HOUSE BILL No. 5258


     October 8, 1997, Introduced by Reps. Perricone, Llewellyn, Hammerstrom, Lowe, Raczkowski, Cropsey, Dobb, McBryde, DeVuyst, Walberg, Nye, Jansen, Rocca, Whyman, London and Voorhees and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.


        A bill to amend 1993 PA 331, entitled

   "State education tax act,"

   by amending section 3 (MCL 211.903), as amended by 1994 PA 187,

   and by adding section 3a.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 3.  Beginning in 1994, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN

 2    SECTION 3A, there is levied a state education tax on all property

 3    not exempt by law from ad valorem property taxes or not subject

 4    to a tax under  Act No. 282 of the Public Acts of 1905, being

 5     sections 207.1 to 207.21 of the Michigan Compiled Laws  1905 PA

 6    282, MCL 207.1 TO 207.21, at a rate of 6 mills.

 7         SEC. 3A.  IN 1998 ONLY, A LOCAL TAX COLLECTING UNIT SHALL

 8    REDUCE THE MILLAGE RATE OF THE STATE EDUCATION TAX LEVIED UNDER

 9    SECTION 3 ON PROPERTY LOCATED IN A SCHOOL DISTRICT OR

10    INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT AWARDED MONEY DAMAGES IN THE


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 1    CONSOLIDATED CASES KNOWN AS DURANT V STATE OF MICHIGAN, SUPREME

 2    COURT DOCKET NO. 104458-104492 BY AN AMOUNT THAT REDUCES THE

 3    STATE EDUCATION TAX LEVIED ON PROPERTY LOCATED IN THAT SCHOOL

 4    DISTRICT OR INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT EQUAL TO THE MONEY DAM-

 5    AGES AWARDED IF THE BOARD OF THAT SCHOOL DISTRICT OR INTERMEDIATE

 6    SCHOOL DISTRICT APPROVES THAT REDUCTION.












































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