To extend through 2019 a sunset on an annual $75 million earmark to a “<a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2005-HB-5047">21st Century Jobs Fund</a>” created by the previous administration, which provides various subsidies to particular firms or industries chosen by a board of political appointees. (The subsidies can include the state taking partial ownership of selected companies.) This money comes from a tobacco company lawsuit settlement, which the legislature may otherwise appropriate for any state spending, or use for tax cuts.
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