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MI HB6425

Bill

Status

Introduced

10/3/2018

Primary Sponsor

Henry Yanez

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Origin

House of Representatives

99th Legislature

AI Summary

  • Adds new section requiring ballot proposals to be placed at the top of the ballot in order: local proposals, countywide proposals, then statewide proposals.

  • Reorganizes the order of partisan offices on general November election ballots, moving presidential electors to the end after U.S. Representative and before nonpartisan offices.

  • Requires nonpartisan offices to appear directly below any qualifying proposals on the ballot in a specified order starting with district court judges and ending with community college board members.

  • Restructures township and county officer ballot placement into organized subsections with clearly defined hierarchical ordering.

  • Repeals section 706 of the Michigan election law and takes effect 90 days after enactment.

Legislative Description

Elections; ballots; order of candidates and proposals on the ballot; revise. Amends secs. 697 & 699 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.697 & 168.699); adds sec. 696a & repeals sec. 706 of 1954 PA 116 (MCL 168.706).

State agencies (existing): state

Last Action

Bill Electronically Reproduced 10/03/2018

10/4/2018

Committee Referrals

Elections And Ethics10/3/2018

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