HB 6511 Summary

• Amends the Local Financial Stability and Choice Act to allow registered and qualified electors to remove an emergency manager through a ballot vote if a petition signed by at least 25% of the number of votes cast for governor in the last general election is submitted.

• Requires the local government clerk or school district election coordinator to place the removal question on the next general or special election ballot after verifying sufficient petition signatures.

• Mandates that if a majority of electors voting on the question approves removal, the governor must immediately remove the emergency manager.

• Establishes that if an emergency manager is removed by voter approval, the local government shall proceed under the neutral evaluation process outlined in section 25 of the act.

• Makes various technical corrections to statutory language, replacing "shall" with "must" and "shall have" with "has" throughout the section, and specifies the effective date reference as "March 28, 2013."