HOUSE BILL No. 5349


     November 5, 1997, Introduced by Reps. Dobb, Llewellyn, Horton, Goschka, Lowe, Middleton, Voorhees and Jaye and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.


        A bill to amend 1993 PA 331, entitled

   "State education tax act,"

   by amending section 3 (MCL 211.903), as amended by 1994 PA 187.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 3.  (1) Beginning in 1994, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED

 2    IN SUBSECTION (2), there is levied a state education tax on all

 3    property not exempt by law from ad valorem property taxes or not

 4    subject to a tax under  Act No. 282 of the Public Acts of 1905,

 5     being sections 207.1 to 207.21 of the Michigan Compiled Laws 

 6    1905 PA 282, MCL 207.1 TO 207.21, at a rate of 6 mills.

 7         (2) BEGINNING IN 1998 THROUGH 2002, THE STATE EDUCATION TAX

 8    LEVIED UNDER SUBSECTION (1) SHALL BE REDUCED BY 1 MILL TO A RATE

 9    OF 5 MILLS TO SATISFY THE JUDGMENT AGAINST THIS STATE IN THE

10    CONSOLIDATED CASES KNOWN AS DURANT V STATE OF MICHIGAN, MICHIGAN

11    SUPREME COURT DOCKET NO. 104458-104492.


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