LLC Election Spending & Corporate Powers (Business Law)

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Evidence log

• 2026-04-30 — Businesses: business corporations; benefit corporations; authorize formation and establish duties of officers and directors. Amends and adds (See bill).: cross-connection with benefit-corporations: Both concern amendments to Michigan’s corporate-entity statutes governing formation, powers, and fiduciary duties. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-02 — Businesses: limited liability companies; power of limited liability companies to spend in elections or ballot issues; revoke. Amends secs. 105, 210, 211 & 1008 of 1993 PA 23 (MCL 450.4105 et seq.) & adds sec. 210a. TIE BAR WITH: SB 1085’26, SB 1086’26: SB 1087 introduced as Senate companion to HB 6216, making identical amendments to secs. 105, 210, 211 & 1008 of 1993 PA 23 and adding sec. 210a to revoke LLCs’ power to spend in elections or on ballot issues; tie-barred to SB 1085’26 and SB 1086’26, indicating a parallel Senate package mirroring the House trio. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-03 — Businesses: other; power of entities to spend in elections or ballot issues; revoke. Amends the state constitution by adding sec. 55 to art. IV.: Companion HJR Z introduced to constitutionalize the entity election-spending ban by adding Art. IV, Sec. 55 — a constitutional layer over HB 6216’s statutory LLC restriction. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-03 — Individual income tax: credit; tax incentive for contributions made to certain ballot and candidate committees; provide for. Amends 1967 PA 281 (MCL 206.1 - 206.847) by adding sec. 281.: Related but distinct HB 6219 introduced to create an individual income tax credit for contributions to ballot and candidate committees — a pro-participation counterpart to the HB 6216-6218 package restricting corporate/LLC/nonprofit election spending. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-03 — Businesses: business corporations; power of corporations to spend in elections or ballot issues; revoke. Amends secs. 261, 271, 821, 1012 & 1041 of 1972 PA 284 (MCL 450.1261 et. seq.) & adds sec. 261a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6216’26, HB 6217’26: Companion bill HB 6218 introduced to apply the same election/ballot-issue spending prohibition to for-profit business corporations under 1972 PA 284; tie-barred with HB 6216 and HB 6217, completing the three-entity package. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-03 — Businesses: nonprofit corporations; power of nonprofit corporations to spend in elections or ballot issues; revoke. Amends secs. 261, 271, 821, 1012 & 1041 of 1982 PA 162 (MCL 450.2261 et. seq.) by adding sec. 261a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6216’26, HB 6218’26: Companion bill HB 6217 introduced to apply the same election/ballot-issue spending prohibition to nonprofit corporations under 1982 PA 162; tie-barred with HB 6216, indicating a coordinated package across business entity types. (novelty: 3)
• 2026-07-03 — Businesses: limited liability companies; power of limited liability companies to spend in elections or ballot issues; revoke. Amends secs. 105, 210, 211 & 1008 of 1993 PA 23 (MCL 450.4105 et. seq.) & adds sec. 210a. TIE BAR WITH: HB 6217’26, HB 6218’26: HB 6216 (103rd Legislature, 2026) introduced to amend secs. 105, 210, 211, and 1008 of the LLC Act (1993 PA 23) and add sec. 210a, revoking the power of LLCs to spend money in elections or on ballot issues; tie-barred to HB 6217’26 and HB 6218’26. (novelty: 3)

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