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Wisconsin · 2025-2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 597: Relating to: allowing voters to automatically receive absentee ballots for every election, eliminating the indefinitely confined voter status for receiving absentee ballots, and providing a penalty. (FE)

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 597 is a bill introduced in the Wisconsin Senate on October 30, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relating to: allowing voters to automatically receive absentee ballots for every election, eliminating the indefinitely confined voter status for receiving absentee ballots, and providing a penalty. (FE). Primary sponsor: Cory Tomczyk (Republican). It lists 8 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (March 23, 2026): Failed to pass 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 9

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Cory TomczykPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate29
Scott AllenCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse82
Cindi DuchowCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse97
Karen HurdCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse69
Joel KitchensCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse1
Dan KnodlCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse24
Scott KrugCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse72
Jerry O'ConnorCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse60
Will PentermanCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse38

“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 pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1
  2. LRB correction
  3. Fiscal estimate received
  4. Representative Brooks added as a cosponsor
  5. Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development
  6. Introduced by Senator Tomczyk; cosponsored by Representatives Duchow, Knodl, Penterman, O'Connor, Hurd, Allen, Krug and Kitchens

Sources

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