LRB-0009/P3
JK:skw
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bork, BB0017 - Use of moneys received from sale of the registration list.
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
state government
State Finance
Voter registration list
Under current law, all moneys received from the federal government under the Help America Vote Act and from the sale of copies of the official statewide voter registration list are deposited into the election administration trust fund. Copies of the list are typically used for political purposes such as voter or constituent outreach. The Elections Commission spent all HAVA moneys from the fund as of April 2019. However, the moneys received from sales of the registration list have not been appropriated and, therefore, cannot be spent. This bill creates an appropriation for the moneys received from selling the registration list and authorizes the commission to spend the moneys for election security and maintenance of the statewide voter registration system.
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:
Section
1. 20.510 (1) (jn) of the statutes is created to read:
20.510 (1) (jn) Election security and maintenance. All moneys received from requesters from the sales of copies of the official registration list for the purpose of election security and maintenance of the statewide voter registration system.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 25.425 of the statutes is amended to read:
25.425 Election administration fund. There is established a separate nonlapsible trust fund, designated the election administration fund, consisting of all moneys received from the federal government under P.L.
107-252, all moneys received from requesters from sales of copies of the official registration list, and all moneys transferred to the fund from other funds.
Section 9212.
Fiscal changes; Elections Commission.
(1) Sales of voter registration lists. The unencumbered balance in the election administration fund under s. 25.425 of moneys received from requesters from sales of copies of the official registration list are transferred to the appropriation account under s. 20.510 (1) (jn).
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