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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 616

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Relating to: funding for reimbursements to municipalities for required office hours for in-person absentee voting and making an appropriation. (FE)

Administration department of — Budget and fiscal issues 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

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill provides funding of up to $10,000,000 to reimburse municipalities for a certain number of hours the municipal clerk’s office or alternate absentee ballot site may be required by law to remain open for in-person absentee voting at the election held on the first Tuesday in April each year or the November general election.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Krug (R)

1 cosponsors

Cabral-Guevara (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Votes

Assembly: Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 4, Noes 2

Passed 4–2 Nov 12, 2025 official source full page

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

Assembly: Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 5, Noes 2

Passed 5–2 Nov 12, 2025 official source full page

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

Assembly: PASSAGE

Passed 88–9 Nov 19, 2025 official source full page

Aye · 88

Not voting · 2

Full history

  1. Nov 3, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representative Krug; cosponsored by Senator Cabral-Guevara

  2. Nov 3, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

  3. Nov 4, 2025 · Assembly

    Public hearing held

  4. Nov 11, 2025 · Assembly

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Krug

  5. Nov 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Executive action taken

  6. Nov 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 4, Noes 2

  7. Nov 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 5, Noes 2

  8. Nov 12, 2025 · Assembly

    Referred to committee on Rules

  9. Nov 13, 2025 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules

  10. Nov 14, 2025 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  11. Nov 18, 2025 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Krug

  12. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  13. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  14. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  15. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  16. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 88, Noes 9

  17. Nov 19, 2025 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  18. Nov 20, 2025 · Senate

    Received from Assembly

  19. Nov 20, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

  20. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1