HOUSE BILL No. 4609

 

 

May 11, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Marino and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 390, entitled

 

"Emergency management act,"

 

by amending section 18 (MCL 30.418), as amended by 2016 PA 220.

 

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

 

$10,000,000.00 and not less than $1,000,000.00. $2,500,000.00.

 

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 this 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.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. 4610 (request no.

 

03065'17) of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.