Senate Committee on Elections and Government Reform

SENATE COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS AND GOVERNMENT REFORM

2015-2016 Session

Thursday, December 29, 2016

Bill/Resolution	Sponsor	Subject	Status
HB 4068 Referred 2/18/2015	Yanez	Elections; precinct boundaries; consolidated precincts; allow during certain statewide elections.
HB 4182 Referred 5/27/2015	Price	Civil rights; open meetings; physical presence required for vote; clarify.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-1 on 9/24/2015
HB 4271 Referred 4/21/2015	Lyons	Elections; scheduling; February regular election date; eliminate.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 6/4/2015
HB 4272 Referred 4/21/2015	Lauwers	Elections; scheduling; February regular election date; eliminate.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 6/4/2015
HB 4273 Referred 4/21/2015	Heise	Elections; scheduling; February regular election date; eliminate.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 6/4/2015
HB 4274 Referred 4/21/2015	Kesto	Elections; scheduling; February regular election date; eliminate.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 6/4/2015
HB 4276 Referred 4/21/2015	Lyons	Elections; scheduling; February regular election date; eliminate.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 6/4/2015
HB 4385 Referred 4/21/2015	Jacobsen	Elections; scheduling; February regular election date; eliminate.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 6/4/2015
HB 4540 Referred 3/24/2016	Heise	Civil rights; public records; public body records, documents, or information disclosable under freedom of information act; exempt critical energy infrastructure and cybersecurity-related information.
HB 4596 Referred 6/4/2015	Lyons	Campaign finance; statements and reports; requirement for filing statement of a committee of an incumbent judge or justice elected or appointed; provide waiver.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 12/8/2015
HB 4597 Referred 6/4/2015	Lyons	Campaign finance; statements and reports; reporting and disclosure of certain candidates' expenditures; modify.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 12/8/2015
HB 4724 Referred 12/10/2015	Lyons	Elections; absent voters; definition of absent voter; expand to include an elector who applies in person at the clerk's office and who presents photo identification and expand the 100-foot rule to a clerk's office during the 45 days before an election.
HB 4814 Referred 4/27/2016	Runestad	Public employees and officers; state; posting of organization charts for each state department; require.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 11/30/2016
HB 4850 Referred 5/18/2016	Sheppard	State financing and management; purchasing; biobased procurement plan for state of Michigan purchasing; create.	DISCHARGE COMMITTEE APPROVED on 9/7/2016
HB 4904 Referred 10/6/2015	McBroom	Elections; other; date of the statewide presidential primary election as a regular election date; provide for, clarify filing deadlines for candidates for local office and for all local ballot questions, and require the board of state canvassers to canvass certain elections involving regional transit authorities.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 10/22/2015
HB 5219 Referred 2/24/2016	Lyons	Campaign finance; public funding; provision related to use of public funds for certain advertisement campaigns; modify.
HB 5407 Referred 4/12/2016	Lyons	Legislature; legislators; term of removal or resignation from the office of state senator or representative; provide for.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 4/28/2016
HB 6066 Referred 12/8/2016 1:15:37 PM	Lyons	Elections; voting procedures; photo identification for voting purposes; define, and modify provisional ballot process.
HB 6067 Referred 12/8/2016 1:15:50 PM	Lyons	Records; birth; fee waiver for search and issuance of certified copy of a live birth record or official statement indicating that the record cannot be located; provide for under certain circumstances.
HB 6068 Referred 12/8/2016 1:16:11 PM	Lyons	State; identification cards; fee waiver and procedure for issuance of state identification card as valid identification for voting purposes; modify under certain circumstances.
HCR 0011 Referred 5/19/2015	Chatfield	A concurrent resolution to urge the United States Supreme Court to recognize its limited historic role in a federal system and to urge the states to become proactive in defending their sovereignty against federal overreach.
SB 0008 Referred 1/20/2015	Schuitmaker	State financing and management; purchasing; installation of tracking device on state employee driven state vehicles; require.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-1 on 4/16/2015
SB 0013 Referred 1/20/2015	Knollenberg	Elections; voting procedures; straight-ticket voting; eliminate, and provide certain appropriations.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 11/10/2015
SB 0044 Referred 1/28/2015	Robertson	Elections; primary; presidential primary election date; revise.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 2/5/2015
SB 0045 Referred 1/28/2015	Robertson	Elections; primary; presidential primary election date; revise.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 2/5/2015
SB 0058 Referred 1/29/2015	Bieda	Elections; registration; preregistration to vote at age 16; provide for.
SB 0059 Referred 1/29/2015	Bieda	Elections; absent voters; absent voter ballot; issue upon voter's request without requiring justification.
SB 0060 Referred 1/29/2015	Ananich	Elections; voting procedures; early voting; provide for.
SB 0061 Referred 1/29/2015	Bieda	Elections; registration; electronic submission of voter registration application on secretary of state's website; allow.
SB 0088 Referred 2/10/2015	Warren	Elections; other; interstate compact to elect president by national popular vote; establish.
SB 0089 Referred 2/10/2015	Warren	Elections; absent voters; absent voter ballot; allow first-time voters to utilize.
SB 0110 Referred 2/17/2015	Robertson	Elections; scheduling; election of county executive in an optional unified form of county government; modify election schedule to the gubernatorial election years.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 6/4/2015
SB 0189 Referred 3/5/2015	Casperson	Civil procedure; costs and fees; recovery of costs and fees in an action involving this state; remove certain restrictions.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-1 on 4/28/2016
SB 0190 Referred 3/5/2015	Robertson	Administrative procedure; contested cases; award of costs and fees to prevailing party in a case involving this state; remove certain restrictions.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-1 on 4/28/2016
SB 0194 Referred 3/10/2015	Bieda	Public employees and officers; ethics; financial disclosure report; require certain candidates for elective office and state and local officials to file.
SB 0197 Referred 3/11/2015	Hildenbrand	Elections; other; allocation of electoral votes; revise.
SB 0205 Referred 3/12/2015	Hertel	Elections; candidates; recognized diminutive for a candidate's given name, middle name, or surname; allow to be included on a ballot.
SB 0224 Referred 3/19/2015	Knezek	Public employees and officers; ethics; lobbying by former legislators and executive branch officers; prohibit for a defined period after leaving state service.
SB 0230 Referred 3/24/2015	Ananich	State financing and management; purchasing; gifts by state contractors to certain governmental officials; limit.
SB 0241 Referred 3/26/2015	Colbeck	State financing and management; purchasing; use of bid scorecards system for certain procurement contracts awarded; require.
SB 0242 Referred 3/26/2015	O'Brien	State financing and management; purchasing; membership for committee on purchase of goods and services from community rehabilitation organizations; modify.
SB 0306 Referred 4/29/2015	Green	Legislature; other; compact for a balanced budget; enact.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 7/6/2015
SB 0316 Referred 5/7/2015	Jones	Civil rights; open meetings; Michigan compensation appellate commission; provide certain operational exemptions from the open meetings act.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 9/14/2016
SB 0329 Referred 5/12/2015	Ananich	Elections; election officials; modifying the nominating petition filing deadline for candidates for city offices; authorize under certain circumstances and add certain election accountability provisions.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 5/14/2015
SB 0419 Referred 6/30/2015	Bieda	Elections; local; election by mail; allow for certain local elections.
SB 0431 Referred 7/1/2015	Jones	Public employees and officers; other; removal procedure from elective office; specify for removal based on financial grounds.
SB 0452 Referred 9/9/2015	Jones	Elections; judicial; election procedure when court of appeals candidates are appointed to another judgeship; provide for.
SB 0489 Referred 9/10/2015	Green	Elections; other; electoral votes; require to be chosen from each congressional district.
SB 0547 Referred 10/7/2015	Warren	Elections; registration; resident address on driver license or personal identification card different from resident address on qualified voter file; permit.
SB 0548 Referred 10/7/2015	Warren	Traffic control; driver license; resident address on driver license different from resident address on qualified voter file; permit.
SB 0571 Referred 10/20/2015	Kowall	Campaign finance; other; amendments to the Michigan campaign finance act; provide for.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 10/28/2015
SB 0594 Referred 11/3/2015	Shirkey	State agencies (existing); executive office; governor's approval of certain memoranda of understanding or memoranda of agreement involving this state; require, and require filing those memoranda of agreement or memoranda of understanding with the secretary of state.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-2 on 3/17/2016
SB 0638 Referred 12/3/2015	Robertson	Campaign finance; other; general amendments to the Michigan campaign finance act; provide for.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITH SUBSTITUTE S-2 on 12/8/2015
SB 0639 Referred 12/3/2015	Robertson	Elections; other; general amendments; provide for.
SB 0640 Referred 12/3/2015	Robertson	Elections; petitions; requirement for recall petition circulators to be registered electors; eliminate.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 4/28/2016
SB 0721 Referred 1/26/2016	Horn	Campaign finance; public funding; prohibition on the use of public funds for certain communications referencing local ballot questions; modify.
SB 0735 Referred 2/2/2016	Young	Elections; registration; automatic voter registration; implement.
SB 0743 Referred 2/4/2016	Young	State; identification cards; declaration of United States citizenship on personal identification card application; require for automatic voter registration.
SB 0745 Referred 2/4/2016	Young	Traffic control; driver license; declaration of United States citizenship on operator's or chauffeur's license application; require for automatic voter registration.
SB 0776 Referred 2/10/2016	Robertson	Elections; petitions; petition signature rebuttable presumption; eliminate.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 3/3/2016
SB 0827 Referred 3/1/2016	Casperson	Administrative procedure; rules; environmental rules; establish a special review committee.
SB 0832 Referred 3/2/2016	Colbeck	Elections; offenses; misdemeanor against a member of a religious society for influencing an elector at an election by threatening excommunication, dismissal, or expulsion; eliminate.
SB 0841 Referred 3/3/2016	Knezek	Campaign finance; statements and reports; $1,000.00 threshold for filing certain campaign finance reports; eliminate.
SB 0849 Referred 3/8/2016	Colbeck	State financing and management; other; departments to provide report listing all assets over certain amount; require annually.
SB 0886 Referred 4/14/2016	Casperson	Administrative procedure; exemptions; corrections parole hearings; include in exemptions and make miscellaneous revisions to contested case provisions.	REPORTED FAVORABLY WITHOUT AMENDMENT on 4/28/2016
SB 0918 Referred 4/26/2016	Bieda	Elections; candidates; filing fee for state representative and state senator; increase.
SB 1114 Referred 10/18/2016 12:06:06 PM	Schmidt	Elections; absent voters; definition of absent voter; expand to include an elector who applies in person at the clerk's office and who presents photo identification.