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. |