Bill Text: MI SB0426 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Engrossed
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-Engrossed.html
SB-0426, As Passed Senate, March 15, 2018
SENATE BILL No. 426
June 6, 2017, Introduced by Senator NOFS and referred to the Committee on Elections and Government Reform.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled
"Michigan election law,"
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
509hh 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 509hh: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.
