HOUSE BILL No. 5701

May 26, 2016, Introduced by Rep. Inman and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

     A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled

 

"The management and budget act,"

 

by amending section 267 (MCL 18.1267), as amended by 2012 PA 237.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 267. (1) The department shall issue directives to provide

 

for the disclosure, transfer, and disposal of surplus personal

 

property of state agencies. The Except as otherwise provided in

 

subsection (4), the department may dispose of surplus personal

 

property by donating the surplus personal property to a nonprofit

 

entity, or selling it to a unit of local government, or selling it

 

at a public sale.

 

     (2) The department may sell surplus personal property at fair

 

market value. The department may also exchange surplus personal

 

property for goods and services at fair market value with a private

 

company that is contracted to provide state services, and the


surplus personal property is essential to providing those services.

 

     (3) The department may pay necessary costs incurred in the

 

conduct of the transfers or sale of surplus personal property

 

including the necessary warehousing and reconditioning costs from

 

the proceeds of the sale or by assessing a handling fee for surplus

 

personal property being donated.

 

     (4) Beginning October 1, 2016, prior to donating, disposing

 

of, or selling equipment that was owned by the state transportation

 

department, the department shall make that equipment available for

 

sale at fair market value to local units of government in this

 

state. The department shall issue directives to implement this

 

subsection.