Bill Text: MI SB0138 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: State financing and management; funds; Michigan strategic fund; provide technical amendment for the defense contract coordination center. Amends title & sec. 2 of 2006 PA 317 (MCL 125.1972) & repeals (See bill).
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2010-12-29 - Assigned Pa 0337'10 With Immediate Effect [SB0138 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-SB0138-Engrossed.html
SB-0138, As Passed Senate, November 10, 2010
SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 138
(As amended, November 10, 2010)
A bill to amend 2006 PA 317, entitled
"An act to create certain centers in the Michigan strategic fund;
to impose certain duties and responsibilities on those centers and
on certain state employees and public employees; and to repeal acts
and parts of acts,"
by amending the title and section 2 (MCL 125.1972); and to repeal
acts and parts of acts.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
TITLE
An
act to create certain centers entities
in the Michigan
strategic fund; to impose certain duties and responsibilities on
those
centers entities and on certain state employees and public
employees; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.
Sec.
2. (1) The defense contract coordination center Michigan
defense <<CENTER>> is created in the Michigan strategic fund. The board
of the
Michigan strategic fund may delegate those functions and authority
Senate Bill No. 138 as amended November 10, 2010
that the board considers necessary or appropriate as provided in
section 5 of the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270, MCL
125.2005.
(2)
The center Michigan defense <<CENTER>> shall do all of
the following:
(a) Focus solely on job creation and job retention from
business opportunities associated with the procurement technical
assistance center for homeland security and defense contracts and
contracts related to homeland security and defense.
(b) Coordinate with procurement technical assistance centers
in this state to maximize homeland security and defense business
opportunities for small businesses and small business innovation
research programs located in this state.
(c) Give priority to bring homeland security and defense
business opportunities to municipalities hardest hit by
manufacturing layoffs.
(d) Set a performance objective of increasing defense and
homeland security contracts awarded to businesses located in this
state.by
25% by the time this act is repealed.
(e) Provide resources needed to meet the performance objective
described
in subdivision (d) within 1 year of the date this act is
enacted
not later than July 20, 2007.
(f)
Coordinate center Michigan defense <<CENTER>> efforts with
programs
funded with proceeds from the 21st century jobs trust fund under
the Michigan trust fund act, 2000 PA 489, MCL 12.251 to 12.260, and
other initiatives that are targeted toward commercialization
activities related to homeland security and defense research and
development in higher education institutions, research centers, and
Senate Bill No. 138 as amended November 10, 2010
other businesses working in the homeland security and defense
arena.
(g) Coordinate with businesses and nonprofit organizations
located in this state for the purposes of maximizing homeland
security and defense business opportunities.
(3)
The center Michigan defense <<CENTER>> shall hire an
executive
director
and a support person to operate the center. Michigan
defense <<CENTER>>. Additional staff may be hired once a business
plan has
been developed and approved by the board of the Michigan strategic
fund.
The development plan shall may
include the percentage of
funds used for grants, loans, and operating expenses.
(4)
The defense contract coordination center Michigan defense
<<CENTER>>
may exercise those powers, privileges, and authorities that the
Michigan strategic fund and local public agencies share in common
and that each might exercise separately. The shared power,
privilege, or authority shall be exercised by a public body
corporate created under section 28 of article VII of the state
constitution of 1963 and the urban cooperation act of 1967, 1967
(Ex Sess) PA 7, MCL 124.501 to 124.512, by a contractual interlocal
agreement effective April 5, 1999 between local participating
economic development corporations formed under the economic
development corporations act, 1974 PA 338, MCL 125.1601 to
125.1636, and the Michigan strategic fund.
(5)
The center Michigan defense <<CENTER>> shall not use any
state funds
to construct or renovate a building for its own use.
(6) If a procurement technical assistance center or other
entity receives a grant or loan from the Michigan defense <<CENTER>>
or any
Senate Bill No. 138 as amended November 10, 2010
funding from the Michigan strategic fund, that procurement
technical assistance center or other entity shall report the
following information not less than once each year to the Michigan
defense <<CENTER>>:
(a) A description of how that grant, loan, or other funding
has been used by the procurement technical assistance center or
other entity in the immediately preceding year.
(b) The number and amount of defense or homeland security
contracts the procurement technical assistance center or other
entity has received in the immediately preceding year.
(7) As used in this act:
(a) "Michigan defense <<CENTER>>" means the Michigan defense
<<CENTER>> created in
this section.
(b) "Michigan strategic fund" means the Michigan strategic
fund created under the Michigan strategic fund act, 1984 PA 270,
MCL 125.2001 to 125.2094.
(c) "Municipality" means a township, village, city, or county.
(d) "Small business" means a business with fewer than 400
employees.
Enacting section 1. Section 1 of 2006 PA 317, MCL 125.1971, is
repealed.
Enacting section 2. Enacting section 1 of 2006 PA 317 is
repealed.
