HOUSE BILL No. 4308

 

 

March 7, 2017, Introduced by Reps. Pagan, Hoadley, Schor, Chang, Camilleri, Faris, Love, Wittenberg, Moss, Sabo, Rabhi, Sneller, Cochran, Geiss, Jones, Ellison and Green and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.

 

     A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled

 

"Michigan election law,"

 

(MCL 168.1 to 168.992) by adding section 496a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 496a. (1) An individual may preregister to vote at a

 

secretary of state office if he or she meets all of the following

 

requirements:

 

     (a) Is at least 16 years of age but less than 17-1/2 years of

 

age.

 

     (b) Has been issued either a graduated licensing status to

 

operate a motor vehicle under section 310e of the Michigan vehicle

 

code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.310e, or an official state personal

 

identification card under 1972 PA 222, MCL 28.291 to 28.300.

 

     (c) Is a citizen of the United States.

 

     (2) The secretary of state is authorized to create a


preregistration to vote application. An individual shall

 

preregister to vote on the application prescribed by the secretary

 

of state.

 

     (3) An individual who preregisters to vote under this section

 

shall become a registered elector at 17-1/2 years of age and become

 

eligible to vote at the first election after he or she becomes 18

 

years of age.

 

     (4) Immediately upon receipt of a preregistration to vote

 

application, the secretary of state shall transmit the

 

preregistration to vote application to the appropriate city or

 

township clerk and shall transmit the electronic data for the

 

preregistration to the qualified voter file. The preregistration to

 

vote application must be held in a separate file and shall not be

 

moved to the master file until the individual who filed the

 

preregistration to vote application becomes 17-1/2 years of age.

 

     (5) The qualified voter file shall not include the name of an

 

individual who preregisters to vote on a precinct voter list before

 

the individual becomes 18 years of age.

 

     (6) If an individual who preregisters to vote changes the

 

address that appears on his or her driver license or personal

 

identification card, the preregistration to vote address for that

 

individual must also be changed.

 

     (7) When an individual who preregisters to vote becomes 17-1/2

 

years of age, the secretary of state shall send a notice through

 

the qualified voter file to the appropriate city or township clerk

 

directing the clerk to send a voter identification card to the

 

individual who preregistered to vote.


     (8) The city or township clerk who receives a notice from the

 

secretary of state under subsection (7) shall send a voter

 

identification card to the individual who preregistered to vote and

 

shall add that individual to the master file.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.