SR 74

SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 74
Senator Anthony
offered the following resolution:
A resolution to provide for a
procedure for the required disclosures related to enhancement grants.
Whereas, No appropriations bill containing enhancement grants (also
referred to as legislatively directed spending items) shall be brought for a
vote without proper disclosure of the sponsor and the intended recipient, and a
description of the grant in a form and manner established by the Senate by
resolution; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate, That the following procedure is
adopted for the required disclosures related to enhancement grants:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for a
legislatively directed spending item to be considered for inclusion in a bill
or conference report passed by the Senate during a calendar year, all of the
following must be made publicly available on the internet prior to passage of a
bill or conference report that contains a legislatively directed spending item:
(a) The sponsoring legislator?s name, and if applicable, any
co-sponsoring legislators.
(b) The name and location of the intended recipient and the
impacted legislative district or, if there is not a specific intended
recipient, the intended location of the project or activity, including
legislative district and legislator.
(c) The purpose of the legislatively directed spending item
and an explanation of how the legislatively directed spending item provides a
public benefit and why the item is an appropriate use of taxpayer funds or to
otherwise demonstrate that the item is not for a local or private purpose
pursuant to Article IV, ? 30 of the Michigan Constitution.
(d) The requested amount of state funding for the
legislatively directed spending item and whether the legislatively directed
spending item has previously received federal, state, local, or private
funding. The type of funding previously received must be clearly specified.
(e) If the recipient of the legislatively directed spending
item is a not-for-profit entity, verification of the following information:
(i) That the entity has been operating within the state for
the previous 36 consecutive months.
(ii) That the entity has had a physical office within the
state for the previous 12 consecutive months.
(iii) That the entity has a board of directors and a list of
all officers and active directors on the entity?s board.
(iv) That the entity is not a for-profit entity.
(f) A certification that neither the sponsoring legislator nor
the sponsoring legislator?s staff or immediate family has a direct or indirect
pecuniary interest in the legislatively directed spending item.
(g) Information on the required project timing of the proposed
legislatively directed spending item.
(2) The sponsoring legislator must provide a written statement
containing the information required under subsection (1) on a form and in a
manner determined by the Senate. The written statement must be provided to the
Chair and Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Fiscal
Agency, and the Senate Business Office.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a
legislator wishing to co-sponsor a legislatively directed spending item may,
with the sponsoring legislator?s permission, add or remove their name as a
co-sponsor through passage of each calendar year. For the 2025 calendar year,
legislators wishing to co-sponsor a legislatively directed spending item may,
with the sponsoring legislator?s permission, add or remove their name as a
co-sponsor through passage. Co-sponsorship of a legislatively directed spending
item must be completed by submitting the following letters to the Secretary of
the Senate:
(a) A signed letter from the sponsor of the legislatively
directed spending item granting the legislator wishing to co-sponsor permission
to co-sponsor.
(b) A letter from the legislator wishing to co-sponsor stating
their intention to co-sponsor the legislatively directed spending item.
(4) The Senate must develop a webpage on the Senate official
website where each fully completed written statement received under subsection
(1) shall be conspicuously available to the public. After development of the
webpage, each fully completed written statement shall be made available within
three business days after the later of the creation of the webpage or the
original receipt of the fully completed written statement.
(5) A for-profit business is not eligible to receive a
legislatively directed spending item.
(6) As used in this section:
(a) ?Immediate family? means an individual?s parent, child,
sibling, and spouse, and any individual residing in the same household as that
individual.
(b) ?Legislatively directed spending item? means an
appropriation that authorizes or obligates a specific amount of money for a
contract or other expenditure with a grant, loan, or other economic assistance
or incentive to a specific person, organization, unit of local government, or
project or activity in a unit of local government, other than through a
formula-driven or competitive award process.
(c) ?Staff? means an individual who either is currently or
within the past two years has been employed by either house of the Michigan
Legislature.
(d) ?Legislator? means a duly elected individual serving in
the Senate.