Bill Text: MI HB4746 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Elections; candidates; candidate filing fee in lieu of nominating petitions for the office of county auditor; increase, and make nonrefundable. Amends sec. 224 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.224). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4745'17, HB 4747'17, HB 4748'17, HB 4749'17, HB 4750'17

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-14 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/13/2017 [HB4746 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB4746-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4746

 

 

June 13, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Marino, Brann, LaSata, Calley and Lilly and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

by amending section 224 (MCL 168.224), as amended by 2012 PA 276.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 224. (1) To obtain the printing of the name of a person

 

as candidate for nomination by a political party for the office of

 

county auditor under a particular party heading upon the official

 

primary ballots, there shall must be filed with the county clerk

 

nominating petitions signed by a number of qualified and registered

 

electors residing within the county as determined under section

 

544f. Nominating petitions shall must be in the form prescribed in

 

section 544c. Until December 31, 2013, the county clerk shall

 

receive nominating petitions up to 4 p.m. of the twelfth Tuesday

 

before the August primary. Beginning January 1, 2014, the The

 

county clerk shall receive nominating petitions up to 4 p.m. of the

fifteenth Tuesday before the August primary.

 

     (2) To obtain the printing of the name of the candidate of a

 

political party under the particular party's heading upon the

 

primary election ballots in the various voting precincts of the

 

county, there may be filed by the candidate, in lieu of filing

 

nominating petitions, a nonrefundable filing fee of $100.00 $200.00

 

to be paid to the county clerk. Payment of the fee and

 

certification of the name of the candidate paying the fee shall be

 

are governed by the same provisions as in the case of nominating

 

petitions. The fee shall must be deposited in the general fund of

 

the county. and shall be refunded to candidates who are nominated

 

and to an equal number of candidates who received the next highest

 

number of votes in the primary election. If 2 or more candidates

 

tie in having the lowest number of votes allowing a refund, the sum

 

of $100.00 shall be divided among them. The deposits of all other

 

defeated candidates and of candidates who withdraw or are

 

disqualified shall be forfeited and the candidates shall be

 

notified of the forfeitures. Deposits forfeited under this section

 

shall be paid into and credited to the general fund of the county.

 

     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. ____ (request no.

 

01059'17 ***).

 

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

03115'17).

 

     (c) Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. ____ (request no.

 

03117'17).

 

     (d) Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. ____ (request no.

 

03118'17).

 

     (e) Senate Bill No. ____ or House Bill No. ____ (request no.

 

03119'17).