Senate Bill 414: Road funding package - potential income tax reduction
Passed 28 to 10 in the Senate on November 3, 2015, to potentially roll back future income tax rates if the amount of revenue deposited into the state “general fund” in a given year grows faster than inflation, but not until 2023. Note that the legislature ultimately controls these deposits, and how much is deposited into the state rainy day fund. Therefore, any future income tax rate reductions would essentially be at the discretion of each legislature, as under current law.
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Senate Bill 414: Road funding package - potential income tax reduction
Passed 61 to 46 in the House on November 3, 2015, to concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill, which moves back any potential income tax cut until 2023, and requires even higher growth in state tax collections before this could happen.
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House Bill 4370: Earmark some income tax to roads; increase home property tax credit:
Passed 62 to 45 in the House on November 3, 2015, to concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill, which advances by one year the start of indexing of income and property value caps in the homestead tax credit.
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House Bill 4370: Earmark some income tax to roads; increase home property tax credit:
Passed 28 to 10 in the Senate on November 3, 2015, to earmark $600 million in state income tax revenue to road repairs starting in 2020, and smaller amounts starting in 2018. This would potentially reduce the rate of increase in other state spending. Also, to expand a “homestead property tax credit” that homeowners and renters can claim on their state income tax by raising property value and household income caps that limit eligibility, and index these amounts to inflation. The tax credit provision is intended to offset around $200 million of the $600 million of gas tax and vehicle registration tax hikes approved by the legislature.
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House Bill 4614: Final road funding package - interstate truckers, alternate fuel tax details
Passed 21 to 17 in the Senate on November 3, 2015, to revise details of the Michigan version of the “Streamlined Sales Tax†project being pursued this and most states with the goal of taxing out-of-state purchase, so that it conforms with the proposal in House Bill 4738 to increase motor fuel taxes.
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House Bill 4614: Final road funding package - interstate truckers, alternate fuel tax details
The substitute passed by voice vote in the Senate on November 3, 2015, to replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance as previously described.
http://www.michiganvotes.org/Legislation.aspx?ID=169616
House Bill 4616: House GOP road funding package
Passed 20 to 18 in the Senate on November 3, 2015, to increase the current 15 cent per gallon motor carrier fuel tax imposed on interstate truckers to correspond with the proposal in House Bill 4738 to increase the state tax on diesel fuel.
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House Bill 4636: Clarify self-storage rental insurance regulation
Passed 71 to 34 in the House on September 29, 2015, to establish that a person whose only sale of insurance is for property stored in a self-service storage facility is not required to obtain an insurance agent license. An earlier version of this bill was vetoed in 2014.
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House Bill 4736: Increase vehicle registration tax
Passed 54 to 53 in the House on November 3, 2015, to concur with the Senate-passed version of this bill, which increases the annual vehicle registration (license plate) tax by 20 percent per vehicle, and imposes a surtax on electric and alternative fuel vehicles whose owners don’t pay gas tax.
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House Bill 4736: Increase vehicle registration tax
Passed 20 to 18 in the Senate on November 3, 2015, to increase the annual vehicle registration (license plate) tax by around 20 percent per vehicle. Most of the revenue from this tax goes to the state road budget. Also, to impose a surtax on electric and alternative fuel vehicles that use the roads but don’t pay gas tax.
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House Bill 4737: Increase vehicle registration tax
Passed 27 to 11 in the Senate on November 3, 2015, to revise details of road warranties contractors must provide on state road projects, and also to let Detroit use up to 20 percent of the road funding it gets from the state on municipal bus (transit) spending.
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House Bill 4738: Increase gas and diesel tax
Passed 55 to 52 in the House on November 3, 2015, to concur with the Senate-passed version of this bill, which increases the 19 cent per gallon state gasoline tax and 15 cent diesel tax to 26.3 cents per gallon starting in 2017.
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House Bill 4738: Increase gas and diesel tax
Passed 20 to 18 in the Senate on November 3, 2015, to increase the state gasoline tax from 19 cents per gallon to 26.3 cents per gallon starting in 2017, and after that index the amount to inflation. Also, to increase the state diesel tax from 15 cents to the same 26.3 cents per gallon level, and increase this with inflation too. See also House Bill 4736, which would raise vehicle registration taxes 20 percent.
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Senate Bill 33: Require schools give parents information on their children
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on November 4, 2015, to prohibit the state from selling any of the data it collects on individual students, and post an online notice describing the specific information it does collect on student, including each date field. Any transfers of this data to another person would be subject to formal rules promulgated by the Department of Education. Public schools would be prohibited from selling or giving personally identifiable information in a student’s record to a for-profit business entity (with some narrow management-related exceptions). If information is given to someone else, the school district or state would have to disclose the details to a parent or guardian who requests this within 30 days and without charge.
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Senate Bill 213: Repeal duplicative worker injury notification requirement
Passed 106 to 1 in the House on November 4, 2015, to repeal a requirement in state law that employers notify regulators within eight hours of a fatality, or any hospitalization of three or more employees suffering injury from the same accident or illness from exposure to the same employment-related health hazard. The bill asserts that employers would still be subject to an identical federal requirement.
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Senate Bill 369: Authorize alcohol manufacturer retail shop tax breaks
Passed 82 to 25 in the House on November 4, 2015, to exempt from use tax the tools and equipment purchased by a brewer, winemaker or distilled liquor maker to create products it sells directly to customers at its own locations.
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Senate Bill 370: Authorize alcohol manufacturer retail shop tax breaks
Passed 82 to 25 in the House on November 4, 2015, to exempt from sales tax the tools and equipment purchased by a brewer, winemaker or distiller create products it sells directly to customers at its own locations.
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Senate Bill 503: Revise “Indian family preservation†law
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on November 4, 2015, to revise some procedural details specified in an “Indian family preservation†law enacted in 2013 that requires officials to make active efforts to provide “culturally appropriate†services†that “assure cultural connections†to the tribe.
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Senate Bill 510: Restrict commercial use of student data
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on November 4, 2015, to prohibit a website, online service or mobile application designed and used for K–12 school purposes, to sell, share or use for targeted advertising any information in a student’s educational record, including details that would allow contact, discipline records, test results, special education data, juvenile dependency records, grades, evaluations, criminal records, medical records, health records, social security number, biometric information, disabilities, socioeconomic information, food purchases, political affiliations, religious information, text messages, documents, student identifiers, search activity, photos, voice recordings, or geolocation information.
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Senate Bill 529: Revise guardianship detail
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on November 4, 2015, to revise a law that authorizes a family court to place an abused or neglected minor with grandparents or other relatives who are willing to care for the child. The bill would allow a “successor†guardian to be named in case the first one dies or becomes incapacitated.
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Senate Bill 530: Revise foster care detail
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on November 4, 2015, to establish that for purposes of the law that authorizes placing an abused or neglected child in foster care, a stepparent, ex-stepparent, or the parent who shares custody of a half-sibling is considered a relative for the purpose of foster care placement. Also, to define “sibling” in that law as child who is related through birth or adoption by at least one common parent, and that “sibling†includes that term as defined by the American Indian or Alaskan native child’s tribal code or custom.
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Senate Bill 556: Extend “commercial rehabilitation†tax break law
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on November 4, 2015, to extend for another five years a “commercial rehabilitation act†that authorizes property tax breaks for owners of rehab projects involving commercial property selected by local government officials. The law was originally created with the developer of a moribund Oakland County mall in mind, and has been used to give these indirect subsidies to other developers as well.
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Senate Bill 571: Repeal annual union PAC contribution “re-up†requirement
Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on November 4, 2015, to repeal a requirement that union members or employees of a corporation who wish to have contributions to a union or corporate PAC automatically deducted from their paycheck must affirmatively give consent on an annual basis by means of signing a permission form. The bill would repeal the annual “re-up†requirement. Also, to allow unions to ask members to contribute to their Political Action Committee (PAC) on the same form they use to ask them to pay union dues, with similar provisions for companies and nonprofits.
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