Bill Text: MI SB0260 | 2013-2014 | 97th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Elections; registration; preregistration to vote at age 16; provide for. Amends 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.1 - 168.992) by adding sec. 496a.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-12 - Referred To Committee On Local Government And Elections [SB0260 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2013-SB0260-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 260

 

 

March 12, 2013, Introduced by Senators BIEDA, HOPGOOD, ANDERSON, GREGORY, YOUNG, WARREN, WHITMER, JOHNSON, KOWALL, MEEKHOF, NOFS, KAHN, JANSEN, MOOLENAAR, SMITH, PROOS, SCHUITMAKER and CASPERSON and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Elections.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

(MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 496a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 496a. (1) A person may preregister to vote at a secretary

 

of state office if he or she meets all of the following

 

requirements:

 

     (a) Is at least 16 years of age but less than 17-1/2 years of

 

age.

 

     (b) Has been issued either a graduated licensing status to

 

operate a motor vehicle under section 310e of the Michigan vehicle

 

code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.310e, or an official state personal

 

identification card under 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291 to 28.300.

 

     (c) Is a citizen of the United States.

 

     (2) The secretary of state is authorized to create a

 

preregistration to vote application. A person shall preregister to

 

vote on the application prescribed by the secretary of state.

 

     (3) A person who preregisters to vote under this section shall

 

become a registered elector at 17-1/2 years of age and become

 

eligible to vote at the first election after he or she becomes 18

 

years of age.

 

     (4) Immediately upon receipt of a preregistration to vote

 

application, the secretary of state shall transmit the

 

preregistration to vote application to the appropriate city or

 

township clerk and shall transmit the electronic data for the

 

preregistration to the qualified voter file. The preregistration to

 

vote application shall be held in a separate file and shall not be

 

moved to the master file until the person who filed the

 

preregistration to vote application becomes 17-1/2 years of age.

 

     (5) The qualified voter file shall not include the name of a

 

person who preregisters to vote on a precinct voter list before the

 

person becomes 18 years of age.

 

     (6) If a person who preregisters to vote changes the address

 

that appears on his or her driver license or personal

 

identification card, the preregistration to vote address for that

 

person shall also be changed.

 

     (7) When a person who preregisters to vote becomes 17-1/2

 

years of age, the secretary of state shall send a notice through

 

the qualified voter file to the appropriate city or township clerk

 

directing the clerk to send a voter identification card to the

 

person who preregistered to vote.

 

     (8) The city or township clerk who receives a notice from the

 

secretary of state pursuant to subsection (7) shall send a voter

 

identification card to the person who preregistered to vote and

 

shall add that person to the master file.