HOUSE BILL No. 4177


     February 9, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Gosselin, Voorhees, DeHart, Kukuk, Green, Bradstreet, DeWeese and Richner and referred to the Committee on Constitutional Law and Ethics.


        A bill to amend 1893 PA 206, entitled

   "The general property tax act,"

   by amending section 24f (MCL 211.24f), as amended by 1994 PA

   189.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 24f.  (1) When submitting a proposal on the question of

 2    authorizing a millage rate to be levied under this act, the

 3    ballot shall state  the amount of the millage increase proposed

 4     and shall provide an estimate of the revenue increase the taxing

 5     unit will collect if that increase is approved and levied by the

 6     taxing unit in the first calendar year of the increase.  ALL OF

 7    THE FOLLOWING:

 8         (A) THE MILLAGE RATE TO BE LEVIED.

 9         (B) THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WILL BE COLLECTED IN THE FIRST

10    YEAR THAT THE MILLAGE IS LEVIED.


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 1         (C) THE DURATION OF THE MILLAGE IN YEARS.

 2         (D) A CLEAR STATEMENT OF THE PURPOSE FOR THE MILLAGE.

 3         (E) A CLEAR STATEMENT INDICATING WHETHER THE PROPOSED MILL-

 4    AGE IS A RENEWAL OF A PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED MILLAGE OR THE AUTHO-

 5    RIZATION OF A NEW ADDITIONAL MILLAGE.  IF THE PROPOSED MILLAGE IS

 6    A RENEWAL OF A PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED MILLAGE, THE BALLOT SHALL

 7    IDENTIFY BOTH THE AMOUNT OF THE PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED MILLAGE AND

 8    THE AMOUNT OF THE PROPOSED NEW MILLAGE.

 9         (2) A taxing unit shall hold not more than 2 elections in a

10    calendar year concerning the authorization of a millage rate

11    greater than the product of the immediately preceding year's

12    reduced maximum authorized rate or rates as defined in section

13    34d(16) multiplied by the current year's millage reduction frac-

14    tion, regardless of the number of questions presented at the

15    election.

16         (3) A taxing unit that levies millage under this act shall

17    not submit a single question to the electors of the taxing unit

18    requesting both the renewal of voter authorized millage and the

19    authorization of new additional millage.  if the additional mill-

20     age is greater than 0.5 mill.  If authorization to levy millage

21    has expired and the taxing unit submits to the electors the

22    authorization of millage greater than the number of expired mills

23    reduced pursuant to the millage reduction in section 34d(11),

24     and if the additional millage is greater than 0.5 mill,  the

25    taxing unit shall submit 1 question for authorization of the

26    number of expired mills reduced pursuant to the millage reduction





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 1    in section 34d(11) and 1 or more additional questions for the

 2    authorization of millage in excess of that amount.




















































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