SENATE BILL No. 885

December 4, 2001, Introduced by Senator MC COTTER and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

A bill to amend 1939 PA 280, entitled

"The social welfare act,"

by amending section 15 (MCL 400.15).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

1 Sec. 15. The commission may receive on behalf of the state

2 of Michigan any grant, devise, bequest, donation, gift, or

3 assignment of money, bonds, or choses in action, or any property,

4 real or personal, and accept the same THAT PROPERTY, so that

5 the right and title to the same THAT PROPERTY shall pass to the

6 state of Michigan. All such bonds, notes, or choses in action,

7 or the proceeds thereof OF THE BONDS, NOTES, OR CHOSES IN

8 ACTION when collected, and all other property or things of value

9 so received by the commission shall be reported to the auditor

10 general STATE TREASURER and used for the purposes set forth in

11 the grant, devise, bequest, donation, gift, or assignment :

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1 Provided, That IF such purposes shall be ARE within the powers

2 conferred on said THE commission. Whenever it shall be IF IT

3 IS necessary to protect or assert the right or title to any prop-

4 erty so received or derived as aforesaid UNDER THIS SECTION,

5 or to collect or reduce into possession any bond, note, bill, or

6 chose in action, the attorney general, upon request of the com-

7 mission, shall take the necessary and proper proceedings and

8 bring suit in the name of the commission on behalf of the state

9 of Michigan in any court of competent jurisdiction, state or fed-

10 eral, and prosecute all such suits.

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