AB 38 — Relating to: absentee ballot request and return confirmation. (FE)

- 2024 LEGISLATURE LRBa0076/1LRB-1190/1 JK:amn&emwJK:skw ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 2, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 38 AugustFebruary 24,13, 2023 - OfferedIntroduced by RepresentativeTEFFENRepresentatives STEFFEN , KNODL, ARMSTRONG , C .ANDERSON , BARE, EDMING, MAGNAFICI, MOSES , URPHY , MURSAU , 'CONNOR , S WEARINGEN , T USLER and JACOBSON , cosponsored by Senators C ABRAL-G UEVARA, ROYS, SPREITZER and TOMCZYK .

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1.A N A CT to amend 6.86 (1) (ac) of the statutes;

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“SAnalysis ECTIONby 1d.the Legislative Reference Bureau Current law allows a voter to receive an absentee ballot by making a written application by means of facsimile transmission or electronic mail.

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SECTION 1.

6.86 (1) (ac) of the statutes is amended to read:

- 2024 Legislature - 2 - LRB-1190/1 JK:skw ASSEMBLY BILL 38 S ECTION 1 6.86(1) (ac) Any elector qualifying under par.

(a) may make written application to the municipal clerk for an official ballot by means of facsimile transmission or electronic mail.

Any application under this paragraph need not contain a copy of the applicant's original signature.

An elector requesting a ballot under this paragraph shall return with the voted ballot a copy of the request bearing an original signature of the elector as provided in s.

6.87 (4).

Except as authorized in ss.

6.87 (4) (b) 2.

to 5.

and 6.875 (6), and notwithstanding s.

343.43 (1) (f), the elector shall transmit a copy of his or her proof of identification in the manner provided in s.

6.87 (1) unless the elector is a military elector or an overseas elector or the elector has a confidential listing under s.

6.47 (2).

If the elector makes a written application by electronic mail under this paragraph and submits his or her mobile telephone number with the application, after the elector completes and submits the application, the electronic application system maintained by the commission shall automatically notify the elector by text message that his or her application has been received.

In addition, after the elector completes and returns his or ballot, the electronic application system maintained by the commission shall automatically notify the elector by text message that his or her ballot has been received.

The elector may choose to receive such notifications for all subsequent elections for which the elector makes a written application by electronic mail for an absentee ballot.

S ECTION 1e.

10.01 (2) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

10.01 (2) (e) Type E — The type E notice shall state the qualifications for absentee voting, the procedures for obtaining an absentee ballot in the case of registered and unregistered voters, the places and the deadlines for application and return of application, including any alternate site under s.

6.855, general information regarding text message notifications under s.

6.86 (1) (as), including samples of the text message notifications, and the office hours during which an elector may cast an absentee ballot in the municipal clerk's office or at an alternate site under s.

6.855.

The municipal clerk shall publish a type E notice on the 4th Tuesday preceding each spring primary and election, on the 4th Tuesday preceding each partisan primary and general election, on the 4th Tuesday preceding the primary for each special national, state, county or municipal election if any, on the 4th Tuesday preceding a special county or municipal referendum, and on the 3rd Tuesday preceding each special national, state, county or municipal election to fill an office which is not held concurrently with the spring or general election.

The clerk of each special purpose district which calls a special election shall publish a type E notice on the 4th Tuesday preceding the primary for the special election, if any, on the 4th Tuesday preceding a special referendum, and on the 3rd Tuesday preceding a special election for an office which is not held concurrently with the spring or general election except as authorized in s.

8.55 (3).

All notices under this paragraph shall be published in the manner provided under this chapter and on the website maintained by the municipality.

A municipal clerk whose municipality does not maintain a website need not comply with the website posting requirement.

LRBa0076/1 - 2024 Legislature - 3 - JK:amn&emw SECTION 1f.Effective date.