Bill Text: MI SB0506 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Elections; registration; resident address on driver license or personal identification card different from resident address on qualified voter file; permit. Amends sec. 509o of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.509o). TIE BAR WITH: SB 0505'17
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-07-12 - Referred To Committee On Elections And Government Reform [SB0506 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB0506-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 506
July 12, 2017, Introduced by Senators WARREN, BIEDA and HERTEL and referred to the Committee on Elections and Government Reform.
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled
"Michigan election law,"
by amending section 509o (MCL 168.509o), as added by 1994 PA 441.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 509o. (1) The secretary of state shall direct and
supervise the establishment and maintenance of a statewide
qualified
voter file. The secretary of state shall establish the
technology
to implement the qualified voter file on or before
January
1, 1997. The qualified voter file shall
be is the official
file for the conduct of all elections held in this state on or
after January 1, 1998. The secretary of state may direct that all
or any part of the city, township, or village registration files
shall
must be used in conjunction with the qualified voter file
at
the first state primary and election held after the creation of the
qualified voter file.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
contrary,
beginning January 1, 1998, a person who appears to vote
in an election and whose name appears in the qualified voter file
for that city, township, village, or school district is considered
a registered voter of that city, township, village, or school
district under this act.
(3) The secretary of state, a designated voter registration
agency, or a county, city, township, or village clerk shall not
place a name of an individual into the qualified voter file unless
that person signs an application as prescribed in section 509r(3).
The
Except as provided in
subsection (4), the secretary of state
or
a designated voter registration agency shall not allow a person to
indicate a different address than the address in either the
secretary of state's or designated voter registration agency's
files to be placed in the qualified voter file.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
contrary, an individual may change the residence address on his or
her operator's or chauffeur's license issued under the Michigan
vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923, or official state
personal identification card issued under 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291
to 28.300, without changing his or her address for purposes of the
qualified voter file or may change his or her address on the
qualified voter file without changing the residence address on his
or her operator's or chauffeur's license issued under the Michigan
vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923, or official state
personal identification card issued under 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291
to 28.300.
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 Senate Bill No. 505
of the 99th Legislature is enacted into law.
