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Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session

SB 98

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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 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 the Department of Transportation. Under this bill, the agreement

with the secretary of transportation must also provide the commission access to

personally identifiable information maintained by DOT in order to verify that

individuals on the official registration list are U.S. citizens. In addition, the bill

requires the commission to conduct the verifications as soon as practicable after the

effective date of the bill and immediately whenever an individual registers to vote

or modifies his or her registration.

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 or

identification card may not be accepted for voter identification purposes.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Bradley (R) , Cabral-Guevara (R) , Cowles (R) , Nass (R) , Stroebel (R) , Tomczyk (R)

27 cosponsors

Allen (R) , Armstrong (R) , Behnke (R) , Binsfeld (R) , Bodden (R) , Brandtjen (R) , Brooks (R) , Dittrich (R) , Duchow (R) , Edming (R) , Green (R) , Gundrum (R) , Gustafson (R) , Kitchens (R) , Knodl (R) , Magnafici (R) , Michalski (R) , Moses (R) , Murphy (R) , Mursau (R) , Neylon (R) , O'Connor (R) , Rettinger (R) , Rozar (R) , Schraa (R) , Tittl (R) , Tusler (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

Passed 3–2 Nov 2, 2023 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 21–10 Nov 7, 2023 official source full page

Not voting · 2

Senate: PASS NOTWITHSTANDING OBJECTIONS OF GOVERNOR

Passed 22–9 May 14, 2024 official source full page

Not voting · 1

Full history

  1. Mar 1, 2023 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Stroebel, Bradley, Cabral-Guevara, Cowles, Nass and Tomczyk; cosponsored by Representatives Knodl, Allen, Armstrong, Behnke, Binsfeld, Brandtjen, Brooks, Dittrich, Duchow, Edming, Green, Gundrum, Kitchens, Magnafici, Michalski, Moses, Murphy, Mursau, Neylon, O'Connor, Rettinger, Rozar, Schraa, Tittl and Tusler

  2. Mar 1, 2023 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Elections and Consumer Protection

  3. Mar 24, 2023 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Apr 20, 2023 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Jul 10, 2023 · Senate

    Withdrawn from committee on Government Operations and rereferred to committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection pursuant to Senate Rule 46(2)(c)

  6. Oct 24, 2023 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  7. Nov 2, 2023 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  8. Nov 2, 2023 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2

  9. Nov 2, 2023 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  10. Nov 3, 2023 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 11-7-2023 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  11. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Representative Bodden added as a cosponsor

  12. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Read a second time

  13. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Rules suspended to give bill its third reading

  15. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 21, Noes 10

  16. Nov 7, 2023 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  17. Nov 7, 2023 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  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

    Representative Gustafson added as a cosponsor

  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

    Ordered immediately messaged

  27. Nov 10, 2023 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  28. Nov 13, 2023 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  29. Nov 30, 2023 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 11-30-2023

  30. Dec 7, 2023 · Senate

    Report vetoed by the Governor on 12-6-2023

  31. May 13, 2024 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 5-14-2024 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  32. May 14, 2024 · Senate

    Rules suspended and taken up

  33. May 14, 2024 · Senate

    Passed notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, Ayes 22, Noes 9

  34. May 14, 2024 · Senate

    Messaged

  35. May 14, 2024 · Assembly

    Received from Senate passed notwithstanding the objections of the Governor

  36. May 14, 2024 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 5-15-2024 pursuant to Joint Rule 82 (2)(a)

  37. May 15, 2024 · Assembly

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