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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
SENATE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO SENATE BILL 852
February 9, 2024 - Offered by Senator Feyen.
SB852-SSA1,1,5
1An Act to amend 7.51 (5) (b), 7.53 (1) (a), 7.53 (2) (d), 7.60 (3), 7.60 (5) (a), 7.70
2(1) (b), 7.70 (3) (a), 7.70 (3) (c), 7.70 (5) (b), 7.75 (1), 9.01 (1) (ar) 3., 9.01 (6) (a),
39.01 (6) (b), 9.01 (7) (b) and 9.01 (9) (a); and
to create 7.70 (3) (cm), 9.01 (1) (ar)
44., 9.01 (6) (am), 9.01 (9) (am) and 9.01 (9) (cm) of the statutes;
relating to:
5compliance with the federal Electoral Count Reform Act.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under the federal Electoral Count Reform Act, states should ensure that their
canvass, recount, and any precertification procedures are completed within a 36-day
period from the date of a presidential election to the date in which a state certifies
its presidential election results. This bill makes the following changes to Wisconsin
election laws in order to comply with deadlines established by the ECRA for selecting
presidential electors and transmitting election results to Congress:
1. Current law does not include a state deadline for certification of a
presidential election. The bill requires the governor to transmit a certificate of the
election results to the archivist of the United States no later than six days before the
meeting of the state's presidential electors.
2. Current law requires the governor to deliver six duplicate originals of the
certificate described above to one of the state's presidential electors on or before the
first Monday after the second Wednesday in December. The bill changes the deadline
for delivering the certificate to the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in
December.
3. Current law requires the electors for president and vice president to meet
at the state capitol at noon on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in
December. The bill requires the electors to meet on the first Tuesday after the second
Wednesday in December.