2015 Senate Bill 579 ↩

Senate Roll Call 108: Passed

To exempt new library property taxes from being “captured” by a local brownfields tax increment finance authority (with some exemptions) and used to pay for its various projects and subsidies. These authorities were authorized in the 1990s to clean up and put back in service abandoned industrial sites, but since then have increasingly been used to deliver <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/SearchLegislation.aspx?Results=50&amp;EndDate=12%2F31%2F2015&amp;StartDate=1%2F1%2F2001&amp;Keywords=brownfield+tax+subsidy&amp;op=Search ">”economic development” subsidies</a> to developers.