Bill Text: MI HB4424 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Campaign finance; contributions and expenditures; independent expenditure provisions in the campaign finance act; update. Amends sec. 54 of 1976 PA 388 (MCL 169.254). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4420'13, HB 4422'13

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-13 - Printed Bill Filed 03/13/2013 [HB4424 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-HB4424-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4424

 

March 12, 2013, Introduced by Reps. Driskell, LaVoy, Ananich, Brinks, Smiley, Faris, Knezek, Greimel, Brunner, Hovey-Wright, Roberts, Banks, Brown, McCann, Townsend, Irwin, Segal, Dillon, Switalski, Yanez, Kosowski, Hobbs, Kandrevas, Tlaib, Lamonte, Cavanagh, Schor, Slavens, Lipton and Abed and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled

 

"Michigan campaign finance act,"

 

by amending section 54 (MCL 169.254), as amended by 1995 PA 264.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 54. (1) Except with respect to the exceptions and

 

conditions in subsections (2) and (3) and section sections 55, 55b,

 

and 55d, and to loans made in the ordinary course of business, a

 

corporation, joint stock company, domestic dependent sovereign, or

 

labor organization shall not make a contribution or expenditure or

 

provide volunteer personal services that are excluded from the

 

definition of a contribution pursuant to section 4(3)(a).

 

     (2) An officer, director, stockholder, attorney, agent, or any

 

other person acting for a labor organization, a domestic dependent

 

sovereign, or a corporation or joint stock company, whether

 

incorporated under the laws of this or any other state or foreign

 

country, except corporations formed for political purposes, shall

 

not make a contribution or expenditure or provide volunteer

 

personal services that are excluded from the definition of a

 

contribution pursuant to section 4(3)(a).

 

     (3) A corporation, joint stock company, domestic dependent

 

sovereign, or labor organization may make a contribution to a

 

ballot question committee subject to this act. A corporation, joint

 

stock company, domestic dependent sovereign, or labor organization

 

may make an independent expenditure in any amount for the

 

qualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question. A

 

corporation, joint stock company, domestic dependent sovereign, or

 

labor organization that makes an independent expenditure under this

 

subsection is considered a ballot question committee for the

 

purposes of this act.

 

     (4) A person who knowingly violates this section is guilty of

 

a felony punishable, if the person is an individual, by a fine of

 

not more than $5,000.00 or imprisonment for not more than 3 years,

 

or both, or, if the person is not an individual, by a fine of not

 

more than $10,000.00.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless all of the following bills of the 97th Legislature are

 

enacted into law:

 

     (a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4420(request no.

 

00374'13).

 

     (b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4422(request no.

 

00452'13).