2015 Senate Bill 69 / Public Act 130

Extend business job training subsidy program

Introduced in the Senate

Jan. 29, 2015

Introduced by Sen. Darwin Booher (R-35)

To extend indefinitely a <a href="http://michiganvotes.org/2008-SB-1342">2008 law</a> that authorized state job training subsidies for particular employers provided through community colleges. Also, to revise details of a condition of the subsidies requiring a beneficiary to pay certain minimum wage levels. Senate Bill 71 would repeal a $50 million annual debt cap on the program.

Referred to the Committee on Education

Feb. 18, 2015

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

Feb. 24, 2015

Amendment offered

To remove an effective date provision.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Feb. 25, 2015

Amendment offered by Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D-6)

To require each employee who gets the job training to be paid at least 175 percent of the minimum wage if effect at the time of the training, rather than in effect when the agreement between the college and the employer was signed.

The amendment failed 11 to 26 (details)

Amendment offered by Sen. Jim Stamas (R-36)

To prohibit companies that accept these job training subsidies from also claiming "refundable tax credit" subsidies (often cash transfers) that had been selectively granted to particular firms under the previous administration.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 35 to 1 (details)

To extend indefinitely a <a href="http://michiganvotes.org/2008-SB-1342">2008 law</a> that authorized state job training subsidies for particular employers provided through community colleges. Also, to revise details of a condition of the subsidies requiring a beneficiary to pay certain minimum wage levels. Senate Bill 71 would repeal a $50 million annual debt cap on the program. The bill was amended to also prohibit a corporation from taking both these subsidies and "refundable tax credit" subsidies (often cash payments) granted particular firms by the previous administration.

Motion to reconsider by Sen. Mike Kowall (R-15)

The vote by which the bill was passed.

The motion passed by voice vote

Received

Passed in the Senate 36 to 1 (details)

To extend indefinitely a <a href="http://michiganvotes.org/2008-SB-1342">2008 law</a> that authorized state job training subsidies for particular employers provided through community colleges. Also, to revise details of a condition of the subsidies requiring a beneficiary to pay certain minimum wage levels. Senate Bill 71 would repeal a $50 million annual debt cap on the program. The bill was amended to prohibit the beneficiary companies from also collecting certain other state subsidies and tax breaks.

Received in the House

Feb. 25, 2015

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

June 10, 2015

Reported without amendment

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

June 18, 2015

Amendment offered by Rep. Al Pscholka (R-79)

To delete a provision prohibiting a company that is already collecting subsidies and tax breaks under an since-repealed "economic development" program from also getting the job training subsidies the bill would extend.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 104 to 5 (details)

To extend until 2023 the sunset on a <a href="http://michiganvotes.org/2008-SB-1342">2008 law</a> that authorized state job training subsidies for particular employers provided through community colleges. Also, to revise details of a minimum wage condition on the subsidies. The House removed a Senate-passed provision prohibiting the beneficiary companies from also collecting certain other state subsidies and tax breaks. Senate Bill 71 would repeal a $50 million annual debt cap on the program.

Received in the Senate

July 1, 2015

Passed in the Senate 37 to 1 (details)

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

Signed by Gov. Rick Snyder

July 22, 2015