Introduced in the House on April 19, 2007, to eliminate a requirement that employees affirm annually that they want paycheck deductions to go into a union corporate PAC, and to allow the use of public money to administer those union PAC payroll deductions for government and university employees. The bill makes a number of revisions to the state campaign finance law, including transferring various enforcement duties from the "Secretary of State" to the state Director of Elections (who is under the Secretary of State); increasing some penalties; requiring certain disclosures for “robocalls;” prohibiting a candidate from taking a salary from his or her candidate committee; prohibiting honoraria for all state elected officials; raising the threshold on reporting campaign contributions from $1 to $20; establishing that a violation by a candidate who is the state Attorney General are to be investigated and prosecuted by the Ingham County prosecutor, and more
The vote was 61 in favor, 47 opposed and 2 not voting
(House Roll Call 132 at House Journal 42)
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