Bill Text: MI HB4414 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Elections; election officials; prohibition against an elected or appointed official's name and certain contact information on ballot-related materials; modify. Amends sec. 931a of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.931a).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-29 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/28/2017 [HB4414 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB4414-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4414

 

 

March 28, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Hornberger, Marino and Lucido and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

by amending section 931a (MCL 168.931a), as added by 2012 PA 280.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 931a. (1) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the

 

contrary, and except as otherwise provided in subsection (2), the

 

name of an elected or appointed official of this state or a

 

political subdivision of this state, shall or any contact

 

information for an elected or appointed official of this state or a

 

political subdivision of this state that includes the elected or

 

appointed official's name or any part of the elected or appointed

 

official's name, including, but not limited to, an electronic mail

 

address, must not appear on any ballot-related material that is

 

provided to an elector. As used in this section, "ballot-related

 

material" includes any of the following:

 

     (a) An absent voter ballot application.

 

     (b) Any material provided to an elector with an absent voter

 

ballot application including, but not limited to, an absent voter

 

ballot application return envelope.

 

     (c) (a) Any material provided to an elector with an absent

 

voter ballot.

 

     (d) (b) Absent voter ballot instructions.

 

     (e) (c) An envelope used to mail to an elector an absent voter

 

ballot or any other ballot material.

 

     (f) (d) An absent voter ballot return envelope.

 

     (2) Any ballot-related material printed or prepared before the

 

effective date of the amendatory act that added this section that

 

contains the name of an elected or appointed official of this state

 

or a political subdivision of this state may be used if the elected

 

or appointed official whose name appears on the ballot-related

 

materials is not a candidate at the election in which those ballot-

 

related materials are being used.

 

     (2) (3) A person who violates this section is guilty of a

 

misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $100.00 for a

 

first offense and is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine

 

of not more than $250.00 for a second or subsequent offense.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.