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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 511

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

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

Elections — Ballots Municipality — Officers

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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: Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Keyeski (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Smith (D) , Wall (D) , Wirch (D)

22 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Clancy (D) , Emerson (D) , J. Jacobson (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) , Subeck (D) , Udell (D)

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

Full history

  1. Oct 9, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Smith, Carpenter, Dassler-Alfheim, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Larson, Ratcliff, Wall and Wirch; cosponsored 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

  2. Oct 9, 2025 · Senate

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

  3. Oct 10, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  4. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1