HOUSE BILL NO. 4643

April 15, 2021, Introduced by Reps. Hood and Marino and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.

A bill to amend 1966 PA 261, entitled

"An act to provide for the apportionment of county boards of commissioners; to prescribe the size of the board; to provide for appeals; to prescribe the manner of election of the members of the county board of commissioners; to provide for compensation of members; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"

by amending section 11 (MCL 46.411), as amended by 2002 PA 158.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 11. A candidate for the office of county commissioner shall must be a resident and registered voter elector of the district that he or she seeks to represent and shall must remain a resident and registered voter elector to hold his or her office, if elected. Nominations and elections for county commissioners shall be are by partisan elections. In order for the name of a candidate for nomination for the office of county commissioner to appear on the official primary ballot, a nominating petition or $100.00 filing fee shall must be filed with the county clerk. The nominating petition shall have been must be signed by a number of qualified and registered electors residing within the district as determined under section 544f of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.544f. The Subject to this section, the deadline for filing nomination nominating petitions or filing fees for the office of county commissioner is the same as for a candidate for state representative. A person For the 2022 general November election, the deadline for filing nominating petitions or filing fees for the office of county commissioner is 4 p.m. of the fifteenth Tuesday before the August primary. An individual who has been convicted of a violation of section 12a(1) of 1941 PA 370, MCL 38.412a, is not eligible to be a county commissioner for 20 years after the conviction.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4642 (request no. 02750'21) of the 101st Legislature is enacted into law.