2005 House Bill 4737 ↩

Senate Roll Call 480: Passed

To eliminate a provision in the law authorizing a Detroit utility tax that lowers the tax rate if more than $45 million is collected in a given year unless the extra money is used to hire and retain additional police officers above the number employed on November 1, 1984 (3,537 officers). Detroit now has less than this number of police, and will have collected approximately $10 million more in 2005 than the $45 million amount.