Bill Text: MI SB0573 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Elections: other; precinct size; modify. Amends sec. 661 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.661).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-12-29 - Assigned Pa 0227'23 With Immediate Effect [SB0573 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-SB0573-Chaptered.html
Act No. 227
Public Acts of 2023
Approved by the Governor
November 22, 2023
Filed with the Secretary of State
November 22, 2023
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 22, 2023
state of michigan
102nd Legislature
Regular session of 2023
Introduced by Senator Moss
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 573
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 661 (MCL 168.661), as amended by 2023 PA 88.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 661. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), city and township election commissions shall divide precincts according to law, not later than 210 days before the primary next preceding the general November election, and shall immediately notify the county clerk of the number of registered electors in each precinct in the city or township. The county clerk shall notify the secretary of state not later than 200 days before the primary of a precinct in the clerk’s county that has not been divided according to law, and the secretary of state shall proceed to make divisions as are necessary at the expense of the city or township involved, not later than 180 days before the primary next preceding the general November election. A division of precincts must be made effective not later than 180 days before the primary election next preceding the general November election.
(2) In the second year following each federal decennial
census, precincts must be divided under this subsection. City and township
election commissions shall divide precincts not later than 120 days before the
primary election next preceding the general November election in order that a
precinct, as far as is practical, is not split between districts and does not
exceed 4,999 registered electors, and shall immediately notify the county clerk
of the number of registered electors in each precinct in each city or township.
The county clerk shall notify the secretary of state not later than 110 days
before the primary of any precincts in the county that have not been divided,
and the secretary of state shall proceed to make the divisions as are
necessary, at the expense of the city or township involved, not later than 90
days before the primary election next preceding the general November election.
The division of precincts must be made effective not later than 90 days before
the primary election. The secretary of state may authorize, on written request
by a city or township election commission, a later division of a precinct that
contains portions of more than 1 elective district. All precinct divisions must
be completed not later than 90 days before the primary election next
preceding the general November election. In determining the number of
registered voters for a precinct under this subsection, a city or township
election commission or the secretary of state, as applicable, must use only the
active registered electors for that city or township.
This
act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved___________________________________________
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Governor
