HOUSE BILL No. 4217


     January 30, 1997, Introduced by Reps. Prusi, Agee, Brackenridge, Tesanovich, Hanley, Kelly, Martinez, Schermesser, Anthony, Goschka, Kaza, Willard, DeHart, Parks, Callahan and Hammerstrom and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.


        A bill to make appropriations to the department of treasury

   for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997; and to provide for

   the expenditure of the appropriations.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 101.  There is appropriated to the department of trea-

 2    sury to supplement former appropriations for the fiscal year

 3    ending September 30, 1997, from the following funds:

 4      GROSS APPROPRIATION.......................... $         600,000

 5      State general fund/general purpose........... $         600,000

 6         Sec. 201.  In accordance with the provisions of section 30

 7    of article IX of the state constitution of 1963, total spending

 8    from state resources in this appropriation act is $600,000.00 and

 9    state appropriations to be paid to units of local government in

10    section 101 are $600,000.00.




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 1         Sec. 202.  The appropriations made and expenditures

 2    authorized under this act and the departments, agencies,

 3    commissions, boards, offices, and programs for which an appropri-

 4    ation is made under this act are subject to the management and

 5    budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.

 6         Sec. 301.  The $600,000.00 appropriated in section 101 shall

 7    be utilized by the department of treasury to reimburse counties

 8    for expenses incurred in processing homestead property tax exemp-

 9    tion claims as follows:

10         (a) The department of treasury shall pay a county $2.00 for

11    each supplemental tax bill issued by that county after a home-

12    stead exemption claim is denied.

13         (b) The department of treasury shall pay a county $2.00 for

14    each rebate made by that county after a homestead exemption claim

15    is granted.

16         (c) A county may claim reimbursement under this act on or

17    before both of the following dates:

18         (i) April 1, 1997.

19         (ii) July 1, 1997.

20         (d) The department of treasury may require a county to

21    submit the documentation that the department of treasury deter-

22    mines is necessary to substantiate a claim for reimbursement sub-

23    mitted by that county under this act.

24         (e) The department of treasury shall reimburse a county as

25    provided in this act within 30 days of receipt of a substantiated

26    claim.





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 1         Sec. 401.  The unexpended balances of appropriations to the

 2    department of treasury for reimbursement to counties for expenses

 3    incurred in processing homestead property tax exemption claims

 4    shall not lapse to the state general fund at the end of the

 5    fiscal year but shall be carried forward as a work project and

 6    expended to reimburse counties for expenses incurred in process-

 7    ing homestead property tax exemption claims.










































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