 to the

 

subcommittees, fiscal agencies, and state budget director on the

 

timeliness of nursing facility complaint investigations and the

 

number of allegations that are substantiated on an annual basis.

 

The report shall consist of the number of allegations filed by

 

consumers and the number of facility-reported incidents. The

 

department shall make every effort to contact every complainant and

 

the subject of a complaint during an investigation.

 

     (2) The department shall gather information on its most

 

frequently cited complaint deficiencies for the prior 3 fiscal

 

years and include that information in the report required under

 

subsection (1). The department shall determine whether there is an

 

increase in the number of citations from 1 year to the next and

 

assess the cause of the increase, if any, and whether education and

 

training of nursing facility staff or department staff are needed.

 

     (3) The department shall make the report required under this

 

section available to the public at no cost on its website.

 

     Sec. 726. (1) The department shall submit a report by January

 


1 to the standing committees on appropriations of the senate and

 

house of representatives, the fiscal agencies, and the state budget

 

director that includes all of the following information 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:

 

     (a) The number of initial applications received.

 

     (b) The number of initial applications approved and the number

 

of initial applications denied.

 

     (c) The average amount of time, from receipt to approval or

 

denial, to process an initial application.

 

     (d) The number of renewal applications received.

 

     (e) The number of renewal applications approved and the number

 

of renewal applications denied.

 

     (f) The average amount of time, from receipt to approval or

 

denial, to process a renewal application.

 

     (g) The percentage of initial applications not approved or

 

denied within the time requirements established in section 6 of the

 

Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333.26426.

 

     (h) The percentage of renewal applications not approved or

 

denied within the time requirements established in section 6 of the

 

Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333.26426.

 

     (i) The percentage of registry cards for approved initial

 

applications not issued within the time requirements established in

 

section 6 of the Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL

 

333.26426.

 

     (j) The percentage of registry cards for approved renewal

 


applications not issued within the time requirements established in

 

section 6 of the Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL

 

333.26426.

 

     (k) The amount collected from the medical marihuana program

 

application and renewal fees authorized in section 5 of the

 

Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333.26425.

 

     (l) The costs of administering the medical marihuana program

 

under the Michigan medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333.26421

 

to 333.26430.

 

     (2) If the required fees are shown to be insufficient to

 

offset all expenses of implementing and administering the medical

 

marihuana program, the department shall review and revise the

 

application and renewal fees accordingly to ensure that all

 

expenses of implementing and administering the medical marihuana

 

program are offset as is permitted under section 5 of the Michigan

 

medical marihuana act, 2008 IL 1, MCL 333.26425.

 

     Sec. 727. 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. 728. (1) Not later than November 30, the department shall

 

prepare a report that provides the number of registry

 

identification cards issued to or renewed for patients residing in

 

each county during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, 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 committees,

 

and the fiscal agencies.

 

     (2) After submitting the report under subsection (1), the

 

department may expend up to $3,000,000.00 of the funds appropriated

 

in part 1 for the Michigan medical marihuana program for

 

discretionary grants to county law enforcement departments for

 

education about and enforcement of the Michigan medical marihuana

 

program. These discretionary grants, if issued, shall be

 

distributed proportionately based on the number of registry

 

identification cards issued to or renewed for the residents of each

 

county. In order to be eligible to receive a grant under this

 

subsection, a county law enforcement department must agree to

 

report how the grant was spent and provide that report to the

 

department no later than July 31, 2014. The department shall submit

 

a report by September 30, 2014 to the state budget director, the

 

senate and house appropriations committees, and the fiscal agencies

 

detailing the amounts, the recipients, and the reported uses of

 

these discretionary grants.

 

     Sec. 731. (1) The bureau of health systems shall prepare a

 

report detailing the number of facilities, locations, and beds for

 

each type of health facility licensed, certified, inspected, or

 

otherwise regulated by the bureau. The report shall also include

 

the bureau's cost to license, certify, inspect, or otherwise

 

regulate each type of facility. The data required by this

 

subsection shall be collected and reported on acute care hospitals,

 


home health agencies, hospices, hospice residences, psychiatric

 

units in general hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, partial

 

hospitalization psychiatric programs, outpatient surgical

 

facilities, freestanding surgical outpatient facilities,

 

laboratories, end stage renal disease facilities, rural health

 

clinics, substance abuse programs, long-term care facilities

 

including nursing homes, hospital long-term care units, county

 

medical care facilities, and radiation machines.

 

     (2) By February 1, the bureau of health systems shall provide

 

the governor and the legislature an updated schedule of fees to be

 

charged by the bureau for regulating health facilities. The updated

 

fee schedule proposed by the bureau shall be based on the schedule

 

submitted previously, but include updated figures from the prior

 

fiscal year. It shall also bear a direct relationship to the cost

 

of the service or act, including overhead expenses. The report

 

shall also recommend the necessary statutory and administrative

 

rule changes necessary to implement the recommended fee schedule.

 

     Sec. 732. From the appropriations made in part 1 for the

 

bureau of health systems, at least $530,000.00 must be expended for

 

activities related to the inspection and licensing of freestanding

 

surgical outpatient facilities.

 

 

 

 

 

PART 2A

 

PROVISIONS CONCERNING ANTICIPATED APPROPRIATIONS

 

FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014-2015

 

GENERAL SECTIONS

 


     Sec. 1201. It is the intent of the legislature to provide

 

appropriations for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2015 for

 

the line items listed in part 1. The fiscal year 2014-2015

 

appropriations are anticipated to be the same as those for fiscal

 

year 2013-2014, except that the line items will be adjusted for

 

changes in caseload and related costs, federal fund match rates,

 

economic factors, and available revenue. These adjustments will be

 

determined after the January 2014 consensus revenue estimating

 

conference.

 

     Sec. 1202. It is the intent of the legislature that the

 

department identify the amounts for normal retirement costs and

 

legacy retirement costs for the fiscal year ending on September 30,

 

2015 for the line items listed in part 1.