2024 House Bill 5509

1. Amend page 5, line 12, after “base” by striking out “7,500,000” and inserting “10,000,000” and adjusting the subtotals, totals, and section 201 accordingly.

1. Amend page 10, following line 25, by inserting:

“Sec. 213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly accessible website, information that identifies, tracks, and regularly updates key metrics that are used to monitor and improve the department’s performance.”.

2. Amend page 12, following line 7, by inserting:

“Sec. 221. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department shall do all of the following:

(a) Report, to the recipients required under section 205 of this part and to the senate and house appropriations committees, any amount of severance pay for a department or agency director, deputy director, or other highranking department or agency official not later than 14 days after a severance agreement with the director or official is signed. The name of the director or official and the amount of severance pay must be included in the report required by this subdivision.

(b) By February 1, report to the recipients required under section 205 of this part and to the senate and house appropriations committees on the total amount of severance pay remitted to former department or agency employees during the prior fiscal year and the total number of former department or agency employees that were remitted severance pay during the prior fiscal year.

(2) As used in this section, “severance pay” means compensation that is both payable or paid upon the termination of employment and in addition to either wages or benefits earned during the course of employment or generally applicable retirement benefits.”.

3. Amend page 12, following line 28, by inserting:

“Sec. 226. If the state administrative board, acting under section 3 of 1921 PA 2, MCL 17.3, transfers funds from an amount appropriated under this article, 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 article for the particular department, board, commission, officer, or institution.”.

1. Amend page 13, following line 3, by inserting:

“Sec. 230. Not later than August 1, the department shall submit a report that provides a listing of all current work project accounts. The report must include all of the following information for each current work project account:

(a) The original work project amount.

(b) A detailed accounting of expenditures to date.

(c) The balance of the work project account.

(d) The intended use of remaining funds in the work project account.

(e) The expected completion date of the work project.”.

1. Amend page 13, following line 3, by inserting:

“Sec. 231. Appropriations in part 1 from state and federal sources are prohibited from being used to provide services, grants, or programming to individuals who are not citizens of the United States unless the individual is a qualified alien under 8 USC 1641.”.

1. Amend page 13, following line 3, by inserting:

“Sec. 232. (1) Any funds appropriated in part 1 that are utilized for grants or grant programs are subject to the following conditions:

(a) Grant funds shall only be provided to an entity that has been established or operating in this state or another state for more than 2 years prior to approval or disbursement of the grant.

(b) Grant funds shall only be provided to an entity that has had an office within this state or in the service area covered under any grant for at least 6 months prior to approval or disbursement of the grant.

(c) Prior to the disbursement or awarding of any grant, all grant recipients must provide a spending plan specifying how all grant funds would be used and if any grant funds would be provided to a third party or subrecipient.

(d) Each department or agency responsible for the disbursement or awarding of grant funds must audit the entity’s use of the grant funds for each fiscal year in which the grant is active.

(e) Grant recipients and their immediate family members are prohibited from being employed by the executive branch or legislative branch of this state. In addition, grant recipients are prohibited from serving on any state board that has direct or indirect responsibility for the approval or auditing of grant funds disbursed by any department or agency.

(f) Full and complete audits of grant funds issued by a department or agency of this state, without redaction unless required by law, must be posted to a department or agency website in a conspicuous place for public review.

(2) On a quarterly basis, the department shall submit a report to the standard reporting recipients on legislatively-sponsored grant funds that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:

(a) The status of each grant.

(b) The amount distributed to each grant.

(c) The remaining amount to be distributed to each grant.”.

1. Amend page 17, line 1, after “part 1” by inserting “and expenditures must not exceed the estimated revenues for the fiscal year in which they are made, together with unexpended balances from prior years”.

1. Amend page 25, line 11, by striking out all of subsection (1) of section 410 and inserting:

“(1) The MVAA shall provide claims processing services to Michigan veterans in support of benefit claims submitted to the USDVA for the health, financial, and memorial benefits for which they are eligible, and shall report annually on the number of benefit claims, by type, submitted to the USDVA by MVAA and maintain the staffing and resources necessary to process a minimum of 500 claims per year.”.

1. Amend page 30, following line 15, by inserting:

“Sec. 416. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the department may contract with or provide grants to local health care providers to accelerate the clinical research and deployment of promising investigational treatments for suicide prevention that have been granted breakthrough therapy designation by the United States Food and Drug Administration and are eligible for expanded access as defined by the United States Food and Drug Administration, specifically for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder, or treatment-resistant depression in veterans of the United States military and first responders. In addition, from the funds appropriated in part 1, the department may hire up to 3 FTE staff to facilitate and administer this grant program.”.

1. Amend page 5, line 12, after “base” by striking out “7,500,000” and inserting “10,000,100” and adjusting the subtotals, totals, and section 201 accordingly.