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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 447

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: voter registration forms and information provided to certain high school students.

Elections — Registration School School — Attendance School — Board School — Building

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires each school board in Wisconsin to provide to each high school

student in the school board's school district who becomes eligible to register to vote:

1. A voter registration form and information concerning eligibility to vote.

2. Nonpartisan materials describing the role of the citizen and the importance

of voting in elections.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Agard (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Wirch (D)

23 cosponsors

Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , B. Meyers (D) , Baldeh (D) , Brostoff (D) , Cabrera (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Drake (D) , Hebl (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Hintz (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , Shankland (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vruwink (D)

Full history

  1. Jul 7, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Smith, Agard, Carpenter, Erpenbach, Larson, Roys, L. Taylor and Wirch; cosponsored by Representatives Shelton, Snodgrass, Hintz, Anderson, Andraca, Baldeh, Brostoff, Cabrera, Conley, Considine, Drake, Hebl, Hesselbein, B. Meyers, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, Shankland, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck and Vruwink

  2. Jul 7, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Elections, Election Process Reform and Ethics

  3. Mar 15, 2022 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1