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.