July 2, 2003, Introduced by Reps. Palsrok, Tabor, Rivet and Stahl and referred to the Committee on Conservation and Outdoor Recreation.
A bill to amend 1984 PA 22, entitled
"Michigan civilian conservation corps act,"
by amending the title and sections 2, 3, 5, and 11 (MCL 409.302,
409.303, 409.305, and 409.311), the title and sections 2 and 3 as
amended by 1994 PA 394; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 TITLE
2 An act to establish the Michigan civilian conservation
3 corps; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state
4 officers, agencies, and
departments; to create and provide for
5 the use of an
endowment fund; and to provide for
an
6 appropriation.
7 Sec. 2. As used in this act:
8 (a) "Chief" means the chief administrator of the Michigan
9 civilian conservation corps appointed pursuant to section 4.
1 (b)
"Commission" means the Michigan jobs commission
2 department of career development or its successor agency.
3 (c) "Corps" means the Michigan civilian conservation corps.
4 (d) "Corpsmember" means a participant in the corps.
5 (e) "Department" means the department of natural resources.
6 (f)
"Endowment fund" means the Michigan civilian
7 conservation corps
endowment fund created in section 12a.
8 (f) (g) "Minority"
means a person who is black, hispanic,
9 oriental, eskimo, or an American Indian who is not less than 1/4
10 quantum Indian blood as certified by the person's tribal
11 association and verified by the Indian affairs commission.
12 (g) (h) "Recipient"
means a city, village, county,
13 township, school district, or intermediate school district of
14 this state.
15 (h) (i) "Resident"
means an individual who has in this
16 state the individual's true, fixed, and permanent home and
17 principal establishment to which the individual intends to return
18 whenever absent. An individual is a resident until the
19 individual establishes a permanent establishment outside this
20 state.
21 Sec. 3. (1) The Michigan civilian conservation corps is
22 established jointly within the department and the commission for
23 the purpose of conserving,
improving, and developing this
24 state's natural
resources, and for enhancing, preserving, and
25 maintaining public
lands and waters conducting
activities or
26 making improvements to enhance publicly owned fish or wildlife
27 habitat through the employment of residents of this state in work
1 training programs. The department may administer on a
2 contractual basis a grant program that dispenses funds to
3 recipients.
4 (2) The work training programs required by this section and
5 section 5 shall provide work experience for certain residents of
6 this state that will increase their likelihood of obtaining
7 future employment.
8 Sec. 5. (1) Work training programs conducted under this act
9 shall provide corpsmembers with work experience conducting
10 activities or making improvements to enhance publicly owned fish
11 or wildlife habitat. related
to the conservation, improvement,
12 or development of
natural resources and the enhancement,
13 preservation, and
maintenance of public lands and waters. Work
14 experience may
include, but is not limited to, all of the
15 following:
16 (a) Planting,
pruning, and cutting of trees.
17 (b) Development of
lakes, ponds, and waterways to be used as
18 hunting and fishing
sites and for other recreational purposes.
19 (c) Wildlife
habitat development.
20 (d) Urban parks
and recreational site development.
21 (e) Trail
development.
22 (f) Flood and
drainage control programs, such as the cleaning
23 and repair of ditches
and streams.
24 (g) Prevention of
shore and soil erosion.
25 (h) Highway and
community beautification.
26 (i) Litter
removal.
27 (j) Assistance in
fire prevention and suppression.
1 (k) Assistance in
times and places of natural disasters.
2 (l) Reclamation of strip-mined land.
3 (m) Insect and
pest control.
4 (2) Work training programs shall be undertaken in both urban
5 and rural areas and shall be selected on the basis of the
6 environmental and
natural resource fish or wildlife
habitat
7 benefits each offers, the opportunities for public use each
8 offers, and the on the job training value of each.
9 (3) Work experience shall not include work on any project for
10 removal or cleaning up of any toxic waste or other hazardous
11 substance.
12 Sec. 11. (1) The corps shall assist corpsmembers in
13 obtaining employment after their participation in a corps
14 program.
15 (2) The corps shall
ensure that conservation programs
16 established under this act do not displace currently employed
17 workers or impair existing contracts for service provided by
18 other workers, and that no corpsmember is used in any manner in
19 connection with a work or labor dispute.
20 Enacting section 1. Section 12a of the Michigan civilian
21 conservation corps act, 1984 PA 22, MCL 409.312a, is repealed.
22 Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take
23 effect unless Senate Joint Resolution _____ or House Joint
24 Resolution J (request no. 03106'03) of the 92nd Legislature
25 becomes a part of the state constitution of 1963 as provided in
26 section 1 of article XII of the state constitution of 1963.