Bill Text: MI SB0274 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Elections: registration; preregistration to vote at age 16; provide for. Amends 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.1 - 168.992) by adding sec. 496a.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-24 - Referred To Committee On Elections [SB0274 Detail]

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SENATE BILL NO. 274

March 24, 2021, Introduced by Senators JOHNSON, LASATA, HORN, VICTORY, OUTMAN, VANDERWALL and SCHMIDT and referred to the Committee on Elections.

A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

"Michigan election law,"

(MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 496a.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 496a. (1) An individual may preregister to vote at a secretary of state office if he or she meets all of the following requirements:

(a) Is at least 16 years of age but less than 17-1/2 years of age.

(b) Has been issued either a graduated licensing status to operate a motor vehicle under section 310e of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.310e, or an official state personal identification card under 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291 to 28.300.

(c) Is a citizen of the United States.

(2) The secretary of state is authorized to create a preregistration to vote application. An individual shall preregister to vote on the application prescribed by the secretary of state.

(3) An individual who preregisters to vote under this section becomes a registered elector at 17-1/2 years of age and is eligible to vote at the first election after he or she becomes 18 years of age.

(4) Immediately upon receipt of a preregistration to vote application, the secretary of state shall transmit the preregistration to vote application to the appropriate city or township clerk and shall transmit the electronic data for the preregistration to the qualified voter file. The preregistration to vote application must be held in a separate file and must not be moved to the master file until the individual who filed the preregistration to vote application becomes 17-1/2 years of age.

(5) The qualified voter file must not include the name of an individual who preregisters to vote on a precinct voter list before the individual becomes 18 years of age.

(6) If an individual who preregisters to vote changes the address that appears on his or her driver license or official state personal identification card, the preregistration to vote address for that individual must also be changed.

(7) When an individual who preregisters to vote becomes 17-1/2 years of age, the secretary of state shall do both of the following:

(a) Review information obtained through the United States Social Security Administration's death master file to determine if the individual who preregistered to vote is deceased.

(b) Review information obtained through any multistate program, service, or compact that this state participates in to determine if the individual who preregistered to vote has moved to another state.

(8) If the secretary of state determines under subsection (7) that an individual who preregistered to vote is deceased or has moved to another state, the secretary of state shall cancel the preregistration to vote for that individual.

(9) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (8), when an individual who preregisters to vote becomes 17-1/2 years of age, the secretary of state shall send a notice through the qualified voter file to the appropriate city or township clerk directing the clerk to send a voter identification card to the individual who preregistered to vote.

(10) The city or township clerk who receives a notice from the secretary of state under subsection (9) shall send a voter identification card to the individual who preregistered to vote and shall add that individual to the master file.

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