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2008 House Bill 6515 (Expand stadium tax law ) (Senate Roll Call 824)

Passed in the Senate (37 to 1) on December 18, 2008, to expand the scope of the law that authorizes local hotel, restaurant and rental car excise taxes to pay for municipal stadiums. The bill would lower a certain population standard, allowing Kalamazoo County and Kalamazoo to levy these taxes. [History, Amendments & Comments]

The vote was 37 in favor, 1 opposed, and 0 not voting
(Senate Roll Call 824 at Senate Journal 93)

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The following legislators supported 2008 House Bill 6515 (Expand stadium tax law ):

Allen (R) Anderson (D) Barcia (D) Basham (D) Birkholz (R) Bishop (R)
Brater (D) Brown (R) Cassis (R) Cherry (D) Clark-Coleman (D) Clarke (D)
Cropsey (R) Garcia (R) George (R) Gilbert (R) Gleason (D) Hardiman (R)
Hunter (D) Jacobs (D) Jansen (R) Jelinek (R) Kahn (R) Kuipers (R)
McManus (R) Olshove (D) Pappageorge (R) Patterson (R) Prusi (D) Sanborn (R)
Schauer (D) Scott (D) Stamas (R) Switalski (D) Thomas (D) Van Woerkom (R)
Whitmer (D)      

The following legislators opposed 2008 House Bill 6515 (Expand stadium tax law ):

Richardville (R)

The following legislators did not vote on 2008 House Bill 6515 (Expand stadium tax law ):

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2) 2008 House Bill 6515 (Expand stadium tax law ) [by admin on January 1, 2001]
Introduced in the House on September 24, 2008, to expand the scope of the law that authorizes local hotel, restaurant and rental car excise taxes to pay for municipal stadiums. The bill would lower a certain population standard, allowing Kalamazoo County and Kalamazoo to levy these taxes

The vote was 67 in favor, 36 opposed and 7 not voting

(House Roll Call 865 at House Journal 85)

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