2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
LRB-5400/1
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November 14, 2025 - Introduced by Senator Cabral-Guevara, cosponsored by Representative Krug. Referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development.
SB625,1,2
1An Act relating to: funding for reimbursements to municipalities for required
2office hours for in-person absentee voting and making an appropriation. 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.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SB625,2,54(1) Municipality reimbursements for in-person absentee voting office 5hours. In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the joint 6committee on finance under s. 20.865 (4) (a), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2025-
126 is increased by $10,000,000 for the department of administration to pay 2reimbursements to municipalities at a rate provided by law for a certain number of 3hours the municipality’s municipal clerk’s office or alternate site under s. 6.855 is 4required by law to remain open for in-person absentee voting at a spring election, as 5defined in s. 5.02 (21) or a general election, as defined in s. 5.02 (5).
