September 26, 2018, Introduced by Senator SCHMIDT and referred to the Committee on Elections and Government Reform.
A bill to amend 1966 PA 331, entitled
"Community college act of 1966,"
by amending section 83 (MCL 389.83), as amended by 2003 PA 306.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 83. (1) A member of the board of trustees of a community
college established under this chapter shall be elected for a term
of 6 years unless he or she is elected to fill a vacancy for the
unexpired term under subsection (5).
(2) A candidate for trustee shall be nominated at a
nonpartisan primary election conducted under the Michigan election
law.
The nominating petitions shall must
contain not less than 250
or more than 500 signatures of registered school electors of the
appropriate
trustee district and shall must
be filed with the
school district filing official for the community college district
on
or before 4 p.m. of the twelfth fifteenth
Tuesday before the
primary election. A signature on a nominating petition is not valid
unless the petitioner is a registered school elector of the trustee
district in which the candidate is running for election. The school
district filing official may compare the signatures on the
petitions with the signatures appearing on the registration records
or in some other proper manner determine whether the signatures
appearing on the petition are genuine and comply with the
requirements of this section. Not more than 2 candidates shall be
nominated at the primary election for each trustee district.
(3) Each of the 9 trustees shall commence his or her term of
office on January 1 following his or her election.
(4) A candidate for the office of board member representing a
trustee district or a person elected or appointed to fill a vacancy
under
subsection (5) shall must be 18 years of age or older at the
time
of his or her election or appointment and shall must be
an
elector residing in the trustee district in which the person
becomes
a candidate or which that the person is appointed to
represent. If a member representing a trustee district ceases to
reside in the trustee district during the trustee's term of office,
it is a vacating of office.
(5) If a vacancy occurs on the board of trustees, the vacancy
shall
must be filled from among electors of the trustee
district by
majority vote of the remaining board members. If a person is
appointed to fill a vacancy in a trustee district for which the
unexpired term is more than 1 year and 8 months, that person shall
serve until January 1 following the next general election. At that
next
general election the vacancy shall must be filled for the
unexpired
term. A vacancy shall must
not be filled later than 60
days before a primary election at which voting district board
members are to be nominated.
(6) Special elections may be called in the same manner as in
chapters 1 and 2.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.