HOUSE BILL No. 4556

 

May 5, 2015, Introduced by Rep. Yonker and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 2014 PA 86, entitled

 

"Local community stabilization authority act,"

 

by amending sections 5, 13, 14, 17, 19, and 20 (MCL 123.1345,

 

123.1353, 123.1354, 123.1357, 123.1359, and 123.1360).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 5. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Acquisition cost" means that term as defined in section 3

 

of the state essential services assessment act, 2014 PA 92, MCL

 

211.1053, multiplied by the following percentages:

 

     (i) For eligible personal property reported to the department

 

and described in section 5(2)(a) of the state essential services

 

assessment act, 2014 PA 92, MCL 211.1055, 100%.

 

     (ii) For eligible personal property reported to the department

 

and described in section 5(2)(b) of the state essential services

 

assessment act, 2014 PA 92, MCL 211.1055, 52.1%.


 

     (iii) For eligible personal property reported to the department

 

and described in section 5(2)(c) of the state essential services

 

assessment act, 2014 PA 92, MCL 211.1055, 37.5%.

 

     (b) "Ambulance services" means patient transport services,

 

nontransport prehospital life support services, and advanced life

 

support, paramedic, and medical first-responder services.

 

     (c) "Authority" means the local community stabilization

 

authority, a metropolitan authority established under section 7.

 

     (d) "Captured value" means 1 or more of the following:

 

     (i) For a tax increment finance authority under the brownfield

 

redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2651 to 125.2672,

 

captured taxable value as determined in sections 2 and 7 of the

 

brownfield redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2652

 

and 125.2657.

 

     (ii) For a tax increment finance authority under 1975 PA 197,

 

MCL 125.1651 to 125.1681, captured assessed value as defined in

 

section 1 of 1975 PA 197, MCL 125.1651.

 

     (iii) For a tax increment finance authority under the tax

 

increment finance authority act, 1980 PA 450, MCL 125.1801 to

 

125.1830, captured assessed value as defined in section 1 of the

 

tax increment finance authority act, 1980 PA 450, MCL 125.1801.

 

     (iv) For a tax increment finance authority under the local

 

development financing act, 1986 PA 281, MCL 125.2151 to 125.2174,

 

captured assessed value as defined in section 2 of the local

 

development financing act, 1986 PA 281, MCL 125.2152.

 

     (v) For a tax increment finance authority under the historic

 

neighborhood tax increment finance authority act, 2004 PA 530, MCL


 

125.2841 to 125.2866, captured assessed value as defined in section

 

2 of the historic neighborhood tax increment finance authority act,

 

2004 PA 530, MCL 125.2842.

 

     (vi) For a tax increment finance authority under the corridor

 

improvement authority act, 2005 PA 280, MCL 125.2871 to 125.2899,

 

captured assessed value as defined in section 2 of the corridor

 

improvement authority act, 2005 PA 280, MCL 125.2872.

 

     (vii) For a tax increment finance authority under the

 

neighborhood improvement authority act, 2007 PA 61, MCL 125.2911 to

 

125.2932, captured assessed value as defined in section 2 of the

 

neighborhood improvement authority act, 2007 PA 61, MCL 125.2912.

 

     (viii) For a tax increment finance authority under the water

 

resource improvement tax increment finance authority act, 2008 PA

 

94, MCL 125.1771 to 125.1793, captured assessed value as defined in

 

section 2 of the water resource improvement tax increment finance

 

authority act, 2008 PA 94, MCL 125.1772.

 

     (ix) For a tax increment finance authority under the private

 

investment infrastructure funding act, 2010 PA 250, MCL 125.1871 to

 

125.1883, captured assessed value as defined in section 2 of the

 

private investment infrastructure funding act, 2010 PA 250, MCL

 

125.1872.

 

     (x) For a tax increment finance authority under the nonprofit

 

street railway act, 1867 PA 35, MCL 472.1 to 472.27, captured

 

assessed value as defined in section 23 of the nonprofit street

 

railway act, 1867 PA 35, MCL 472.23.

 

     (e) "Commercial personal property" means, except as otherwise

 

provided in subparagraph (iii), all of the following:


 

     (i) Personal property classified as commercial personal

 

property under section 34c of the general property tax act, 1893 PA

 

206, MCL 211.34c.

 

     (ii) Personal property subject to the industrial facilities tax

 

under section 14(1) or (4) of 1974 PA 198, MCL 207.564, that is

 

sited on land classified as commercial real property under section

 

34c of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.34c.

 

     (iii) Commercial personal property does not include personal

 

property that after 2012 was classified in the municipality where

 

it is currently located as real property or utility personal

 

property.

 

     (f) "Council" means the council established for the authority

 

under section 9.

 

     (g) "Debt loss" means, for a municipality that is not a local

 

school district, intermediate school district, or tax increment

 

finance authority, the amount of ad valorem property taxes and any

 

specific tax levied for the payment of principal and interest of

 

obligations either approved by the voters before January 1, 2013 or

 

incurred before January 1, 2013 pledging the unlimited or limited

 

taxing power of the municipality that are lost as a result of the

 

exemption of industrial personal property and commercial personal

 

property under sections 9m, 9n, and 9o of the general property tax

 

act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m, 211.9n, and 211.9o.

 

     (h) "Department" means the department of treasury.

 

     (i) "Eligible personal property" means personal property

 

described in section 3(e)(i), (iii), and (iv) of the state essential

 

services assessment act, 2014 PA 92, MCL 211.1053.


 

     (j) "Essential services" means all of the following:

 

     (i) Ambulance services.

 

     (ii) Fire services.

 

     (iii) Police services.

 

     (iv) Jail operations.

 

     (v) The funding of pensions for personnel providing services

 

described in subparagraphs (i) to (iv).

 

     (k) "Fire services" means services in the prevention and

 

suppression of fire, homeland security response, hazardous

 

materials response, rescue, fire marshal, and medical first-

 

responder services.

 

     (l) "Fiscal year" means either an annual period that begins on

 

October 1 and ends on September 30 or the fiscal year for the

 

authority established by the council.

 

     (m) "Increased captured value" means the anticipated increase

 

in captured value for all industrial personal property and

 

commercial personal property in a tax increment finance authority

 

that would have occurred as a result of either the addition of

 

personal property as part of a specific project or the expiration

 

of an exemption under section 7k, 7ff, or 9f of the general

 

property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.7k, 211.7ff, and 211.9f,

 

after 2013 if the exemptions under section 9m, 9n, or 9o of the

 

general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m, 211.9n, and

 

211.9o, were not in effect. In order for an anticipated increase in

 

captured value to qualify as increased captured value, the tax

 

increment financing plan must have demonstrated before 2013 that

 

the tax increment finance authority was relying on this anticipated


 

increase in captured value to pay 1 or more qualified obligations

 

by specifically projecting the anticipated increase in captured

 

value that would be used to pay the qualified obligations and the

 

plan must meet all of the following:

 

     (i) The tax increment financing plan was fully approved by the

 

governing body of the applicable local government not later than

 

December 31, 2012. This does not prevent subsequent amendment to

 

the tax increment financing plan, provided the amendment does not

 

change the amount of any obligation under the plan, the scope of

 

the project or projects described in the plan, or the time needed

 

to repay any obligation.

 

     (ii) If the tax increment financing plan is part of a

 

brownfield plan under the brownfield redevelopment financing act,

 

1996 PA 381, MCL 125.2651 to 125.2672, any needed work plans were

 

also approved by the appropriate state agencies not later than

 

December 31, 2012. This does not prevent subsequent amendment to a

 

work plan, provided the amendment does not change the amount of any

 

obligation under the plan, the scope of the project or projects

 

described in the plan, or the time needed to repay any obligation.

 

     (iii) The tax increment financing plan identifies a particular

 

site owner and site occupant that is engaged in industrial

 

processing or direct integrated support, as defined in section 9m

 

of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m. This does

 

not preclude a change in the site owner or occupant, provided that

 

change in the site owner or occupant did not result from a

 

financial difficulty encountered during the construction and

 

installation of the project and provided change in the site owner


 

or occupant will not result in any change in the project.

 

     (iv) The tax increment financing plan identifies a particular

 

project on a specific parcel and that project includes the addition

 

of particular personal property that is eligible manufacturing

 

personal property, as defined in section 9m of the general property

 

tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m, that is also identified in the

 

tax increment financing plan.

 

     (v) The personal property that is eligible manufacturing

 

personal property, as defined in section 9m of the general property

 

tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m, and is identified in the tax

 

increment financing plan comprises not less than 20% of the true

 

cash value of the improvements to be made as part of the specific

 

project identified in the tax increment financing plan. The

 

requirement under this subparagraph does not apply to the addition

 

of personal property as a result of the expiration of an exemption

 

under section 7k, 7ff, or 9f of the general property tax act, 1893

 

PA 206, MCL 211.7k, 211.7ff, and 211.9f.

 

     (vi) Before December 31, 2012, the specific project identified

 

in the tax increment financing plan had obtained all necessary

 

local zoning approvals, including any necessary rezoning, special

 

land use, and site plan approvals for that project.

 

     (vii) Before December 31, 2012, orders had been placed and

 

significant investments made in the personal property that is

 

eligible manufacturing personal property, as defined in section 9m

 

of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m, to be

 

located on the site.

 

     (n) "Increased value from expired tax exemptions" means the


 

increase in taxable value subject to tax of industrial personal

 

property and commercial personal property placed in service before

 

2013 that would have occurred after 2013 if the exemptions under

 

section 9m or 9n of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.9m and 211.9n, were not in effect as a result of the expiration

 

of an exemption under section 7k, 7ff, or 9f of the general

 

property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.7k, 211.7ff, and 211.9f,

 

that had been in effect in 2013, assuming an exemption under

 

section 7k of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.7k, was not extended under section 11a of 1974 PA 198, MCL

 

207.561a, and an exemption under section 9f of the general property

 

tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9f, was not extended under section

 

9f(8) of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9f.

 

     (o) "Industrial personal property" means, except as otherwise

 

provided in subparagraph (iii), all of the following:

 

     (i) Personal property classified as industrial personal

 

property under section 34c of the general property tax act, 1893 PA

 

206, MCL 211.34c.

 

     (ii) Personal property subject to the industrial facilities tax

 

under section 14(1) or (4) of 1974 PA 198, MCL 207.564, that is

 

sited on land classified as industrial real property under section

 

34c of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.34c.

 

     (iii) Industrial personal property does not include personal

 

property that after 2012 was classified in the municipality where

 

it is currently located as real property or utility personal

 

property.

 

     (p) "Jail operations" means all of the following:


 

     (i) The operation of a jail, holding cell, holding center, or

 

lockup as those terms are defined in section 62 of the corrections

 

code of 1953, 1953 PA 232, MCL 791.262.

 

     (ii) The operation of a juvenile detention facility by a county

 

juvenile agency as authorized under section 7 of the county

 

juvenile agency act, 1998 PA 518, MCL 45.627.

 

     (q) "Local community stabilization share" means that portion

 

of the use tax levied by the authority and authorized under the use

 

tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205.91 to 205.111.

 

     (r) "Municipality" includes, but is not limited to, the

 

following:

 

     (i) Counties.

 

     (ii) Cities.

 

     (iii) Villages.

 

     (iv) Townships.

 

     (v) Authorities, excluding an authority created under this

 

act.

 

     (vi) Local school districts.

 

     (vii) Intermediate school districts.

 

     (viii) Community college districts.

 

     (ix) Libraries.

 

     (x) Other local and intergovernmental taxing units.

 

     (s) "Personal property exemption loss" means 1 of the

 

following:

 

     (i) For a municipality that is not a local school district,

 

intermediate school district, or tax increment finance authority,

 

the 2013 taxable value of commercial personal property and


 

industrial personal property minus the current year taxable value

 

of commercial personal property and industrial personal property

 

and minus the small taxpayer exemption loss.

 

     (ii) For a municipality that is a local school district,

 

intermediate school district, or tax increment finance authority,

 

the 2013 taxable value of commercial personal property and

 

industrial personal property minus the current year taxable value

 

of commercial personal property and industrial personal property.

 

     (t) "Police services" means law enforcement services for the

 

prevention and detection of crime, the enforcement of laws and

 

ordinances, homeland security response, and medical first-responder

 

services.

 

     (u) "Qualified loss" means the amounts calculated under

 

section 14(1) and (3) that are not distributed to the municipality

 

under section 17(3)(a).17(4)(a).

 

     (v) "Qualified obligation" means a written promise to pay by a

 

tax increment finance authority, whether evidenced by a contract,

 

agreement, lease, sublease, bond, resolution promising repayment of

 

an advance, or note, or a requirement to pay imposed by law. A

 

qualified obligation does not include a payment required solely

 

because of default upon an obligation, employee salary, or

 

consideration paid for the use of municipal offices. A qualified

 

obligation does not include bonds that have been economically

 

defeased by refunding.

 

     (w) "School debt loss" means the amount of revenue lost from

 

ad valorem property taxes and any specific tax specifically levied

 

for the payment of principal and interest of obligations approved


 

by the electors before January 1, 2013 or obligations pledging the

 

unlimited taxing power of a local school district or intermediate

 

school district incurred before January 1, 2013, as a result of the

 

exemption of industrial personal property and commercial personal

 

property under sections 9m, 9n, and 9o of the general property tax

 

act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m, 211.9n, and 211.9o.

 

     (x) "School operating loss not reimbursed by the school aid

 

fund" means the amount of revenue lost from ad valorem property

 

taxes levied under section 1211 of the revised school code, 1976 PA

 

451, MCL 380.1211, as a result of the exemption of industrial

 

personal property and commercial personal property under sections

 

9m, 9n, and 9o of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.9m, 211.9n, and 211.9o, for mills other than basic school

 

operating mills, as that term is defined in section 2c of the use

 

tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205.92c.

 

     (y) "Small taxpayer exemption loss" means 1 of the following:

 

     (i) For the 2014 calendar year, the 2013 taxable value of

 

commercial personal property and industrial personal property minus

 

the 2014 taxable value of commercial personal property and

 

industrial personal property.

 

     (ii) For the 2015 calendar year and subsequent calendar years,

 

the greater of the amount calculated under subparagraph (i) and the

 

2013 taxable value of commercial personal property and industrial

 

personal property minus the 2015 taxable value of commercial

 

personal property and industrial personal property.

 

     (z) "Specific tax" means a tax levied under any of the

 

following:


 

     (i) 1974 PA 198, MCL 207.551 to 207.572.

 

     (ii) The commercial redevelopment act, 1978 PA 255, MCL 207.651

 

to 207.668.

 

     (iii) The commercial rehabilitation act, 2005 PA 210, MCL

 

207.841 to 207.856.

 

     (aa) "Tax increment finance authority" means an authority

 

created under 1 or more of the following:

 

     (i) 1975 PA 197, MCL 125.1651 to 125.1681.

 

     (ii) The tax increment finance authority act, 1980 PA 450, MCL

 

125.1801 to 125.1830.

 

     (iii) The local development financing act, 1986 PA 281, MCL

 

125.2151 to 125.2174.

 

     (iv) The brownfield redevelopment financing act, 1996 PA 381,

 

MCL 125.2651 to 125.2672.

 

     (v) The historic neighborhood tax increment finance authority

 

act, 2004 PA 530, MCL 125.2841 to 125.2866.

 

     (vi) The corridor improvement authority act, 2005 PA 280, MCL

 

125.2871 to 125.2899.

 

     (vii) The neighborhood improvement authority act, 2007 PA 61,

 

MCL 125.2911 to 125.2932.

 

     (viii) The water resource improvement tax increment finance

 

authority act, 2008 PA 94, MCL 125.1771 to 125.1793.

 

     (ix) The private investment infrastructure funding act, 2010 PA

 

250, MCL 125.1871 to 125.1883.

 

     (x) The nonprofit street railway act, 1867 PA 35, MCL 472.1 to

 

472.27.

 

     (bb) "Tax increment small taxpayer loss" means the amount of


 

revenue lost by a municipality that is a tax increment finance

 

authority due to the exemption provided by section 9o of the

 

general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9o.

 

     (cc) "Taxable value" means all of the following:

 

     (i) Except as otherwise provided in subparagraph (ii), that

 

value determined under section 27a of the general property tax act,

 

1893 PA 206, MCL 211.27a.

 

     (ii) For real or personal property subject to the industrial

 

facilities tax under section 14(3) or (4) of 1974 PA 198, MCL

 

207.564, 50% of that value determined under section 27a of the

 

general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.27a.

 

     (dd) "Total qualified loss" means the total amount of

 

qualified losses of all municipalities, as determined by the

 

department.

 

     (ee) "Utility personal property" means that term as described

 

in section 34c of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.34c.

 

     Sec. 13. (1) Not later than June 5, 2014, the assessor for

 

each city and township shall report to the county equalization

 

director all of the following:

 

     (a) The 2013 taxable value of commercial personal property and

 

industrial personal property for each municipality in the city or

 

township.

 

     (b) The 2014 taxable value of commercial personal property and

 

industrial personal property for each municipality in the city or

 

township.

 

     (c) The small taxpayer exemption loss for each municipality in


 

the city or township.

 

     (2) Not later than June 20, 2014, the equalization director

 

for each county shall report to the department the information

 

described in subsection (1) for each municipality in the county.

 

For each municipality levying a millage in more than 1 county, the

 

county equalization director responsible for compiling the

 

municipality's taxable value under section 34d of the general

 

property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.34d, shall compile the

 

municipality's information described in subsection (1).

 

     (3) Not later than June 5, 2016, 2015, and each June 5

 

thereafter, the assessor for each city and township shall report to

 

the county equalization director the current year taxable value of

 

commercial personal property and industrial personal property for

 

each municipality in the city or township. Not later than June 20,

 

2016, 2015, and each June 20 thereafter, the equalization director

 

for each county shall report to the department the current year

 

taxable value of commercial personal property and industrial

 

personal property for each municipality in the county. For each

 

municipality levying a millage in more than 1 county, the county

 

equalization director responsible for compiling the municipality's

 

taxable value under section 34d of the general property tax act,

 

1893 PA 206, MCL 211.34d, shall compile the municipality's

 

information described in this subsection.

 

     (4) Not later than August 15, 2014, and each August 15

 

thereafter, each municipality shall report to the department the

 

millage rate levied or to be levied that year for a millage

 

described in section 5(g) or (w) that is used to calculate an


 

appropriation under section 17(1)(a) or a distribution under

 

section 17(3)(a)(i). 17(4)(a)(i). For 2014 and 2015, the rate of

 

that millage shall be calculated using the sum of the

 

municipality's taxable value and the municipality's small taxpayer

 

exemption loss. Beginning in 2016 and each year thereafter, the

 

rate of that millage shall be calculated using the sum of the

 

municipality's taxable value and the municipality's personal

 

property exemption loss. For 2014 and 2015, the department shall

 

calculate each municipality's debt loss or school debt loss by

 

multiplying the municipality's millage rate reported under this

 

subsection by the municipality's small taxpayer exemption loss.

 

Beginning in 2016 and each year thereafter, the department shall

 

calculate each municipality's school debt loss by multiplying the

 

municipality's millage rate reported under this subsection by the

 

municipality's personal property exemption loss.

 

     (5) The department shall calculate and make available to each

 

municipality by May 1 of each year that municipality's sum of the

 

lowest rate of each individual millage levied in the period between

 

2012 and the year immediately preceding the current year. For a

 

municipality, other than a municipality described in section 14,

 

the calculation shall exclude debt millage. For an individual

 

millage rate not levied in 1 of the years, the lowest millage rate

 

is zero. A millage used to make the calculations under this act

 

must be levied against both real property and personal property.

 

     (6) Not later than June 5, 2016, and each June 5 thereafter,

 

the assessor for each city and township shall report to the county

 

equalization director the increased value from expired tax


 

exemptions for each municipality that is subject to section 14(2)

 

and that levies taxes in the city or township. Not later than June

 

20, 2016, and each June 20 thereafter, the equalization director

 

for each county shall report to the department the increased value

 

from expired tax exemptions for each municipality that is subject

 

to section 14(2) and that levies taxes in the city or township. For

 

each municipality subject to section 14(2) that levies a millage in

 

more than 1 county, the county equalization director responsible

 

for compiling the municipality's taxable value under section 34d of

 

the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.34d, shall

 

compile the municipality's information described in this

 

subsection.

 

     Sec. 14. (1) Not later than August 15, 2016, and each August

 

15 thereafter, for each municipality that is not a local school

 

district, intermediate school district, or tax increment finance

 

authority, the department shall do all of the following:

 

     (a) Calculate the municipality's personal property exemption

 

loss.

 

     (b) Multiply the municipality's personal property exemption

 

loss by the millage rates calculated under section 13(5).

 

     (c) Adjust the amount calculated under subdivision (b) by the

 

amount required to reflect the final order of a court or body of

 

competent jurisdiction related to any prior year calculation under

 

this subsection. An adjustment under this subdivision shall only be

 

made for municipalities for which changes in prior year taxable

 

values can be calculated from taxable values reported under section

 

151(1) of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL


 

388.1751.

 

     (d) Adjust the amount calculated under subdivision (b), as

 

adjusted by subdivision (c), by the amount calculated under section

 

16a(2) for captured taxes levied by the municipality not including

 

taxes attributable to increased captured value.

 

     (2) Not later than August 15, 2016, and each August 15

 

thereafter, for each municipality that is a county, township,

 

village, city, or authority that provides essential services, the

 

department shall do all of the following:

 

     (a) Add to the amount calculated under subsection (1)(a) any

 

increased value from expired tax exemptions for the current year.

 

     (b) Subtract from the amount calculated under subdivision (a)

 

the amount calculated under section 16a(2)(b) for the municipality,

 

not including any amount attributable to increased captured value.

 

     (c) Multiply the result of the calculation in subdivision (b)

 

by the millage rate calculated under section 13(5) for general

 

operating millage.

 

     (d) Multiply the result of the calculation in subdivision (c)

 

by the percentage of the municipality's general operating millage

 

used to fund the cost of essential services in the municipality's

 

fiscal year ending in 2012. Each municipality's The department

 

shall calculate each municipality's percentage of general operating

 

millage used to fund the cost of essential services in the

 

municipality's fiscal year ending in 2012, unless the municipality

 

includes the calculation in its comprehensive annual financial

 

report for the municipality's fiscal year ending in either 2014

 

must include a calculation of the municipality's percentage of


 

general operating revenues used to fund essential services in the

 

municipality's fiscal year ending in 2012.or 2015 or otherwise

 

reports the calculation to the department in a form and in a manner

 

prescribed by the department.

 

     (e) Add to the result of the calculation in subdivision (d) an

 

amount calculated by multiplying the amount calculated under

 

subsection (2)(b) by the millage rates calculated under section

 

13(5) that are dedicated solely for the cost of essential services

 

levied on industrial personal property and commercial personal

 

property. A millage levied to fund a pension under the fire

 

fighters and police officers retirement act, 1937 PA 345, MCL

 

38.551 to 38.562, is dedicated solely for the cost of essential

 

services.

 

     (3) Not later than August 15, 2016, September 15, 2015, for

 

each municipality that is a city, the department shall do all of

 

the following:

 

     (a) Calculate the municipality's small taxpayer exemption

 

loss.

 

     (b) Multiply the amount calculated under subdivision (a) by

 

the millage rates calculated under section 13(5) for 2014.

 

     (c) Multiply the amount calculated under subdivision (a) by

 

the millage rates calculated under section 13(5) for 2015.

 

     (d) Add the amounts calculated under subdivisions (b) and (c).

 

     (e) Subtract from the amount calculated under subdivision (d)

 

the sum of the municipality's debt loss for 2014 and 2015.

 

     (f) Subtract from the amount calculated under subdivision (e)

 

the amount of any tax increment small taxpayer loss for captured


 

taxes levied by the municipality in 2014 and 2015.

 

     (4) Not later than August 15, 2016, and each August 15

 

thereafter, for each municipality that is not a local school

 

district, intermediate school district, or tax increment finance

 

authority, the department shall do all of the following:

 

     (a) Calculate the municipality's small taxpayer exemption

 

loss.

 

     (b) Multiply the municipality's small taxpayer exemption loss

 

by the millage rates calculated under section 13(5).

 

     (c) Adjust the amount calculated under subdivision (b) by the

 

amount required to reflect the final order of a court or body of

 

competent jurisdiction related to any prior year calculation under

 

this subsection. An adjustment under this subdivision shall only be

 

made for municipalities for which changes in prior year taxable

 

values can be calculated from taxable values reported under section

 

151(1) of the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL

 

388.1751.

 

     (d) Adjust the amount calculated under subdivision (b), as

 

adjusted by subdivision (c), by the amount calculated under section

 

16a(2) for captured taxes levied by the municipality not including

 

taxes attributable to increased captured value. The adjustment

 

under this subdivision shall only be made to the extent that the

 

adjustment made under subsection (1)(d) did not fully account for

 

all captured taxes levied by the municipality not including taxes

 

attributable to increased captured value.

 

     Sec. 17. (1) The legislature shall appropriate funds for all

 

of the following purposes:


 

     (a) For fiscal year 2014-2015 and fiscal year 2015-2016, to

 

the authority, an amount equal to all debt loss for municipalities

 

that are not a local school district, intermediate school district,

 

or tax increment finance authority, an amount equal to all school

 

debt loss for municipalities that are a local school district or

 

intermediate school district, and an amount equal to all tax

 

increment small taxpayer loss for municipalities that are a tax

 

increment finance authority.

 

     (b) Beginning in For fiscal year 2014-2015 and each fiscal

 

year thereafter, through fiscal year 2018-2019 an amount equal to

 

the necessary expenses incurred by the authority and the department

 

in implementing this act.

 

     (c) Beginning in fiscal year 2019-2020 and each fiscal year

 

thereafter, an amount equal to the necessary expenses incurred by

 

the authority and the department in implementing this act.

 

     (2) In fiscal year 2014-2015 and fiscal year 2015-2016, the

 

authority shall distribute to municipalities those funds

 

appropriated under subsection (1)(a). However, in fiscal year 2014-

 

2015, if the authority is not able to make the distribution under

 

this subsection, the department shall make the distribution under

 

this subsection on behalf of the authority.

 

     (3) For calendar years 2014 and 2015, the authority shall

 

distribute local community stabilization share revenue to each city

 

in an amount determined by multiplying the local community

 

stabilization share revenue for the calendar years by a fraction,

 

the numerator of which is that city's amount calculated under

 

section 14(3) and the denominator of which is the total amount


 

calculated under section 14(3).

 

     (4) (3) Beginning in fiscal year 2015-2016, for calendar year

 

2016, the authority shall distribute local community stabilization

 

share revenue as follows in the following order of priority:

 

     (a) The authority shall distribute to each municipality an

 

amount equal to all of the following:

 

     (i) 100% of that municipality's school debt loss in the current

 

year and 100% of its amount calculated under section 15.

 

     (ii) 100% of that municipality's amount calculated under

 

section 16.

 

     (iii) 100% of that municipality's school operating loss not

 

reimbursed by the school aid fund in the current year.

 

     (iv) 100% of the amount calculated in section 14(2). However,

 

the amount distributed to a municipality under this subparagraph

 

shall not exceed the amount calculated in section 14(1)(d). All

 

distributions under this subparagraph shall be used to fund

 

essential services.

 

     (v) For a municipality that is a tax increment finance

 

authority, 100% of its amount calculated under section 16a(2).

 

     (vi) 100% of that municipality's amount calculated under

 

section 14(4).

 

     (b) Beginning in fiscal year 2019-2020, for calendar year

 

2019, after the distributions under subdivision (a), and subject to

 

subparagraph (viii), the authority shall distribute 5% of the

 

remaining balance of the local community stabilization share fund

 

for the current fiscal calendar year to each municipality that is

 

not a local school district, intermediate school district, or tax


 

increment finance authority in an amount determined as follows:

 

     (i) Calculate the total acquisition cost of all eligible

 

personal property in the municipality.

 

     (ii) Multiply the result of the calculation in subparagraph (i)

 

by the sum of the lowest rate of each individual millage levied by

 

the municipality in the period between 2012 and the year

 

immediately preceding the current year that is not used to

 

calculate a distribution under subdivision (a). For an individual

 

millage rate not levied in 1 of the years, the lowest millage rate

 

is zero. A millage used to make the calculation under this

 

subparagraph must be eligible to be levied against both real

 

property and personal property.

 

     (iii) Divide the sum of the amounts calculated under

 

subparagraph (ii) for all municipalities subject to the calculation

 

by total qualified loss.

 

     (iv) Multiply the result of the calculation in subparagraph (iii)

 

by the amount calculated under section 16a(2) for captured taxes

 

levied by the municipality not including taxes attributable to

 

increased captured value.

 

     (v) Subtract from the amount calculated under subparagraph (ii)

 

the amount calculated under subparagraph (iv).

 

     (vi) Divide the result of the calculation in subparagraph (v)

 

by the sum of the calculation under subparagraph (v) for all

 

municipalities.

 

     (vii) Multiply the result of the calculation in subparagraph

 

(vi) by the amount to be distributed under this subdivision.

 

     (viii) For fiscal year 2020-2021, calendar year 2020, and each


 

fiscal calendar year thereafter, the percentage amount described in

 

this subdivision shall be increased an additional 5% each year, not

 

to exceed 100%.

 

     (c) After the distributions in subdivisions (a) and (b), the

 

authority shall distribute the remaining balance of that fiscal

 

year's the local community stabilization share fund for a calendar

 

year to each municipality in an amount determined by multiplying

 

the remaining balance by a fraction, the numerator of which is that

 

municipality's qualified loss and the denominator of which is the

 

total qualified loss.

 

     (5) (4) The authority shall make the payments required by

 

subsection (3) not later than October 20, 2015, and payments

 

required by subsection (3) (4) not later than on the following

 

dates:

 

     (a) For county allocated millage, September 20 of the year the

 

millage is levied.

 

     (b) For county extra-voted millage, township millage, and

 

other millages levied 100% in December of a year, February 20 of

 

the following year.

 

     (c) For other millages, October 20 of the year the millage is

 

levied.

 

     (6) (5) If the authority has insufficient funds to make the

 

payments on the dates required in subsection (4), (5), the

 

department shall advance to the authority the amount necessary for

 

the authority to make the required payments. The authority shall

 

repay the advance to the department from the local community

 

stabilization share.


 

     (7) For each fiscal year from fiscal year 2015-2016 through

 

fiscal year 2018-2019, the authority may use up to $300,000.00 of

 

the local community stabilization share revenue for purposes

 

consistent with implementing and administering this act.

 

     (8) The authority shall distribute local community

 

stabilization share revenue under this section as follows:

 

     (a) From fiscal year 2015-2016 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $19,200,000.00 for calendar years 2014 and 2015 and

 

$76,900,000.00 for calendar year 2016.

 

     (b) From fiscal year 2016-2017 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $297,400,000.00 for calendar year 2016 and

 

$83,200,000.00 for calendar year 2017.

 

     (c) From fiscal year 2017-2018 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $321,500,000.00 for calendar year 2017 and

 

$89,000,000.00 for calendar year 2018.

 

     (d) From fiscal year 2018-2019 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $341,800,000.00 for calendar year 2018 and

 

$95,900,000.00 for calendar year 2019.

 

     (e) From fiscal year 2019-2020 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $364,500,000.00 for calendar year 2019 and

 

$101,400,000.00 for calendar year 2020.

 

     (f) From fiscal year 2020-2021 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $383,500,000.00 for calendar year 2020 and

 

$108,000,000.00 for calendar year 2021.

 

     (g) From fiscal year 2021-2022 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $405,700,000.00 for calendar year 2021 and

 

$115,600,000.00 for calendar year 2022.


 

     (h) From fiscal year 2022-2023 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $428,300,000.00 for calendar year 2022 and

 

$119,700,000.00 for calendar year 2023.

 

     (i) From fiscal year 2023-2024 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $438,900,000.00 for calendar year 2023 and

 

$122,800,000.00 for calendar year 2024.

 

     (j) From fiscal year 2024-2025 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $445,800,000.00 for calendar year 2024 and

 

$124,000,000.00 for calendar year 2025.

 

     (k) From fiscal year 2025-2026 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $447,100,000.00 for calendar year 2025 and

 

$124,300,000.00 for calendar year 2026.

 

     (l) From fiscal year 2026-2027 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $447,700,000.00 for calendar year 2026 and

 

$124,500,000.00 for calendar year 2027.

 

     (m) From fiscal year 2027-2028 local community stabilization

 

share revenue, $448,000,000.00 for calendar year 2027 and

 

$124,600,000.00 for calendar year 2028.

 

     (n) From the local community stabilization share revenue for

 

fiscal year 2028-2029 and each fiscal year thereafter, the

 

authority shall increase the prior fiscal year's 2 distribution

 

amounts under this subsection by the personal property growth

 

factor, the first amount for the calendar year in which the fiscal

 

year begins and the second amount for the calendar year in which

 

the fiscal year ends. As used in this subdivision, "personal

 

property growth factor" means that term as defined in section 2c of

 

the use tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205.92c.


 

     Sec. 19. (1) A local unit of government may issue bonds or

 

other obligations in anticipation of the distribution of local

 

community stabilization share revenue under section

 

17(3)(a)(iv).17(4)(a)(iv).

 

     (2) Bonds or other obligations issued under this section are

 

subject to the revised municipal finance act, 2001 PA 34, MCL

 

141.2101 to 141.2821.

 

     (3) If authorized by a majority vote of the qualified electors

 

of the local unit of government, the local unit of government may,

 

at the time of issuance, pledge the full faith and credit of the

 

local unit of government for the payment of bonds or other

 

obligations issued under this section.

 

     Sec. 20. From the amount of local community stabilization

 

share revenue distributed under section 17(3)(a)(iv), 17(4)(a)(iv), a

 

municipality shall first replace the amount of ad valorem property

 

taxes used for the payment of principal and interest of essential

 

services obligations incurred before 2013 pledging the unlimited or

 

limited taxing power of the municipality that are lost from the

 

exemptions provided by sections 9m, 9n, and 9o of the general

 

property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9m, 211.9n, and 211.9o. A

 

municipality shall not receive distributions under section

 

17(3)(a)(iv) 17(4)(a)(iv) if it has increased a millage rate without

 

voter approval in order to replace lost property taxes that would

 

otherwise be reimbursed under section 17(3)(a)(iv) 17(4)(a)(iv) that

 

were repaying essential service obligations incurred before 2013

 

pledging the unlimited or limited taxing power of the municipality

 

and that were lost as a result of the exemptions provided by


 

sections 9m, 9n, and 9o of the general property tax act, 1893 PA

 

206, MCL 211.9m, 211.9n, and 211.9o.