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AB617Introduced in the Assembly

Applying for and returning absentee ballots; use of central counting locations; election night reporting; court determinations of incompetency and ineligibility to vote; preelection tests of electronic voting equipment, and providing a penalty. (FE)

Failed

Introduced by Scott Krug, District 72

What does this bill do?

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Official description

An Act to repeal 5.85 (5), 5.86, 6.79 (2) (d) and 7.03 (1) (c); to amend 5.05 (12), 5.84 (1), 5.84 (2), 5.85 (1), 5.87 (1), 5.91 (17), 6.18 (form), 6.33 (1), 6.87 (3) (d), 6.87 (9), 7.37 (12), 7.51 (1), 10.01 (2) (e), 12.60 (1) (a) and 54.25 (2) (c) 1. g.; to create 5.057, 6.855 (3m), 6.86 (1) (as) and 7.15 (16) of the statutes; Relating to: applying for and returning absentee ballots; use of central counting locations; election night reporting; court determinations of incompetency and ineligibility to vote; preelection tests of electronic voting equipment, and providing a penalty. (FE)

Where it stands

Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

March 23, 2026

How did lawmakers vote?

AssemblyStage: Assembly: Read a third time and passed · November 19, 2025

53

Yes

44

No

2

Absent or Not Voting

99 assemblymembers recorded in this Assembly vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

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See how each assemblymember voted

AssemblymemberDistrictVote
Joel Kitchens1Yes
Shae Sortwell2Yes
Ron Tusler3Yes
David Steffen4Yes
Joy Goeben5Yes
Elijah Behnke6Yes
Karen Kirsch7No
Sylvia Ortiz-Velez8No
Pricilla Prado9No
Darrin Madison10No

Bill history

  1. Introduced

  2. Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

  3. LRB correction

  4. Public hearing held

  5. Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson

  6. Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Krug

  7. Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson

  8. Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson

  9. Executive action taken

  10. LRB correction (Assembly Substitute Amendment 2)

  11. Report Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adoption recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 4, Noes 2

  12. Report passage as amended recommended by Committee on Campaigns and Elections, Ayes 5, Noes 2

  13. Referred to committee on Rules

  14. Placed on calendar 11-19-2025 by Committee on Rules

  15. Fiscal estimate received

  16. Read a second time

  17. Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Snodgrass

  18. Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 laid on table, Ayes 53, Noes 44

  19. Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted

  20. Ordered to a third reading

  21. Rules suspended

  22. Read a third time and passed, Ayes 53, Noes 44

  23. Ordered immediately messaged

  24. Received from Assembly

  25. Read first time and referred to committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

  26. Fiscal estimate received

  27. Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

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