Bill Text: MI HB4340 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Natural resources; funding; Michigan national resources trust fund projects; require to be specifically identified. Amends sec. 1907 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.1907).

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-28 - Printed Bill Filed 02/28/2013 [HB4340 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4340-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4340

 

February 27, 2013, Introduced by Reps. McBroom, Goike, Daley, Foster, Lyons, Johnson, Outman, Poleski, Dianda and Kivela and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

by amending section 1907 (MCL 324.1907), as amended by 2008 PA 229.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1907. (1) The board shall determine which lands and

 

rights in land within the state should be acquired and which public

 

recreation facilities should be developed with money from the trust

 

fund and shall submit to the legislature in January of each year a

 

list of those lands and rights in land and those public recreation

 

facilities that the board has determined should be acquired or

 

developed with trust fund money, compiled in order of priority. The

 

lands that the board determines should be acquired or developed

 

shall be specifically identified. The list shall not include broad

 

references such as ecoregions in listing the lands to be acquired

 

or developed. In preparing the list under this subsection, the

 

board shall give particular consideration to the acquisition of

 

land and rights in land for recreational trails that intersect the

 

downtown areas of cities and villages.

 

     (2) This The list prepared under subsection (1) shall be

 

accompanied by estimates of total costs for the proposed

 

acquisitions and developments.

 

     (3) The board shall supply with each list prepared under

 

subsection (1) a statement of the guidelines used in listing and

 

assigning the priority of these proposed acquisitions and

 

developments.

 

     (4) The legislature shall approve by law the lands and rights

 

in land and the public recreation facilities to be acquired or

 

developed each year with money from the trust fund.