Act No. 264

Public Acts of 1999

Approved by the Governor

December 28, 1999

Filed with the Secretary of State

December 28, 1999

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 1, 2000

STATE OF MICHIGAN

90TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 1999

Introduced by Senators North, Hammerstrom and Steil

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 879

AN ACT to amend 1986 PA 268, entitled "An act to create the legislative council; to prescribe its membership, powers, and duties; to create a legislative service bureau to provide staff services to the legislature and the council; to provide for operation of legislative parking facilities; to create funds; to provide for the expenditure of appropriated funds by legislative council agencies; to authorize the sale of access to certain computerized data bases; to establish fees; to create the Michigan commission on uniform state laws; to create a law revision commission; to create a senate fiscal agency and a house fiscal agency; to create a Michigan capitol committee; to create a commission on intergovernmental relations; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state agencies and departments; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates," by amending sections 201, 202, and 203 (MCL 4.1201, 4.1202, and 4.1203), section 203 as amended by 1999 PA 101.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 201. (1) A reprint authorized under section 110 may be sold by the council at a cost not to exceed the cost of preparing, printing, and distributing the reprint.

(2) The money received from the sale of a reprint shall be deposited with the state treasurer and credited to the statutes reprint publishing fund created in subsection (3).

(3) The statutes reprint publishing fund is created in the state treasury and shall be administered by the council. The fund shall be expended only as provided in this section.

(4) The council shall utilize the statutes reprint publishing fund to pay the costs of preparing, printing, and distributing reprints.

Sec. 202. (1) The statutes compilation fund is created in the state treasury and shall be administered by the council. The fund shall be expended only as provided in this section.

(2) The money received from the sale of each of the following shall be deposited with the state treasurer and credited to the statutes compilation fund:

(a) The compilations of the statutes required under 1970 PA 193, MCL 8.41 to 8.48.

(b) The public and local acts volumes required under section 35 of article IV of the state constitution of 1963 and prepared and published under section 1 of 1899 PA 44, MCL 24.1.

(3) The council shall utilize the statutes compilation fund to pay the costs of preparing and publishing the publications described in subsection (2).

(4) The department of management and budget shall sell copies or electronic access of the publications described in subsection (2) at a price determined by the bureau not to exceed the actual cost of preparation, printing, and distribution.

Sec. 203. (1) The Michigan register fund is created in the state treasury and shall be administered by the office of regulatory reform. The fund shall be expended only as provided in this section.

(2) The money received from the sale of the Michigan register, along with those amounts paid by state agencies pursuant to section 57 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.257, shall be deposited with the state treasurer and credited to the Michigan register fund.

(3) The Michigan register fund shall be used to pay the costs of preparing, printing, and distributing the Michigan register.

(4) The department of management and budget shall sell copies of the Michigan register at a price determined by the office of regulatory reform not to exceed the cost of preparation, printing, and distribution.

(5) Notwithstanding section 204, beginning January 1, 2001, the office of regulatory reform shall make the text of the Michigan register available to the public on the internet.

(6) The information described in subsection (5) that is maintained by the office of regulatory reform shall be made available in the shortest feasible time after the information is available. The information described in subsection (5) that is not maintained by the office of regulatory reform shall be made available in the shortest feasible time after it is made available to the office of regulatory reform.

(7) Subsection (5) does not alter or relinquish any copyright or other proprietary interest or entitlement of this state relating to any of the information made available under subsection (5).

(8) The office of regulatory reform shall not charge a fee for providing the Michigan register on the internet as provided in subsection (5).

(9) As used in this section, "Michigan register" means that term as defined in section 5 of the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.205.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect April 1, 2000.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 90th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) Senate Bill No. 877.

(b) Senate Bill No. 878.

Secretary of the Senate.

Clerk of the House of Representatives.

Approved

Governor.