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Mark Jansen (R)
State Senator, District 28
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Missed Votes
- Did not vote on an amendment for 2009 Senate Bill 773 (Cap MEGA tax break quantity ). The amendment failed in the Senate (17 to 19) on September 10, 2009, to require businesses awarded MEGA tax breaks to follow the state “prevailing wage” law, which requires a firm to pay wages based on union pay scales in a particular part of a geographic region. These wage rates may be above the market rate in other parts of the region. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on an amendment for 2009 Senate Bill 773 (Cap MEGA tax break quantity ). The amendment failed in the Senate (16 to 20) on September 10, 2009, to revise the formula used to calculate the quantity of tax credits claimed newly claimed under past MEGA deals in a manner that expands the bill's proposed caps. Also, to strip out the provisions requiring MEGA to include a copy of each tax credit certificates issued in its annual report, and to disclose the identity of each company granted a tax break deal and the number of tax credits it has actually been issued. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on an amendment for 2009 Senate Bill 773 (Cap MEGA tax break quantity ). The amendment failed in the Senate (16 to 20) on September 10, 2009, to strip out the provision prohibiting MEGA from advocating for political reasons that a potential tax credit recipient choose one Michigan location over another; and replace the provision requiring disclosure if a proposed MEGA tax break recipient will be competing against existing Michigan businesses that do not get the same preferential treatment with one requiring it to state the "project’s effects on other Michigan businesses within the same industry". [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on an amendment for 2009 Senate Bill 773 (Cap MEGA tax break quantity ). The amendment failed in the Senate (16 to 20) on September 10, 2009, to strip out a provision lowering the previously-agreed research and development criteria that qualify certain "high-technology businesses" to claim tax credits. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Resolution 77. Passed in the Senate (22 to 14) on September 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Bill 777 (Authorize $100 million renewable power conversion manufacturer subsidy ). Passed in the Senate (33 to 2) on September 10, 2009, to give a four-year, $100 million subsidy to a joint venture of rhe the "Xtreme Power" and "Clairvoyant Energy" corporations, which would make “large scale power systems designed to convert variable renewable power into firm dispatchable power” at the fomer Ford Wixom assembly plant. The subsidy is structured as a "refundable" tax credit, meaning the state will send the company a check for the amount that the credit exceeds its tax liability. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Bill 773 (Cap MEGA tax break quantity ). Passed in the Senate (23 to 13) on September 10, 2009, to cap the number of new Michigan Economic Growth Authority tax break deals at 300 per year, and limit to 85 the number of new tax credits claimed by recipients of past MEGA deals who had not previously met the job creation/retention targets of those deals, and so had not “earned” business tax credits. For 2009, the caps would be 400 and 85, respectively. The bill would also add increased transparency requirements to MEGA, including a requirement that its annual report provide data on individual company tax break deals, not just aggregate data; prohibit MEGA from advocating for political reasons that a potential tax break recipient choose one Michigan location over another; and require disclosure if a proposed tax break recipient will be competing against existing Michigan businesses that do not get the same preferential treatment. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Bill 774 (Cap new MEGA tax break value ). Passed in the Senate (35 to 0) on September 10, 2009, to cap the increase in certain Michigan Economic Growth Authority tax break credits claimed in any year at $95 million more than those claimed the previous year. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Resolution 62. Passed in the Senate (25 to 10) on June 16, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
- Did not vote on 2009 Senate Bill 280 (Add new species to banned species list ). Passed in the Senate (35 to 0) on June 16, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
