Bill Text: MI HB6568 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Elections; registration; certain information in voter registration records; exempt from public inspection. Amends secs. 509gg & 516 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.509gg &168.516).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-12-05 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 12/04/2018 [HB6568 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB6568-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 6568

 

 

December 4, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Faris and Lilly and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

by amending sections 509gg and 516 (MCL 168.509gg and 168.516),

 

section 509gg as amended by 2014 PA 94 and section 516 as amended

 

by 2018 PA 125.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 509gg. (1) The information described in this subsection

 

that is contained in a registration record is not open for public

 

inspection as provided under section 516 and 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 or make available a copy of that portion of a

 

registration record that contains any of the following:

 

     (a) The record that a person declined to register to vote.

 

     (b) The office that received a registered voter's application.

 

     (c) A registered voter's driver's license or state personal

 

identification card number.

 

     (d) The month and day of birth of a registered voter.

 

     (e) The telephone number provided by a registered voter.

 

     (f) The manual signature and 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.

 

     (2) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the last

 

4 digits of a registered voter's social security number contained

 

in a registration record are not open for public inspection as

 

provided under section 516 and 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 number

 

contained in a registration record may only be used by the

 

secretary of state to verify a registered voter's data as provided

 

by the help America vote act of 2002 and to verify a registered

 

voter's status under this act, and shall must not be used or

 

released for any other purpose.

 

     Sec. 516. The Except as otherwise provided in section 509gg,

 

the registration record must be open for public inspection.