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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 537

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Relating to: returning an absentee ballot with an incomplete certificate or with no certificate.

Elections — Ballots Municipality — Officers

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

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What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a municipal clerk may return to the voter an absentee ballot with an improperly completed certificate or with no certificate whenever time permits the voter to correct the defect and return the absentee ballot to the polling place before 8 p.m. on election day. Under this bill, the municipal clerk must return such an absentee ballot to the voter under those circumstances.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Clancy (D) , Emerson (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Krug (R) , Madison (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ortiz-Velez (D) , Palmeri (D) , Roe (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Udell (D)

11 cosponsors

Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Keyeski (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Smith (D) , Subeck (D) , Wall (D) , Wirch (D)

Full history

  1. Oct 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Snodgrass, Krug, Andraca, Arney, Clancy, Emerson, Joers, Johnson, Madison, McCarville, Moore Omokunde, Neubauer, Ortiz-Velez, Roe, Stroud, Stubbs, Udell, Sinicki, Miresse and Palmeri; cosponsored by Senators Smith, Carpenter, Dassler-Alfheim, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Larson, Ratcliff, Wall and Wirch

  2. Oct 15, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

  3. Oct 17, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Subeck added as a coauthor

  4. Feb 9, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a coauthor

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1