Bill Text: MI HB4037 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Elections; registration; automatic voter registration when receiving driver license or identification card; provide for. Amends 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.1 - 168.992) by adding sec. 493a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 4038'17, HB 4039'17
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-18 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 01/12/2017 [HB4037 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB4037-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 4037
January 12, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Green, Wittenberg, Chirkun, Yanez, Moss, Hertel, Jones, Cochran, Neeley and Lasinski and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled
"Michigan election law,"
(MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 493a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 493a. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), the
secretary of state shall automatically register to vote each
individual who meets the qualifications of an elector under section
492 and who is issued either an operator's or chauffeur's license
under the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923,
or an official state personal identification card under 1972 PA
222, MCL 28.291 to 28.300. In addition, subject to subsections (2)
and (3), the secretary of state shall automatically register to
vote each individual who meets the qualifications of an elector
under section 492 and who submits a change of address application
for either an operator's or chauffeur's license under the Michigan
vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923, or an official
state personal identification card under 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291 to
28.300.
(2) For purposes of subsection (1), the secretary of state
shall only automatically register to vote an individual who
indicates on his or her operator's or chauffeur's license
application, operator's or chauffeur's license renewal application,
official state personal identification card application, official
state personal identification card renewal application, or change
of address application that he or she is a citizen of the United
States.
(3) The secretary of state shall not automatically register to
vote an individual who declines in writing, on a form prescribed by
the secretary of state, to be registered to vote when he or she is
issued either an operator's or chauffeur's license under the
Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923, or an
official state personal identification card under 1972 PA 222, MCL
28.291 to 28.300. In addition, the secretary of state shall not
automatically register to vote an individual who declines in
writing, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state, to be
registered to vote when he or she submits a change of address
application for either an operator's or chauffeur's license under
the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923, or an
official state personal identification card under 1972 PA 222, MCL
28.291 to 28.300.
(4) The secretary of state shall add any information required
under section 509q to the qualified voter file for each elector
registered under subsection (1) and shall forward the name of each
elector registered under this section to the clerk of the city,
township, or village in which each elector registered resides.
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. ____ or House Bill No. 4038 (request no.
00438'17 a).
(b) Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. 4039 (request no.
00438'17 b).
