HOUSE BILL NO. 5950

March 22, 2022, Introduced by Reps. Brixie, Brabec, Young, Hope, Cavanagh, Sowerby, Manoogian, Pohutsky, Brenda Carter, Weiss, Stone, Tate, Kuppa, Morse, Steckloff, Hood, Breen, Hertel, Tyrone Carter, Aiyash, Puri, Camilleri, Lasinski, Neeley, Haadsma, Ellison, Thanedar, LaGrand, Koleszar, Garza, Scott, Cynthia Johnson, Anthony and Yancey and referred to the Committee on Elections and Ethics.

"Michigan election law,"

by amending sections 509q, 509gg, and 516 (MCL 168.509q, 168.509gg, and 168.516), section 509q as amended by 2020 PA 302, section 509gg as amended by 2014 PA 94, and section 516 as amended by 2018 PA 125.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 509q. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the qualified voter file must contain all of the following information for each qualified voter:

(a) The name; residence address including house number and street name or rural route and box number, and the apartment number, if any; city; state; zip code; and date of birth.

(b) The driver license number or state personal identification card number or similar number issued by a designated voter registration agency.

(c) Jurisdictional information including county and city or township; village, if any; metropolitan district, if any; and school district.

(d) Precinct numbers and ward numbers, if any.

(e) Any other information that the secretary of state determines is necessary to assess the eligibility of qualified electors or to administer voter registration or other aspects of the election process.

(f) Voting history for a 5-year period.

(g) The most recent digitized signature of an elector if captured or reproduced by the secretary of state or a county, city, or township clerk from a voter registration application under section 509hh, or captured or reproduced by the secretary of state under section 307 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.307.

(2) If a qualified voter is a program participant, as that term is defined in section 3 of the address confidentiality program act, 2020 PA 301, MCL 780.853, the qualified voter file must also contain the program participant's unique identification number issued by the department of the attorney general.

(3) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, if a qualified voter is a program participant, as that term is defined in section 3 of the address confidentiality program act, 2020 PA 301, MCL 780.853, the information contained in the qualified voter file for that program participant, including his or her unique identification number issued by the department of the attorney general, is confidential and not subject to disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246. The information contained in the qualified voter file for a program participant, as that term is defined in section 3 of the address confidentiality program act, 2020 PA 301, MCL 780.853, may be used by an election official during the normal course of his or her duties as an election official.

(4) If a registered or preregistered elector is less than 18 years of age, the information contained in the qualified voter file for that registered or preregistered elector is confidential and not subject to disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246, until that registered or preregistered elector is 18 years of age.

Sec. 509gg. (1) The Subject to subsection (3), the information described in this subsection that is contained in a registration record is exempt from disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246. The secretary of state, a designated voter registration agency, or a county, city, township, or village clerk shall not release a copy of that portion of a registration record that contains any of the following:

(a) The record that a person an individual declined to register to vote.

(b) The office that received a registered voter's elector's application.

(d) The month and day of birth of a registered voter.elector.

(e) The telephone number provided by a registered voter.elector.

(f) The digitized signature of an elector that is captured or reproduced and transmitted to the qualified voter file by the secretary of state or a county, city, or township clerk under section 509hh or by the secretary of state under section 307 of the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.307.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the last 4 digits of a registered voter's social security elector's Social Security number contained in a registration record are exempt from disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246. The last 4 digits of a registered voter's social security elector's Social Security number contained in a registration record may only be used by the secretary of state to verify a registered voter's elector's data as provided by the help America vote act of 2002 and to verify a registered voter's elector's status under this act, and shall must not be used or released for any other purpose.

(3) If a registered or preregistered elector is less than 18 years of age, all of the information contained in the registration record for that registered or preregistered elector is confidential and not subject to disclosure under the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442, MCL 15.231 to 15.246, until that registered or preregistered elector is 18 years of age. On a registered or preregistered elector's eighteenth birthday, the information contained in the registration record for that registered or preregistered elector is subject to the exemption provided in subsection (1).

Sec. 516. (1) The Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) and section 509gg, the registration record must be open for public inspection.

(2) If a registered or preregistered elector is less than 18 years of age, all of the information contained in the registration record for that registered or preregistered elector is confidential and must not be open for public inspection as provided under subsection (1) until that registered or preregistered elector is 18 years of age.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 5564 of the 101st Legislature is enacted into law.