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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 934

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Relating to: notice of change in polling place location. (FE)

Elections Elections — Ballots

  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

Current law requires municipalities to establish polling places for each election at least 30 days before the election. Under current law, after an election and more than 30 days before the next election, the location of a polling place in a municipality may not be discontinued without the approval of the municipality’s governing body after a public hearing at which the public has an opportunity to present testimony on the proposed discontinuation.

Under this bill, if the location of a polling place is discontinued after an election, notice of that change must be mailed to each residence the polling place serves no later than 30 days before the next election.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

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

27 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Brown (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Haywood (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Joers (D) , Kirsch (D) , Madison (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Palmeri (D) , Phelps (D) , Prado (D) , Roe (D) , Sheehan (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Taylor (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. Feb 6, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Spreitzer, Dassler-Alfheim, Hesselbein, Ratcliff, Roys, Wirch and Larson; cosponsored by Representatives Haywood, Andraca, Arney, Bare, Brown, Clancy, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, J. Jacobson, Joers, Kirsch, Madison, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Phelps, Prado, Roe, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Stroud, Stubbs, Taylor and Udell

  2. Feb 6, 2026 · Senate

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

  3. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Palmeri added as a cosponsor

  4. Feb 17, 2026 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 20, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Sheehan added as a cosponsor

  6. Feb 26, 2026 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  7. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1