To specify that the property tax (“assessment”) that the Detroit Regional Transit Authority may collect under a 2012 law may be for up to two mills but not more, which would reportedly extract an additional $300 million annually from Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne County property owners. Also, to exempt this tax from being skimmed by a “tax capture” authority’s tax increment finance scheme (for example a downtown development authority).   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

To allow up to 4 mills in property tax to be imposed on metro area property owners by this entity, rather than the two mills proposed by the bill.