Bill Text: MI HB5135 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vehicles; registration plates; "Choose Life" specialty plate; create. Amends sec. 811e of 1949 PA 300 (MCL 257.811e) & adds sec. 811r.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-06-24 - Printed Bill Filed 06/24/2009 [HB5135 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB5135-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5135

 

June 23, 2009, Introduced by Rep. Paul Scott and referred to the Committee on Transportation.

 

     A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

 

"Michigan vehicle code,"

 

by amending section 811e (MCL 257.811e), as amended by 2006 PA 562,

 

and by adding section 811r.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 811e. (1) Beginning January 1, 2007, the The secretary of

 

state may develop a fund-raising plate as provided in this section.

 

     (2) A start-up fee of $15,000.00 shall be paid for any new

 

fund-raising plate authorized under this section, which fee shall

 

be deposited in the transportation administration collection fund

 

to be used for the cost of creating, producing, and issuing fund-

 

raising plates. If the fee described in this subsection is not paid

 

within 18 months of after the effective date of the public act that

 

authorizes the development and issuance of a fund-raising plate,

 

then the related fund-raising plate shall not be created, produced,

 

or issued. A start-up fee paid under this subsection is

 

nonrefundable.

 

     (3) Not less than 3 years after the secretary of state first

 

issues 1 of the fund-raising plates as described in subsection (1)

 

and upon payment of $2,000.00, the Michigan university or other

 

person sponsoring that fund-raising plate may redesign it as

 

approved by the secretary of state. The payment required under this

 

subsection shall be deposited in the transportation administration

 

collection fund to be used for the cost of creating, producing, and

 

issuing fund-raising plates. A payment under this subsection is

 

nonrefundable.

 

     (4) The secretary of state may develop 1 or more limited term

 

registration plates to recognize a Michigan university or an

 

accomplishment or occasion of a Michigan university.

 

     (5) The secretary of state may , at any 1 time, develop not

 

more than 8 different state sponsored fund-raising registration

 

plates as described in this section, and matching state-sponsored

 

collector plates as described in section 811g.

 

     (6) The secretary of state shall not develop or issue a fund-

 

raising plate unless a public act authorizing the fund-raising

 

plate, at a minimum, does all of the following:

 

     (a) Identifies the purpose of the fund-raising plate.

 

     (b) Creates a nonprofit fund or designates an existing

 

nonprofit fund to receive the money raised through the sale of

 

fund-raising plates and matching collector plates.

 

     (c) If a fund is created, names the person or entity

 

responsible for administering the fund.

 

     Sec. 811r. (1) The secretary of state shall develop under

 

section 811e and issue under section 811f a choose life fund-

 

raising plate. The secretary of state shall design the fund-raising

 

plates authorized in this section.

 

     (2) The choose life fund is created within the state treasury.

 

The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any

 

source for deposit into the fund. The state treasurer shall direct

 

the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the

 

fund interest and earnings from fund investments. Money in the fund

 

at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall

 

not lapse to the general fund.

 

     (3) The secretary of state shall transfer the donation money

 

from the sale of the choose life fund-raising plates to the state

 

treasurer, who shall credit the donation money to the choose life

 

fund established under subsection (2).

 

     (4) The state treasurer shall disburse money in the fund

 

established under subsection (2) on a quarterly basis as follows:

 

     (a) Fifty percent to the pregnant and parenting student

 

services fund established in section 3 of the pregnant and

 

parenting student services act, 2004 PA 500, MCL 390.1593.

 

     (b) Fifty percent to the ultrasound equipment fund established

 

in section 9141 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL

 

333.9141.

 

     (5) Beginning not later than February 1, 2011, the recipients

 

of the funds shall submit to the state treasurer a summary of the

 

expenditures during the preceding year of the money received under

 

this section.

 

     (6) The secretary of state shall be the administrator of the

 

fund for auditing purposes.