Bill Text: MI HB4387 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Education; financing; permissible uses of sinking fund; revise for certain school districts. Amends sec. 1212 of 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1212).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-12 - Printed Bill Filed 03/08/2013 [HB4387 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4387-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4387

 

March 7, 2013, Introduced by Rep. Crawford and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.

 

      A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

 

"The revised school code,"

 

by amending section 1212 (MCL 380.1212), as amended by 2003 PA

 

299.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

 1        Sec. 1212. (1) If approved by the school electors of the

 

 2  school district, the board of a school district may levy a tax of

 

 3  not to exceed 5 mills on the state equalized valuation taxable

 

 4  value of the real and personal property of the school district

 

 5  each year for a period of not to exceed 20 years, for the purpose

 

 6  of creating a sinking fund to be used for the purchase of real

 

 7  estate for sites for, and the construction or repair of, school

 

 8  buildings. A school district that has a balanced budget for the

 

 9  current school year may also create and use a sinking fund as

 

 1  otherwise allowed under this subsection, or use an existing

 

 2  sinking fund, for the purchase or major maintenance of school

 

 3  buses or for the acquisition or upgrading of technology. The

 

 4  sinking fund tax levy is subject to the 15 mill tax limitation

 

 5  provisions of section 6 of article IX of the state constitution

 

 6  of 1963 and the property tax limitation act, 1933 PA 62, MCL

 

 7  211.201 to 211.217a.

 

 8        (2) A school district that levies a sinking fund tax under

 

 9  this section shall have an independent audit of its sinking fund

 

10  conducted annually, including a review of the uses of the sinking

 

11  fund, and shall submit the audit report to the department of

 

12  treasury. If the department of treasury determines from the audit

 

13  report that the sinking fund has been used for a purpose other

 

14  than those authorized for the sinking fund under this section,

 

15  the school district shall repay the misused funds to the sinking

 

16  fund from the school district's operating funds and shall not

 

17  levy a sinking fund tax under this section after the date the

 

18  department of treasury makes that determination.

 

19        (3) (2) The proposition of levying a sinking fund tax shall

 

20  be submitted to the school electors of the school district at a

 

21  regular or special school election.

 

22        (4) (3) The question of levying taxes for the purpose of

 

23  creating a sinking fund shall be by ballot in substantially the

 

24  following form:

 

 

25       "Shall _______________________________ levy _______ mills

26              (legal name of school district)

27 to create a sinking fund for the purpose of ___________________

1  _______________________________________________________________

2  for a period of _____ years?

3        Yes ( )

4        No  ( )".

 

 

 5        (5) (4) For the purposes of this section, millage approved

 

 6  by the school electors before December 1, 1993 for which the

 

 7  authorization has not expired is considered to be approved by the

 

 8  school electors.

 

 9        (6) As used in this section, "technology" means that term as

 

10  defined in section 1351a.