Act No. 249

Public Acts of 2004

Approved by the Governor

July 22, 2004

Filed with the Secretary of State

July 23, 2004

EFFECTIVE DATE: 91st day after final adjournment of 2004 Regular Session

STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Reps. Bradstreet, Casperson, Stahl, LaJoy, Garfield, Nitz, Ward, Brown and Farhat

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5665

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 261c.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 261c. (1) Beginning October 1, 2006, in addition to the requirements of sections 261, 261a, and 261b, in purchasing wood or paper products the department shall give preference to wood or paper products that derive from sustainably managed forests or procurement systems.

(2) Paper product and forest product companies purchasing raw materials from or through third parties may reasonably rely upon the representations of landowners, vendors, or brokers as to whether the raw materials derive from sustainably managed forests or procurement systems.

(3) As used in this section, "sustainably managed forests or procurement systems" means forests or procurement systems that are certified by an independent third party using 1 or more of the following certification programs:

(a) The sustainable forestry initiative/American forest and paper association.

(b) The American tree farm systems/American forest foundation.

(c) The Canadian standards associations sustainable forest management system standards.

(d) The forest stewardship council.

(e) The Pan-European forest certification.

(f) The Finnish forest certification system.

(g) The United Kingdom woodlands assurance scheme.

(h) International standards organization (ISO) standard 14001.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor