Act No. 264
Public Acts of 2023
Approved by the Governor
November 30, 2023
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 1, 2023
EFFECTIVE DATE: February 13, 2024
STATE OF MICHIGAN
102ND LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2023
Introduced by Reps. Bierlein, Rheingans, Price, Conlin, Schuette, Hope, Rogers, Martus, Brixie,
Puri, Scott, Andrews, McFall, Brabec, Morse, Haadsma, Wilson, Dievendorf, Morgan, Hood,
Byrnes, Steckloff, Tyrone Carter, MacDonell, Hoskins, Brenda Carter, O’Neal, Neeley,
Shannon and Farhat
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5143
AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 388, entitled “An act to regulate political activity; to regulate campaign financing;
to restrict campaign contributions and expenditures; to require campaign statements and reports; to regulate
anonymous contributions; to regulate campaign advertising and literature; to provide for segregated funds for
political purposes; to provide for the use of public funds for political purposes; to create certain funds; to provide
for reversion, retention, or refunding of unexpended balances in certain funds; to require other statements and
reports; to regulate acceptance of certain gifts, payments, and reimbursements; to prescribe the powers and duties
of certain state departments and state and local officials and employees; to provide appropriations; to prescribe
penalties and provide remedies; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 2
(MCL 169.202), as amended by 2001 PA 250.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 2. (1) “Artificial intelligence” means a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined
objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments, and that
uses machine and human-based inputs to do all of the following:
(a) Perceive real and virtual environments.
(b) Abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an automated manner.
(c) Use model inference to formulate options for information or action.
(2) “Award” means a plaque, trophy, certificate, bust, ceremonial gavel, or memento.
(3) “Ballot question” means a question that is submitted or is intended to be submitted to a popular vote at an
election whether or not it qualifies for the ballot.
(4) “Ballot question committee” means a committee acting in support of, or in opposition to, the qualification,
passage, or defeat of a ballot question but that does not receive contributions or make expenditures or
contributions for the purpose of influencing or attempting to influence the action of the voters for or against the
nomination or election of a candidate.
(5) “Bundle” means for a bundling committee to deliver 1 or more contributions from individuals to the
candidate committee of a candidate for statewide elective office, without the money becoming money of the
bundling committee.
(176)
Clerk of the House of Representatives
(6) “Bundling committee” means an independent committee or political committee that makes an expenditure
to solicit or collect from individuals contributions that are to be part of a bundled contribution, which expenditure
is required to be reported as an in-kind expenditure for a candidate for statewide elective office.
(7) “Business” means a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, sole proprietorship, firm,
enterprise, franchise, association, organization, self-employed individual, holding company, joint stock company,
receivership, trust, activity, or entity that is organized for profit or nonprofit purposes.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless House Bill No. 5141 of the 102nd Legislature
is enacted into law.
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
Compiler's note: House Bill No. 5141, referred to in enacting section 1, was filed with the Secretary of State
December 1, 2023, and became 2023 PA 263, Eff. Feb. 13, 2024.
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