Bill Text: MI HB4702 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Elections: other; precinct size; increase. Amends secs. 658 & 661 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.658 & 168.661).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-07-19 - Assigned Pa 88'23 [HB4702 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4702-Chaptered.html
Act No. 88
Public Acts of 2023
Approved by the Governor
July 18, 2023
Filed with the Secretary of State
July 19, 2023
EFFECTIVE DATE: Sine Die
(91st day after final adjournment of the 2023 Regular Session)
state of michigan
102nd Legislature
Regular session of 2023
Introduced by Reps. Tsernoglou, Hope, Hill, Young, Glanville, Rheingans, Wilson, Morgan, Miller, Wegela, Grant, O’Neal, MacDonell, Brixie, Paiz, Hoskins, Price, Koleszar, Weiss, Coffia, Byrnes and Brabec
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4702
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 sections 658 and 661 (MCL 168.658 and 168.661), as amended by 2012 PA 270.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 658. If a city, ward, township, or village is divided into 2 or more election precincts, pursuant to law, and it appears from an examination of the precinct registration records that there are not more than 5,000 active registered electors in the city, ward, township, or village, the election commission, or other officials charged with the performance of the duty by the charter of a city or village, by resolution, may abolish the division or divisions and after that time the city, ward, township, or village constitutes a single election precinct as if a division had not been made. A consolidation must not be made later than the 120 days before a primary or election.
Sec. 661. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), city and township election commissions shall divide precincts according to law, not later than 210 days before the primary next preceding the general November election, and shall immediately notify the county clerk of the number of registered electors in each precinct in the city or township. The county clerk shall notify the secretary of state not later than 200 days before the primary of a precinct in the clerk’s county that has not been divided according to law, and the secretary of state shall proceed to make divisions as are necessary at the expense of the city or township involved, not later than 180 days before the primary next preceding the general November election. A division of precincts must be made effective not later than 180 days before the primary election next preceding the general November election.
(2) In the second year following each federal decennial census, precincts must be divided under this subsection. City and township election commissions shall divide precincts not later than 120 days before the primary election next preceding the general November election in order that a precinct, as far as is practical, is not split between districts and does not exceed 5,000 registered electors, and shall immediately notify the county clerk of the number of registered electors in each precinct in each city or township. The county clerk shall notify the secretary of state not later than 110 days before the primary of any precincts in the county that have not been divided, and the secretary of state shall proceed to make the divisions as are necessary, at the expense of the city or township involved, not later than 90 days before the primary election next preceding the general November election. The division of precincts must be made effective not later than 90 days before the primary election. The secretary of state may authorize, on written request by a city or township election commission, a later division of a precinct that contains portions of more than 1 elective district. All precinct divisions must be completed not later than 90 days before the primary election next preceding the general November election. In determining the number of registered voters for a precinct under this subsection, a city or township election commission or the secretary of state, as applicable, must use only the active registered electors for that city or township.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
