SB 273

Act
No. 26
Public
Acts of 2025
Approved
by the Governor
October
7, 2025
Filed
with the Secretary of State
October
7, 2025
EFFECTIVE
DATE:� October 7, 2025
state of michigan
103rd Legislature
Regular session of 2025
Introduced by Senators Daley, Cherry, Shink, Lauwers,
Chang, Polehanki, Singh, Victory, Runestad, Nesbitt, Webber, Johnson, Outman
and Bumstead
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 273
AN ACT to amend 1994 PA 451,
entitled �An act to protect the environment and natural resources of the state;
to codify, revise, consolidate, and classify laws relating to the environment
and natural resources of the state; to regulate the discharge of certain
substances into the environment; to regulate the use of certain lands, waters,
and other natural resources of the state; to protect the people�s right to hunt
and fish; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state and local
agencies and officials; to provide for certain charges, fees, assessments, and
donations; to provide certain appropriations; to prescribe penalties and
provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,� by amending section
8715 (MCL 324.8715), as amended by 2021 PA 123.
The People of the State of
Michigan enact:
Sec.
8715. (1) In addition to the fees provided for in part 83, a registrant shall
pay an annual water quality protection fee for each product to be registered.
The water quality protection fee is $270.00 per product. The water quality
protection fee is due in the office of the director before July 1.
(2) A registrant shall pay an additional late fee of $100.00
for each pesticide if the pesticide registration is a renewal registration and
the water quality protection fee is received by the department after June 30.
(3) A person required to pay a specialty fertilizer or soil
conditioner registration fee under section 8505 shall pay an additional $100.00
water quality protection fee for each brand and product name of each grade
registered.
(4) All fertilizer manufacturers or distributors licensed
under part 85, except specialty fertilizer and soil conditioner registrants,
shall pay $.0005 per pound of fertilizer sold.
(5) The fees collected under this part, including any
interest or dividends earned, must be transmitted to the state treasurer, who
shall credit the money received to the fund.
(6) On the expenditure or appropriation of money raised in
this section for any purpose other than those specifically listed in this part,
authorization to collect fees in this section must be suspended until the money
expended or appropriated for purposes other than those listed in this part are
returned to the fund.
(7) The department may audit, or may contract for audits of
records that are the basis for fees levied under this section.
(8) This section is repealed October 1, 2029.
This
act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of
Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor