Wisconsin 2025-2026 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB149 Compare Versions

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4	4	2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 149
5	5	March 17, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives SORTWELL, BEHNKE, BRILL,
6	6	KREIBICH and WICHGERS, cosponsored by Senator JACQUE. Referred to
7	7	Committee on Campaigns and Elections.
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9	9	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
10	10	AN ACT to amend 8.18 (1); to create 8.18 (3) of the statutes; relating to: the
11	11	nomination of presidential electors.
12	12	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
13	13	Under current law, at 10 a.m. on the first Tuesday in October of each year in
14	14	which there is a presidential election, the following members of a political party
15	15	must convene in the state capitol to nominate the party[s presidential electors:
16	16	candidates for state senate or assembly, state officers, and holdover state senators.
17	17	A vote for a party[s candidates for president and vice president in the presidential
18	18	election is a vote for the party[s presidential electors so nominated. After the
19	19	election, the presidential electors of the winning candidates for president and vice
20	20	president then convene and transmit their votes for president and vice president to
21	21	Congress.
22	22	Under this bill, if, in a presidential election year, a political party does not
23	23	have a candidate for state senate or assembly, state officer, or holdover state
24	24	senator, in lieu of a convention described above, no later than 10 a.m. on the first
25	25	Tuesday in October preceding the presidential election, the chairperson of the state
26	26	committee of the political party must nominate the party[s presidential electors.
27	27	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
28	28	enact as follows:
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34	34	SECTION 1
35	35	SECTION 1. 8.18 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
36	36	8.18 (1) Candidates Except as provided under sub. (3), candidates for the
37	37	senate and assembly nominated by each political party at the primary, the state
38	38	officers, and the holdover state senators of each political party shall meet in the
39	39	state capitol at 10 a.m. on the first Tuesday in October of each year in which there
40	40	is a presidential election.
41	41	SECTION 2. 8.18 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
42	42	8.18 (3) If, in a presidential election year, a political party does not have a
43	43	candidate for the senate or assembly nominated by the political party at the
44	44	primary, state officer, or holdover state senator, in lieu of a convention under sub.
45	45	(1), no later than 10 a.m. on the first Tuesday in October preceding the presidential
46	46	election, the chairperson of the state committee of the political party shall do all of
47	47	the following:
48	48	(a) Nominate for the party one presidential elector from each congressional
49	49	district and 2 electors from the state at large.
50	50	(b) Immediately certify the names of the nominees under par. (a) to the
51	51	chairperson of the commission.
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