HOUSE BILL No. 4125

 

January 25, 2007, Introduced by Reps. Proos, Stahl, Miller, Accavitti, Angerer, Meekhof, Ball, Shaffer, Pearce, Steil, Hopgood, Mayes and Pavlov and referred to the Committee on Energy and Technology.

 

     A bill to amend 1933 PA 167, entitled

 

"General sales tax act,"

 

(MCL 205.51 to 205.78) by adding section 4ee.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4ee. (1) A person subject to tax under this act may

 

exclude from gross proceeds used for the computation of the tax the

 

sale of a qualified home appliance. As used in this section,

 

"qualified home appliance" means a clothes washer, dehumidifier,

 

refrigerator, dishwasher, freezer, room air conditioner, air

 

cleaner, or water cooler, intended for residential or noncommercial

 

use, that meets or exceeds the applicable energy star energy

 

efficiency guidelines developed by the United States environmental

 

protection agency and the United States department of energy.

 


     (2) This state shall reimburse the school aid fund created in

 

section 11 of article IX of the state constitution of 1963 for all

 

revenue lost as a result of the amendatory act that added this

 

section.