STATE OF MICHIGAN

93RD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2006

Introduced by Senators Hammerstrom, Cropsey, Bishop, Brown, Kuipers, Jelinek, McManus, Birkholz, Patterson, Sanborn, Gilbert, Toy, Cassis, Garcia, Stamas, George, Goschka, Johnson and Allen

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 973

AN ACT to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled "An act to reorganize, consolidate, and add to the election laws; to provide for election officials and prescribe their powers and duties; to prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, state agencies, and state and local officials and employees; to provide for the nomination and election of candidates for public office; to provide for the resignation, removal, and recall of certain public officers; to provide for the filling of vacancies in public office; to provide for and regulate primaries and elections; to provide for the purity of elections; to guard against the abuse of the elective franchise; to define violations of this act; to provide appropriations; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and all other acts inconsistent with this act," by amending section 32 (MCL 168.32); and to repeal acts and parts of acts.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 32. (1) In the office of the secretary of state, the bureau of elections created by former 1951 PA 65 continues under the supervision of a state director of elections, to be appointed by the secretary of state under civil service regulations. The state director of elections shall be vested with the powers and shall perform the duties of the secretary of state under his supervision, with respect to the supervision and administration of the election laws. The state director of elections shall perform other duties as prescribed in this act. The state director of elections shall be a nonmember secretary of the state board of canvassers.

(2) The state director of elections shall prepare a statement for designation on the ballot in not more than 100 words, exclusive of caption, of the purpose of any proposed amendment or question to be submitted to the electors as required under section 2 of article XII of the state constitution of 1963. The powers and duties of the state board of canvassers and the secretary of state with respect to the preparation of the statement are hereby transferred to the state director of elections.

Enacting section 1. Section 22e of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.22e, is repealed.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 93rd Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) Senate Bill No. 974.

(b) Senate Bill No. 975.

(c) Senate Bill No. 976.

(d) House Bill No. 5648.

(e) House Bill No. 5649.

(f) House Bill No. 5650.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor