SENATE BILL No. 539

 

 

May 24, 2007, Introduced by Senators SANBORN, RICHARDVILLE, PATTERSON, GILBERT, JANSEN, PAPPAGEORGE, BIRKHOLZ, ALLEN, BROWN, GARCIA, THOMAS, JACOBS and HUNTER and referred to the Committee on Economic Development and Regulatory Reform.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1996 PA 381, entitled

 

"Brownfield redevelopment financing act,"

 

by amending section 16 (MCL 125.2666), as amended by 2000 PA 145.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 16. (1) The municipal and county treasurers shall

 

transmit tax increment revenues to the authority not more than 30

 

days after tax increment revenues are collected.

 

     (2) The authority shall expend the tax increment revenues

 

received only in accordance with the brownfield plan. All surplus

 

funds not deposited in the local site remediation revolving fund of

 

the authority under section 13(5) shall revert proportionately to

 

the respective taxing bodies, except as provided in section 15(20).

 

The governing body may abolish the plan when it finds that the

 


purposes for which the plan was established are accomplished.

 

However, the plan shall not be abolished until the principal and

 

interest on bonds issued under section 17 and all other obligations

 

to which the tax increment revenues are pledged have been paid or

 

funds sufficient to make the payment have been segregated.

 

     (3) The authority shall submit annually to the governing body

 

and the state tax commission a financial report on the status of

 

the activities of the authority. The report shall include all of

 

the following:

 

     (a) The amount and source of tax increment revenues received.

 

     (b) The amount and purpose of expenditures of tax increment

 

revenues.

 

     (c) The amount of principal and interest on all outstanding

 

indebtedness.

 

     (d) The initial taxable value of all eligible property subject

 

to the brownfield plan.

 

     (e) The captured taxable value realized by the authority.

 

     (f) Information concerning any transfer of ownership of or

 

interest in each eligible property.

 

     (g) All additional information that the governing body or the

 

state tax commission considers necessary.

 

     (4) The state tax commission shall collect the financial

 

reports submitted under subsection (3), compile and analyze the

 

information contained in those reports, and submit annually a

 

report based on that information to all of the following standing

 

committees of the legislature:

 

     (a) In the house of representatives, the committees

 


responsible for natural resource management, conservation,

 

environmental protection, and taxation.

 

     (b) In the senate, the committees responsible for natural

 

resource management, conservation, environmental protection,

 

economic development, and taxation.