HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION GG

 

September 15, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Opsommer, Calley, Rick Jones, Kowall, Lund, Horn and Wayne Schmidt and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.

 

     A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, by amending section 10 of article IX, to

 

increase the percentage of sales tax revenue to be used for

 

assistance to townships, cities, and villages.

 

     Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

 

state of Michigan, That the following amendment to the state

 

constitution of 1963, to increase the percentage of sales tax

 

revenue to be used for assistance to townships, cities, and

 

villages, is proposed, agreed to, and submitted to the people of

 

the state:

 

ARTICLE IX

 

     Sec. 10. Fifteen Twenty percent of all taxes imposed on


 

retailers on taxable sales at retail of tangible personal property

 

at a rate of not more than 4% shall be used exclusively for

 

assistance to townships, cities and villages, on a population basis

 

as provided by law. In determining population the legislature may

 

exclude any portion of the total number of persons who are wards,

 

patients or convicts in any tax supported institution.

 

     Resolved further, That the foregoing amendment shall be

 

submitted to the people of the state at the next general election

 

in the manner provided by law.