Bill Text: MI HB5952 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: State finance: other; spending plan and audit requirements to receive a grant and limitations on awarding grants, loans, or other economic assistance; provide for. Amends sec. 448 of 1984 PA 431 (MCL 18.1448) & adds sec. 449.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-10-15 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 10/15/2024 [HB5952 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB5952-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5952
A bill to amend 1984 PA 431, entitled
"The management and budget act,"
by amending section 448 (MCL 18.1448), as added by 2012 PA 381, and by adding section 449.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 448. (1) The department shall issue directives requiring all state agencies to require entities seeking a grant of state funds to submit a detailed spending plan for those funds and specify in that plan if any of the funds to be received will be provided to another entity, to conduct an annual audit of each grant recipient, and to provide the department with, and to make available through a link on their website homepages, all of the following information regarding the expenditure of state funds:
(a) The name of the entity receiving the funds, including the name of a third-party recipient, if applicable.
(b) The amount of state funds.
(c) The funding state agency.
(d) A descriptive purpose of the funding action or expenditure.
(e) For any grants provided after the effective date of the amendatory act that added section 449, the annual audit of the use of those funds.
(f) (e) Any other information required by the department.
(2) Not later than January 1, 2013, the department shall develop and operate a searchable website accessible by the public at no cost to access the information provided in subsection (1).
(3) Nothing in this section shall require the disclosure of information that is considered confidential by state or federal law.
(4) As used in this section, "expenditure of state funds" means an expenditure of appropriated or nonappropriated funds processed through the state's central accounting system by an executive branch agency that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(a) State purchases.
(b) Contracts and subcontracts.
(c) Grants.
Sec. 449. This state and any departmental agency of this state shall not provide a grant, loan, or other economic assistance to an entity that meets any 1 of the following:
(a) Has not been established and operating in this state or another state for at least 2 years.
(b) Does not have a physical office in this state or has not provided services in this state within the immediately preceding 6 months before the approval or disbursement of funds.
(c) Is owned or operated by an employee of the executive or legislative branch of this state, or the owner or operator of the entity has an immediate family member who is an employee of the executive or legislative branch of this state.
(d) Is owned or operated by an employee who is a member of any state board that has direct or indirect responsibility for the approval or auditing of a grant, loan, or other economic assistance for which the entity is applying.
