HOUSE BILL NO. 6064

November 12, 2024, Introduced by Reps. Hood, Dievendorf, Steckloff, Hope, Paiz, Price, Hill, Tsernoglou, Mentzer, Weiss, Brabec, Conlin, McKinney, Brixie, Rheingans, Arbit, Edwards and Scott and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.

"Income tax act of 1967,"

by amending section 51g (MCL 206.51g), as added by 2018 PA 588.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 51g. (1) The renew Michigan fund is created within the state treasury. The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the renew Michigan fund. The state treasurer shall direct the investment of the fund. The state treasurer shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.

(2) Money in the renew Michigan fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain remains in the fund and shall does not lapse to the general fund.

(3) The department of environmental quality shall be environment, Great Lakes, and energy is the administrator of the renew Michigan fund for auditing purposes.

(4) Beginning with the 2018-2019 state fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter through the 2024-2025 state fiscal year, the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy shall expend money from the renew Michigan fund, upon appropriation, only for the following purposes:

(a) 65% of the revenue shall must be used for environmental cleanup and redevelopment, including, but not limited to, addressing contaminated sites and emerging issues that have known or suspected potential to cause adverse environmental or human health effects. Criteria to determine which sites will be addressed each year may include, but are not limited to, the following:

(i) Population risk, such as the number of people exposed, whether sensitive populations are exposed, and whether the exposure occurs in a residential setting.

(ii) Chemical risk, including the type and concentration of chemicals and the public health risk associated with the chemicals.

(iii) Economic development potential, including the number of jobs, the amount of investment, or the amount of increase in the property's value.

(b) 13% of the revenue shall must be used for waste management, including, but not limited to, oversight of active landfills, asbestos landfill gas monitoring, and department of environmental quality environment, Great Lakes, and energy expenditures for closure, postclosure monitoring or maintenance, or corrective action for disposal areas that have been licensed under this part.

(i) Materials management planning, including grants to counties, regional planning agencies, municipalities, and other entities responsible for preparing, implementing, and maintaining materials management plans.

(ii) Local recycling programs, including grants to local units of government and nonprofit and for-profit entities for recycling infrastructure, local recycling outreach campaigns, and other costs necessary to support increased recycling.

(iii) Market development, including grants to local units of government and nonprofit and for-profit entities for purchasing equipment, research and development, or associated activities to provide new or increased use of recycled materials to support the development of recycling markets.

(5) Beginning with the 2025-2026 state fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy shall expend money from the renew Michigan fund, upon appropriation, only for the following purposes:

(a) 55% of the revenue must be used for brownfield development and environmental cleanup and redevelopment, including, but not limited to, addressing contaminated sites and emerging issues that have known or suspected potential to cause adverse environmental or human health effects. Criteria to determine which sites will be addressed each year may include, but are not limited to, the following:

(i) Population risk, such as the number of people exposed, whether sensitive populations are exposed, and whether the exposure occurs in a residential setting.

(ii) Chemical risk, including the type and concentration of chemicals and the public health risk associated with the chemicals.

(iii) Economic development potential, including the number of jobs, the amount of investment, or the amount of increase in the property's value.

(b) 7% of the revenue must be used for waste management, including, but not limited to, oversight of active landfills, asbestos landfill gas monitoring, and department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy expenditures for closure, postclosure monitoring or maintenance, or corrective action for disposal areas that have been licensed under this part.

(iii) Market development, including grants to local units of government and nonprofit and for-profit entities for purchasing equipment, research and development, or associated activities to provide new or increased use of recycled materials to support the development of recycling markets.

(d) 13% of the revenue must be used for host community grants as provided under section 11525a(6) of the natural resources and environmental protection act, 1994 PA 451, MCL 324.11525a, to cities and townships that are the sites of landfills and coal ash impoundments to promote the public health, safety, or welfare of those cities and townships.

(6) (5) By December 31 annually, the department of environment, Great Lakes, and energy shall prepare and submit to the senate and house appropriations committees a report detailing the amount of revenue received by and expenditures from the renew Michigan fund during the prior fiscal year and the fund balance at the end of the prior fiscal year.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 5333 of the 102nd Legislature is enacted into law.