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A REFERENDUM ON PUBLIC ACT 269 OF 2001 - AN ACT TO AMEND CERTAIN SECTIONS OF MICHIGAN ELECTION LAW * Eliminate 'straight party' vote option on partisan general election ballots. * Require Secretary of State to obtain training reports from local election officials. * Require registered voters who do not appear on registration list to show picture identification before voting a challenged ballot. * Require expedited canvass if presidential vote differential is under 25,000. * Require ballot counting equipment to screen ballots for voting errors to ensure the accurate tabulation of absentee ballots. Permit voters in polls to correct errors. * Provide penalties for stealing campaign signs or accepting payment for campaign work while being paid as a public employee to perform election duties. Should this law be approved?
A PROPOSAL TO AUTHORIZE BONDS FOR SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS PROJECTS, STORM WATER PROJECTS AND WATER POLLUTION PROJECTS * Authorize the State of Michigan to borrow a sum not to exceed $1 billion to improve the quality of the waters of the state by financing sewage treatment works projects, storm water projects and water pollution projects. * Authorize the state to issue general obligation bonds pledging the full faith and credit of the state for the payment of principal and interest on the bonds. * Provide for repayment of the bonds from the general fund of the state. Should this proposal be adopted?
A PROPOSAL TO AMEND THE STATE CONSTITUTION TO GRANT STATE CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH BINDING ARBITRATION * Grant state classified employees, in appropriate bargaining units determined by the Civil Service Commission, the right to elect bargaining representatives for the purpose of collective bargaining with the state employer. * Require the state to bargain in good faith for the purpose of reaching a binding collective bargaining agreement with any elected bargaining representatives over wages, hours, pensions and other terms and conditions of employment. * Extend the bargaining representatives the right to submit any unresolved disputes over the terms of a collective bargaining agreement to binding arbitration 30 days after the commencement of bargaining. Should the proposal be adopted?
A PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO REALLOCATE THE 'TOBACCO SETTLEMENT REVENUE' RECEIVED BY THE STATE FROM CIGARETTE MANUFACTURERS * Annually allocate on a permanent basis 90% (approximately $297 million) of 'tobacco settlement revenue' received by state from cigarette manufacturers as follows: $151.8 million to nonprofit hospitals, licensed nursing homes, licensed hospices, nurse practitioners, school-linked health centers and Healthy Michigan Foundation; $102.3 million to fund programs to reduce tobacco use, Health and Aging Research Development Initiative, Tobacco-Free Futures Fund, Council of Michigan Foundations and Nurses Scholarship Program; and $42.9 million to the Elder Prescription Drug Program. * Guarantee recipients funding at 2001 appropriation levels plus additional state funds on an escalating basis for nonprofit hospitals, licensed nursing homes, licensed hospices and nurse practitioners. Should this proposal be adopted?
SHALL THE TOWNSHIP OF ALMENA, VAN BUREN COUNTY, ADD TWO TRUSTEE POSITIONS TO THE TOWNSHIP BOARD PURSUANT TO MCL 168.358(4), BRINGING THE BOARD TO SEVEN MEMBERS, WITH THOSE TWO ADDITIONAL TRUSTEES BEING FIRST ELECTED AT THE NEXT NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION?
SHALL THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, AN AUTHORITY CREATED AND EXISTING UNDER ACT 47, PUBLIC ACTS OF MICHIGAN, 1945, AS AMENDED, BE CONVERTED INTO A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, AS PERMITTED BY ACT 47, AND FURTHER ENTER INTO AN AFFILIATION WITH THE BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP UPON SUCH CONVERSION?
SHALL THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, AN AUTHORITY CREATED AND EXISTING UNDER ACT 47, PUBLIC ACTS OF MICHIGAN, 1945, AS AMENDED, BE CONVERTED INTO A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, AS PERMITTED BY ACT 47, AND FURTHER ENTER INTO AN AFFILIATION WITH THE BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP UPON SUCH CONVERSION?
SHALL BANGOR TOWNSHIP ORDINANCE NUMBER 15 (CREATION OF A PLANNING COMMSSION) BE AMENDED, PURSUANT TO SECTION 125.331 OF THE MICHIGAN COMPILED LAWS, TRANSFERRING ALL POWERS AND DUTIES OF A ZONING BOARD AS PROVIDED BY THE TOWNSHIP RURAL ZONING ACT, ACT NO. 184 OF THE PUBLIC ACTS OF 1943 AS AMENDED, BEING SECTIONS 125.271 TO 125.301 OF THE MICHIGAN COMPILED LAWS. THESE POWERS INCLUDE BUT MAY NOT BE LIMITED TO: WRITING OF A PROSED ZONING ORDINANCE. THE HOLDING OF PUBLIC HEARINGS AND REQUIRED REVIEW PROCESSES REGARDING A PROPOSED ZONING ORDINANCE.RECOMMENDATION AND SUBMISSION TO THE TOWNSHIP BOARD OF A PROPOSED ZONING ORDINANCE FOR ADOPTION BY THE TOWNSHIP BOARD.THE REVIEW OF AND RECOMMENDATION TO THE TOWNSHIP BOARD OF ADDITIONS TO, OR CHANGES TO, AN ADOPTED ZONING ORDINANCE AS REQUIRED BY STATE STATUTE OR BY AN ADOPTED TOWNSHIP ZONING ORDINANCE.
SHALL THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, AN AUTHORITY CREATED AND EXISTING UNDER ACT 47, PUBLIC ACTS OF MICHIGAN, 1945, AS AMENDED, BE CONVERTED INTO A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, AS PERMITTED BY ACT 47, AND FURTHER ENTER INTO AN AFFILIATION WITH THE BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP UPON SUCH CONVERSION?
SHALL THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, AN AUTHORITY CREATED AND EXISTING UNDER ACT 47, PUBLIC ACTS OF MICHIGAN, 1945, AS AMENDED, BE CONVERTED INTO A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, AS PERMITTED BY ACT 47, AND FURTHER ENTER INTO AN AFFILIATION WITH THE BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP UPON SUCH CONVERSION?
SHALL THE TOWNSHIP OF HARTFORD INCORPORATE AS A CHARTER TOWNSHIP, WHICH SHALL BE A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF PUBLIC ACT 359 OF 1947, AS AMENDED, WHICH ACT SHALL CONSTITUTE THE CHARTER OF SUCH MUNICIPAL CORPORATION?
SHALL THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, AN AUTHORITY CREATED AND EXISTING UNDER ACT 47, PUBLIC ACTS OF MICHIGAN, 1945, AS AMENDED, BE CONVERTED INTO A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, AS PERMITTED BY ACT 47, AND FURTHER ENTER INTO AN AFFILIATION WITH THE BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP UPON SUCH CONVERSION?
SHALL THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, AN AUTHORITY CREATED AND EXISTING UNDER ACT 47, PUBLIC ACTS OF MICHIGAN, 1945, AS AMENDED, BE CONVERTED INTO A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, AS PERMITTED BY ACT 47, AND FURTHER ENTER INTO AN AFFILIATION WITH THE BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP UPON SUCH CONVERSION?
SHALL THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, AN AUTHORITY CREATED AND EXISTING UNDER ACT 47, PUBLIC ACTS OF MICHIGAN, 1945, AS AMENDED, BE CONVERTED INTO A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, AS PERMITTED BY ACT 47, AND FURTHER ENTER INTO AN AFFILIATION WITH THE BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP UPON SUCH CONVERSION?
SHALL THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, AN AUTHORITY CREATED AND EXISTING UNDER ACT 47, PUBLIC ACTS OF MICHIGAN, 1945, AS AMENDED, BE CONVERTED INTO A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, AS PERMITTED BY ACT 47, AND FURTHER ENTER INTO AN AFFILIATION WITH THE BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP UPON SUCH CONVERSION?
SHALL THE POLICE PROTECTION MILLAGE PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED IN THE CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF SOUTH HAVEN AT .75 MILL ($.75 PER $1,000 OF TAXABLE VALUE) AND ROLLED BACK TO .736 MILL FOR 2002 BE RENEWED FOR THE YEARS 2003 THROUGH 2006, INCLUSIVE, AT THE FULL .75 MILL, WHICH WILL RAISE APPROXIMATELY $59,061.00 FOR POLICE PROTECTION PURPOSES IN THE FIRST YEAR?
SHALL THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, AN AUTHORITY CREATED AND EXISTING UNDER ACT 47, PUBLIC ACTS OF MICHIGAN, 1945, AS AMENDED, BE CONVERTED INTO A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, AS PERMITTED BY ACT 47, AND FURTHER ENTER INTO AN AFFILIATION WITH THE BRONSON HEALTHCARE GROUP UPON SUCH CONVERSION?
