Bill Text: MI SB0494 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: State agencies (existing); executive office; age requirement for governor and lieutenant governor; remove. Amends sec. 51 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.51). TIE BAR WITH: SJR K'17

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-28 - Referred To Committee On Elections And Government Reform [SB0494 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0494-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 494

 

 

June 28, 2017, Introduced by Senator CONYERS and referred to the Committee on Elections and Government Reform.

 

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

by amending section 51 (MCL 168.51), as amended by 1982 PA 505.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 51. A person shall An individual is not be eligible to

 

the office of governor or lieutenant governor unless the person

 

individual has attained the age of 30 years and has been a

 

registered and qualified elector in this state for 4 years next

 

preceding before his or her election, as provided in section 22 of

 

article 5 V of the state constitution of 1963. A person An

 

individual who has been convicted of a violation of section 12a(1)

 

of Act No. 370 of the Public Acts of 1941, being section 1941 PA

 

370, MCL 38.412a, of the Michigan Compiled Laws, shall is not be

 

eligible to the office of governor or lieutenant governor for a

 

period of 20 years after the conviction.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect

 

unless Senate Joint Resolution K                              ____

 

                       of the 99th Legislature becomes a part of

 

the state constitution of 1963 as provided in section 1 of article

 

XII of the state constitution of 1963.