Bill Text: MI SB0547 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Elections; registration; resident address on driver license or personal identification card different from resident address on qualified voter file; permit. Amends sec. 509o of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.509o). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0548'15

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-10-07 - Referred To Committee On Elections And Government Reform [SB0547 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-SB0547-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 547

 

 

October 7, 2015, Introduced by Senators WARREN and HERTEL and referred to the Committee on Elections and Government Reform.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

by amending section 509o (MCL 168.509o), as added by 1994 PA 441.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 509o. (1) The secretary of state shall direct and

 

supervise the establishment and maintenance of a statewide

 

qualified voter file. The secretary of state shall establish the

 

technology to implement the qualified voter file on or before

 

January 1, 1997. The qualified voter file shall be is the official

 

file for the conduct of all elections held in this state on or

 

after January 1, 1998. The secretary of state may direct that all

 

or any part of the city, township, or village registration files

 

shall be used in conjunction with the qualified voter file at the

 

first state primary and election held after the creation of the

 

qualified voter file.

 

     (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the

 

contrary, beginning January 1, 1998, a person who appears to vote

 

in an election and whose name appears in the qualified voter file

 

for that city, township, village, or school district is considered

 

a registered voter of that city, township, village, or school

 

district under this act.

 

     (3) The secretary of state, a designated voter registration

 

agency, or a county, city, township, or village clerk shall not

 

place a name of an individual into the qualified voter file unless

 

that person signs an application as prescribed in section 509r(3).

 

The Except as provided in subsection (4), the secretary of state or

 

a designated voter registration agency shall not allow a person to

 

indicate a different address than the address in either the

 

secretary of state's or designated voter registration agency's

 

files to be placed in the qualified voter file.

 

     (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the

 

contrary, an individual may change the residence address on his or

 

her operator's or chauffeur's license issued pursuant to the

 

Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923, or

 

official state personal identification card issued pursuant to 1972

 

PA 222, MCL 28.291 to 28.300, without changing his or her address

 

for purposes of the qualified voter file or may change his or her

 

address on the qualified voter file without changing the residence

 

address on his or her operator's or chauffeur's license issued

 

pursuant to the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to

 

257.923, or official state personal identification card issued

 

pursuant to 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291 to 28.300.

 

     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 Senate Bill No. 548                                    

 

            of the 98th Legislature is enacted into law.