Date of enactment: December 6, 2023
2023 Senate Bill 283 Date of publication*: December 7, 2023
2023 WISCONSIN ACT 53
AN ACT to create 7.53 (5) of the statutes; relating to: broadcasting election night proceedings.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 7.53 (5) of the statutes is created to read:
7.53 (5) LIVE BROADCASTS. If a municipality or
county or the commission broadcasts canvassing pro-
ceedings live in any election, including by live stream on
the Internet, the municipality, county, or commission
shall record the broadcast. The municipal clerk, county
clerk, or commission shall retain the recording for the
period specified in s. 7.23 (1) (f), unless, in good faith, the
municipal clerk, county clerk, or commission is unable to
retain the recording because the recording is maintained
on an Internet video streaming service that goes out of
business or is otherwise removed from the Internet, if the
service has been in operation for at least 10 years and has
at least 1,000,000 account holders at the time the munici-
pal clerk, county clerk, or commission posts the record-
ing to the service.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”