May 19, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Townsend, Driskell, Pagan, Geiss, LaVoy, Runestad, Byrd, Moss, Hooker and Plawecki and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 2006 PA 480, entitled
"Uniform video services local franchise act,"
by amending section 15 (MCL 484.3315), as added by 2009 PA 191.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
15. (1) Effective January 1, 2010, the The commission,
within 30 days after the enactment into law of any appropriation to
it
the commission, shall ascertain the amount of the appropriation
attributable to the actual costs to the commission in exercising
its
the commission's duties under this act. and that The amount
of
the appropriation attributable to the actual costs to the
commission in exercising its duties under this act shall be
assessed against each video service provider doing business in this
state. Each provider shall pay a portion of the total assessment in
the
same proportion that its the
provider's number of subscribers
for the preceding calendar year bears to the total number of video
service
subscribers in the this state. The total assessment under
this section shall not exceed $1,000,000.00 annually.
(2) For the state fiscal year commencing October 1, 2009 and
annually thereafter, there shall be deducted from any amount to be
assessed under subsection (1) an amount equal to the difference by
which the actual expenditures of the commission attributable to
exercising
its the commission's duties under this act for the
previous fiscal year are less than the amount assessed against each
video service provider in the previous fiscal year. The deductions
shall be made in the same proportion as the original assessment in
subsection (1).
(3) All money paid into the state treasury by a video service
provider under subsection (1) shall be credited to a special
account, to be utilized solely to finance the cost to the
commission
of exercising its the
commission's duties under this
act.
(4)
This section does not apply after December 31, 2015.2020.