HOUSE BILL No. 4989
October 12, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Pappageorge, Raczkowski, Ruth Johnson, Rocca, Richner, Geiger, Gosselin, Kukuk, Faunce, Shulman, Kowall, Toy, Wojno, Gieleghem, Woodward, Bishop, O'Neill, DeHart, Schermesser and Green and referred to the Committee on Economic Development. A bill to amend 1985 PA 106, entitled "State convention facility development act," by amending section 10 (MCL 207.630). THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT: 1 Sec. 10. (1) Any money remaining in the convention facility 2 development fund at the end of the state fiscal year shall be 3 transferred to the general fund of the state treasury to be dis- 4 tributed in the next state fiscal year pursuant to subsection 5 (2). 6 (2) Money transferred from the convention facility develop- 7 ment fund to the general fund pursuant to subsection (1) shall be 8 distributed in the following order of priority in the following 9 amounts: 10 (a) An amount equal to the difference, if any, between the 11 tax imposed pursuant to this act in the preceding state fiscal 04222'99 JLB 2 1 year that is designated pursuant to section 9 to a qualified 2 local governmental unit and the tax imposed pursuant to this act 3 that is designated pursuant to section 9 in the state fiscal year 4 prior to the preceding state fiscal year for the same local gov- 5 ernmental unit shall be distributed to that local governmental 6 unit. This subdivision shall not apply unless a tax has been 7 imposed under this act in the entire 2 state fiscal years immedi- 8 ately preceding the state fiscal year in which a distribution 9 under this subdivision is made. Any amount distributed pursuant 10 to this subdivision shall be used by the local governmental unit 11 only for the retirement of outstanding bonds, obligations, or 12 other evidences of indebtedness incurred for which distributions 13 pursuant to section 9 are pledged. A distribution under this 14 subdivision shall not be made to the extent that the obligations, 15 bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness cannot be retired or 16 are not outstanding. 17 (b) Of the money transferred pursuant to subsection (1) and 18 remaining after distributions under subdivision (a), an amount 19 equal to that portion of the liquor tax collected pursuant to 20 the convention facility promotion tax act SECTION 1207 OF THE 21 MICHIGAN LIQUOR CONTROL CODE OF 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.2207, 22 from licensees in counties in which convention hotels are not 23 located shall be distributed to those counties in which conven- 24 tion hotels are not located in the same proportion that the 25 amount of tax collected pursuant to the convention facility pro- 26 motion tax act SECTION 1207 OF THE MICHIGAN LIQUOR CONTROL CODE 27 OF 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.2207, in the preceding state fiscal 04222'99 3 1 year from the licensees in a county bears to the total tax 2 collections pursuant to the convention facility promotion tax 3 act SECTION 1207 OF THE MICHIGAN LIQUOR CONTROL CODE OF 1998, 4 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.2207, in the preceding state fiscal year from 5 all counties in which convention hotels are not located. 6 (c) The remaining money transferred pursuant to subsection 7 (1) after distributions under subdivisions (a) and (b) shall be 8 distributed to each county in the following amounts: 9 (i) The amount of money available to be distributed under 10 this subdivision multiplied by the percentage of collections in 11 the preceding state fiscal year under the convention facility 12 promotion tax act from licensees in counties in which convention 13 hotels are not located shall be distributed to each county in 14 which convention hotels are not located in the same proportion 15 that the amount of tax collected pursuant to the convention 16 facility promotion tax act in the preceding state fiscal year 17 from licensees in that county bears to the total tax collections 18 from the convention facility promotion tax act in the preceding 19 state fiscal year from all counties in which convention hotels 20 are not located. 21 (ii) The amount of money available to be distributed under 22 this subdivision multiplied by the percentage of collections in 23 the preceding state fiscal year under the convention facility 24 promotion tax act from licensees in counties in which convention 25 hotels are located shall be distributed to each county in which 26 convention hotels are located in the same proportion that the 27 amount of tax collected pursuant to the convention facility 04222'99 4 1 promotion tax act SECTION 1207 OF THE MICHIGAN LIQUOR CONTROL 2 CODE OF 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.2207, AND THE EXCISE TAX COL- 3 LECTED UNDER THIS ACT in the preceding state fiscal year from 4 licensees in that county bears to the total tax collections from 5 the convention facility promotion tax act SECTION 1207 OF THE 6 MICHIGAN LIQUOR CONTROL CODE OF 1998, 1998 PA 58, MCL 436.2207, 7 AND THE EXCISE TAX COLLECTED UNDER THIS ACT in the preceding 8 state fiscal year from all counties in which convention hotels 9 are located. However, in the calculation of the proportion rep- 10 resented by a county's share of distributions under this subpara- 11 graph, the amount of the tax collected from licensees in the 12 qualified local governmental unit that received distributions 13 under section 9 in the last state fiscal year shall not be 14 included. 15 (3) A distribution to a county pursuant to this section 16 shall be included for purposes of the calculations required to be 17 made by section 24e of the general property tax act, Act No. 206 18 of the Public Acts of 1893, being section 211.24e of the Michigan 19 Compiled Laws 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.24E. If the governing body 20 of a taxing unit approves the additional millage rate under 21 section 24e of the general property tax act, Act No. 206 of the 22 Public Acts of 1893 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.24E, which is due to 23 distributions pursuant to this section, then an amount equal to 24 50% of the distribution under this section shall be used for sub- 25 stance abuse treatment within the taxing unit. 04222'99 Final page. JLB