HOUSE Substitute For

SENATE BILL NO. 628

A bill to amend 1990 PA 345, entitled

"State survey and remonumentation act,"

by amending section 12 (MCL 54.272), as amended by 2014 PA 166.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 12. (1) Money in the fund shall be used by the department for the following purposes:

(a) Annual grants to the various counties to implement their monumentation and remonumentation plans described in section 8(2)(a).

(b) The implementation of county plans that are initiated and contracted for by the department under section 8(3).

(c) Annual grants to counties to implement their perpetual monument maintenance plan plans described in section 8(2)(d).

(d) The payment of contracts that are entered into by the department under section 10.

(e) Other activities necessary, incidental, or appropriate to implement this act.

(2) In addition to the purposes described in subsection (1), money in the fund shall be used to pay the costs of expediting a plan or to reimburse the cost described in section 8(4) , for a county that has elected to expend or borrow money to expedite the implementation of the county's plan.

(3) Of Expenditures by the department for a county for the following purposes shall be in an amount not less than the following percentages of the money collected in that county and remitted to the state treasurer for deposit in the fund under section 2567a of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2567a, all of the following apply:during the state fiscal year that began 2 years before the beginning of the state fiscal year in which the expenditure is made:

(a) An For an annual grant to a the county under subsection (1)(a), 40%. must be in an amount that is not less than 40% of the amount of money collected in that county under section 2567a of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2567a, during the state fiscal year that began 2 years before the beginning of the state fiscal year in which the grant is made.

(b) If To implement the county plan if the department initiates and contracts for the implementation of a the county plan for a county under section 8(3), 40%. the department shall annually spend an amount that is not less than 40% of the amount of money collected in that county under section 2567a of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2567a, during the state fiscal year that began 2 years before the beginning of the state fiscal year in which the expenditure is made, to implement that county plan.

(c) An For an annual grant to a the county under subsection (1)(c), 20%. must be in an amount that is not less than 20% of the amount of money collected in that county under section 2567a of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2567a, during the state fiscal year that began 2 years before the beginning of the state fiscal year in which the grant is made.

(d) If For purposes described in section 8(2)(d), if the department initiates and contracts for the implementation of a the county plan for a the county under section 8(3), 20%. the department shall annually spend an amount that is not less than 20% of the amount of money collected in that county under section 2567a of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2567a, during the state fiscal year that began 2 years before the beginning of the state fiscal year in which the expenditure is made, for purposes described in section 8(2)(d).

(4) In addition to the purposes described in subsections (1) and (2), any amount of money not greater than $500,000.00 that is appropriated by the legislature to pay this state's equitable share of the costs of the monumentation of the Michigan-Indiana state boundary line pursuant to the Michigan and Indiana Michigan-Indiana state line monumentation act, the legislature may appropriate from the fund a total amount of not more than $500,000.00 that was appropriated or transferred to the fund after November 1, 2021. , 2010 PA 259, MCL 54.291 to 54.305, shall be used by the department only for that purpose.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 627 of the 101st Legislature is enacted into law.