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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 625

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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 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 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: Cabral-Guevara (R)

1 cosponsors

Krug (R)

Registered lobbying interests · 2

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. Nov 14, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senator Cabral-Guevara; cosponsored by Representative Krug

  2. Nov 14, 2025 · Senate

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

  3. Nov 25, 2025 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1