2013 Senate Bill 223

Give tuition subsidies to all high school grads

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 27, 2013

Introduced by Sen. Rebekah Warren (D-18)

To give all Michigan high school graduates up to five years of grants covering tuition in a state college or university. Funding would come from repealing $1.8 billion worth of current state tax deductions, exemptions and credits.<p>This list of so-called “<a href="http://www.michigan.gov/documents/treasury/ExecBudgAppenTaxCreditsDedExempts_FY_2012_366688_7.pdf ">tax expenditures</a>” from which this money would come includes both corporate welfare tax breaks and subsidies (which are often styled as tax “credits”), and potential expansions of various taxes paid by individuals (larger items include the 18 mill principle residence property tax exemption, the income tax personal exemption, and the sales tax on food exemption; the list also includes many smaller and more obscure items).

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations