HOUSE BILL No. 5834

March 7, 2006, Introduced by Reps. Tobocman, Stakoe, Hune, Marleau, Huizenga, Leland, Gaffney, Sheltrown and Kolb and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Urban Policy.

 

     A bill to provide for the exemption of certain property from

 

certain taxes; to levy and collect a specific tax upon the owners

 

of certain property; to provide for the disposition of the tax; to

 

prescribe the powers and duties of certain local government

 

officials; and to provide penalties.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the

 

"supportive housing property specific tax act".

 

     Sec. 2. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Commission" means the state tax commission created by

 

1927 PA 360, MCL 209.101 to 209.107.

 

     (b) "Supportive housing property" means real property

 

certified as supportive housing property under chapter 3B of the

 


state housing development authority act of 1966, 1966 PA 346, MCL

 

125.1459 to 125.1459b.

 

     (c) "Taxable value" means the taxable value as determined

 

under section 27a of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.27a.

 

     Sec. 3. Supportive housing property is exempt from ad valorem

 

property taxes collected under the general property tax act, 1893

 

PA 206, MCL 211.1 to 211.157, as provided under section 7jj of the

 

general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.7jj.

 

     Sec. 4. The assessor of each local tax collecting unit in

 

which there is supportive housing property shall determine annually

 

as of December 31 the true cash value and taxable value of each

 

parcel of supportive housing property located in that local tax

 

collecting unit.

 

     Sec. 5. (1) There is levied upon the owner of every supportive

 

housing property a specific tax to be known as the supportive

 

housing property specific tax.

 

     (2) The amount of the supportive housing property specific tax

 

in each year shall be determined by multiplying 50% of the number

 

of mills that would be assessed in the local tax collecting unit if

 

the property were subject to the collection of taxes under the

 

general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 to 211.157, by the

 

supportive housing property's taxable value.

 

     (3) The supportive housing property specific tax is an annual

 

tax, payable at the same times, in the same installments, and to

 

the same collecting officer or officers as taxes collected under

 

the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 to 211.157.

 


     (4) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (5) and (6),

 

the collecting officer or officers shall disburse the supportive

 

housing property specific tax to and among this state and cities,

 

townships, villages, school districts, counties, or other taxing

 

units, at the same times and in the same proportions as required by

 

law for the disbursement of taxes collected under the general

 

property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 to 211.157.

 

     (5) For intermediate school districts receiving state aid

 

under sections 56, 62, and 81 of the state school aid act of 1979,

 

1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1656, 388.1662, and 388.1681, of the amount of

 

the supportive housing property specific tax that would otherwise

 

be disbursed to an intermediate school district, all or a portion,

 

to be determined on the basis of the tax rates being utilized to

 

compute the amount of state aid, shall be paid to the state

 

treasury to the credit of the state school aid fund established by

 

section 11 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963.

 

     (6) The amount of the supportive housing property specific tax

 

described in subsection (2) that would otherwise be disbursed to a

 

local school district for school operating purposes shall be paid

 

instead to the state treasury and credited to the state school aid

 

fund established by section 11 of article IX of the state

 

constitution of 1963.

 

     (7) The collecting officer or officers shall notify the

 

commission of the amount of disbursement made to each taxing unit

 

under this section on a form provided by the commission.

 

     (8) Supportive housing property located in a renaissance zone

 

under the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2681

 


to 125.2696, is exempt from the supportive housing property

 

specific tax levied under this act to the extent and for the

 

duration provided pursuant to the Michigan renaissance zone act,

 

1996 PA 376, MCL 125.2681 to 125.2696, except for that portion of

 

the supportive housing property specific tax attributable to a tax

 

described in section 7ff(2) of the general property tax act, 1893

 

PA 206, MCL 211.7ff. The supportive housing property specific tax

 

calculated under this subsection shall be disbursed proportionately

 

to the taxing unit or units that levied the tax described in

 

section 7ff(2) of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.7ff.

 

     Sec. 6. Unpaid supportive housing property specific taxes are

 

subject to forfeiture, foreclosure, and sale in the same manner and

 

at the same time as taxes returned as delinquent under the general

 

property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.1 to 211.157.

 

     Enacting section 1. This act does not take effect unless all

 

of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are enacted into

 

law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5833(request no.

 

00696'05 *).

 

     (b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 5835(request no.

 

00696'05 b).