Michigan Proposal 26-2 — A proposed initiated law to prohibit campaign contributions from certain regulated utilities and government contractors and apply campaign finance laws and regulations to additional types of political communications

What it does

The proposal would: • Prohibit regulated electric and gas utilities, contractors with over $250,000 annually in government contracts, and people and organizations with substantial connections to these utilities/contractors from making direct or indirect campaign contributions to those who run for or hold offices that impact them. • Expand laws regulating spending on political communications, including those requiring disclosing donor information, to apply to communications clearly identifying candidates or ballot questions, even if they do not expressly advocate voting for/against them. • Expressly apply the law requiring disclosure of who paid for political communications to internet political communications. Should this proposal be adopted?

A YES vote means

A YES vote enacts the initiated law barring campaign contributions from regulated electric and gas utilities, large government contractors, and closely connected people and organizations, and extending campaign-finance disclosure rules to more political communications, including internet ones.

A NO vote means

A NO vote leaves current Michigan campaign-finance law unchanged.

Needed to pass

A simple majority

Put on the ballot by

citizen initiative

Official text: source

Also on Michigan ballots

• Proposal 26-1 — A proposal to convene a constitutional convention for the purpose of drafting a general revision of the state constitution

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