Bills by subject

Primary elections

10 bills and resolutions. 3 became law and 6 never got a public hearing. They span 2 sessions, from the 2011–12 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.

Every bill on this subject

2025–26 session: 6

Mar 23, 2026
AB 506: Authorizing electors to vote in the primary of more than one political party. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
AB 540: Extending voting rights to certain 17-year-old individuals and requiring a referendum.
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.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 361: Authorizing electors to vote in the primary of more than one political party. (FE)
Stopped in committee.
Mar 23, 2026
SB 509: Extending voting rights to certain 17-year-old individuals and requiring a referendum.
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.

2011–12 session: 4

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 161: The dates of the September primary and certain other election occurrences and absentee voting.
Stopped before the full Assembly voted.
Nov 22, 2011
SB 116: The dates of the September primary and certain other election occurrences and absentee voting.
Became law.
Nov 11, 2011
SB 259: Creating the office of county comptroller for Milwaukee County.
Became law.

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