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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 938

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Relating to: verifying citizenship of individuals on the official voter registration list and contents of operator's licenses and identification cards. (FE)

Citizenship Data processing — Privacy issues Elections — Registration Elections commission Identification cards Motor vehicle — Drivers license Transportation department of — Vehicles

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, stopped here
  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

Current law requires the administrator of the Elections Commission to enter

into an agreement with the secretary of transportation to match personally

identifiable information on the official voter registration list with the information

maintained by DOT. Under the bill, the agreement with DOT must also provide for

the commission to review the information maintained by DOT to verify that

individuals on the registration list are U.S. citizens. The bill also requires the

commission to verify that individuals on the official registration list are U.S. citizens

by using the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database maintained by

the federal Department of Homeland Security. Under the bill, the commission must

conduct the verifications 60 days before the distribution of absentee ballots to voters

before an election.

The bill also requires DOT to place on the face of an operator's license or

identification card issued to a person who is not a U.S. citizen, the words “Not valid

for voting purposes” or another readily recognizable indication that the license may

not be accepted for voter identification purposes.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Darling (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Nass (R) , Roth (R) , Stroebel (R) , Wimberger (R)

25 cosponsors

Allen (R) , Armstrong (R) , Ballweg (R) , Behnke (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Brooks (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Dittrich (R) , Gundrum (R) , Horlacher (R) , Knodl (R) , Krug (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Magnafici (R) , Murphy (R) , Neylon (R) , Penterman (R) , Petersen (R) , Pronschinske (R) , Rozar (R) , Sanfelippo (R) , Schraa (R) , Steffen and Skowronski , Tittl (R) , Wichgers (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Elections, Election Process Reform and Ethics, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Feb 9, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Senate Amendment 1 rejected, Ayes 21, Noes 12

Passed 21–12 Feb 22, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: PASSAGE

Passed 21–12 Feb 22, 2022 official source full page

Assembly: CONCURRENCE

Passed 59–36 Feb 24, 2022 official source full page

Aye · 59

Not voting · 2

Full history

  1. Feb 3, 2022 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Darling, Roth, Wimberger, Felzkowski, Nass and Stroebel; cosponsored by Representatives Knodl, Armstrong, Behnke, Brandtjen, Brooks, Cabral-Guevara, Dittrich, Gundrum, Horlacher, Krug, Kuglitsch, Magnafici, Penterman, Petersen, Pronschinske, Rozar, Sanfelippo, Schraa, Tittl, Wichgers and Neylon

  2. Feb 3, 2022 · Senate

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

  3. Feb 3, 2022 · Senate

    Representative Murphy added as a cosponsor

  4. Feb 4, 2022 · Senate

    Representative Allen added as a cosponsor

  5. Feb 7, 2022 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  6. Feb 7, 2022 · Senate

    Senator Ballweg added as a coauthor

  7. Feb 9, 2022 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  8. Feb 9, 2022 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  9. Feb 9, 2022 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Elections, Election Process Reform and Ethics, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  10. Feb 9, 2022 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Feb 18, 2022 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 2-22-2022 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  12. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 offered by Senators Carpenter, Smith, Agard and Ringhand

  13. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Read a second time

  14. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Senate Amendment 1 rejected, Ayes 21, Noes 12

  15. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  16. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  17. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 21, Noes 12

  18. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  19. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  20. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  21. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  22. Feb 23, 2022 · Assembly

    Made a special order of business at 8:09 AM on 2-24-2022 pursuant to Assembly Resolution 30

  23. Feb 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  24. Feb 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  25. Feb 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  26. Feb 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in, Ayes 59, Noes 36, Paired 2

  27. Feb 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Representatives Steffen and Skowronski added as cosponsors

  28. Feb 24, 2022 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  29. Feb 24, 2022 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  30. Mar 2, 2022 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  31. Apr 5, 2022 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 4-5-2022 by directive of the Majority Leader

  32. Apr 11, 2022 · Senate

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 4-8-2022

  33. May 17, 2022 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 5-17-2022 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  34. May 17, 2022 · Senate

    Failed to pass notwithstanding the objections of the Governor pursuant to Joint Rule 82