HOUSE BILL No. 6493

 

September 23, 2008, Introduced by Rep. Stakoe and referred to the Committee on Intergovernmental, Urban and Regional Affairs.

 

     A bill to amend 1966 PA 346, entitled

 

"State housing development authority act of 1966,"

 

(MCL 125.1401 to 125.1499c) by adding chapter 3B.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

                              CHAPTER 3B

 

     Sec. 59. (1) The definitions in section 11 apply to this

 

chapter unless otherwise provided in this chapter.

 

     (2) As used in this chapter:

 

     (a) "Household income" means that term as defined in section

 

508 of the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206.508.

 

     (b) "Low and moderate income" means household income of less

 

than 80% of the area median gross income.

 

     (c) "Supportive housing property" means property that meets

 

all of the following requirements:


 

     (i) Is developed by an organization exempt under section

 

501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, 26 USC 501.

 

     (ii) Is occupied solely by persons with low and moderate

 

incomes who are eligible recipients of the public mental health

 

system.

 

     (iii) Consists of not more than 6 individual living units.

 

     Sec. 59a. (1) Not more than 90 days after an owner of property

 

submits an application, the authority shall determine if property

 

is supportive housing property. The application shall be in a form

 

provided by the authority.

 

     (2) If the authority determines that property is supportive

 

housing property as defined in this chapter, the authority shall,

 

subject to the limitations and restrictions provided in section

 

59b, certify that property as supportive housing property.

 

     (3) An owner of property for which certification as supportive

 

housing property is denied or a local unit of government in which

 

property certified as supportive housing property is located may

 

appeal the authority's determination to the circuit court of the

 

county in which the property is located.

 

     Sec. 59b. (1) In each year, the authority shall not certify a

 

parcel of property as supportive housing property if all parcels of

 

property previously certified as supportive housing property in

 

that year contain, in the aggregate, more than 250 individual

 

living units.

 

     (2) In each year, 50% of the parcels of property the authority

 

certifies as supportive housing property shall be existing projects

 

and 50% of the parcels of property the authority certifies as


 

supportive housing property shall be new projects. However, if the

 

number of applications for certification for existing projects

 

accounts for less than 50% of the number of parcels of property

 

that may be certified as supportive housing property, the authority

 

may certify new projects for the remaining number of parcels of

 

property.

 

     (3) Subject to subsection (2), the authority shall certify

 

property as supportive housing property on a first-come, first-

 

served basis.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 94th Legislature are

 

enacted into law:

 

     (a) House Bill No. 5437.

 

     (b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 6492(request no.

 

08307'08).