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2025 SENATE BILL 46
February 21, 2025 - Introduced by JOINT COMMITTEE FOR REVIEW OF
ADMINISTRATIVE RULES. Referred to Committee on Administrative Rules.
AN ACT to create 5.051 of the statutes; relating to: the suspension of a rule of
the Elections Commission.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill is introduced as required by s. 227.26 (2) (j), stats., in support of the
action of the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules in suspending
emergency rule 2407 of the Wisconsin Elections Commission on July 22, 2024. The
suspended emergency rule prohibited municipalities from 1) providing absentee
electors with any uniform instructions for absentee voting other than those
prescribed by the commission and 2) representing that any additional
administrative or logistical instructions are the uniform instructions prescribed by
the commission.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 5.051 of the statutes is created to read:
5.051 Repeal of emergency rule. The emergency rule promulgated by the
elections commission that took effect on June 10, 2024, and that created s. EL 6.05,
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SECTION 1
Wis. Adm. Code, relating to mandatory use of uniform instructions for absentee
voting, is repealed.
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