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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 1144

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Relating to: filling vacancies on a county board. (FE)

County — Board

  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

Under current law, in counties other than Milwaukee County, if a vacancy occurs on the county board, the county chairperson, with the approval of the board, appoints a person to fill the vacancy.

Under this bill, upon a vacancy in the county board, the board chairperson must publish a public notice of the vacancy and the procedure for applying for the vacant position. No earlier than 14 days after publishing the notice, the board chairperson, with the approval of the board, must appoint a person who applied for the position. The bill also specifies that a vacancy that occurs after November 30 in the year preceding expiration of the term of office may not be filled by such an appointment.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Clancy (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Miresse (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Spaude (D)

2 cosponsors

Ratcliff (D) , Wall (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Spaude, Rivera-Wagner, Clancy, Fitzgerald, Miresse, Roe and Sheehan; cosponsored by Senators Wall and Ratcliff

  2. Mar 13, 2026 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

  3. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  4. Mar 24, 2026 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received