Bill Text: MI SB0428 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Elections; registration; online voter registration; allow. Amends sec. 509t of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.509t). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0425'17, SB 0426'17, SB 0427'17, SB 0429'17
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-11-27 - Assigned Pa 0353'18 With Immediate Effect [SB0428 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0428-Enrolled.html
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
Introduced by Senator Hansen
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 428
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 509t (MCL 168.509t), as amended by 2004 PA 92.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 509t. (1) Notwithstanding another provision of law to the contrary, a person who is a qualified elector in this state and who registers to vote in a manner consistent with the national voter registration act of 1993 is considered a registered voter under this act.
(2) A person who registers to vote in a jurisdiction in this state by mail or by submitting an electronic voter registration application shall vote in person and shall provide identification as required under section 303(b) of the help America vote act of 2002, 52 USC 21083, if that person has not previously voted in person in this state. This subsection does not apply to any of the following registered voters:
(a) A person who has registered to vote in a jurisdiction in this state in person.
(b) A person entitled to vote by absentee ballot under the uniformed and overseas citizens absentee voting act.
(c) A person who has a disability as that term is defined in section 103 of the persons with disabilities civil rights act, 1976 PA 220, MCL 37.1103, or, for purposes of voting in person only, a person who is 60 years of age or older.
(d) A person who is entitled to vote other than in person under any other federal law.
(3) This section does not preclude this state from prosecuting a violation of this act that is also a violation of a federal election or voting rights law.
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. 426.
(b) Senate Bill No. 427.
(c) Senate Bill No. 425.
(d) Senate Bill No. 429.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
