Bill Text: MI SB0216 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Elections; candidates; presidential candidates' prior years' tax returns; require to be filed with secretary of state. Amends 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.1 - 168.992) by adding sec. 686c.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-07 - Referred To Committee On Elections And Government Reform [SB0216 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0216-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 216

 

 

Introduced by Senators BIEDA, CONYERS, GREGORY, YOUNG, KNEZEK, HERTEL, WARREN, HOOD, JOHNSON and ANANICH.

 

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

(MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 686c.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 686c. (1) Not later than 60 days before a general

 

November election in the year in which elections for the offices

 

are held, a candidate for President or Vice President of the United

 

States, other than a write-in candidate who files a declaration of

 

intent to be a write-in candidate as provided in section 737a,

 

shall do all of the following:

 

     (a) File with the secretary of state a copy of his or her

 

federal income tax return, as that term is defined in section

 

6103(b)(1) of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 6103(b)(1),

for at least the 5 most recent taxable years for which a return has

 

been filed with the Internal Revenue Service.

 

     (b) File with the secretary of state a copy of his or her

 

state income tax return for at least the 5 most recent taxable

 

years for which a return has been filed.

 

     (c) Provide written consent to the secretary of state, on a

 

form prescribed by the secretary of state, for the public

 

disclosure of the returns as provided in subsection (2).

 

     (2) Subject to subsection (3), not later than 30 days before

 

the general November election, the secretary of state shall make

 

the returns publicly available on an internet website maintained by

 

the department of state.

 

     (3) Before making any federal income tax return or state

 

income tax return filed with the secretary of state under

 

subsection (1) publicly available, the secretary of state shall

 

redact any information the secretary of state, in consultation with

 

the department of treasury, considers appropriate.

 

     (4) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if a

 

candidate for the office of President or Vice President of the

 

United States does not timely file his or her federal income tax

 

returns, state income tax returns, and written consent with the

 

secretary of state as provided in subsection (1), the secretary of

 

state shall not include the name of that candidate on the official

 

ballot for the general November election.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.