2001 Senate Bill 759 ↩

House Roll Call 824: Passed

To limit the practice of "bundling" campaign contributions in elections for statewide offices, which includes governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, Supreme Court justice, State Board of Education member, University of Michigan regent, Michigan State University trustee, or Wayne State University governor. This refers to groups which aggregate contributions from many donors and forward them to a candidate. The amount that these groups could forward under the bill would be limited to the same as allowed for large political action committees (PACs), which is $34,000 per candidate per election. Additionally, campaign contributions to a candidate, but not to a ballot measure, would be prohibited from an out-of-state organization (generally a union) whose funds are raised on an automatic basis, including but not limited to a payroll deduction plan, unless individuals making the automatic contributions affirmatively consent to do so annually.