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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 513

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: voter registration forms and information provided to certain high school students. (FE)

Elections — Registration Elections commission School — Administration

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, 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 requires each school board in Wisconsin to provide to each high school student in the school board’s school district who becomes eligible to register to vote the following:

1. A voter registration form and information concerning eligibility to vote.

2. Nonpartisan materials describing the role of the citizen and the importance of voting in elections.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Keyeski (D) , Larson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)

18 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Brown (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Goodwin (D) , Hong (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Krug (R) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Neubauer (D) , Palmeri (D) , Rivera-Wagner (D) , Roe (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (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, Keyeski, Larson, Spreitzer, Roys, Wirch, Carpenter, Ratcliff, Dassler-Alfheim and Hesselbein; cosponsored by Representatives Emerson, Krug, Snodgrass, Rivera-Wagner, Moore Omokunde, Andraca, Arney, Stubbs, Brown, Roe, Fitzgerald, Hong, Neubauer, Goodwin, 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. Oct 29, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  6. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1