HOUSE BILL No. 5523

 

December 14, 2005, Introduced by Reps. Gosselin, Drolet, Marleau, Hoogendyk, Baxter, Shaffer, Steil, Garfield, Acciavatti, Mortimer, Sheen, Stahl, Pastor, Palmer and Schuitmaker and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled

 

"The management and budget act,"

 

by amending section 213 (MCL 18.1213).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 213. (1) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Fund" means the motor transport revolving fund created in

 

subsection (4).

 

     (b) "Motor vehicle" means a passenger vehicle, van, minibus,

 

bus, truck, tractor, or other motorized vehicle.

 

     (2) The department may issue directives relative to all the

 

following for motor vehicles except for those motor vehicles under

 

the jurisdiction of the state transportation department:

 

     (a) The purchasing, leasing, maintaining, operating,

 


replacing, and disposing of motor vehicles for all state agencies.

 

     (b) The using of state owned motor vehicles for official

 

business.

 

     (c) The establishing of conditions for use of privately owned

 

motor vehicles on official business.

 

     (d) The acquiring of vehicle registration plates.

 

     (e) The maintaining of motor vehicle titles and insurance

 

inventories.

 

     (f) The assigning of motor vehicles, permanently or

 

temporarily, to state agencies and to institutions of higher

 

education.

 

     (g) The establishing of rates to be charged for use of a motor

 

vehicle. The rates shall be reviewed periodically and shall be

 

sufficient to cover the costs of administration and of the

 

acquisition, operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of

 

motor vehicles.

 

     (h) The displaying of distinctive vehicle registration plates

 

and other external markings on the motor vehicles. The plates and

 

markings shall clearly identify state ownership unless the motor

 

vehicle is used by an elected official, or for an investigative

 

use, or anonymity is essential to properly perform a necessary

 

function of state government as determined by the director.

 

     (3) The department shall establish motor vehicle repair

 

centers and motor pools.

 

     (4) The motor transport revolving fund is hereby created. The

 

revenue received from rates charged pursuant to subsection (2)(g)

 

and revenue  which  that is received from any other source and

 


designated to be credited to the motor transport revolving fund

 

shall be credited to the motor transport revolving fund. The

 

amounts in the fund are continuously appropriated only for

 

administration and the acquisition, lease, operation, maintenance,

 

repair, and replacement of state owned motor vehicles and related

 

capital outlay and equipment.

 

     (5) Assets and liabilities of the motor transport revolving

 

fund shall be considered assets and liabilities of the motor

 

transport revolving fund created by this section.

 

     (6) The department shall create and maintain a record of

 

information concerning each motor vehicle owned or leased by a

 

state agency and make that information available to the public by

 

posting it on a website that the department shall establish and

 

maintain for that purpose. The information in the record shall

 

include all of the following that apply:

 

     (a) The purchase date or initial lease date and duration of

 

the lease.

 

     (b) If a motor vehicle is sold, the date of sale.

 

     (c) The year, make, and model of the motor vehicle.

 

     (d) The department or state agency and supervisor with charge

 

of the motor vehicle.

 

     (e) The name of any individual who is authorized to use the

 

motor vehicle.

 

     (f) The mileage traveled by the motor vehicle during the

 

immediately preceding fiscal year or portion of the fiscal year

 

during which the motor vehicle was owned or under lease.

 

     (g) The total mileage on the motor vehicle.

 


     (7) Not later than January 1 of each year, the department

 

shall post the following information on the department's website in

 

the same manner as provided in subsection (6):

 

     (a) Information provided by a city, village, township, or

 

county to the department under section 20a of the Glenn Steil state

 

revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL 141.920a.

 

     (b) Information provided by a district or intermediate

 

district under section 164f of the state school aid act of 1979,

 

1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1764f.