SENATE BILL NO. 1052

May 19, 2022, Introduced by Senator MCBROOM and referred to the Committee on Elections.

A bill to amend 1966 PA 261, entitled

"An act to provide for the apportionment of county boards of commissioners; to prescribe the size of the board; to provide for appeals; to prescribe the manner of election of the members of the county board of commissioners; to provide for compensation of members; to prescribe penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,"

by amending section 11 (MCL 46.411), as amended by 2021 PA 145, and by adding section 11c.

the people of the state of michigan enact:

Sec. 11. A candidate for the office of county commissioner must be a resident and registered voter of the district that he or she seeks to represent and must remain a resident and registered voter to hold his or her office, if elected. Nominations Except as otherwise provided in section 11c, nominations and elections for commissioners must be by partisan elections. In order for the name of a candidate for nomination for the office of county commissioner to appear on the official primary ballot, a nominating petition or a nonrefundable filing fee of $100.00 must be filed with the county clerk. The nominating petition must have been be signed by a number of qualified and registered electors residing within the district as determined under section 544f of the Michigan election law, 1954 PA 116, MCL 168.544f. The deadline for filing nomination petitions or filing fees is the same as for a candidate for state representative. An individual who has been convicted of a violation of section 12a(1) of 1941 PA 370, MCL 38.412a, is not eligible to be a county commissioner for 20 years after the conviction.

Sec. 11c. Beginning January 1 of the year of the federal decennial census and continuing until December 31 of the third year following that date, the county board of commissioners of a county with a population of less than 75,000 may adopt a resolution to conduct nonpartisan elections for the office of county commissioner. If a county board of commissioners adopts a resolution as provided in this section, the resolution takes effect on December 31 of the year in which the resolution is adopted.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

Enacting section 2. This amendatory act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 1050 of the 101st Legislature is enacted into law.