Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

HOUSE BILL NO. 4876
     June 28, 2023, Introduced by Reps. Smit, Beeler, Kunse, Bruck, Fox, Maddock, DeSana, Jaime
        Greene, Bollin, Friske, Meerman and Schriver and referred to the Committee on Government
        Operations.
          A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled
    "Michigan election law,"
    by amending section 509o (MCL 168.509o), as amended by 2022 PA 195.
                     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. The qualified
 voter file is the official file for the conduct of all elections
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 held in this state. The secretary of state may direct that all or
 any part of the city or township voter registration files 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, an individual who appears to vote in an election and
 whose name appears in the qualified voter file for that city,
 township, or school district is considered a registered voter of
 that city, township, or school district under this act.
         (3) The secretary of state, a designated voter registration
 agency, or a county, city, or township clerk shall not place a name
 of an individual into the qualified voter file unless that
 individual signs an application as prescribed in section 509r(3).
 The secretary of state or a designated voter registration agency
 shall not allow an individual 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) The secretary of state shall develop and utilize a process
 by which information obtained through the United States Social
 Security Administration's death master file that is used to cancel
 an operator's or chauffeur's license issued under the Michigan
 vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.1 to 257.923, or an official
 state personal identification card issued under 1972 PA 222, MCL
 28.291 to 28.300, of a deceased resident of this state is also used
 at least once a month to update the qualified voter file to cancel
 the voter registration of any elector determined to be deceased.
 The secretary of state shall make the canceled voter registration
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 information under this subsection available to the clerk of each
 county, city, or township to assist with the clerk's obligations
 under section 510.
       (5) Subject to this subsection, the secretary of state shall
 participate with other states in 1 or more recognized multistate
 programs or services, if available, to assist in the verification
 of the current residence and voter registration status of electors.
 The secretary of state shall not participate in any recognized
 multistate program or service described in this subsection that
 requires this state to promote or adopt legislation as a condition
 of participation in that program or service. In addition, the
 secretary of state shall not participate in any recognized
 multistate program or service described in this subsection if the
 secretary of state determines that data of that program or service
 are not being adequately secured or protected. The secretary of
 state shall follow the procedures under section 509aa(5) with
 regard to any electors affected by information obtained through any
 multistate program or service.
       (6) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, after the
 secretary of state receives from or transmits to a recognized
 multistate program or service, as described in subsection (5), any
 data or report concerning the current residence and voter
 registration status of electors, the secretary of state shall make
 that data or report available to the chairs of the house and senate
 committees dealing with elections. This subsection does not apply
 if making data or a report available to the chairs of the house and
 senate committees dealing with elections violates the membership
 agreement with that recognized multistate program or service.
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Statutes affected: 
House Introduced Bill: 168.509