SENATE BILL NO. 312


   February 16, 1999, Introduced by Senators HAMMERSTROM, BENNETT, 
        MC COTTER, SHUGARS, STEIL, ROGERS, JAYE and GOSCHKA 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 added by 1994 PA

   441.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec. 509o.  (1) The secretary of state shall direct and

 2    supervise the establishment and maintenance of a statewide quali-

 3    fied voter file.  The secretary of state shall establish the

 4    technology to implement the qualified voter file on or before

 5    January 1, 1997.  The qualified voter file shall be the official

 6    file for the conduct of all elections held in this state on or

 7    after January 1, 1998.  The secretary of state may direct that

 8    all or any part of the city, township, or village registration

 9    files shall be used in conjunction with the qualified voter file




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 1    at the first state primary and election held after the creation

 2    of the qualified voter file.

 3         (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the con-

 4    trary, beginning January 1, 1998, a person who appears to vote in

 5    an election and whose name appears in the qualified voter file

 6    for that city, township, village, or school district is consid-

 7    ered a registered voter of that city, township, village, or

 8    school district under this act.

 9         (3) The secretary of state, a designated voter registration

10    agency, or a county, city, township, or village clerk shall not

11    place a name of an individual into the qualified voter file

12    unless that person signs an application as prescribed in section

13    509r(3).  The secretary of state or a designated voter registra-

14    tion agency shall not allow a person to indicate a different

15    address than the address in either the secretary of state's or

16    designated voter registration agency's files to be placed in the

17    qualified voter file.

18         (4) THE SECRETARY OF STATE, AN AGENT OF THE SECRETARY OF

19    STATE, OR A DESIGNATED VOTER REGISTRATION AGENCY SHALL NOT OFFER

20    THE OPPORTUNITY TO REGISTER TO VOTE TO A PERSON WHO THE SECRETARY

21    OF STATE, AGENT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, OR DESIGNATED VOTER

22    REGISTRATION AGENCY KNOWS IS NOT A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES.













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