Wisconsin 2025 Regular Session Status: Passed Assembly 1 R cosponsors

AB 616 — Relating to: funding for reimbursements to municipalities for required office hours for in-person absentee voting and making an appropriation. (FE)

Last action — Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Assembly
  4. 4
    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has passed the Assembly. Introduced November 03, 2025. It now moves to the second chamber.

Next likely step: consideration and a floor vote in the Senate.

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Advancing 50% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Passed Assembly

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 2 sponsors

    1 primary, 1 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 R).

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 3 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

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Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

24 added · 12 removed

Plain-language change summary

The revised version of Assembly Bill 616 significantly increases the funding allocation from $1.5 million to $10 million specifically for reimbursements to municipalities to cover required hours for in-person absentee voting. This change is important because it aims to strengthen local election administration by ensuring that clerks' offices can remain open longer to accommodate voters, making it easier for people to participate in elections. More funding for these hours could lead to improved accessibility and higher voter turnout during important elections.

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- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRBs0186/1 MPG:cdc ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1, TO ASSEMBLY BILL 616 November 18, 2025 - Offered by RepresentatiRUG.
- 2026 LEGISLATURE LRB-4849/1 MPG:cdc ASSEMBLY BILL 616 November 3, 2025 - Introduced by Representative RUG , cosponsored by Senator CABRAL -GUEVARA .
Referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections.
funding for election administration and making an appropriation.
funding for reimbursements to municipalities for required office hours for in-person absentee voting and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill provides funding of up to $1,500,000 for election administration.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill provides funding of up to $10,000,000 to reimburse municipalities for a certain number of hours the municipal clerk’s office or alternate absentee ballot site may be required by law to remain open for in-person absentee voting at the election held on the first Tuesday in April each year or the November general election.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
(1) FUNDING FOR ELECTION ADMINISTRATION.
(1) MUNICIPALITY REIMBURSEMENTS FOR IN PERSON ABSENTEE VOTING OFFICE HOURS .
20.865 (4) (a), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2025-26 is increased by $1,500,000 for funding election administration.
20.865 (4) (a), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2025- - 2026 Legislature - 2 - LRB-4849/1 MPG:cdc ASSEMBLY BILL 616 S ECTION 1 26 is increased by $10,000,000 for the department of administration to pay reimbursements to municipalities at a rate provided by law for a certain number of hours the municipality’s municipal clerk’s office or alternate site under s.
6.855 is required by law to remain open for in-person absentee voting at a spring election, as defined in s.
5.02 (21) or a general election, as defined in s.
5.02 (5).
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Action History

  1. Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  2. Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

  3. Received from Assembly

  4. Ordered immediately messaged

  5. Read a third time and passed, Ayes 88, Noes 9

  6. Rules suspended

  7. Ordered to a third reading

  8. Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  9. Read a second time

  10. Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representative Krug

  11. Fiscal estimate received

  12. Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules

  13. Referred to committee on Rules

  14. Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 5, Noes 2

  15. Report Assembly Amendment 1 adoption recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 4, Noes 2

  16. Executive action taken

  17. Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representative Krug

  18. Public hearing held

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

  20. Introduced by Representative Krug; cosponsored by Senator Cabral-Guevara

Sponsors

  • Cabral-Guevara · Cosponsor
  • Scott Krug · Primary

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 1 co-sponsors · 130 not signed on · 8 voted No

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (1)

  • Cabral-Guevara

Not signed on (130)

130 members have not signed on to this bill.

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"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

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Votes

Read a third time and passed

Passed 88 Yea · 9 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Republican 53000
Democrat 33802
Unaffiliated 2100
Total 88902
% of votes cast 89%9%0%2%
How each member voted (99)
Member Party Vote
JOHNSON — Yea
MOORE OMOKUNDE — Nay
SPEAKER — Yea
Anderson, Clinton Democrat Yea
Andraca, Deb Democrat Yea
Arney, Margaret Democrat Nay
Bare, Mike Democrat Yea
Billings, Jill Democrat Yea
Brown, Brienne Democrat Yea
Clancy, Ryan Democrat Yea
Cruz, Angelina Democrat Nay
DeSanto, Karen Democrat Yea
DeSmidt, Ben Democrat Yea
Doyle, Steve Democrat Yea
Emerson, Jodi Democrat Yea
Fitzgerald, Joan Democrat Yea
Goodwin, Russell Democrat Yea
Haywood, Kalan Democrat Not Voting
Hong, Francesca Democrat Nay
Hysell, Andrew Democrat Nay
Jacobson, Jenna Democrat Yea
Joers, Alex Democrat Nay
Kirsch, Karen Democrat Nay
Madison, Darrin Democrat Yea
Mayadev, Renuka Democrat Yea
McCarville, Maureen Democrat Yea
McGuire, Tip Democrat Yea
Miresse, Vincent Democrat Yea
Neubauer, Greta Democrat Yea
Ortiz-Velez, Sylvia Democrat Yea
Palmeri, Lori Democrat Yea
Phelps, Christian Democrat Yea
Prado, Priscilla Democrat Yea
Rivera-Wagner, Amaad Democrat Yea
Roe, Ann Democrat Nay
Sheehan, Joe Democrat Yea
Sinicki, Christine Democrat Yea
Snodgrass, Lee Democrat Yea
Spaude, Ryan Democrat Yea
Stroud, Angela Democrat Nay
Stubbs, Shelia Democrat Yea
Subeck, Lisa Democrat Yea
Taylor, Sequanna Democrat Not Voting
Tenorio, Angelito Democrat Yea
Udell, Randy Democrat Yea
Vining, Robyn Democrat Yea
Allen, Scott Republican Yea
Armstrong, David Republican Yea
August, Tyler Republican Yea
Behnke, Elijah Republican Yea
Born, Mark Republican Yea
Brill, Lindee Republican Yea
Brooks, Robert Republican Yea
Callahan, Calvin Republican Yea
Dallman, Alex Republican Yea
Dittrich, Barbara Republican Yea
Donovan, Bob Republican Yea
Duchow, Cindi Republican Yea
Franklin, Benjamin Republican Yea
Goeben, Joy Republican Yea
Green, Chanz Republican Yea
Gundrum, Rick Republican Yea
Gustafson, Nate Republican Yea
Hurd, Karen Republican Yea
Jacobson, Brent Republican Yea
Kaufert, Dean Republican Yea
Kitchens, Joel Republican Yea
Knodl, Daniel Republican Yea
Kreibich, Rob Republican Yea
Krug, Scott Republican Yea
Kurtz, Tony Republican Yea
Maxey, Dave Republican Yea
Melotik, Paul Republican Yea
Moses, Clint Republican Yea
Murphy, David Republican Yea
Mursau, Jeffrey Republican Yea
Nedweski, Amanda Republican Yea
Neylon, Adam Republican Yea
Novak, Todd Republican Yea
O'Connor, Jerry Republican Yea
Penterman, William Republican Yea
Petersen, Kevin Republican Yea
Piwowarczyk, Jim Republican Yea
Pronschinske, Treig Republican Yea
Rodriguez, Jessie Republican Yea
Snyder, Patrick Republican Yea
Sortwell, Shae Republican Yea
Spiros, John Republican Yea
Steffen, David Republican Yea
Summerfield, Rob Republican Yea
Swearingen, Rob Republican Yea
Tittl, Paul Republican Yea
Tranel, Travis Republican Yea
Tucker, Duke Republican Yea
Tusler, Ron Republican Yea
VanderMeer, Nancy Republican Yea
Wichgers, Chuck Republican Yea
Wittke, Robert Republican Yea
Zimmerman, Shannon Republican Yea

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Who sponsors AB 616?
AB 616 is sponsored by Cabral-Guevara and Krug, Scott (Republican).
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