Bill Text: MI HB5575 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Elections: qualified voter file; most recent digitized signature of an elector from a state personal identification card application to be contained in the qualified voter file; require. Amends secs. 509q, 509gg & 509hh of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.509q et seq.).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-22 - Referred To Second Reading [HB5575 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HB5575-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 5575
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled
"Michigan election law,"
by amending sections 509q, 509gg, and 509hh (MCL 168.509q, 168.509gg, and 168.509hh), section 509q as amended by 2020 PA 302, section 509gg as amended by 2014 PA 94, and section 509hh as added by 2005 PA 71.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 509q. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the qualified voter file must contain all of the following information for each qualified voter:
(a) The name; residence address including house number and street name or rural route and box number, and the apartment number, if any; city; state; zip code; and date of birth.
(b) The driver license number or state personal identification card number or similar number issued by a designated voter registration agency.
(c) Jurisdictional information including county and city or township; village, if any; metropolitan district, if any; and school district.
(d) Precinct numbers and ward numbers, if any.
(e) Any other information that the secretary of state determines is necessary to assess the eligibility of qualified electors or to administer voter registration or other aspects of the election process.
(f) Voting history for a 5-year period.
(g) The most recent digitized signature of an elector if captured or reproduced by the secretary of state or a county, city, or township clerk from a voter registration application under section 509hh, or captured or reproduced by the secretary of state under section 307 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.307, section 5 of the enhanced driver license and enhanced official state personal identification card act, 2008 PA 23, MCL 28.305, or 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291 to 28.300.
(2) If a qualified voter is a program participant, as that term is defined in section 3 of the address confidentiality program act, 2020 PA 301, MCL 780.853, the qualified voter file must also contain the program participant's unique identification number issued by the department of the attorney general.
(3) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, if a qualified voter is a program participant, as that term is defined in section 3 of the address confidentiality program act, 2020 PA 301, MCL 780.853, the information contained in the qualified voter file for that program participant, including his or her unique identification number issued by the department of the attorney general, is confidential and not subject to disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246. The information contained in the qualified voter file for a program participant, as that term is defined in section 3 of the address confidentiality program act, 2020 PA 301, MCL 780.853, may be used by an election official during the normal course of his or her duties as an election official.
Sec. 509gg. (1) The information described in this subsection that is contained in a registration record is exempt from disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246. The secretary of state, a designated voter registration agency, or a county, city, township, or village clerk shall not release a copy of that portion of a registration record that contains any of the following:
(a) The record that a person an individual declined to register to vote.
(b) The office that received a registered voter's elector's application.
(c) A registered voter's driver's elector's driver license or state personal identification card number.
(d) The month and day of birth of a registered voter.elector.
(e) The telephone number provided by a registered voter.elector.
(f) The digitized signature of an elector that is captured or reproduced and transmitted to the qualified voter file by the secretary of state or a county, city, or township clerk under section 509hh, or by the secretary of state under section 307 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.307, section 5 of the enhanced driver license and enhanced official state personal identification card act, 2008 PA 23, MCL 28.305, or 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291 to 28.300.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the last 4 digits of a registered voter's social security elector's Social Security number contained in a registration record are exempt from disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246. The last 4 digits of a registered voter's social security elector's Social Security number contained in a registration record may only be used by the secretary of state to verify a registered voter's elector's data as provided by the help America vote act of 2002 and to verify a registered voter's elector's status under this act, and shall must not be used or released for any other purpose.
Sec. 509hh. (1) The secretary of state may capture or reproduce the signature of an elector from a voter registration application, or pursuant to under section 307 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.307, section 5 of the enhanced driver license and enhanced state personal identification card act, 2008 PA 23, MCL 28.305, or 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291 to 28.300, and transmit the signature to the qualified voter file pursuant to under section 509q.
(2) The county, city, or township clerk may capture or reproduce the signature of an elector from a voter registration application and transmit the signature to the qualified voter file pursuant to under section 509q.
