Terms Used In Michigan Laws 390.1189

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Authority: means the Michigan higher education assistance authority created by 1960 PA 77, MCL 390. See Michigan Laws 390.1182
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
   Not later than November 1, the authority shall annually submit a report to the state budget director, the house and senate appropriation subcommittees on higher education, and the house and senate fiscal agencies for the preceding fiscal year on the nursing scholarship program. The report shall include, but is not limited to, the number of full and partial scholarships, the total dollar amount of scholarships awarded, the type of eligible institutions in which the scholarship recipients enrolled, and the number of scholarships, if any, for which students have incurred a repayment obligation under section 7(3).