HOUSE BILL No. 4904

 

 

June 12, 2007, Introduced by Reps. Vagnozzi, Knollenberg, Alma Smith, Young, Cushingberry, David Law, Hildenbrand, LaJoy, Pearce, Pastor, Hune, Moss, Miller, Ward, Marleau, Calley, Green, DeRoche, Elsenheimer, Pavlov, Hoogendyk, Amos, Moore, Agema, Palsrok, Garfield, Shaffer, Melton, Horn, Dean, Schuitmaker, Rick Jones, Moolenaar, Stahl, Steil, Opsommer, Brandenburg, Stakoe, Booher, Meisner, Wojno, Leland, Tobocman, Hansen, Ball, Nitz, Johnson, Huizenga, Brown, Kathleen Law, Warren, Donigan, Meadows, Bennett, Jackson, Byrnes, LeBlanc, Hammel, Condino, Emmons, Casperson, Clack and Corriveau and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to amend 1855 PA 105, entitled

 

"An act to regulate the disposition of the surplus funds in the

state treasury; to provide for the deposit of surplus funds in

certain financial institutions; to lend surplus funds pursuant to

loan agreements secured by certain commercial, agricultural, or

industrial real and personal property; to authorize the loan of

surplus funds to certain municipalities; to authorize the

participation in certain loan programs; to authorize an

appropriation; and to prescribe the duties of certain state

agencies,"

 

(MCL 21.141 to 21.147) by adding section 5.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 5. (1) The state treasurer shall not deposit any surplus

 

funds belonging to the state in a financial institution with total

 

assets of more than $10,000,000.00 at the end of its last full

 

fiscal year unless the financial institution complies with

 

subsection (3).

 


     (2) Before May 1 each year, the state treasurer shall publish

 

a list of financial institutions with total assets of more than

 

$10,000,000.00 at the end of their last full fiscal year that have

 

failed to comply with subsection (3). A financial institution that

 

does not appear on that list shall conclusively be presumed to have

 

complied with subsection (3) and to have filed the required reports

 

for purposes of determining its eligibility to be a depository of

 

state funds. Additional funds shall not be deposited in a financial

 

institution that appears on the list until the state treasurer

 

certifies that the financial institution has complied with

 

subsection (3) and has filed the required reports, or until 91 days

 

after the end of a subsequent year for which the required reports

 

are filed with the state treasurer, whichever occurs sooner.

 

     (3) To be a depository of surplus funds belonging to this

 

state, a financial institution shall not knowingly make or maintain

 

a loan to a terrorist state, a national corporation of a terrorist

 

state, or a subsidiary or affiliate of a United States firm

 

operating in a terrorist state. A financial institution shall be

 

considered to have complied with this subsection if the financial

 

institution has filed with the state treasurer an affidavit

 

attesting to the fact that it has after July 1, 2007 no existing

 

loans to a terrorist state, a national corporation of a terrorist

 

state, or a subsidiary or affiliate of a United States firm

 

operating in a terrorist state, as determined by the state

 

treasurer.

 

     (4) As used in this subsection:

 

     (a) "National corporation" means a corporation, or a

 


subsidiary of affiliate of a corporation, that is more than 50%

 

owned or operated by the government of a terrorist state.

 

     (b) "Subsidiary or affiliate of a United States firm operating

 

in a terrorist state" means, as determined by the state treasurer,

 

a firm incorporated under the laws of a terrorist state, domiciled

 

in a terrorist state, and controlled by a United States firm. A

 

subsidiary or affiliate shall not be construed to mean a subsidiary

 

or affiliate that is located in the United States.

 

     (c) "Surplus funds" means, at any given date, the excess of

 

cash and other recognized assets, that are expected to be resolved

 

into cash or its equivalent in the natural course of events and

 

with a reasonable certainty, over the liabilities and necessary

 

reserves at the same date. Surplus funds do not include the

 

proceeds of bond and note issues that are deposited for a period of

 

not more than 10 days in a financial institution for settlement

 

purposes.

 

     (d) "Terrorist state" means all of the following:

 

     (i) The Islamic republic of Iran.

 

     (ii) The democratic people's republic of Korea.

 

     (iii) The Sudan that includes the government in Khartoum, Sudan,

 

which is led by the national congress party or a successor

 

government formed on or after October 13, 2006 and does not include

 

the regional government of southern Sudan.

 

     (iv) The Syrian Arab republic.