DOA:......Bork, BB0282 - Election Administration Grants
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
ELECTIONS
Election administration grants
This bill requires the Elections Commission to award grants to cities, villages, and towns for election administration expenses. The bill additionally requires the commission to award up to $400,000 in grants to cities, villages, towns, and counties in the 2025-26 fiscal year for the purchase of election supplies and equipment, including electronic poll books.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. 5.45 of the statutes is created to read:
5.45 Election administration grants. From the appropriation under s. 20.510 (1) (bp), the commission shall award grants to municipalities for election administration expenses.
Section 2. 20.510 (1) (bp) of the statutes is created to read:
20.510 (1) (bp) Election administration; local aids. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for election administration grants under s. 5.45 and 2025 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section 9112 (1).
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 9112. Nonstatutory provisions; Elections Commission.
(1) Grants to counties and municipalities for the purchase of election supplies and equipment. In the 2025-26 fiscal year, from the appropriation under s. 20.510 (1) (bp), the elections commission shall award grants to cities, villages, towns, and counties in this state for the purchase of election supplies and equipment, including electronic poll books. The total amount of grants awarded under this subsection may not exceed $400,000.
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