Bill Text: MI HB4385 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Elections; scheduling; February regular election date; eliminate. Amends sec. 322 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.322). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4271'15, HB 4272'15, HB 4273'15, HB 4274'15, HB 4276'15

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-07-14 - Assigned Pa 103'15 With Immediate Effect [HB4385 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB4385-Chaptered.html

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Act No. 103

Public Acts of 2015

Approved by the Governor

June 29, 2015

Filed with the Secretary of State

June 30, 2015

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 28, 2015

STATE OF MICHIGAN

98TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2015

Introduced by Rep. Jacobsen

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4385

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 322 (MCL 168.322), as amended by 2012 PA 276.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 322. If a charter provides for nomination by caucus or by filing a petition or affidavit directly for the May election, the candidate filing deadline or certification deadline is 4 p.m. on the fifteenth Tuesday before the May election.

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 98th Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 4271.

(b) House Bill No. 4272.

(c) House Bill No. 4273.

(d) House Bill No. 4274.

(e) House Bill No. 4276.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor