{"id":5781,"date":"2018-01-17T17:40:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T21:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2018-01-17T17:40:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T21:40:02","slug":"house-considering-bill-limiting-millage-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2018\/01\/17\/house-considering-bill-limiting-millage-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"House Considering Bill Limiting Millage Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The House Elections committee has posted a hearing for\u00a0next week on House Bill 4814 (Albert)<\/a>.\u00a0 This bill would limit all local governments to only being able to offer\u00a0a millage question on the November General Election date.\u00a0 Originally scheduled to be brought up tomorrow morning, the chairman subsequently agreed to postpone consideration for a week.\u00a0 This bill is now scheduled to be up in front of the committee on Thursday, Jan. 25 at 10:30 am<\/a>.\u00a0 League staff will be testifying in opposition to the bill at this hearing.<\/p>\n

We have been informed that alternate language is being considered\u00a0that would allow millage questions on any August or November election, as opposed to the original version limiting these questions to November even-year elections.\u00a0 Even with such a change, we remain opposed to any further restriction on election access.\u00a0 Election consolidation already establishes three specific dates annually that are available for ballot questions and election law limits a local unit from bringing a question back in front of the voters repeatedly.\u00a0 This proposal is drafted to take effect immediately (any millage question after 12\/31\/17), disrupting plans for May elections or renewals that are already in process and jeopardizing funding for key local programs and operations.\u00a0 Limiting when these questions can be considered by local voters also ignores the existing expiration and scheduling of current local millages and will only serve to lengthen ballots for no legitimate public purpose.<\/p>\n

Please take a moment and call your State Representative<\/a>\u00a0and the members of the House Elections committee<\/a> to express your opposition to this\u00a0intrusion on local control.\u00a0\u00a0Thank you for your assistance!<\/p>\n

Chris Hackbarth is the League\u2019s director of state & federal affairs. He can be reached at<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>517-908-0304\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0chackbarth@mml.org<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The House Elections committee has posted a hearing for\u00a0next week on House Bill 4814 (Albert).\u00a0 This bill would limit all local governments to only being able to offer\u00a0a millage question on the November General Election date.\u00a0 Originally scheduled to be brought up tomorrow morning, the chairman subsequently agreed to postpone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2","category-legislative-link-articles","category-municipal-finance","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHouse Considering Bill Limiting Millage Elections - 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