Bill Text: MI HB4714 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Campaign finance; statements and reports; postelection statement; modify. Amends sec. 848 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.848).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-31 - Printed Bill Filed 03/27/2009 [HB4714 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB4714-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4714

 

March 26, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Durhal, Cushingberry, Lipton, Geiss, Jackson, Donigan, Stanley, Miller, Tlaib, Womack, Warren, Lemmons, Haugh, Liss, Dean and Meadows and referred to the Committee on Ethics and Elections.

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

by amending section 848 (MCL 168.848), as added by 2003 PA 119.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 848. (1) Each elected candidate subject to the Michigan

 

campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.201 to 169.282, and

 

whose candidate committee received or expended more than $1,000.00

 

during the election cycle shall file a postelection statement with

 

the filing official designated to receive the elected candidate's

 

candidate committee campaign statements under section 36 of the

 

Michigan campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.236. All of the

 

following apply to a postelection statement required by this

 

section:

 

     (a) The postelection statement must be on a form prescribed by

 

the secretary of state.

 

     (b) The elected candidate shall file the postelection

 

statement before the elected candidate assumes office.

 

     (c) The postelection statement shall include an attestation

 

signed by the elected candidate that, as of the date of the

 

postelection statement, all statements, reports, late filing fees,

 

and fines required of the candidate or a candidate committee

 

organized to support the candidate's election under the Michigan

 

campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.201 to 169.282, have

 

been filed or paid or that the candidate has entered into a payment

 

plan with the secretary of state under section 15 of the Michigan

 

campaign finance act, 1976 PA 388, MCL 169.215.

 

     (d) The postelection statement shall include an attestation

 

signed by the elected candidate acknowledging that making a false

 

statement in a postelection statement is punishable by a fine of

 

not more than $1,000.00 or imprisonment for not more than 5 years,

 

or both.

 

     (2) Failure to file a postelection statement as required by

 

subsection (1) is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more

 

than $500.00 or imprisonment for not more than 93 days, or both.

 

     (3) Making a false statement in a postelection statement

 

required under subsection (1) is perjury, punishable as provided in

 

section 936.