Bill Text: MI HB5979 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Economic development; tax increment financing; incentives to invest in transit-oriented facilities and transit-oriented development; provide for. Amends sec. 3 of 2004 PA 530 (MCL 125.2843).
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: (Passed) 2010-12-15 - Assigned Pa 237'10 With Immediate Effect [HB5979 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-HB5979-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5979
March 23, 2010, Introduced by Reps. Clemente, Byrnes, Liss, Wayne Schmidt, Stanley, Constan, Robert Jones, Bauer, Tlaib, Gonzales, Gregory and Smith and referred to the Committee on Intergovernmental and Regional Affairs.
A bill to amend 2004 PA 530, entitled
"Historical neighborhood tax increment finance authority act,"
by amending section 3 (MCL 125.2843).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3. As used in this act:
(a) "Operations" means office maintenance, including salaries
and expenses of employees, office supplies, consultation fees,
design costs, and other expenses incurred in the daily management
of the authority and planning of its activities.
(b) "Parcel" means an identifiable unit of land that is
treated as separate for valuation or zoning purposes.
(c) "Public facility" means housing, a street, plaza,
pedestrian mall, and any improvements to a street, plaza, or
pedestrian mall including street furniture and beautification,
park, parking facility, recreational facility, right of way,
structure, waterway, bridge, lake, pond, canal, utility line or
pipe, transit-oriented development, transit-oriented facility, or
building, including access routes designed and dedicated to use by
the public generally, or used by a public agency. Public facility
includes an improvement to a facility used by the public or a
public facility as those terms are defined in section 1 of 1966 PA
1, MCL 125.1351, if the improvement complies with the barrier free
design requirements of the state construction code promulgated
under the Stille-DeRossett-Hale single state construction code act,
1972 PA 230, MCL 125.1501 to 125.1531.
(d) "Specific local tax" means a tax levied under 1974 PA 198,
MCL 207.551 to 207.572, the commercial redevelopment act, 1978 PA
255, MCL 207.651 to 207.668, the technology park development act,
1984 PA 385, MCL 207.701 to 207.718, or 1953 PA 189, MCL 211.181 to
211.182. The initial assessed value or current assessed value of
property subject to a specific local tax shall be the quotient of
the specific local tax paid divided by the ad valorem millage rate.
The state tax commission shall prescribe the method for calculating
the initial assessed value and current assessed value of property
for which a specific local tax was paid in lieu of a property tax.
(e) "State fiscal year" means the annual period commencing
October 1 of each year.
(f) "Tax increment revenues" means the amount of ad valorem
property taxes and specific local taxes attributable to the
application of the levy of all taxing jurisdictions upon the
captured assessed value of real and personal property in the
development area. Tax increment revenues do not include any of the
following:
(i) Taxes under the state education tax act, 1993 PA 331, MCL
211.901 to 211.906.
(ii) Taxes levied by local or intermediate school districts.
(iii) Ad valorem property taxes attributable either to a portion
of the captured assessed value shared with taxing jurisdictions
within the jurisdictional area of the authority or to a portion of
value of property that may be excluded from captured assessed value
or specific local taxes attributable to the ad valorem property
taxes.
(iv) Ad valorem property taxes excluded by the tax increment
financing plan of the authority from the determination of the
amount of tax increment revenues to be transmitted to the authority
or specific local taxes attributable to the ad valorem property
taxes.
(v) Ad valorem property taxes exempted from capture under
section 17(5) or specific local taxes attributable to the ad
valorem property taxes.
(vi) Ad valorem property taxes specifically levied for the
payment of principal and interest of obligations approved by the
electors or obligations pledging the unlimited taxing power of the
local governmental unit or specific taxes attributable to those ad
valorem property taxes.
(g) "Transit-oriented development" means infrastructure
improvements that are located within 1/2 mile of a transit station
or transit-oriented facility that promotes transit ridership or
passenger rail use, as determined by the board and approved by the
municipality in which it is located.
(h) "Transit-oriented facility" means a facility that houses a
transit station in a manner that promotes transit ridership or
passenger rail use.
