HB-4670, As Passed Senate, June 18, 2013

SENATE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 4670

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 390, entitled

"Emergency management act,"

by amending section 18 (MCL 30.418), as amended by 1990 PA 50.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 18. (1) A disaster and emergency contingency fund is

created and shall be administered by the director. An annual

accounting of expenditures under this act shall be made to the

legislature and the legislature shall annually appropriate

sufficient funds to maintain the fund at a level not to exceed

$750,000.00 $4,500,000.00 and not less than

$30,000.00.$1,000,000.00. Unexpended and unencumbered funds

remaining in the disaster and emergency contingency fund at the end

of the fiscal year shall not lapse to the general fund and shall be

carried forward and be available for expenditure in subsequent

fiscal years.

     (2) The director may expend money from the disaster and

emergency contingency fund upon appropriation for the purpose of

paying necessary and reasonable overtime, travel, and subsistence

expenses incurred by an employee of an agency of the state acting

at the direction of the director in a disaster or emergency related

operation, and, with the concurrence of the governor or the

governor's designated representative, for other needs required for

the mitigation of the effects of, or in response to, a disaster or

emergency.

     (3) The director may place directly in the disaster and

emergency contingency fund a reimbursement for expenditures out of

the fund received from the federal government, or another source.

     (4) If a state of major disaster or emergency is declared by

the president of the United States, and when authorized by the

governor, an expenditure from the fund may be made by the director

upon appropriation to pay the state's matching share of grants as

provided by the disaster relief act of 1974, Public Law 93-288, 88

Stat. 143.

     (5) The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the

disaster and emergency contingency fund. The state treasurer shall

credit to the disaster and emergency contingency fund interest and

earnings from fund investments.