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With the Legislature taking a breather last week following their work on no-fault auto insurance reform (Senate Bill 1), the focus from Lansing was on the activity at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island. Members of our State & Federal Affairs team attended the conference to...

As Treasury continues to implement changes to the state's Personal Property Tax reimbursement system that were enacted last year, many communities received the second portion of their 2018 reimbursement distributions from the Local Community Stabilization Authority (LCSA) in recent days. One element of the changes enacted last summer resulted in...

As the Legislature moves towards a potential summer recess, a number of keys issues have dominated the political landscape - Auto Insurance Reform Most of the recent work in Lansing has centered on the House and Senate movement of auto no-fault insurance reform proposals (HB 4397 and SB 1). The Senate...

The State Tax Commission recently provided guidance to villages with boundaries that cross multiple township and/or county lines.  The League was able to secure language in last fall’s assessing reform legislation that allows any village that crosses into multiple jurisdictions to appoint one, single assessor or record to streamline their...

The House Military, Veterans, & Homeland Security committee has scheduled a hearing for next Tuesday, March 19th on a recently introduced bill that targets local units of government with any so-called sanctuary city policies or ordinances. House Bill 4083 (Hornberger) is similar to legislation that the League has previously opposed that...

Earlier this afternoon Treasury staff shared the following information as part of the 2018 amendments that the League supported to the state's Personal Property Tax reimbursement system.  A key component of last year's law change allows communities to seek corrections to their PPT reimbursement amounts when calculation or data errors...

Following the Senate's release of their committee membership last week, the House released their committees late yesterday, signaling the real beginning for legislative activity in this new term.  Now that committees in both chambers have been finalized, consideration of new bills will likely commence in the coming weeks. The only...

A recent court decision has disrupted how many communities have been operating under PA 152 of 2011, the state’s hard cap/80-20 law.  Both the House and Senate are considering bills that would address two key components of the recent Command Officers Association v Shelby Township case that the Michigan Supreme...

The Senate Michigan Competitiveness Committee reported Senate Bill 1129 last week with the support of the Michigan Municipal League. This bill would extend the 12/31/2018 sunset date of the current law by five years and expand access to this bonding tool to single-A rated communities. The League has long argued...

The Michigan Municipal League needs your help THIS MORNING to support a bill that would move the payment of a property tax credit for disabled veterans from local governments to the state. House Bill 4986 would change the current 100 percent disabled veterans’ property tax credit from a local cost...