Amendment SA2-SB39

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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE

SENATE AMENDMENT 2, TO SENATE BILL 39

August 24, 2023 - Offered by Senator Cabral-Guevara.

SB39-SA2,1,1 At the locations indicated, amend the bill as follows:

SB39-SA2,1,3 1. Page 1, line 3: delete the material beginning with that line and ending with page 2, line 20, and substitute:

SB39-SA2,1,4 “ Section 1d. 6.86 (1) (as) of the statutes is created to read:

SB39-SA2,2,2 6.86 (1) (as) If the elector makes a written application under par. (a) and submits his or her mobile telephone number with the application, after the elector completes and submits the application, the electronic application system maintained by the commission shall automatically notify the elector by text message that his or her application has been received. In addition, after the elector completes and returns his or her ballot, the electronic application system maintained by the commission shall automatically notify the elector by text message that his or her ballot has been received. The elector may choose to receive such notifications for all subsequent elections for which the elector makes a written application for an absentee ballot. Mobile telephone numbers submitted under this paragraph are confidential, notwithstanding subch. II of ch. 19.

SB39-SA2,1e Section 1e. 10.01 (2) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

SB39-SA2,2,25 10.01 (2) (e) Type E — The type E notice shall state the qualifications for absentee voting, the procedures for obtaining an absentee ballot in the case of registered and unregistered voters, the places and the deadlines for application and return of application, including any alternate site under s. 6.855, general information regarding text message notifications under s. 6.86 (1) (as), including samples of the text message notifications, and the office hours during which an elector may cast an absentee ballot in the municipal clerk's office or at an alternate site under s. 6.855. The municipal clerk shall publish a type E notice on the 4th Tuesday preceding each spring primary and election, on the 4th Tuesday preceding each partisan primary and general election, on the 4th Tuesday preceding the primary for each special national, state, county or municipal election if any, on the 4th Tuesday preceding a special county or municipal referendum, and on the 3rd Tuesday preceding each special national, state, county or municipal election to fill an office which is not held concurrently with the spring or general election. The clerk of each special purpose district which calls a special election shall publish a type E notice on the 4th Tuesday preceding the primary for the special election, if any, on the 4th Tuesday preceding a special referendum, and on the 3rd Tuesday preceding a special election for an office which is not held concurrently with the spring or general election except as authorized in s. 8.55 (3). All notices under this paragraph shall be published in the manner provided under this chapter and on the website maintained by the municipality. A municipal clerk whose municipality does not maintain a website need not comply with the website posting requirement.

SB39-SA2,1f Section 1f. Effective date.

SB39-SA2,3,3 (1) This act takes effect on the first day of the 6th month beginning after publication.”.

SB39-SA2,3,4 (End)