Anti-Environment

Effective: 2021-2022

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HB 4443 and HB 4444 enable the shifting of money dedicated to the state’s bottle deposit fund (and contaminated site clean up) towards beverage distributors, reducing the state’s ability to address the more than 24,000 registered contaminated sites across Michigan. HB 4443 would allow bottle distributors to claim a $0.005 income tax credit for every returnable container sold during the tax year. For 2020, 2021, and 2022, when the unreturned bottle escheats total at least $50 million, HB 4444 (H-1) would allow the Treasury to use the bottle bill escheats to pay back the general fund for any income tax credits (and refunds) claimed under HB 4443 from the bottle deposit fund before distributing the remaining funds to EGLE and retailers.

 

Currently, 75% of unreturned bottle deposit funds are disbursed to EGLE while 25% are given to retailers. According to an HFA report from HB 6762 of 2020, a .5 cent credit on four billion bottles annually would cost the state more than $20 million each year.

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Votes

20 Pro-Environment
88 Anti-Environment
2 N/A
See How Your Lawmaker Voted
Name Party Affiliation Chamber District Lifetime Score Pro/Anti Environment
Tyrone Carter DEMOCRATIC House 1 90%
Nate Shannon DEMOCRATIC House 58 93%
Matt Maddock REPUBLICAN House 51 21%
Annette Glenn REPUBLICAN House 98 56%
Ann Bollin REPUBLICAN House 49 37%
Phil Green REPUBLICAN House 67 50%
Luke Meerman REPUBLICAN House 89 30%
Brad Slagh REPUBLICAN House 85 37%
Jack O'Malley REPUBLICAN House 101 63%
Alex Garza DEMOCRATIC House 12 75%
Sarah Anthony DEMOCRATIC Senate 21 97%
Kara Hope DEMOCRATIC House 74 100%
Graham Filler REPUBLICAN House 93 43%
Jim Haadsma DEMOCRATIC House 44 90%
Brad Paquette REPUBLICAN House 37 30%
Angela Witwer DEMOCRATIC House 76 87%
Gary Eisen REPUBLICAN House 81 56%
Mark Huizenga REPUBLICAN Senate 30 60%
John Cherry DEMOCRATIC Senate 27 87%
Matt Hall REPUBLICAN House 42 43%
Andrea Schroeder REPUBLICAN House 43 67%
Cynthia A. Johnson DEMOCRATIC House 5 75%
Ryan Berman REPUBLICAN House 39 44%
Greg VanWoerkom REPUBLICAN House 88 37%
Rodney Wakeman REPUBLICAN House 94 63%
Laurie Pohutsky DEMOCRATIC House 17 100%
Pauline Wendzel REPUBLICAN House 39 40%
Matt Koleszar DEMOCRATIC House 22 97%
Karen Whitsett DEMOCRATIC House 4 92%
Sarah Lightner REPUBLICAN House 45 40%
Jeff Yaroch REPUBLICAN House 33 64%
Brenda Carter DEMOCRATIC House 53 93%
Mike Mueller REPUBLICAN House 72 43%
Kevin Coleman DEMOCRATIC House 25 81%
Kyra Bolden DEMOCRATIC House 35 87%
Greg Markkanen REPUBLICAN House 110 34%
Julie Brixie DEMOCRATIC House 73 93%
Rachel Hood DEMOCRATIC House 81 97%
Joe Tate DEMOCRATIC House 10 90%
Doug Wozniak REPUBLICAN House 59 41%
Mari Manoogian DEMOCRATIC House 40 88%
Lori Stone DEMOCRATIC House 13 100%
Tullio Liberati DEMOCRATIC House 2 90%
Bob Bezotte REPUBLICAN House 50 39%
John Damoose REPUBLICAN Senate 37 43%
Ken Borton REPUBLICAN House 105 29%
Timmy Beson REPUBLICAN House 96 33%
Richard Steenland DEMOCRATIC House 22 86%
Ranjeev Puri DEMOCRATIC House 24 100%
Mary Cavanagh DEMOCRATIC Senate 6 100%
Stephanie Young DEMOCRATIC House 16 95%
Helena Scott DEMOCRATIC House 7 95%
Shri Thanedar DEMOCRATIC House 3 86%
Abraham Aiyash DEMOCRATIC House 9 100%
Cynthia Neeley DEMOCRATIC House 70 92%
Padma Kuppa DEMOCRATIC House 41 100%
Regina Weiss DEMOCRATIC House 6 100%
Samantha Steckloff DEMOCRATIC House 19 95%
Kelly Breen DEMOCRATIC House 21 100%
Andrew Beeler REPUBLICAN House 64 19%
Bryan Posthumus REPUBLICAN House 90 29%
Pat Outman REPUBLICAN House 91 29%
Steve Carra REPUBLICAN House 36 5%
Andrew Fink REPUBLICAN House 35 19%
TC Clements REPUBLICAN House 56 57%
David Martin REPUBLICAN House 68 29%
Mark Tisdel REPUBLICAN House 55 29%
Amos O'Neal DEMOCRATIC House 94 95%
Christine Morse DEMOCRATIC House 40 100%
Julie Rogers DEMOCRATIC House 41 100%
Felicia Brabec DEMOCRATIC House 33 100% excused
J.R. Roth REPUBLICAN House 104 35%
Scott VanSingel REPUBLICAN House 100 50%
Bronna Kahle REPUBLICAN House 57 48%
Jason Wentworth REPUBLICAN House 97 48%
Mary Whiteford REPUBLICAN House 80 48%
Terry Sabo DEMOCRATIC House 92 76%
Beau LaFave REPUBLICAN House 108 38%
David LaGrand DEMOCRATIC House 75 92% excused
Donna Lasinski DEMOCRATIC House 52 96%
Jim Lilly REPUBLICAN House 89 48%
Jewell Jones DEMOCRATIC House 11 80%
Ronnie Peterson DEMOCRATIC House 54 92%
Steven Johnson REPUBLICAN House 72 29%
Yousef Rabhi DEMOCRATIC House 53 92%
John Reilly REPUBLICAN House 46 25%
Daire Rendon REPUBLICAN House 103 48%
Tenisha Yancey DEMOCRATIC House 1 79%
Beth Griffin REPUBLICAN House 66 48%
Abdullah Hammoud DEMOCRATIC House 15 100%
Roger Hauck REPUBLICAN Senate 34 33%
Tommy Brann REPUBLICAN House 77 44%
Kevin Hertel DEMOCRATIC Senate 12 89%
Michele Hoitenga REPUBLICAN Senate 36 29%
Pamela Hornberger REPUBLICAN House 32 42%
Joe Bellino REPUBLICAN Senate 16 36%
Gary Howell REPUBLICAN House 82 48%
Sue Allor REPUBLICAN House 106 63%
Julie Alexander REPUBLICAN House 64 42%
Steve Marino REPUBLICAN House 24 45%
Thomas Albert REPUBLICAN Senate 18 31%
Tim Sneller DEMOCRATIC House 50 88%
William Sowerby DEMOCRATIC House 31 100%
Julie Calley REPUBLICAN House 87 44%
Sara Cambensy DEMOCRATIC House 109 75%
Ben Frederick REPUBLICAN House 85 48%
Diana Farrington REPUBLICAN House 30 52%
Jim Ellison DEMOCRATIC House 26 96%
Cara Clemente DEMOCRATIC House 14 92%
Darrin Camilleri DEMOCRATIC Senate 4 95%