Bill Text: MI HB4271 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Elections; scheduling; February regular election date; eliminate. Amends sec. 570a of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.570a). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4272'15, HB 4273'15, HB 4274'15, HB 4276'15, HB 4385'15
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-07-14 - Assigned Pa 98'15 With Immediate Effect [HB4271 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-HB4271-Chaptered.html
Act No. 98
Public Acts of 2015
Approved by the Governor
June 29, 2015
Filed with the Secretary of State
June 30, 2015
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 28, 2015
STATE OF MICHIGAN
98TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2015
Introduced by Reps. Lyons, Lauwers, Kesto, Heise, Leutheuser and Jacobsen
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4271
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 570a (MCL 168.570a).
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 570a. The official primary ballot shall include candidates for township offices. Township offices and candidates shall follow state and county offices and candidates. Parties qualified to appear on the primary ballot for state and county offices and no others are qualified to appear and have the names of their candidates printed on the township portion of the primary ballot. Parties qualified to nominate candidates for state and county offices under section 685 and no others are qualified to nominate candidates for township offices at the county caucuses provided in section 686a.
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 98th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) House Bill No. 4272.
(b) House Bill No. 4273.
(c) House Bill No. 4274.
(d) House Bill No. 4276.
(e) House Bill No. 4385.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
