Bill Text: MI SB0441 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Campaign finance; statements and reports; electronic filing and internet disclosure system; allow counties to adopt. Amends 1976 PA 388 (MCL 169.201 - 169.282) by adding sec. 18a.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-12-31 - Assigned Pa 0259'13 With Immediate Effect [SB0441 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB0441-Engrossed.html

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SB-0441, As Passed House, December 11, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBSTITUTE FOR

 

SENATE BILL NO. 441

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled

 

"Michigan campaign finance act,"

 

(MCL 169.201 to 169.282) by adding section 18a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 18a. (1) A county clerk may adopt an electronic filing

 

and internet disclosure system developed or approved by the

 

secretary of state that permits committees that are required to

 

file statements or reports under this act with the county clerk to

 

file those statements or reports electronically and that provides

 

internet disclosure of electronically filed statements or reports

 

on a website. If the secretary of state develops an internet

 

disclosure system, the secretary of state shall not charge a county

 

clerk for the software for that system.

 

     (2) A county clerk who adopts a system under subsection (1)

 

may require each committee that received or expended the threshold

 

amount set by the county clerk as provided in this subsection in

 

the preceding calendar year or expects to receive or expend the

 

threshold amount set by the county clerk in the current calendar

 

year to file campaign statements or reports electronically. A

 

county clerk shall set the threshold under this subsection at

 

$5,000.00 or $1,500.00.

 

     (3) A county clerk who adopts a system under subsection (1)

 

shall permit a committee to electronically file statements and

 

reports required under this act, as described in subsection (1),

 

except an original statement of organization, after the committee

 

treasurer and, for a candidate committee, the candidate has signed

 

and filed a form designed by the secretary of state to serve as the

 

signature verifying the accuracy and completeness of each statement

 

or report filed electronically.

 

     (4) If a committee was not required to file a campaign

 

statement under subsection (2) only because it did not meet the

 

applicable threshold, but the committee later reaches that

 

threshold, the committee shall notify the county clerk within 10

 

business days after reaching that threshold and shall subsequently

 

file electronically all statements and reports required under this

 

act.