ELECTION SCHEDULING                               S.B. 130 (S-3) & H.B. 4530 (S-3)-4533 (S-3):

                                                                                                                                                                                SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                                                                                REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

Senate Bill 130 (Substitute S-3 as reported)

House Bill 4530 (Substitute S-3 as reported)

House Bill 4531 (Substitute S-1 as reported)

House Bill 4532 (Substitute S-1 as reported)

House Bill 4533 (Substitute S-3 as reported)

Sponsor:   Senator Aric Nesbitt (S.B. 130)

                            Representative Julie Calley (H.B. 4530)

                            Representative Graham Filler (H.B. 4531)

                            Representative Karen Whitsett (H.B. 4532)

                            Representative Ranjeev Puri (H.B. 4533)

Senate Committee:   Elections

House Committee:   Elections and Ethics

CONTENT

Senate Bill 130 (S-3)  would amend the Michigan Election Law to do the following:

 --     Replace the May and August regular election dates with a June regular election date.

 --     Require the primary election for an elective office requiring the election for that office to be held at the general election to be held on the June regular election date.

 --     Require a city council that, after December 21, 2022, adopted a resolution so that its regular election was held on the May regular election date to hold its regular election on the June regular election date.

 --     Require a city that held its regular election primary for a city office annually or in the even year on the August regular primary election date to hold its regular election primary on the June regular election date.

House Bill 4530 (S-3)  would amend the Michigan Election Law to do the following:

 --     Amend the definition of "odd year primary election" to mean the election held on the June, instead of August regular election date.

 --     Require general primaries to take place on the Tuesday after the first Monday in June, instead of the Tuesday after the first Monday in August.

 --     Specify that nominating petitions would have to be received by the Secretary of State (SOS) or filed with an applicable clerk up to 4 PM on the fifteenth Tuesday before the June, instead of August, primary.

 --     Require certain election activities that are scheduled in accordance with an August primary to be scheduled in accordance with a June primary.

 --     Require the filing deadline or certification deadline for a nomination by caucus or by filing a petition or affidavit to be 4 PM on the fifteenth Tuesday before the June, instead of May, election.

 --     Require the chairperson of the county committee or district committee of a Congressional district of each political party, by February 1, instead of April 1, in even numbered years to provide to the board of election commissioners a certificate showing the number of delegates to the county convention in which each precinct of the county is entitled.

 --     Require the chairperson of the State central com