The state House Elections and Ethics committee unanimously sent a bill to the full House that would require office seekers to reveal if they've been convicted of a felony in the last ten years.
If the bill becomes law, candidates would have to list recent, non-juvenile convictions along with other basic information like such as their address and citizenship status when they file to run for office.
Detroit Free Press: The bill would not have identified two Flint City Council candidates, who won their races last year without the public being aware that one had been convicted of manslaughter and the other of felonious assault. Both convictions were more than 20 years old.
The bill would have impacted state Rep. Brian Banks, D-Harper Woods, who has eight felony convictions, mostly for writing bad checks and credit card fraud, dating back to a period of time from 1998 to 2004.
