Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 433 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to amend 7.15 (1) (cm) of the statutes; relating to: timeline for sending or transmitting presidential prefer-
ence primary absentee ballots.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 7.15 (1) (cm) of the statutes is amended
to read:
7.15 (1) (cm) Prepare official absentee ballots for
delivery to electors requesting them, and except as pro-
vided in this paragraph, send an official absentee ballot
to each elector who has requested a ballot by mail, and to
each military elector, as defined in s. 6.34 (1), and over-
seas elector who has requested a ballot by mail, electronic
mail, or facsimile transmission, no later than the 47th day
before each partisan primary and general election and no
later than the 21st day before each other primary and elec-
tion if the request is made before that day; otherwise, the
municipal clerk shall send or transmit an official absentee
ballot within one business day of the time the elector’s
request for such a ballot is received. The clerk shall send
or transmit an absentee ballot for the presidential prefer-
ence primary to each military elector and overseas elector
who has requested that ballot no later than the 47th day
before the presidential preference primary if the request
is made before that day, or, if the request is not made
before that day, within one business day of the time the
request is received. For purposes of this paragraph,
“business day” means any day from Monday to Friday,
not including a legal holiday under s. 995.20.
* 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.”