SENATE BILL No. 1066

 

 

June 12, 2018, Introduced by Senators PROOS, SCHMIDT, HERTEL and KNEZEK and referred to the Committee on Economic Development and International Investment.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1937 PA 94, entitled

 

"Use tax act,"

 

by amending section 21 (MCL 205.111), as amended by 2015 PA 263.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 21. (1) Except as provided in subsections (2), (3), (4),

 

and (5), and (6), all money received and collected under this act

 

shall be deposited by the department of treasury in the state

 

treasury to the credit of the general fund, to be disbursed only by

 

appropriations by the legislature.

 

     (2) The collections from the use tax imposed at the additional

 

rate of 2% approved by the electors March 15, 1994 shall be

 

deposited in the state school aid fund established in section 11 of

 

article IX of the state constitution of 1963.

 

     (3) From the money received and collected under this act for

 

the state share, an amount equal to all revenue lost under the


state education tax act, 1993 PA 331, MCL 211.901 to 211.906, and

 

all revenue lost from basic school operating mills as a result of

 

the exemption of personal property under sections 9m, 9n, and 9o of

 

the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m, 211.9n, and

 

211.9o, as determined by the department, shall be deposited into

 

the state school aid fund established by section 11 of article IX

 

of the state constitution of 1963. Funds deposited into the state

 

school aid fund under this subsection shall not include the portion

 

of the state share of the use tax imposed at the additional rate of

 

2% approved by the electors of this state on March 15, 1994 and

 

dedicated for aid to schools under subsection (2).

 

     (4) Money received and collected under this act for the local

 

community stabilization share is not state funds, shall not be

 

credited to the state treasury, and shall be transmitted to the

 

authority for deposit in the treasury of the authority, to be

 

disbursed by the authority only as authorized under the local

 

community stabilization authority act. The local community

 

stabilization share is a local tax, not a state tax, and money

 

received and collected for the local community stabilization share

 

is money of the authority and not money of this state.

 

     (5) Beginning October 1, 2016 and the first day of each

 

calendar quarter thereafter, from the money received and collected

 

under this act for the state share, an amount equal to the

 

collections for the calendar quarter that is 2 calendar quarters

 

immediately preceding the current calendar quarter of the tax

 

imposed under this act at the additional rate of 2% approved by the

 

electors on March 15, 1994 from the use, storage, or consumption of


aviation fuel shall be distributed as follows:

 

     (a) An amount equal to 35% of the collections of the tax

 

imposed at a rate of 2% on the use, storage, or consumption of

 

aviation fuel shall be deposited in the state aeronautics fund and

 

shall be expended, on appropriation, only for those purposes

 

authorized in the aeronautics code of the state of Michigan, 1945

 

PA 327, MCL 259.1 to 259.208.

 

     (b) An amount equal to 65% of the collections of the tax

 

imposed at a rate of 2% on the use, storage, or consumption of

 

aviation fuel shall be deposited in the qualified airport fund and

 

shall be expended, on appropriation, only for those purposes

 

authorized under section 35 of the aeronautics code of the state of

 

Michigan, 1945 PA 327, MCL 259.35.

 

     (6) From the money received and collected under this act for

 

the state share, an amount equal to 50% of the total anticipated

 

incremental increase in the collections of the tax imposed under

 

this act attributable to the preparation for and hosting of large

 

special events and related activities, as determined by the

 

treasurer pursuant to section 6(1)(b) of the large special events

 

fund act, shall be deposited each state fiscal year into the large

 

special events fund created in section 4 of the large special

 

events fund act.

 

     (7) (6) The department shall, on an annual basis, reconcile

 

the amounts distributed under subsection (5) during each fiscal

 

year with the amounts actually collected for a particular fiscal

 

year and shall make any necessary adjustments, positive or

 

negative, to the amounts to be distributed for the next successive


calendar quarter that begins January 1. The state treasurer or his

 

or her designee shall annually provide to the operator of each

 

qualified airport a report of the reconciliation performed under

 

this subsection. The reconciliation report is subject to the

 

confidentiality restrictions and penalties provided in section

 

28(1)(f) of 1941 PA 122, MCL 205.28.

 

     (8) (7) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Aviation fuel" means fuel as that term is defined in

 

section 4 of the aeronautics code of the state of Michigan, 1945 PA

 

327, MCL 259.4.

 

     (b) "Qualified airport" means that term as defined in section

 

109 of the aeronautics code of the state of Michigan, 1945 PA 327,

 

MCL 259.109.

 

     (c) "Qualified airport fund" means the qualified airport fund

 

created in section 34(2) of the aeronautics code of the state of

 

Michigan, 1945 PA 327, MCL 259.34.

 

     (d) "State aeronautics fund" means the state aeronautics fund

 

created in section 34(1) of the aeronautics code of the state of

 

Michigan, 1945 PA 327, MCL 259.34.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Bill No._1065                                  

 

          of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.