HOUSE BILL No. 5922

 

March 20, 2008, Introduced by Reps. Opsommer, Mayes, Rick Jones, Ward, Corriveau, Elsenheimer, Emmons, Pastor, Caul, Proos, Knollenberg, Hansen, Booher, Calley and LaJoy and referred to the Committee on Transportation.

 

     A bill to amend 1949 PA 300, entitled

 

"Michigan vehicle code,"

 

by amending section 811e (MCL 257.811e), as amended by 2006 PA 562.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 811e. (1) Beginning January 1, 2007, the The secretary of

 

state may develop a fund-raising plate as provided in this section.

 

     (2) A start-up fee of $15,000.00 shall be paid for any new

 

fund-raising plate authorized under this section, which fee shall

 

be deposited in the transportation administration collection fund

 

to be used for the cost of creating, producing, and issuing fund-

 

raising plates. If the fee described in this subsection is not paid

 

within 18 months of after the effective date of the public act that

 

authorizes the development and issuance of a fund-raising plate,

 

then the related fund-raising plate shall not be created, produced,


 

or issued. A start-up fee paid under this subsection is

 

nonrefundable.

 

     (3) Not less than 3 years after the secretary of state first

 

issues 1 of the fund-raising plates as described in subsection (1)

 

and upon payment of $2,000.00, the Michigan university or other

 

person sponsoring that fund-raising plate may redesign it as

 

approved by the secretary of state. The payment required under this

 

subsection shall be deposited in the transportation administration

 

collection fund to be used for the cost of creating, producing, and

 

issuing fund-raising plates. A payment under this subsection is

 

nonrefundable.

 

     (4) The secretary of state may develop 1 or more limited term

 

registration plates to recognize a Michigan university or an

 

accomplishment or occasion of a Michigan university.

 

     (5) The secretary of state may, at any 1 time, develop not

 

more than 8 9 different state sponsored fund-raising registration

 

plates as described in this section, and matching state-sponsored

 

collector plates as described in section 811g. One of the 9 state

 

sponsored fund-raising plates authorized under this subsection must

 

be a fund-raising plate honoring the boy scouts of America as

 

described in section 811r.

 

     (6) The secretary of state shall not develop or issue a fund-

 

raising plate unless a public act authorizing the fund-raising

 

plate, at a minimum, does all of the following:

 

     (a) Identifies the purpose of the fund-raising plate.

 

     (b) Creates a nonprofit fund or designates an existing

 

nonprofit fund to receive the money raised through the sale of


 

fund-raising plates and matching collector plates.

 

     (c) If a fund is created, names the person or entity

 

responsible for administering the fund.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless House Bill No. 5879 of the 94th Legislature is enacted into

 

law.