Act No. 144

Public Acts of 1997

Approved by the Governor

November 19, 1997

Filed with the Secretary of State

November 19, 1997

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 19, 1997

STATE OF MICHIGAN

89TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 1997

Introduced by Reps. Emerson, Profit, Brater, Curtis, Palamara, Ciaramitaro, Martinez, Price, Gubow, Bogardus, Frank, Cherry, Prusi, Tesanovich, Hood and Dobronski

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5083

AN ACT to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled "An act to prescribe the powers and duties of the department of management and budget; to define the authority and functions of its director and its organizational entities; to authorize the department to issue directives; to provide for the capital outlay program; to provide for the leasing, planning, constructing, maintaining, altering, renovating, demolishing, conveying of lands and facilities; to provide for centralized administrative services such as purchasing, payroll, record retention, data processing, and publishing and for access to certain services; to provide for a system of internal accounting and administrative control for certain principal departments; to provide for an internal auditor in certain principal departments; to provide for certain powers and duties of certain state officers and agencies; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the powers, duties, and laws relative to budgeting, accounting, and the regulating of appropriations; to provide for the implementation of certain constitutional provisions; to create funds and accounts; to make appropriations; to prescribe remedies and penalties; to rescind certain executive reorganization orders; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts," (MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594) by adding section 353e.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 353e. (1) Notwithstanding section 353, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, there is appropriated and transferred from the fund to the state school aid fund the sum of $212,000,000.00 for the purpose of paying money damages to school districts and intermediate school districts who were plaintiffs in the consolidated cases known as Durant v State of Michigan, Michigan supreme court docket no. 104458-104492, according to the supreme court's July31, 1997 opinion in that case.

(2) Notwithstanding section 353, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, there is appropriated and transferred from the fund to the state school aid fund the sum of $73,700,000.00 for the purpose of making appropriations to school districts and intermediate school districts other than those described in subsection (1).

(3) Notwithstanding section 353, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, for the fiscal year ending September30, 2001, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, there is appropriated and transferred from the fund to the state school aid fund the sum of $32,000,000.00 for the purpose of making appropriations to school districts and intermediate school districts other than those described in subsection (1).

(4) Notwithstanding sections 352 and 354, for each fiscal year ending after October 1, 1997, all general fund-general purpose balances at the final close of the fiscal year shall be transferred to the fund. If an amount is required to be transferred to the fund for a fiscal year under section 352, any amount transferred to the fund under this subsection shall be considered to be a part of the amount transferred to the fund for purposes of section 352.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 89th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) Senate Bill No. 178.

(b) Senate Bill No. 719.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the Senate.

Approved

Governor.