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AB617 • 2025

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

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

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Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representatives Krug, Snyder, O'Connor and Knodl, cosponsored by Senator Cabral-Guevara
Last action
2026-03-23
Official status
S - Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development
Effective date
Not listed

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-23 Sen.

    Failed to concur in pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  2. 2026-02-10 Sen.

    Fiscal estimate received

  3. 2025-11-20 Sen.

    Received from Assembly

  4. 2025-11-20 Sen.

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

  5. 2025-11-19 Asm.

    Read a second time

  6. 2025-11-19 Asm.

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 3 offered by Representative Snodgrass

  7. 2025-11-19 Asm.

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

  8. 2025-11-19 Asm.

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 adopted

  9. 2025-11-19 Asm.

    Ordered to a third reading

  10. 2025-11-19 Asm.

    Rules suspended

  11. 2025-11-19 Asm.

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

  12. 2025-11-19 Asm.

    Ordered immediately messaged

  13. 2025-11-18 Asm.

    Fiscal estimate received

  14. 2025-11-13 Asm.

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

  15. 2025-11-12 Asm.

    Executive action taken

  16. 2025-11-12 Asm.

    LRB correction ( Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 )

  17. 2025-11-12 Asm.

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

  18. 2025-11-12 Asm.

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

  19. 2025-11-12 Asm.

    Referred to committee on Rules

  20. 2025-11-11 Asm.

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 2 offered by Representative Krug

  21. 2025-11-11 Asm.

    Assembly Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson

  22. 2025-11-11 Asm.

    Assembly Amendment 2 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson

  23. 2025-11-06 Asm.

    Public hearing held

  24. 2025-11-06 Asm.

    Assembly Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Representatives Snodgrass and Anderson

  25. 2025-11-05 Asm.

    LRB correction

  26. 2025-11-04 Asm.

    Introduced by Representatives Krug , Snyder , O'Connor and Knodl ; cosponsored by Senator Cabral-Guevara

  27. 2025-11-04 Asm.

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections

Official Summary Text

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
Status: S - Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development