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Wisconsin · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

AB 617: 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)

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 617 is a bill introduced in the Wisconsin House on November 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: 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). Primary sponsor: Scott Krug (Republican), Pat Snyder (Republican), Jerry O'Connor (Republican), Dan Knodl (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (March 23, 2026): Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 5

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Scott KrugPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse72
Pat SnyderPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse85
Jerry O'ConnorPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse60
Dan KnodlPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse24
Rachael Cabral-GuevaraCo-sponsorRepublicanSenate19

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
  2. Fiscal estimate received
  3. Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development
  4. Received from Assembly
  5. Ordered immediately messaged
  6. Read a third time and passed, Ayes 53, Noes 44
  7. Rules suspended
  8. Ordered to a third reading
  9. Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted
  10. Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 laid on table, Ayes 53, Noes 44
  11. Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Snodgrass
  12. Read a second time

Showing 12 most recent of 27 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source