HOUSE BILL No. 5131

 

 

October 17, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Kosowski and Marino and referred to the Committee on Local Government.

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

by amending section 697 (MCL 168.697).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 697. At the general November election, the names of the

 

several offices to be voted for shall must be placed on the ballot

 

substantially in the following order in the years in which

 

elections for such those offices are held: Electors of president

 

President and vice-president Vice President of the United States;

 

governor and lieutenant governor; secretary of state; attorney

 

general; United States senator; representative Senator;

 

Representative in congress; Congress; senator and representative in

 

the state legislature; members of the state board of education;

 

regents of the university University of Michigan; trustees of

 

Michigan state university; State University; governors of Wayne


state university; State University; county executive; prosecuting

 

attorney; sheriff; clerk; treasurer; register of deeds; auditor in

 

counties electing an auditor; mine inspector in counties electing a

 

mine inspector; county road commissioners; drain commissioners;

 

coroners; and surveyor. The following township officers shall must

 

be placed on the same ballot as above described in substantially

 

the following order in the year in which elections for such those

 

offices are held: supervisor, clerk, treasurer, trustees, and

 

constables.

 

     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.

 

03516'17).

 

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

 

03516'17 a).

 

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

 

04417'17).

 

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

 

04418'17).