Bills by subject

Elections: Ballots

59 bills and resolutions. 7 became law and 32 never got a public hearing. They span 3 sessions, from the 2009–10 session to the 2025–26 session.

This is the Legislature's own subject heading, not our category, so a bill is here only if the Legislature filed it under this term. Each count comes from the bill's official history.

Latest activity

The 5 bills on this subject with the newest recorded action.

SB 45 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law. Last action May 13, 2026
SB 1177 Performing risk-limiting audits and eliminating the process for removing excess ballots from the vote count. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action May 13, 2026
AB 1212 Performing risk-limiting audits and eliminating the process for removing excess ballots from the vote count. (FE)
Stopped in committee. Last action May 1, 2026
AB 13 The suspension of a rule of the Elections Commission.
Stopped in committee. Last action Mar 23, 2026
AB 50 State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted. Last action Mar 23, 2026

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 30

Mar 23, 2026
AB 13: The suspension of a rule of the Elections Commission.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 50: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 312: Hours for voting by absentee ballot in person at the office of the municipal clerk or an alternate site. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 537: Returning an absentee ballot with an incomplete certificate or with no certificate.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 541: Poll list numbers marked on certain absentee ballots.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 560: Prohibiting the use of absentee ballot drop boxes for any election.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 599: Allowing voters to automatically receive absentee ballots for every election, eliminating the indefinitely confined voter status for receiving absentee ballots, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 616: Funding for reimbursements to municipalities for required office hours for in-person absentee voting and making an appropriation. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 617: Applying for and returning absentee ballots; use of central counting locations; election night reporting; court determinations of incompetency and ineligibility to vote; preelection tests of electronic voting equipment, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 752: Using an absentee ballot drop box or the U.S. mail or a commercial carrier to commit election fraud and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.

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Mar 23, 2026
AB 800: Early canvassing of absentee ballots and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 937: Including a space for write-in candidates on city election ballots; eliminating independent candidates from the partisan primary ballot; and using a temporary operator’s license or identification card to establish proof of residence for voter registration (suggested as remedial legislation by the Elections Commission).
Stopped in committee.
May 1, 2026
AB 1212: Performing risk-limiting audits and eliminating the process for removing excess ballots from the vote count. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AJR 1: Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration).
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2026
AJR 42: An advisory referendum on an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
SB 45: State finances and appropriations, constituting the executive budget act of the 2025 legislature. (FE)
Became law.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 46: The suspension of a rule of the Elections Commission.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 304: Hours for voting by absentee ballot in person at the office of the municipal clerk or an alternate site. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 511: Returning an absentee ballot with an incomplete certificate or with no certificate.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 523: Poll list numbers marked on certain absentee ballots.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 554: Prohibiting the use of absentee ballot drop boxes for any election.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 597: Allowing voters to automatically receive absentee ballots for every election, eliminating the indefinitely confined voter status for receiving absentee ballots, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 624: Applying for and returning absentee ballots; use of central counting locations; election night reporting; court determinations of incompetency and ineligibility to vote; preelection tests of electronic voting equipment, and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 625: Funding for reimbursements to municipalities for required office hours for in-person absentee voting and making an appropriation. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 738: Using an absentee ballot drop box or the U.S. mail or a commercial carrier to commit election fraud and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 801: Early canvassing of absentee ballots and providing a penalty. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 916: Including a space for write-in candidates on city election ballots; eliminating independent candidates from the partisan primary ballot; and using a temporary operator’s license or identification card to establish proof of residence for voter registration (suggested as remedial legislation by the Elections Commission).
Stopped in committee.
May 13, 2026
SB 1177: Performing risk-limiting audits and eliminating the process for removing excess ballots from the vote count. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
May 20, 2025
SJR 2: Requiring photographic identification to vote in any election (second consideration).
Adopted.
Mar 23, 2026
SJR 38: An advisory referendum on an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Stopped in committee.

2011–12 session: 14

May 27, 2011
AB 7: Requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family homes, identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation, creating an identification certificate issued by the Department of Transportation, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 67: Late voter registration, absentee voting in person, and implementation of a voter identification requirement at elections.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 161: The dates of the September primary and certain other election occurrences and absentee voting.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 476: County and municipal canvassing procedures, provisional ballot information, the deadline for filing a recount petition, terms of town officers, the date of the annual town meeting, and technical revisions to certain election laws.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 525: Return of absentee ballots, submittal of proof of identification with absentee ballot applications, and voting in person by electors who have voted by absentee ballot in the same election.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Mar 23, 2012
AB 746: Discontinuance of the use of voting machines, recounts of machine-readable ballots, petitions for recounts, inspection of areas where voted ballots are stored, and destruction of ballots after an election.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 6: Requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family homes, identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation, creating an identification certificate issued by the Department of Transportation, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Passed the Senate, then stopped.
Nov 22, 2011
SB 116: The dates of the September primary and certain other election occurrences and absentee voting.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 167: Challenging the ballots of electors at polling places.
Stopped in committee.
Nov 11, 2011
SB 259: Creating the office of county comptroller for Milwaukee County.
Became law.

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Apr 10, 2012
SB 271: Return of absentee ballots and voting in person by electors who have voted by absentee ballot in the same election.
Became law.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 298: Enclosure of absentee ballots in privacy envelopes.
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2012
SB 340: Requirements for candidates to appear on the ballot of a recognized political party.
Stopped in committee.
Feb 20, 2012
SB 381: County and municipal canvassing procedures, provisional ballot information, the deadline for filing a recount petition, terms of town officers, the date of the annual town meeting, and technical revisions to certain election laws.
Became law.

2009–10 session: 15

Apr 28, 2010
AB 39: Authorization for municipalities to establish satellite stations for purposes of conducting voter registration and absentee voting and granting rule-making authority.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 330: Requirements for electors who vote by absentee ballot.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 406: Challenging the ballots of electors at polling places.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 454: Information concerning independent candidates for partisan office that appears on the ballot at elections.
Passed the Assembly, then stopped.
Apr 28, 2010
AB 814: An optional identification requirement for voting in elections.
Stopped in committee.
May 6, 2010
AB 895: Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
May 20, 2010
AB 947: Requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family homes, identification cards issued by the Department of Transportation, creating an identification certificate issued by the Department of Transportation, requiring the exercise of rule-making authority, and providing a penalty.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
AJR 55: Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration).
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 199: Requiring certain identification in order to vote at a polling place or obtain an absentee ballot, verification of the addresses of electors, absentee voting procedure in certain residential care apartment complexes and adult family homes, and the fee for an identification card issued by the Department of Transportation.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 272: Challenging the ballots of electors at polling places.
Stopped in committee.

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Apr 28, 2010
SB 322: Information concerning independent candidates for partisan office that appears on the ballot at elections.
Stopped in committee.
Apr 28, 2010
SB 350: An optional identification requirement for voting in elections.
Stopped in committee.
May 20, 2010
SB 435: The period for retention of certain election materials in state and local elections.
Became law.
May 5, 2010
SB 640: Various changes in election laws, granting rule-making authority, and providing penalties.
Stopped before the full Senate voted.
Apr 28, 2010
SJR 36: Secret ballot for employee representation elections (first consideration).
Stopped in committee.

Dates are each bill's latest recorded action. Every subject