Wisconsin 2021-2022 Regular Session Status: To Executive 11 R cosponsors

AB 192 — Relating to: the secure delivery of absentee ballots and providing a penalty. (FE)

Last action — Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
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    In Committee
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    Passed Assembly
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill died with 2021-2022 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there is no live prognosis. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Bill Text

How this bill changes current law

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The bill modifies the methods for returning absentee ballots and adds penalties for certain violations.

  • 6.86 (1) (a) 1.

    By mail. → By mail or by a for-profit commercial delivery service moving parcels nationally and internationally.

    Voters can now return absentee ballot applications using a commercial delivery service.

  • 6.87 (4) (b) 1.

    The absent elector, in the presence of the witness, shall mark the ballot in a manner that will not disclose how the elector's vote is cast. The elector shall then, still in the presence of the witness, fold the ballots so each is separate and so that the elector conceals the markings thereon and deposit them in the proper envelope. → The witness may not be a candidate.

    Clarifies that a witness for the absentee ballot certification cannot be a candidate.

  • 12.60 (1) (a)

    Whoever violates s. 12.09, 12.11 or 12.13 (1), (2) (b) 1. to 7. or (3) (a), (e), (f), (j), (k), (L), (m), (y) or (z) is guilty of a Class I felony. → Whoever violates s. 12.09, 12.11 or 12.13 (1), (2) (b) 1. to 7. or (3) (a), (e), (f), (j), (k), (L), (m), (md) is guilty of a Class I felony.

    Increases the penalties for violating election-related statutes by including additional violations.

  • 6.856

    The governing body of a municipality may elect to designate a site other than the office of the municipal clerk or board of election commissioners as a location for an elector to deliver his or her completed absentee ballot.

    Allows municipalities to set up designated sites for voters to drop off completed absentee ballots.

  • 12.13 (3) (md)

    Obtain a marked absentee ballot from another person in order to deliver it to the proper municipal clerk or polling place, unless the person obtaining the ballot is a member of the elector's immediate family, the elector's legal guardian, or a person designated to deliver the ballot under s. 6.87 (4) (b) 1.

    Establishes a new prohibition against obtaining marked absentee ballots for delivery, subject to penalties.

Action History

  1. Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  2. Representative Allen added as a coauthor

  3. Public hearing held

  4. Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative August

  5. Representative Dittrich added as a coauthor

  6. Representative Plumer added as a coauthor

  7. Representative Steffen added as a coauthor

  8. Fiscal estimate received

  9. Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

  10. Introduced by Representatives August, Brooks, Gundrum, Magnafici, Edming, Spiros, Krug, Neylon, Loudenbeck, Kuglitsch, Murphy, Jagler, VanderMeer, Wichgers and Knodl; cosponsored by Senators Stroebel, Darling, Roth, Bradley, Nass, Wanggaard, Ballweg, Marklein and Felzkowski

Sponsors

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15 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 117 not signed on

Sponsors (15)

Co-sponsors (0)

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Not signed on (117)

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Frequently asked questions

Who sponsors AB 192?
AB 192 is sponsored by Knodl, Daniel (Republican), Wichgers, Chuck (Republican), VanderMeer, Nancy (Republican), Jagler, John (Republican), Murphy, David (Republican), Kuglitsch, Loudenbeck, Neylon, Adam (Republican), Krug, Scott (Republican), Spiros, John (Republican), Edming, Magnafici, Gundrum, Rick (Republican), Brooks, Robert (Republican), and August, Tyler (Republican).
What is the current status of AB 192?
This bill died with 2021-2022 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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