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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 433

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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, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

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: Ballweg (R) , Felzkowski (R) , Knodl (R) , Spreitzer (D) , Stroebel (R)

24 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Behnke (R) , Bodden (R) , Brooks (R) , C. Anderson (D) , Cabrera (D) , Carpenter (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Gundrum (R) , Gustafson and O'Connor , Jacobson (D) , James (R) , Joers (D) , Krug (R) , Maxey (R) , Michalski (R) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Rettinger (R) , Schmidt (R) , Snodgrass (D) , Subeck (D)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Oct 4, 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 15, 2023 · Senate

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

  2. Sep 15, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection

  3. Sep 21, 2023 · Senate

    Senator James added as a coauthor

  4. Sep 26, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  5. Oct 3, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Snodgrass added as a cosponsor

  6. Oct 3, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  7. Oct 4, 2023 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  8. Oct 4, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  9. Oct 16, 2023 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 10-17-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  10. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Senator Carpenter added as a coauthor

  11. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Read a second time

  12. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  13. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  14. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed

  15. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  16. Oct 17, 2023 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  17. Oct 17, 2023 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  18. Nov 7, 2023 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  19. Nov 7, 2023 · Assembly

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

  20. Nov 8, 2023 · Assembly

    Representatives Gustafson and O'Connor added as cosponsors

  21. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended to withdraw from calendar and take up

  22. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  23. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  24. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  25. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  26. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Representative Cabrera added as a cosponsor

  27. Nov 9, 2023 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  28. Nov 10, 2023 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  29. Nov 13, 2023 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  30. Nov 30, 2023 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 11-30-2023

  31. Dec 7, 2023 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 12-6-2023. 2023 Wisconsin Act 54

  32. Dec 7, 2023 · Senate

    Published 12-7-2023