2023 Senate Bill 188

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Amend page 13, following line 26, by inserting:

“State Parks Endowment Fund

430,013,000”

and adjusting the subtotals, totals, and section 201 accordingly.

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Amend page 27, following line 12, by inserting

“Sec. 1205. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for Michigan state parks endowment fund, the department must deposit not less than $430,013,000.00 in the Michigan state parks endowment fund created under section 35a, of article IX of the state constitution of 1963. This deposit must be credited toward the nonspendable corpus balance of the fund.”.

1. Amend page 7, line 18, by striking out all of line 18.

2. Amend page 13, line 21, by striking out all of line 21, and adjusting the subtotals, totals, and section 201 accordingly.

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Amend page 24, following line 10, by inserting:

“STATE PARK DIVISION

Sec. 601. The department shall report to the appropriate legislative committees and the fiscal agencies on infrastructure improvements at state parks. The report shall include information on projects completed in the previous calendar year including location, project type, cost, and date of completion and information on projects in process including location, project type, projected cost, and estimated date of completion.”.

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Amend page 23, following line 3, by inserting:

“Sec. 241. If the department responds to a significant incident to protect life or property, within 12 hours after the department response to a significant incident at a site in this state, the department shall notify the senate and house members whose district includes the site in writing.”.

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Amend page 25, following line 26, by inserting:

“LAW ENFORCEMENT

Sec. 901. The appropriation in part 1 for snowmobile law enforcement grants shall be used by the department to provide grants to county law enforcement agencies to enforce part 821 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.82101 to 324.82161, including rules promulgated under that part and ordinances enacted pursuant to that part. The department shall consider the number of enforcement hours and the number of miles of snowmobile trails in each county in allocating these grants. Any funds not distributed to counties revert back to the snowmobile registration fee subaccount created under section 82111 of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.82111. Counties shall provide semiannual reports to the department on the use of grant money received under this section.

Sec. 902. The department shall provide a report on the marine safety grant program to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on natural resources and the senate and house fiscal agencies by December 1. The report must include the following information for the preceding year:

(a) The total amount of revenue received for watercraft registrations.

(b) The amount deposited into the marine safety fund.

(c) The expenditures made from the marine safety fund, including the amounts expended for department administration, other state agencies, the law enforcement division, and grants to counties.

(d) The distribution methodology used by the department to distribute the marine safety grants.

(e) A list of the grants and the amounts awarded by county.”.

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Amend page 4, line 7, after “control--FTEs” by striking out “21.0” and inserting “13.0”.

1. Amend page 13, line 25, after “Lodge” by striking out “100” and inserting “130,000” and adjusting the subtotals, totals, and section 201 accordingly.

1. Amend page 27, line 8, after “improvements,” by striking out the balance of the line through “endowment,” on line 9.

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Amend page 4, line 15, after “outreach—FTEs” by striking out “88.8” and inserting “81.8”.

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Amend page 23, following line 21, by inserting:

“Sec. 253. Funds appropriated for the department shall not be used to support ongoing litigation regarding invasive species that is connected with lawsuits regarding invasive species that have been settlement in the last six years.”.

1. Amend page 25, following line 26, by inserting:

“Sec. 804. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for forest resources division. Funding for forest roads shall be allocated by forest management unit based on miles of forest road that are maintained by the department.”.

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Amend page 24, following line 10, by inserting:

“Sec. 304. The department shall prohibit any additional lands from being enrolled in the carbon sequestration program if the timber harvest schedule or management plan for lands enrolled in the program is altered to lengthen the intervals between scheduled harvests.”.

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Amend page 19, following line 29, by inserting:

“Sec. 218. If the state administrative board, acting under section 3 of 1921 PA 2, MCL 17.3, transfers funds from an amount appropriated under this act, the legislature may, by a concurrent resolution adopted by a majority of the members elected to and serving in each house, intertransfer funds within this act for the particular department, board, commission, officer, or institution.”.