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IntroducedNov 04, 2025
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Passed AssemblyNov 19, 2025
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Passed Senate
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Signed into Law
Relating to: 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)
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Senate • Nov 20, 2025: Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development
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Summary/Bill Text
Comments on AB 617
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- Knodlprimary
Votes
YES: 53
- ALLEN
- ARMSTRONG
- AUGUST
- BEHNKE
- BORN
- BRILL
- BROOKS
- CALLAHAN
- DALLMAN
- DITTRICH
- DONOVAN
- DUCHOW
- FRANKLIN
- GOEBEN
- GREEN
- GUNDRUM
- GUSTAFSON
- HURD
- JACOBSON, B
- KAUFERT
- KITCHENS
- KNODL
- KREIBICH
- KRUG
- KURTZ
- MAXEY
- MELOTIK
- MOSES
- MURPHY
- MURSAU
- NEDWESKI
- NEYLON
- NOVAK
- O'CONNOR
- PENTERMAN
- PETERSEN
- PIWOWARCZYK
- PRONSCHINSKE
- RODRIGUEZ
- SNYDER
- SORTWELL
- SPIROS
- STEFFEN
- SUMMERFIELD
- SWEARINGEN
- TRANEL
- TUCKER
- TUSLER
- VANDERMEER
- WICHGERS
- WITTKE
- ZIMMERMAN
- SPEAKER
NO: 44
- ANDERSON
- ANDRACA
- ARNEY
- BARE
- BILLINGS
- BROWN
- CLANCY
- CRUZ
- DESANTO
- DESMIDT
- DOYLE
- EMERSON
- FITZGERALD
- GOODWIN
- HONG
- HYSELL
- JACOBSON, J
- JOERS
- JOHNSON
- KIRSCH
- MADISON
- MAYADEV
- MCCARVILLE
- MCGUIRE
- MIRESSE
- MOORE OMOKUNDE
- NEUBAUER
- ORTIZ-VELEZ
- PALMERI
- PHELPS
- PRADO
- RIVERA-WAGNER
- ROE
- SHEEHAN
- SINICKI
- SNODGRASS
- SPAUDE
- STROUD
- STUBBS
- SUBECK
- TENORIO
- TITTL
- UDELL
- VINING
Actions
- Nov 20, 2025 | Senate
- Received from Assembly
- Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development
- Nov 19, 2025 | Assembly
- Read a second time
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Snodgrass
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 laid on table, Ayes 53, Noes 44
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted
- Ordered to a third reading
- Rules suspended
- Read a third time and passed, Ayes 53, Noes 44
- Ordered immediately messaged
- Nov 18, 2025 | Assembly
- Fiscal estimate received
- Nov 13, 2025 | Assembly
- Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules
- Nov 12, 2025 | Assembly
- Executive action taken
- LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 2)
- Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 4, Noes 2
- Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 5, Noes 2
- Referred to committee on Rules
- Nov 11, 2025 | Assembly
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Krug
- Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson
- Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson
- Nov 06, 2025 | Assembly
- Public hearing held
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson
- Nov 05, 2025 | Assembly
- LRB correction
- Nov 04, 2025 | Assembly
- Introduced by Representatives Krug, Snyder, O'Connor and Knodl; cosponsored by Senator Cabral-Guevara
- Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections
Bill Texts
- Bill TextHTML
- Bill TextPDF
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 (offered 11/6/2025) -- Snodgrass, AndersonHTML
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 (offered 11/6/2025) -- Snodgrass, AndersonPDF
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 (adopted 11/19/2025) -- KrugHTML
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 (adopted 11/19/2025) -- KrugPDF
- Assembly Amendment 1 (offered 11/11/2025) -- Snodgrass, AndersonHTML
- Assembly Amendment 1 (offered 11/11/2025) -- Snodgrass, AndersonPDF
- Assembly Amendment 2 (offered 11/11/2025) -- Snodgrass, AndersonHTML
- Assembly Amendment 2 (offered 11/11/2025) -- Snodgrass, AndersonPDF
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 (offered 11/19/2025) -- SnodgrassHTML
- Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 (offered 11/19/2025) -- SnodgrassPDF
Documents
- Amendment Histories
- LC Amendment Memo
- AB617: Fiscal Estimate From ELEC
- AB617 ROCP for Committee on Campaigns and Elections On 11/12/2025
- AB617 ROCP for Committee on Campaigns and Elections On 11/12/2025
- LC Hearing Materials for AB617 on 11/6/2025
- Wisconsin Ethics Commission information
- 2025 Senate Bill 624

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