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SB 188

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2025 Regular Session

The bill tightens use restrictions on Camp Curnalia property to veterans and immediate family, with a state reentry right if used improperly.

In committee upon adjournment.
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Bill Summary · SB 188

SB 188 — Summary (conveyance requirements for property in Roscommon and Crawford counties)

Status and origin
- Bill: SB 188 (amends secs. 3 & 4 of 2006 Public Act 584)
- Subject: Property conveyances (conveys/modifies conditions on state property in Roscommon County and Crawford County)
- Introduced: January 23, 2025
- Sponsor (introduced version): Sen. Michele Hoitenga
- Current status (per filing information): Referred to Committee on Appropriations

Purpose / Legislative intent
- To modify the conditions attached to a statutory conveyance authorized by 2006 PA 584 by tightening and clarifying eligibility, use restrictions, enforcement duties, and reversion rights for specified state-owned property (commonly known as Camp Curnalia or the camp cottage area) in Roscommon and Crawford counties.

Key provisions and changes
- Use limitation: Requires that the conveyed property be used exclusively for “residential cottages and allied recreational purposes” for the benefit of ex-service personnel (veterans), their spouses, and direct lineal descendants — the bill explicitly encompasses “immediate family, including parents, siblings, and descendants of the immediate family.”
- Reversion / state remedy: If the property’s restricted use terminates, is used for another purpose, or the requirement in section 4 is otherwise violated, the State may reenter and repossess the property, terminating the grantee’s estate.
- Enforcement authority: The Camp Curnalia Cottage Owners Association (the grantee association) is required to enforce the use/ownership eligibility rule and prohibited from amending its bylaws or rules in a way that would violate that requirement or from failing to enforce it.
- Successive transfers: Any further conveyance of all or part of the property by the association must be expressly made subject to the ownership/use eligibility restriction.
- Legal enforcement: If the grantee disputes the State’s exercise of reentry and fails to deliver possession, the Attorney General may file suit to quiet title and recover possession on behalf of the State.
- Statutory amendment: The bill amends sections 3 and 4 of the 2006 Act to insert these requirements.

Who is affected
- Directly affected: the grantee (Camp Curnalia Cottage Owners Association) and current/future cottage owners at the property; specifically restricts who may own/occupy (veterans, spouses, immediate-family-lineal descendants).
- State agencies: Department(s) responsible for the original conveyance and the Attorney General (enforcement and quiet-title litigation).
- Secondary: potential purchasers or heirs who are not within the specified beneficiary class; lenders or title insurers (reversionary interest and ownership restrictions affect marketability and financing).

Procedural / timeline aspects
- Introduced and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. If enacted, amendments would modify the existing conveyance law (2006 PA 584) and become operative as part of that statutory framework. The bill text establishes state reentry and litigation mechanics but does not include an explicit effective date in the posted excerpt (therefore default state rules on effective dates would apply).

Potential impacts and considerations
- Preserves the property’s use for a defined beneficiary class (veterans and immediate family) and gives the State a clear reversion remedy for noncompliance.
- May limit the property’s transferability and marketability (title and financing implications) because of the restrictive covenants and the State’s reversion right.
- Places operational responsibility on the cottage owners association to police eligibility and prevents internal governance changes that would undermine the statutory restriction.
- Could lead to litigation (quiet-title actions) if reentry disputes arise.

Note: This summary focuses on the conveyance-related changes in Michigan SB 188 as described in the bill text amending 2006 PA 584 (sections 3 & 4).

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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