HOUSE BILL No. 6249

 

June 21, 2006, Introduced by Reps. Kooiman, Kolb, Hummel and Brown and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

     A bill to amend 1960 PA 77, entitled

 

"An act to create the Michigan higher education assistance

authority and to prescribe its powers and duties; to authorize

persons, corporations, and associations to make gifts to the

authority; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state

officials; to authorize, ratify, and confirm certain guarantees of

students' loans and authorize reguarantees; to authorize, ratify,

and confirm certain guarantees of loans made to parents of

students; to validate certain prior appropriations; and to

authorize the transfer of certain appropriations to be transferred

to and administered by the authority,"

 

(MCL 390.951 to 390.961) by adding section 7a; and to repeal acts

 

and parts of acts.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 7a. In addition to the powers described in section 7, the

 

authority may use up to $3,000,000.00 from the Michigan guaranty

 

agency's operating fund for the state competitive scholarship

 


program described in 1964 PA 208, MCL 390.971 to 390.981, if all of

 

the following are met:

 

     (a) The money is used by the authority only in the state

 

fiscal year ending September 30, 2006.

 

     (b) Federal law does not prohibit use of the money used from

 

the Michigan guaranty agency's operating fund in the manner

 

described in this section.

 

     Enacting section 1. Section 7a of 1960 PA 77, MCL 390.957a, is

 

repealed effective October 1, 2006.