5403: SUMMARY AS ENACTED (Date Completed: 1-27-10) - FY 2009-10 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

FY 2009-10 SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS H.B. 5403: SUMMARY AS ENACTED
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House Bill 5403 PUBLIC ACT 2 OF 2010 Sponsor: Representative George Cushingberry
House Committee: Appropriations
Senate Committee: Appropriations

Date Completed: 1-27-10

CONTENT

House Bill 5403 would make supplemental appropriations for fiscal year (FY) 2009-10. The bill includes supplemental appropriations for two departments and totals $8.9 million of Gross appropriations funded by Federal and State Restricted fund sources. The majority of the supplemental appropriations included in the bill were recommended by the Office of the State Budget (OSB) on October 21, 2009, December 3, 2009, and December 11, 2009. The line-item appropriations in the Department of Human Services have not been recommended by the OSB. The table below provides a summary of the line-item appropriations contained in the bill.

FY 2009-10 Supplemental Appropriations House Bill 5403 (actual dollars)
	Office of the State Budget	Senate-Passed
Department/Program	Gross	GF/GP	Gross	GF/GP
Energy, Labor, & Economic Growth
Workforce and Economic Development Grants	1,200,000	0	1,200,000	0

Human Services
Food for Elderly Project	0	0	25,000	0
Indigent Burial	0	0	(100)	0

Natural Resources & Environmental Quality
Brownfield Grants and Loan Program	5,500,000	0	5,500,000	0

Treasury
College Access Challenge Grant Program	2,202,400	0	2,202,400	0

Total Supplemental Appropriations	$8,902,400	$ 0	$8,927,300	$ 0

Line-Item Appropriation Summary Department of Energy, Labor, and Economic Growth: The bill would appropriate $1.2 million of Federal funding under the United States Department of Labor's Workforce Innovation and Regional Economic Development (WIRED) Initiative. The funding would provide the Southeast Michigan region with a WIRED grant that would be used to promote job creation in advanced manufacturing, life sciences, homeland security, and alternative energy. The Southeast Michigan WIRED region is headed by the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Detroit Renaissance.

Department of Human Services: The bill would appropriate $25,000 in private revenue for a food aid outreach project for the elderly in Muskegon County and a negative $100 appropriation for indigent burials. These appropriations have not been recommended by the OSB.

Department of Environmental Quality: The bill would appropriate $5.5 million of State Restricted funding for the Brownfield Grant and Loan Program in the Department of Environmental Quality. The funding would be used to capitalize the revolving loan fund program and provide up to $5.5 million of loans for cleanup projects by local units of government.

Department of Treasury: The bill would appropriate $2.2 million of Federal funds for the continuing training of families, counselors, and community leaders to ensure low-income students are using all available financial aid programs to help subsidize the cost of a college education. A web page would be developed with this Federal fund source.

Boilerplate Language Sections Sec. 201. Contains reporting language on total State spending and payments to local units of government.

Sec. 202. Subjects appropriations in the bill to provisions of the Management and Budget Act.

Sec. 251. Designates the private funding in the Department of Human Services for the Michigan food for the elderly project in Muskegon County.

Sec. 252. Contains language that would allow the Department of Human Services to work with funeral directors to establish a regional or a statewide pilot project that would allow for the cremation of the bodies of indigent persons who are not claimed by a person having the right to control the disposition of the body. The fee to funeral directors for this cremation service would be $800 plus mileage reimbursement for transportation costs plus the cost of the cremation permit. This fee would have to be charged until a competitive contract was developed to provide the cremation services.

Sec. 301. Contains language regarding the $5.5 million Department of Environmental Quality appropriation for brownfield cleanup projects. The language would allow the Department to loan up to $5.5 million for environmental cleanups.

Sec. 302. Provides work project status for the $5.5 million appropriation in the Department of Environmental Quality for brownfield cleanup projects.

Sec. 401. Provides work project status for the $2.2 million of Federal funds appropriated in the Department of Treasury for the College Access Challenge Grant program.

FISCAL IMPACT

The bill would provide for the appropriation of $8.9 million of funds for FY 2009-10. The funding for the appropriation is Federal and State Restricted fund sources.

Fiscal Analyst: Gary S. Olson

Analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent. 5403/0910