population just like I do, and you wouldn’t like it either if the rest of the state could just go out and collect
signatures and tell you what to do for an issue that only matters to your area. That’s why our Constitution
has protections in it for local acts, to make sure we don’t do that. This was an attempt to provide those kinds
of protections against what’s essentially a local act. We shouldn’t be repealing this. We should be reforming
it. We should be fixing it. We should be standing up for our small areas against special interests in other
areas taking advantage of us, people who think they know better. Please vote “no.”
The following bill was read a third time:
House Bill No. 5576, entitled
A bill to amend 1954 PA 116, entitled “Michigan election law,” by amending section 685 (MCL 168.685),
as amended by 2018 PA 650.
The question being on the passage of the bill,
The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows: