HB-5199, As Passed House, December 11, 2018

HB-5199, As Passed Senate, December 11, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL No. 5199

 

 

October 31, 2017, Introduced by Rep. Lilly and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

by amending section 842 (MCL 168.842), as amended by 2004 PA 92.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 842. (1) The board of state canvassers, for the purpose

 

of canvassing the returns and ascertaining and determining the

 

result of an election, shall meet at the office of the secretary of

 

state on or before the twentieth day after the election. The

 

secretary of state shall appoint the day of the meeting and shall

 

notify the other members of the board. The board has power to

 

adjourn from time to time to await the receipt or correction of

 

returns, or for other necessary purposes, but shall complete the

 

canvass and announce their determination not later than the

 

fortieth day after the election. The board may at the time of its

 

meeting, or an adjournment of its meeting, canvass the returns for

 


any office for which the complete returns have been received.

 

     (2) If the unofficial election returns show that the election

 

of electors of president President and vice president Vice

 

President of the United States is determined by a vote differential

 

between the first place and second place candidates for president

 

President and vice president Vice President of the United States of

 

less than 25,000 votes, the secretary of state may shall direct the

 

boards of county canvassers to canvass returns for electors of

 

president President and vice president Vice President of the United

 

States on an expedited schedule. The secretary of state may direct

 

the boards of county canvassers to complete the statements for

 

electors of president President and vice president Vice President

 

of the United States required by section 824 and certify the

 

statements as required by section 828 to the secretary of state by

 

the seventh day after the election or by a date before the

 

fourteenth day after the election.

 

     (3) The secretary of state may appoint the day for the board

 

of state canvassers to conduct the expedited canvass of the returns

 

for electors of president President and vice president Vice

 

President of the United States and determine the results of that

 

election. The day appointed for the expedited canvass shall must be

 

as soon as practicable after receipt of the returns from the boards

 

of county canvassers, but no later than the twentieth day after the

 

election.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.