Bill Text: MI SB0426 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Elections; registration; online voter registration; allow. Amends sec. 509m of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.509m). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0425'17, SB 0427'17, SB 0428'17, SB 0429'17
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-11-27 - Assigned Pa 0351'18 With Immediate Effect [SB0426 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0426-Chaptered.html
Act No. 351
Public Acts of 2018
Approved by the Governor
November 15, 2018
Filed with the Secretary of State
November 15, 2018
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 13, 2019
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
Introduced by Senator Nofs
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 426
AN ACT to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “An act to reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws; to provide for election officials and prescribe their powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees; to provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office; to provide for the resignation, removal, and recall of certain public officers; to provide for the filling of vacancies in public office; to provide for and regulate primaries and elections; to provide for the purity of elections; to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise; to define violations of this act; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and all other acts inconsistent with this act,” by amending section 509m (MCL 168.509m), as amended by 2005 PA 71.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 509m. (1) The purposes of this section and sections 509n to 509ii are all of the following:
(a) To establish a statewide qualified voter file that consists of all qualified electors who wish to be registered to vote in local, state, and federal elections.
(b) To enhance the uniformity of the administration of elections by creating and maintaining a statewide qualified voter file.
(c) To increase the efficiency and decrease the public cost of maintaining voter registration files and implementing the national voter registration act of 1993.
(d) To increase the integrity of the voting process by creating a single qualified voter file that will permit the name of each citizen of this state to appear only once and that is compiled from other state files that require citizens to verify their identity and residence.
(e) To apply technology and information gathered by principal executive departments, state agencies, and county, city, township, and village clerks in a manner that ensures that accurate and current records of qualified voters are maintained.
(2) As used in sections 509n to 509ii:
(a) “Designated voter registration agency” means an office designated under section 509u to perform voter registration activities in this state.
(b) “Qualified voter file” means the statewide qualified voter file established according to section 509o.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.
Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 99th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 427.
(b) Senate Bill No. 425.
(c) Senate Bill No. 428.
(d) Senate Bill No. 429.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
