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MI SB0763

Bill

Status

Passed

12/31/2018

Primary Sponsor

Thomas Casperson

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Origin

Senate

99th Legislature

AI Summary

  • Modifies the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund to consist of bonuses, rentals, delayed rentals, and royalties from extraction of nonrenewable resources on state-owned lands, excluding lands acquired with game/fish protection funds or federal Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson funds.

  • Requires trust fund interest and earnings to be expended only for land acquisition for recreation or environmental/scenic protection, development and renovation of public recreation facilities, and trust fund administration including payments in lieu of taxes.

  • Establishes that at least 25% of annual trust fund expenditures must go to land acquisition and at least 25% to development and renovation of public recreation facilities.

  • Limits trust fund accumulated principal to $500,000,000 (exclusive of interest and earnings) until the Michigan State Parks Endowment Fund reaches $800,000,000, after which excess revenues transfer to the parks endowment fund.

  • Creates the Local Public Recreation Facilities Fund to provide grants to local units of government for development, renovation, and redevelopment of public recreation facilities under the same board procedures and guidelines as the trust fund.

Legislative Description

Natural resources; funding; Michigan natural resources trust fund and Michigan state parks endowment fund; modify allowable expenditures. Amends secs. 1901, 1902, 1903 & 74119 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.1901 et seq.); adds sec. 74119a & repeals sec. 1904 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.1904).

Natural resources: funding

Last Action

Assigned Pa 597'18 12/31/18 Addenda

12/31/2018

Committee Referrals

Appropriations5/16/2018
Natural Resources1/24/2018

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