Bill Text: MI HB4875 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced

Michigan House Bill 4875

Introduced

Bill Title: Elections: election officials; procedure to remove certain electors listed on the qualified voter file who have not recently voted; provide for. Amends sec. 509bb of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.509bb).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-07-18 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 06/28/2023 [HB4875 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2023-HB4875-Introduced.html

HOUSE BILL NO. 4875

June 28, 2023, Introduced by Reps. Smit, Beeler, Bruck, Kunse, Fox, Maddock, DeSana, Jaime Greene, Bollin, Schriver, Friske and Meerman and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

"Michigan election law,"

by amending section 509bb (MCL 168.509bb), as added by 1994 PA 441.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 509bb. (1) A Except as otherwise provided in this act, a clerk shall not cancel or cause the cancellation of the registration of a voter an elector from the registration record of the city or township based solely upon on that registered voter's elector's failure to vote.

(2) Every 6 years, beginning with the 2024 general November election, the secretary of state shall, not earlier than 360 days or later than 180 days before the applicable general November election, send by forwardable mail to each registered elector who has not voted for the 6 years before that applicable general November election, both of the following:

(a) A postage prepaid and preaddressed return card on which the elector may verify the elector's current address information and on which the elector must sign the elector's name.

(b) A notice that contains the following statement:

"Secretary of state records indicate that you have not voted in the last 6 years. To confirm your status as a registered elector, please complete, sign, and return the enclosed card providing your current address to the secretary of state within 30 days. If you do not complete and return the enclosed card to the secretary of state within 30 days, you will be required to affirm your current address at the polls before you are permitted to vote. To keep your status as a registered elector, you must respond to this notice, vote, or engage in voting-related activity, including, but not limited to, requesting an absent voter ballot application or updating your voter registration, by the first business day after the second general November election that is held after the date on this notice.".

(3) If an elector fails to respond to the notice from the secretary of state within 30 days as provided in subsection (2), the secretary of state shall send by forwardable mail to that elector both the postage prepaid and preaddressed return card and the notice as provided under subsection (2)(a) and (b).

(4) If an elector fails to respond to the notice from the secretary of state within 30 days as provided under subsection (3), or if a notice sent under subsection (2) or (3) is returned to the secretary of state by the post office as undeliverable, the secretary of state shall identify the registration record of that elector as challenged as provided in this act. If that elector does not vote or engage in voting-related activity by the first business day after the second general November election that is held after the date on the notice provided under subsection (3) or the date on the notice returned to the secretary of state by the post office as undeliverable, the secretary of state shall cancel the voter registration of that elector and notify the appropriate city or township clerk of the cancellation.