{"id":1008,"date":"2013-05-08T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/advocacy\/inside208\/post\/House-Committee-Considers-Property-Tax-Exemption-for-Renewable-Energy-Systems.aspx"},"modified":"2013-05-08T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:10:00","slug":"house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"House Committee Considers Property Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning the House Tax Policy Committee considered HB 4245<\/a>, a bill that would exempt eligible renewable energy systems from real property taxes. The League testified in opposition of this legislation.<\/p>\n

The legislation was introduced by Rep. Daley as a result of concerns he heard from farmers in his district who were installing renewable energy systems on their farms and then being taxed for those systems. While the League is supportive of renewable energy, we are not supportive of the continued peacemeal property tax exemptions that continue to be considered by the legislature.<\/p>\n

The League was joined in opposition by the counties, townships and numerous school groups. The committee did not vote on the legislation.<\/p>\n

Samantha Harkins is the Director of State Affairs for the Michigan Municipal League.  She can be reached at 517-908-0306 or email at sharkins@mml.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning the House Tax Policy Committee considered HB 4245, a bill that would exempt eligible renewable energy systems from real property taxes. The League testified in opposition of this legislation. The legislation was introduced by Rep. Daley as a result of concerns he heard from farmers in his district […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-technology","category-legislative-link-articles","category-municipal-finance","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHouse Committee Considers Property Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Systems - Inside 208<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"House Committee Considers Property Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Systems - Inside 208\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This morning the House Tax Policy Committee considered HB 4245, a bill that would exempt eligible renewable energy systems from real property taxes. The League testified in opposition of this legislation. The legislation was introduced by Rep. Daley as a result of concerns he heard from farmers in his district [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Inside 208\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/MMLeague\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-05-08T16:10:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/Inside-208-Site-Image.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dene Westbrook\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@MMLeague\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MMLeague\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dene Westbrook\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dene Westbrook\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#\/schema\/person\/15aed4510ea6fe39f324094edb06c88c\"},\"headline\":\"House Committee Considers Property Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Systems\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-05-08T16:10:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/\"},\"wordCount\":151,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Energy, Technology\",\"Legislative Link Articles\",\"Municipal Finance\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/\",\"name\":\"House Committee Considers Property Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Systems - Inside 208\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-05-08T16:10:00+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"House Committee Considers Property Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Systems\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/\",\"name\":\"Michigan Municipal League - Inside 208\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Michigan Municipal League\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/mml-logo-square-e1673462978850.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/mml-logo-square-e1673462978850.jpg\",\"width\":600,\"height\":303,\"caption\":\"Michigan Municipal League\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/MMLeague\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/MMLeague\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/mmleague\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#\/schema\/person\/15aed4510ea6fe39f324094edb06c88c\",\"name\":\"Dene Westbrook\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d4721eb8effd8cf177fa62c157e667f61896ad872ae6a223a223ce1b260d8b8d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d4721eb8effd8cf177fa62c157e667f61896ad872ae6a223a223ce1b260d8b8d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Dene Westbrook\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/mml.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/author\/mmldev1\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"House Committee Considers Property Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Systems - Inside 208","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"House Committee Considers Property Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Systems - Inside 208","og_description":"This morning the House Tax Policy Committee considered HB 4245, a bill that would exempt eligible renewable energy systems from real property taxes. The League testified in opposition of this legislation. The legislation was introduced by Rep. Daley as a result of concerns he heard from farmers in his district [...]","og_url":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/","og_site_name":"Inside 208","article_publisher":"https:\/\/facebook.com\/MMLeague","article_published_time":"2013-05-08T16:10:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/10\/Inside-208-Site-Image.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Dene Westbrook","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@MMLeague","twitter_site":"@MMLeague","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Dene Westbrook","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/"},"author":{"name":"Dene Westbrook","@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#\/schema\/person\/15aed4510ea6fe39f324094edb06c88c"},"headline":"House Committee Considers Property Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Systems","datePublished":"2013-05-08T16:10:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/"},"wordCount":151,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Energy, Technology","Legislative Link Articles","Municipal Finance"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/","url":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/","name":"House Committee Considers Property Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Systems - Inside 208","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-05-08T16:10:00+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/05\/08\/house-committee-considers-property-tax-exemption-for-renewable-energy-systems\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"House Committee Considers Property Tax Exemption for Renewable Energy Systems"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#website","url":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/","name":"Michigan Municipal League - Inside 208","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#organization","name":"Michigan Municipal League","url":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/mml-logo-square-e1673462978850.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/01\/mml-logo-square-e1673462978850.jpg","width":600,"height":303,"caption":"Michigan Municipal League"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/facebook.com\/MMLeague","https:\/\/x.com\/MMLeague","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/mmleague\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#\/schema\/person\/15aed4510ea6fe39f324094edb06c88c","name":"Dene Westbrook","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d4721eb8effd8cf177fa62c157e667f61896ad872ae6a223a223ce1b260d8b8d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d4721eb8effd8cf177fa62c157e667f61896ad872ae6a223a223ce1b260d8b8d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Dene Westbrook"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/mml.org"],"url":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/author\/mmldev1\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}