2023 Senate Bill 537

Economic development: plant rehabilitation; definition of qualified commercial activity; modify.

A bill to amend 1974 PA 198, entitled “An act to provide for the establishment of plant rehabilitation districts and industrial development districts in local governmental units; to provide for the exemption from certain taxes; to levy and collect a specific tax upon the owners of certain facilities; to impose and provide for the disposition of an administrative fee; to provide for the disposition of the tax; to provide for the obtaining and transferring of an exemption certificate and to prescribe the contents of those certificates; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state tax commission and certain officers of local governmental units; and to provide penalties,” by amending section 2 (MCL 207.552), as amended by 2011 PA 154.

Senate Fiscal Agency Analysis

Senate Bills 536 and 537 would amend the plant rehabilitation and industrial development Act to modify the definitions of "speculative building" and "qualified commercial activity", respectively, and effectively expand eligibility for an industrial facilities exemption certificate provided under the Act.

Introduced in the Senate

Sept. 27, 2023

Introduced by Sen. Paul Wojno (D-10)

Referred to the Committee on Economic and Community Development

May 2, 2024

Reported without amendment

May 7, 2024

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 22, 2024

Reported without amendment

June 25, 2024

Passed in the Senate 27 to 11 (details)

Received in the House

June 25, 2024

Referred to the Committee on Economic Development and Small Business