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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

AB 441

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Relating to: timeline for sending or transmitting presidential preference primary absentee ballots. (FE)

Elections — Ballots Municipality — Officers Presidential electors

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, 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

Current law requires a municipal clerk to send an absentee ballot for each

partisan primary, presidential preference primary, and general election to all

electors requesting the ballot, including military and overseas electors, no later than

the 47th day before the partisan primary, presidential preference primary, or general

election or, if the request is not made before that day, within one business day after

the request is received. For all other primaries and elections, the municipal clerk

must send or transmit the absentee ballot no later than the 21st day before the

primary or election or, if the request is not made before that day, within one business

day after the request is received.

Under this bill, a municipal clerk must send or transmit an absentee ballot for

the presidential preference primary to electors other than military and overseas

electors no later than the 21st day before the presidential preference primary. The

bill does not alter the 47-day deadline for municipal clerks to send or transmit

absentee ballots to military electors and overseas electors for the presidential

preference primary.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Behnke (R) , Bodden (R) , Brooks (R) , C. Anderson (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Gundrum (R) , Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Krug (R) , Maxey (R) , Michalski (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Rettinger (R) , Schmidt (R) , Subeck (D)

9 cosponsors

Ballweg (R) , Cabrera (D) , Felzkowski (R) , Gustafson and O'Connor , James (R) , Knodl (R) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stroebel (R)

Votes

Assembly: Report passage recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 9, Noes 0

Passed 9–0 Nov 6, 2023 official source full page

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

Full history

  1. Sep 28, 2023 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Bodden, Michalski, C. Anderson, Andraca, Behnke, Brooks, Conley, Considine, Duchow, Edming, Gundrum, Joers, Krug, Maxey, Rettinger, Schmidt, Subeck, Ortiz-Velez and Jacobson; cosponsored by Senators Stroebel, Spreitzer, Knodl, Ballweg, Felzkowski and James

  2. Sep 28, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

  3. Oct 3, 2023 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Oct 3, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Snodgrass added as a coauthor

  5. Oct 19, 2023 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Oct 24, 2023 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Nov 6, 2023 · Assembly

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 9, Noes 0

  8. Nov 6, 2023 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Nov 7, 2023 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 11-9-2023 by Committee on Rules

  10. Nov 8, 2023 · Assembly

    Representatives Gustafson and O'Connor added as coauthors

  11. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Cabrera added as a coauthor

  12. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Laid on the table

  13. Apr 15, 2024 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1