Wisconsin Senate Bill 631

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: Failed on April 15 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-15 - Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

An Act to renumber 6.875 (4) (b) and 6.875 (6) (e); to renumber and amend 6.87 (6d), 6.87 (9) and 7.51 (1); to amend 6.87 (2) (intro.), 6.875 (4) (a), 6.875 (6) (a), 7.03 (1) (d), 7.30 (3) (a), 7.315 (1) (a), 7.53 (2) (cm) and 12.60 (1) (a); and to create 6.87 (6d) (a) to (L), 6.87 (9) (b), 6.875 (4) (b) 2., 6.875 (6) (e) 2., 6.875 (8), 7.30 (7), 7.51 (1) (b), 12.13 (2) (b) 9., 12.13 (2) (b) 10., 12.13 (2) (b) 11., 12.13 (3) (zp) and 12.13 (3m) of the statutes; Relating to: certain kinds of election fraud, defects on absentee ballot certificates, returning absentee ballots to the office of the municipal clerk, appointment of election officials, allowing an employee of a residential care facility or qualified retirement home to serve as a personal care voting assistant during a public health emergency or an incident of infectious disease, and providing a penalty. (FE)

Certain kinds of election fraud, defects on absentee ballot certificates, returning absentee ballots to the office of the municipal clerk, appointment of election officials, allowing an employee of a residential care facility or qualified retirement home to serve as a personal care voting assistant during a public health emergency or an incident of infectious disease, and providing a penalty. (FE)

Sen. Andre Jacque [R]	Rep. Dave Maxey [R]	Rep. John Macco [R]	Rep. David Armstrong [R]
Rep. James Edming [R]	Rep. Tom Michalski [R]	Rep. David Murphy [R]	Rep. Nik Rettinger [R]
Rep. David Steffen [R]	Rep. Nancy VanderMeer [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-04-15	Senate	Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
2024-01-11	Senate	Available for scheduling
2024-01-11	Senate	Report passage recommended by Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection, Ayes 3, Noes 2
2024-01-11	Senate	Executive action taken
2023-12-19	Senate	Public hearing held
2023-12-11	Senate	Fiscal estimate received
2023-11-09	Senate	Representative O'Connor added as a cosponsor
2023-11-07	Senate	Read first time and referred to Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection
2023-11-07	Senate	Introduced

Type	Source
Summary	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/proposals/reg/sen/bill/sb631
Text	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/proposaltext/2023/REG/SB631.pdf
Supplement	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/fe/sb631/sb631_elec.pdf
Supplement	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/records/senate/shared_revenue_elections_and_consumer_protection/1769882.pdf
Supplement	https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/records/senate/senate_organization/1787820.pdf