2012 Senate Bill 1210 / Public Act 502

Expand "brownfield" subsidies

Introduced in the Senate

July 18, 2012

Introduced by Sen. Mike Kowall (R-15)

To create a state fund to provide cash grant and loan "brownfield" subsidies to developers, with money coming from state education tax revenue "captured" by local brownfields tax increment finance authorities. The bill would also authorize “brownfields” subsidies for a developer whose project is deemed to involve a “historic resource," and revise various procedures and requirements related to this subsidy program.

Referred to the Committee on Economic Development

Sept. 11, 2012

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

Sept. 27, 2012

Substitute offered

The substitute passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 31 to 7 (details)

To create a state fund to provide cash grant and loan "brownfield" subsidies to developers, with money coming from state education tax revenue "captured" by local brownfields tax increment finance authorities. The bill would also authorize “brownfields” subsidies for parking lots and for developers whose projects are deemed to involve a “historic resource," and revise various procedures and requirements related to this subsidy program.

Received in the House

Sept. 27, 2012

Referred to the Committee on Commerce

Dec. 4, 2012

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

Dec. 11, 2012

Substitute offered

To adopt a version of the bill that authorizes yet more taxpayer subsidies for yet more particular deveolopers.

The substitute passed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Pete Lund (R-36)

To clarify the criteria by which taxpayer subsidies were previously authorized for a particular.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Dec. 12, 2012

Passed in the House 99 to 10 (details)

To create a state fund to provide cash grant and loan "brownfield" subsidies to developers, with money coming from state education tax revenue "captured" by local brownfields tax increment finance authorities. The bill would also authorize “brownfields” subsidies for a particular deveoper's parking lot project, for other developers whose projects are deemed to involve a “historic resource," and yet others for whom legislators have crafted generic descriptions of projects that avoid identifying which special developer is getting the subsides.

Received in the Senate

Dec. 13, 2012

Passed in the Senate 32 to 6 (details)

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.

Signed by Gov. Rick Snyder

Dec. 28, 2012