HOUSE BILL No. 5032

 

June 2, 2009, Introduced by Rep. Opsommer and referred to the Committee on Energy and Technology.

 

     A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled

 

"The management and budget act,"

 

by amending sections 112, 115, 213, 305, and 404 (MCL 18.1112,

 

18.1115, 18.1213, 18.1305, and 18.1404), sections 115, 305, and 404

 

as amended by 1999 PA 8 and section 213 as amended by 2006 PA 269,

 

and by adding sections 241c and 255.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 112. (1) "Alternative energy vehicle" means an

 

alternative energy vehicle as defined under section 2 of the

 

Michigan next energy authority act, 2002 PA 593, MCL 207.822.

 

     (2) (1) "Appropriation" means the legislative authorization

 

for expenditure or obligation of money from a state operating fund.

 

     (3) (2) "Appropriations committees" means the appropriations

 

committee of the senate and the appropriations committee of the

 

house of representatives.

 


     (4) (3) "Board" means the state administrative board.

 

     (5) (4) "Budget act" means an act containing appropriations

 

which that form a portion of the state's annual budget.

 

     Sec. 115. (1) "Institution of higher education" means a state

 

supported 4-year college or university.

 

     (2) "JCOS" means the joint capital outlay subcommittee of the

 

appropriations committees.

 

     (3) "LEED" means the leadership in energy and environmental

 

design green building rating system developed by the United States

 

green building council.

 

     (4) (3) Except as used in sections 284 to 292, "record" means

 

a public record as defined in section 2 of the freedom of

 

information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.232.

 

     (5) (4) "State agency" means a department, board, commission,

 

office, agency, authority, or other unit of state government. State

 

agency does not include an institution of higher education or a

 

community college or, for purposes of article 2 or 3, the

 

legislative branch of government. For purposes of article 2 or 3,

 

except for those sections pertaining to the authorization,

 

planning, construction, and funding of a capital outlay project,

 

including construction of a facility to house offices or functions

 

necessary for operation of the judicial branch of government, state

 

agency does not include the judicial branch of government.

 

     (6) (5) "Unit of local government" means a political

 

subdivision of this state, including school districts, community

 

college districts, intermediate school districts, cities, villages,

 

townships, counties, and authorities a school district,

 


intermediate school district, community college district, city,

 

village, township, county, or authority, if the political

 

subdivision has as its primary purpose the providing of local

 

governmental service for citizens in a geographically limited area

 

of the this state and has the power to act primarily on behalf of

 

that area.

 

     Sec. 213. (1) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Fund" means the motor transport revolving fund created in

 

subsection (4) (6).

 

     (b) "Motor vehicle" means a passenger vehicle, van, minibus,

 

bus, truck, tractor, or other motorized vehicle.

 

     (2) The department may issue directives relative to all the

 

following for motor vehicles except for those motor vehicles under

 

the jurisdiction of the state transportation department:

 

     (a) The purchasing, leasing, maintaining, operating,

 

replacing, and disposing purchase, lease, maintenance, operation,

 

replacement, and disposal of motor vehicles for all state agencies.

 

     (b) The using use of state owned state-owned motor vehicles

 

for official business.

 

     (c) The establishing of conditions for use of privately owned

 

motor vehicles on official business.

 

     (d) The acquiring acquisition of vehicle registration plates.

 

     (e) The maintaining maintenance of motor vehicle titles and

 

insurance inventories.

 

     (f) The assigning assignment of motor vehicles, permanently or

 

temporarily, to state agencies and to institutions of higher

 

education.

 


     (g) The establishing of rates to be charged for use of a motor

 

vehicle. The rates shall be reviewed periodically and shall be

 

sufficient to cover the costs of administration and of the

 

acquisition, operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of

 

motor vehicles.

 

     (h) The displaying display of distinctive vehicle registration

 

plates and other external markings on the motor vehicles. The

 

plates and markings shall clearly identify state ownership unless

 

the motor vehicle is used by an elected official, or for an

 

investigative use, or anonymity is essential to properly perform a

 

necessary function of state government as determined by the

 

director.

 

     (3) The department shall ensure that the following percentages

 

of the state's on-road motor vehicle fleet consist of alternative

 

energy vehicles by the following dates:

 

     (a) 3% by January 1, 2012.

 

     (b) 5% by January 1, 2017.

 

     (c) 10% by January 1, 2022.

 

     (4) For the purposes of subsection (3), if an alternative

 

energy vehicle that can reasonably serve, in terms of cost and

 

performance, as a replacement for a conventional vehicle in the

 

state's on-road motor vehicle fleet is not commercially available,

 

the department may exclude that conventional vehicle from the

 

state's on-road motor vehicle fleet for the purpose of calculations

 

under subsection (3).

 

     (5) (3) The department shall establish motor vehicle repair

 

centers and motor pools.

 


     (6) (4) The motor transport revolving fund is hereby created.

 

The revenue received from rates charged pursuant to subsection

 

(2)(g) and revenue which that is received from any other source and

 

designated to be credited to the motor transport revolving fund

 

shall be credited to the motor transport revolving fund. The

 

amounts money in the fund are is continuously appropriated only for

 

administration and the acquisition, lease, operation, maintenance,

 

repair, and replacement of state owned state-owned motor vehicles

 

and related capital outlay and equipment.

 

     (7) (5) Assets and liabilities of the motor transport

 

revolving fund shall be considered assets and liabilities of the

 

motor transport revolving fund created by this section.

 

     (8) (6) Not later than January 1, 2007, the director shall

 

install the necessary fueling infrastructure or contract with a

 

supplier to supply alternative fuels at all state motor transport

 

facilities so that all state owned state-owned vehicles capable of

 

utilizing alternative fuels are able to use them. As used in this

 

subsection, "alternative fuel" means E85 fuel and biodiesel fuel

 

blends.

 

     Sec. 241c. The department, after consultation with the energy

 

office in the department of energy, labor, and economic growth,

 

shall implement procedures to ensure that all buildings owned or

 

leased by this state with a fair market value of $1,000,000.00 or

 

more that are constructed or undergo major renovation commencing on

 

or after January 1, 2011 are constructed or renovated to at least

 

the minimum standards necessary for LEED certification. In

 

addition, at least the following percentage of such buildings shall

 


be constructed or renovated to at least the minimum standards

 

necessary for LEED gold certification:

 

     (a) 15%, for buildings the construction or major renovation of

 

which commenced during the period of January 1, 2011 through

 

December 31, 2015.

 

     (b) 20%, for buildings the construction or major renovation of

 

which commenced during the period of January 1, 2016 through

 

December 31, 2020.

 

     (c) 25% for buildings the construction or major renovation of

 

which commenced on or after January 1, 2021.

 

     Sec. 255. (1) The department shall ensure that the government

 

of this state generates at state facilities at least the following

 

percentages of the electric energy used by the government of this

 

state by the following dates:

 

     (a) 0.5% by January 1, 2012.

 

     (b) 1.00% by January 1, 2017.

 

     (c) 2.00% by January 1, 2022.

 

     (2) Electricity generated under subsection (1) shall be

 

generated under a state government program, to be established by

 

the public service commission pursuant to part 5 of the clean,

 

renewable, and efficient energy act, 2008 PA 295, MCL 460.1171 to

 

460.1181, in consultation with the department, not later than 180

 

days after the effective date of the amendatory act that added this

 

section. The program shall take into consideration the energy

 

generated under a utility's or alternative electric supplier's

 

other net metering programs when determining which facilities will

 

participate in the program under this subsection. However, any

 


electricity generated by the state government program shall not

 

count toward any of the net metering electrical generation caps

 

under other net metering programs created for other customers.

 

     (3) For the purposes of this section, the department may

 

define a facility to include structures otherwise excluded under

 

section 114(1)(b) to (e).

 

     Sec. 305. (1) "Total state spending" means the sum of state

 

operating fund expenditures, not including transfers between funds.

 

     (2) "Total state spending from state sources" means the sum of

 

state operating fund expenditures not including transfers between

 

funds, federal aid, and restricted local and private sources of

 

financing.

 

     (3) "Transfer payments" means that term as defined by the

 

bureau of economic analysis of the United States department of

 

commerce or its successor.

 

     (4) "Unit of local government" means unit of local government

 

as defined in section 115(5).

 

     Sec. 404. (1) "Revenues" means the increases in the net

 

current assets of a fund other than from expenditure refunds and

 

residual equity transfers.

 

     (2) "Revolving fund" means a self-supporting fund which that

 

provides services or sells goods to state agencies, other

 

governmental jurisdictions, or the public.

 

     (3) "Unencumbered balance" means that portion of an

 

appropriation not yet expended and encumbered.

 

     (4) "Unexpended balance" means that portion of an

 

appropriation not yet expended.

 


     (5) "Unit of local government" means unit of local government

 

as defined by section 115(5).

 

     (5) (6) "Work project" means a 1-time nonrecurring undertaking

 

for the purpose of accomplishing an objective contained in a

 

specific line-item appropriation for that purpose or any other

 

specific line-item appropriation designated as a work project by

 

law under criteria established under section 451a(1).

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No.____ (request no.

 

01995'09 a) of the 95th Legislature is enacted into law.