Introduced
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To authorize loans to farmers of up to $200,000 from the state Small Business Pollution Prevention Assistance Revolving Loan Fund for agricultural biomass energy production system projects. Under current law, loans from this fund may not exceed $150,000 and are limited to “pollution prevention projects.” Money in the fund was borrowed by the state under the 1998 "Clean Michigan Initiative" bond proposal.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Tourism
Amendment offered
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Consideration postponed
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details, and which adds a provision limiting the tax break to operations that in the past three years have not had any state environmental law criminal violations or civil violations with fines greater than $10,000.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 23 to 14 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
To replace the previous version of the bill with one that strikes a provision that required the loan applicant not be found responsible for a civil pollution law violation resulting in a civil fine of at least $10,000 within three years prior to the application date.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To tie-bar the bill to House Bill 4811, meaning this bill cannot become law unless that one does also. HB 4811 would repeal Michigan's ban on suing the maker of prescription drugs that have been approved by the FDA, unless there was fraud involved.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 70 to 33 (details)
To authorize loans to farmers of up to $200,000 from the state Small Business Pollution Prevention Assistance Revolving Loan Fund for agricultural biomass energy production system projects. Under current law, loans from this fund may not exceed $150,000 and are limited to “pollution prevention projects.” Money in the fund was borrowed by the state under the 1998 "Clean Michigan Initiative" bond proposal.
Motion
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To give the bill immediate effect.
The motion passed 73 to 29 (details)
Amendment offered
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To prohibit the subsidies going to operations that have violated certain pollution regulations within the previous year.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 23 to 15 (details)
To concur with the House-passed version of the bill, after amending it to prohibit the subsidies from going to operations that have been violated certain pollution regulations within the previous year.
Passed in the House 95 to 11 (details)
To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill.
