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Act No. 74
Public Acts of 2025
Approved by the Governor
December 23, 2025
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 23, 2025
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 23, 2025
STATE OF MICHIGAN
103RD LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2025
Introduced by Senator Shink
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 699
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 36202 (MCL 324.36202), as amended by 2016 PA 265.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 36202. (1) The agricultural preservation fund is created within the state treasury.
(2) The state treasurer may receive money or other assets from any source for deposit into the fund, including
federal funds, other state revenues, gifts, bequests, and other donations. The state treasurer shall direct the
investment of the fund and shall credit to the fund interest and earnings from fund investments.
(3) Money in the fund at the close of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund and shall not lapse to the general
fund.
(4) The department is the administrator of the fund for audits of the fund.
(5) Money in the fund may be expended, upon appropriation, as follows:
(a) Not more than $1,700,000.00 annually may be expended for the administrative costs of the department and
the board in implementing this part and part 361.
(b) After expenditures for the administrative costs under subdivision (a), money in the fund may be expended,
upon approval of the board, to provide grants to local units of government pursuant to section 36203.
(c) If, after expenditures under subdivisions (a) and (b), the amount of money remaining in the fund exceeds
$5,000,000.00, money in the fund may be expended, upon approval of the board, pursuant to part 361 for the
purchase of development rights to farmland or the acquisition of agricultural conservation easements.
(6) Expenditures of money in the fund as provided in this part are consistent with the state ’s interest in
preserving farmland and are for an important public purpose.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the
103rd Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 685.
(b) Senate Bill No. 686.
(c) Senate Bill No. 687.
(d) Senate Bill No. 688.
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(e) Senate Bill No. 689.
(f) Senate Bill No. 690.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor