Bill Text: MI HB4764 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Local government; financing; reference to emergency managers in the emergency municipal loan act; modify to include reference to financial management teams. Amends secs. 3 & 7 of 1980 PA 243 (MCL 141.933 & 141.937). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4751'19

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-06-26 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/26/2019 [HB4764 Detail]

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HOUSE BILL No. 4764

 

 

June 20, 2019, Introduced by Reps. Hammoud and Yaroch and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to amend 1980 PA 243, entitled

 

"Emergency municipal loan act,"

 

by amending sections 3 and 7 (MCL 141.933 and 141.937), section 3

 

as amended by 2016 PA 197 and section 7 as amended by 2015 PA 115.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3. (1) For state fiscal years ending before October 1,

 

2011, the board may authorize loans under this act to

 

municipalities that total up to $5,000,000.00 in a state fiscal

 

year. For state fiscal years beginning after September 30, 2018,

 

the board may authorize loans under this act to municipalities that

 

total up to $10,000,000.00 in a state fiscal year, but a loan to a

 

single municipality shall must not exceed $4,000,000.00 in a state

 

fiscal year. For the period beginning on October 1, 2011 and ending


on September 30, 2018, the board may do all of the following:

 

     (a) Authorize loans to municipalities other than school

 

districts that total up to $48,000,000.00 during the period. Loans

 

to a single municipality under this subdivision shall must not

 

total more than $20,000,000.00.

 

     (b) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision,

 

authorize loans to municipalities that are school districts that

 

total up to $70,000,000.00 during the period. Except as otherwise

 

provided in this subdivision, loans to a single school district

 

under this subdivision shall must not total more than

 

$20,000,000.00. In addition, the board may authorize a loan of up

 

to $150,000,000.00 for transitional operating costs to a school

 

district that is or becomes a qualifying school district as

 

described in section 12b of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451,

 

MCL 380.12b, of which not more than $25,000,000.00 may be

 

authorized and used for deferred facilities maintenance. As used in

 

this subdivision, "transitional operating costs" includes, but is

 

not limited to, academic and instructional support; professional

 

transition costs such as information technology, legal accounting,

 

human resources, and financial services; payments to vendors; costs

 

relating to changes in timing of grant funding or reimbursements;

 

cash flow needs; insurance; academic program expenditures; deferred

 

facilities maintenance; space consolidation; and facilities

 

rationalization.

 

     (2) The board may authorize loans under this act to a county

 

within the following limitations:

 

     (a) In the 1998-99 state fiscal year, the board may authorize


loans under this act to a county with a population greater than

 

1,500,000.

 

     (b) For a state fiscal year in which the block grant

 

appropriated to a county with a population of more than 1,500,000

 

that is organized under 1966 PA 293, MCL 45.501 to 45.521, and that

 

is a county juvenile agency is less than the amount required to be

 

distributed to that county in that year under the social welfare

 

act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.1 to 400.119b, the board may authorize a

 

loan to that county in an amount not greater than the difference

 

between the amount of the block grant and the amount required to be

 

distributed to that county for that fiscal year under the social

 

welfare act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.1 to 400.119b. The board is not

 

required to authorize loans under this subdivision to a county for

 

more than 1 state fiscal year.

 

     (3) If in a state fiscal year the block grant appropriated to

 

a county other than a county described in subsection (2) that is a

 

county juvenile agency is less than the amount required to be

 

distributed to that county in that year under the social welfare

 

act, 1939 PA 280, MCL 400.1 to 400.119b, the board may authorize a

 

loan to that county in an amount not greater than the difference

 

between the amount of the block grant and the amount required to be

 

distributed to that county under the social welfare act, 1939 PA

 

280, MCL 400.1 to 400.119b, in that state fiscal year.

 

     (4) Sections 6(2) and 7 and the conditions listed in section

 

4(1) do not apply to a loan authorized under subsection (2) or (3).

 

     (5) The proceeds of a loan made under subsection (2) or (3)

 

shall must be maintained in a separate account and shall must not


be commingled with the county's general fund or any other special

 

fund or account.

 

     (6) The state treasurer or his or her designee shall monitor

 

the expenditure of the proceeds of any loan made under subsection

 

(2) or (3).

 

     (7) The proceeds of a loan made under subsection (2) or (3)

 

are subject to the county juvenile agency act, 1998 PA 518, MCL

 

45.621 to 45.631.

 

     (8) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, revenue

 

for loans made under this act shall must be provided from the

 

surplus funds of this state under authorization granted under

 

section 1 of 1855 PA 105, MCL 21.141, or from the repayment

 

proceeds of other loans issued under this act or sold or

 

transferred under section 6a. Alternatively, for a school district,

 

revenue for a loan made under this act may be provided from money

 

advanced to the school district by this state from money

 

appropriated from the state school aid fund established under

 

section 11 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 and

 

payable to the school district under the state school aid act of

 

1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1601 to 388.1896.388.1897l.

 

     (9) After September 30, 2012, the board may restructure

 

payments, but not the outstanding principal balance or interest, on

 

a loan to a municipality under subsection (1) if all of the

 

following apply:

 

     (a) The municipality is in compliance with the terms of the

 

loan and any other requirements applicable to the municipality

 

under this act.


     (b) The municipality is in compliance with any requirements

 

relating to a deficit elimination plan under state law.

 

     (c) The municipality is in compliance with any applicable

 

neutral evaluation process, settlement agreement, consent

 

agreement, or order of an emergency manager or a financial

 

management team under the local financial stability and choice act,

 

2012 PA 436, MCL 141.1541 to 141.1575, or a successor statute.

 

     (d) For a municipality that is a school district, the school

 

district is in compliance with all requirements for receipt of the

 

foundation allowance and any other requirements applicable to the

 

school district under the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94,

 

MCL 388.1601 to 388.1896.388.1897l.

 

     (e) For a municipality other than a school district, the

 

municipality is in compliance with statutory revenue sharing or

 

other requirements applicable to the municipality under the Glenn

 

Steil state revenue sharing act of 1971, 1971 PA 140, MCL 141.901

 

to 141.921.

 

     (f) The restructuring of payments complies with applicable

 

law.

 

     (g) The loan has not been sold or transferred under section

 

6a.

 

     (10) As used in this section, "county juvenile agency" means

 

that term as defined in section 2 of the county juvenile agency

 

act, 1998 PA 518, MCL 45.622.

 

     Sec. 7. (1) A municipality that receives a loan under this act

 

shall perform all of the following:

 

     (a) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, employ a


full-time professional administrator or contract with a person with

 

expertise in municipal finance and administration to direct or

 

participate directly in the management of the municipality's

 

operations until otherwise ordered by the board. If the

 

municipality is in receivership under the local financial stability

 

and choice act, 2012 PA 436, MCL 141.1541 to 141.1575, or a

 

successor statute, the emergency manager or financial management

 

team may perform the functions of the full-time professional

 

administrator under this subdivision.

 

     (b) Not more than 6 months after receiving a loan and

 

semiannually after that date for the period the loan is

 

outstanding, submit to the board an evaluation of the performance

 

of the municipality against the 5-year plan submitted under section

 

4(1).

 

     (c) Submit all of the following to the board on a quarterly

 

basis:

 

     (i) A statement of actual revenues received in the last

 

quarter and in the current fiscal year to date.

 

     (ii) A statement of total revenues estimated to be received by

 

the municipality in the current fiscal year.

 

     (iii) A statement of expenditures made and encumbrances

 

entered into by the municipality in the last quarter and in the

 

current fiscal year to date.

 

     (iv) A statement of revenues that were estimated to be

 

received and expenditures that were estimated to be made during the

 

current fiscal year and through the end of the last quarter.

 

     (v) A balance sheet indicating whether total estimated


expenditures for the current fiscal year and for the last quarter

 

exceed the total estimated revenues for the current fiscal year and

 

for the last quarter, respectively.

 

     (d) Submit the general appropriations act of the municipality,

 

and any amendments to that act, adopted under the uniform budgeting

 

and accounting act, 1968 PA 2, MCL 141.421 to 141.440a, or any

 

equivalent report as may be required by the board if the

 

municipality is not required to adopt a general appropriations act.

 

     (e) Submit any budget change in the current fiscal year or any

 

amendment to the general appropriations act of the municipality for

 

the current fiscal year to the board before adoption.

 

     (f) Submit any budget for the ensuing fiscal year or the

 

general appropriations act of the municipality for the ensuing

 

fiscal year to the board before adoption.

 

     (g) Certify that the municipality has fully complied with all

 

statutory requirements concerning use of the uniform chart of

 

accounts and audits.

 

     (2) If the state treasurer determines that a municipality is

 

not in compliance with all of the requirements under subsection (1)

 

and with the 5-year plan submitted under section 4(1), the state

 

treasurer may modify the terms of the loan to require a higher

 

interest rate or to accelerate the repayment of the loan.

 

     (3) As used in this section, "expenditure" and "revenue" mean

 

those terms as defined in sections 2c and 2d of the uniform

 

budgeting and accounting act, 1968 PA 2, MCL 141.422c and 141.422d.

 

     (4) Subsection (1) does not apply to a loan authorized under

 

section 3(2) or (3).


     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.

 

     Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4751 (request no.

 

01329'19) of the 100th Legislature is enacted into law.

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