As Michigan lawmakers finally approved a budget, one piece of the deal included a new tax on wholesale marijuana sales that is intended to help fund future road work.
The road plan relies on the 24% wholesale tax on marijuana, and is about half as big as the $3 billion road deal Whitmer and House Speaker Matt Hall, R-Richland Township, had aimed for.
The plan also draws on redirecting corporate income tax revenues and removing the 6% sales tax from fuel sales to allow for a 20-cent-per-gallon hike in the fuel tax, while leaving the price paid at the pump about the same. Together, the changes are expected to increase annual road funding by $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion per year, Hall said at a Sept. 25 news conference.
The bill received support from 78 House members, according to Michigan Votes, including:
Republicans
- Aragona (R-60)
- BeGole (R-71)
- Bierlein (R-97)
- Bohnak (R-109)
- Bollin (R-49)
- Borton (R-105)
- Bruck (R-30)
- Cavitt (R-106)
- DeBoer (R-86)
- DeBoyer (R-63)
- Fairbairn (R-107)
- Fox (R-101)
- Frisbie (R-44)
- Green (R-67)
- Hall (R-42)
- Harris (R-52)
- Hoadley (R-99)
- Jenkins-Arno (R-34)
- Johnsen (R-78)
- Kelly (R-93)
- Kuhn (R-57)
- Kunse (R-100)
- Lightner (R-45)
- Linting (R-27)
- Maddock (R-51)
- Markkanen (R-110)
- Martin (R-68)
- Meerman (R-89)
- Mueller (R-72)
- Neyer (R-92)
- Outman (R-91)
- Pavlov (R-64)
- Prestin (R-108)
- Robinson (R-58)
- Roth (R-104)
- Schmaltz (R-46)
- Schriver (R-66)
- Schuette (R-95)
- Slagh (R-85)
- Smit (R-43)
- St. Germaine (R-62)
- Tisdel (R-55)
- VanderWall (R-102)
- VanWoerkom (R-88)
- Wendzel (R-39)
- Woolford (R-50)
- Wortz (R-35)
- Wozniak (R-59)
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Democrats
- Breen (D-21)
- Brixie (D-73)
- Byrnes (D-15)
- Farhat (D-3)
- Fitzgerald (D-83)
- Foreman (D-33)
- Herzberg (D-25)
- Hope (D-74)
- Hoskins (D-18)
- Koleszar (D-22)
- Liberati (D-2)
- Longjohn (D-40)
- MacDonell (D-56)
- Martus (D-69)
- Mentzer (D-61)
- Morgan (D-23)
- Paiz (D-10)
- Pohutsky (D-17)
- Price (D-6)
- Puri (D-24)
- Rheingans (D-47)
- Rogers (D-41)
- Snyder (D-87)
- Steckloff (D-19)
- Tsernoglou (D-75)
- Wegela (D-26)
- Weiss (D-5)
- Witwer (D-76)
- Wooden (D-81)
- Young (D-16)
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