To create a new state “rural development fund” run by a board of political appointees who would choose how to spend revenue earmarked from the new mine tax authorized by House Bill 6008.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To give Upper Peninsula residents three guaranteed seats on the authority's five-member board, instead of two.

To limit spending by the proposed authority to communities located within regions with nonferrous mineral mining operations.

To further narrow a "preference" that the new tax revenue from House Bill 6008 be allocated to the "region" where it is generated, specifying that it go proportionately to the counties where it is generated.

To change the investment guidelines and restrictions for the proposed authority from the same ones that apply to government pension funds to the same ones that apply to "surplus" government funds.

To expand the things the proposed authority could spend on to include "telecommunication facilities" owned or operated by local governments and educational institutions.

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

To allow the proposed fund to spend money on projects in "micropolitan statistical areas" as defined in a federal statistical resource.

To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill.